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American Airlines reported its busiest month for cargo in nearly two years in May as traffic grew 22.6 percent over the same month a year ago.

DHL closed the door on a painful episode in its U.S. operations this week when it handed over ownership of the Wilmington Air Park to officials in the

Transportation hiring inched up in May as overall weakness in private job creation was offset by a surge in temporary government employment of census workers.

UTi Worldwide says it is raising prices for shippers after the global freight forwarder saw its profit margins squeezed amid rapid growth in demand in the company’s fiscal first quarter.

Dublin, OH, June 3, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE)-Pacer International (Nasdaq: PACR), the North American freight transportation and logistics services provider, announced changes to its execut

The movement of ocean containers to and from Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal at India’s busiest Port of Jawaharlal Nehru has returned to normalcy after weeks of disarray.

Fairstar Heavy Transport has ordered two heavy-lift ships from China’s Guangzhou Shipyards International in a deal worth around $204 million.

Danaos, the Greek container ship charter owner, swung to a $101.1 million first quarter net loss from a $20 million profit a year ago due to losses on interest rate swaps and the cost of cancelling an

The clean-trucks program and other pollution-reduction measures slashed harmful diesel emissions at Los Angeles last year, according to the port's 2009 air emissions inventory.

Pacer International, in the second round of major management changes in the last three months, announced new executive changes as the intermodal and logistics services provider transforms from primari

Canadian Pacific Railway says it may gain as much as $960 million in new business in the next five years and expects to realize significant cost savings through improved productivity, according to ana

A preliminary list of 100 significant North American infrastructure projects identifies $400 billion in projects called critical to long-term economic competitiveness.

Seven transportation companies and the nation's second-largest container port made the 2010 CIO 100 list recognizing companies that create business value through technological innovation.

SEATTLE, Washington ­ FESCO announced today that Mike Evans, a 20-year veteran of the company, has been named the new president of FESCO Agencies North America, effective immediat

The administration’s third nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration will have his day before the Senate Commerce Committee on June 10, the committee announced.

Ceres Terminals signed a lease for 12 additional acres at the Port of Baltimore’s Dundalk Marine Terminal, the Maryland Port Administration said Thursday.

Paul T. Sorrow is retiring July 1 as national president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, clearing the way for First Vice President Dennis R.

Economic recovery in the U.S.

VT Halter Marine, a Pascagoula, Miss.-based shipbuilder for the U.S.

CMA CGM announced its West Africa Express [WAX] service to Asia will call at the South African port of Durban.

APM Terminals sold a 25 percent stake in its Zeebrugge, Belgium, container terminal to Shanghai International Port Group under an agreement finalized May 28.

Two vessels hijacked by Somali pirates were retaken on Wednesday in separate incidents and a third vessel managed to avoid capture when it outran pirates.

Horizon Lines elected three Class II directors at its annual meeting Wednesday and re-elected CEO Charles G. Raymond as its chairman.

Ocean carriers have absorbed nearly 100 container ships with a combined capacity of 554,000 20-foot equivalent units by introducing extra slow steaming on key liner trade routes, according to a new re

Air France-KLM’s cargo traffic in May rose 8.7 percent from a year ago, led by a double digit increase on its Americas network.

The U.S. operations of all seven top-tier North American railroads expanded their workforce in April, the first time that has happened since rail employment bottomed in January.

Inventories at Cisco Systems increased 16.4 percent in value, to $1.3 billion, in its most recent quarter ending May 1, the company said.

Steel shipments through the Port of Houston hit a 12-month high in April as container volumes dropped 14 percent from the comparable month in 2009.

Hong Kong International Airport said a 47 percent surge in exports in April pushed the airport to its largest monthly cargo volume in more than two-and-a-half years, extending a strong resurgence in s

Maersk Line is offering shippers the option of paying a fee for priority loading of their cargo on a particular vessel on many global services, except those to and from North America.

The market for hybrid trucks and buses is set for a thousand-fold increase within five years, with more than 300,000 hybrids sold by 2015, Pike Research says.

President Obama’s goal of doubling U.S. exports within five years generated a set of nation-specific marketing plans, according to a senior U.S. trade official.

The Port of Vancouver and Canadian National Railroad announced a supply chain collaboration agreement that is designed to enhance the gateway’s competitiveness for North American exports as well

Descartes Systems Group increased revenue by 22 percent from a year ago, but acquisitions, higher taxes and even volcanic ash shrank its profit.

The National Mediation Board rejected a request by the Teamsters union to release UPS aircraft mechanics from negotiations, which would have set the stage for a strike in 30 days.

Maersk Canada said Wednesday it is selling the Canadian assets of port trucking line Bridge Terminal Transport to Rouge River Capital, a Canadian merchant bank.

Global air cargo volumes surged 26 percent in the first quarter from a year ago and revenue grew as much as 40 percent, the International Air Transport Association said.

Hapag-Lloyd plans to raise freight rates on major trade lanes covering the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East, starting in early July.

The DSV Group launched a new division called DSV Entertainment Logistics, which will provide transport and logistics to the entertainment industries with a particular focus on the music industry at th

Diesel prices fell to their lowest point in three months, sliding 4.1 cents to an average of $2.98 per gallon across the country in the week ending May 31, according to the U.S.