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In a strong sign that global container volume is rebounding from the global recession, Neptune Orient Lines reported Monday that the volume of containers carried by its liner subsidiary APL rose 34 pe

The UK's new government revived controversial plans to partially privatize Royal Mail, the state-owned postal company.

Air France-KLM is freezing its freight capacity despite rising global demand in a bid to boost margins following record annual cargo losses of $545 million.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., this month took the Department of Homeland Security to task for slashing port and transit security grants for the city and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

If you thrive in a stable work environment defined by regular day-to-day routines, please don’t consider a career in expedited trucking.

AAPA Seeks 25 Percent of TIGER Grants for Ports

Data Quality isn’t just the concern of billion-dollar carriers such as U.S. Xpress Enterprises.

Expedited trucking is a premium service, commanding a premium price. But that price might not be as high as shippers think, carrier executives said.

The Port of Vancouver, British Columbia, is helping lead a charge among Canadian ports and shippers frustrated by a lack of competition they say leaves them with inadequate intermodal rail service.

The nation’s largest port complex hopes to benefit from what would be one of the largest loans ever made under a Federal Railroad Administration program for track system improvements.

When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finally began its long-delayed project to dredge the Delaware River to 45 feet from 40 feet, the idea was to open a deeper shipping channel up to Philadelphia.

The battle over who will drive the trucks in clean-air programs being rolled out at ports across the country is now being waged on three fronts — federal court in Los Angeles, a U.S.

Profit is paving the way to expansion at Old Dominion Freight Line.

In the Obama administration’s vision for a future with free-flowing highways, cleaner air in cities and ports and lower climate-heating carbon emissions, intermodal rail leads the way.

The ports of Seattle and Tacoma spent much of the past decade expanding their marine terminals and intermodal infrastructure.

Trucking companies rely on more than rubber and fuel to operate; data from operations, sales, accounting and maintenance are vital to their services.

May was historic for Portland as the West Coast’s last operating port began the transition to its new status as a landlord port.

When a shipment absolutely, positively has to arrive no later than yesterday, what do shippers do? First they pray . . . then they call an expedited trucking company.

When it takes over operation of APM Terminals’ automated container terminal in Portsmouth this summer, the Virginia Port Authority will position itself to become one of the nation’s bigges

The American Trucking Associations supports President Obama’s call for the first national fuel-economy standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

FedEx Ground is tightening its standards for independent contractors, responding to concerns raised by several states, Dow Jones Newswires reports.

Lower-than-normal water levels in the Montreal area of the St.

LONDON – British Airway's cargo revenue slumped more than 18 percent in fiscal 2009/10 from a year ago as the carrier booked its biggest operating loss in more than twenty years.

NYK Line plans to boost freight rates on trans-Atlantic cargo moving in both directions as of July 1.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. plans to increase rates as of July 1 on eastbound cargo from the U.S. to ports in the western Mediterranean.

President Obama signed a presidential order today that for the first time would establish fuel economy standards and greenhouse gas emissions limits for heavy-duty and medium trucks, starting in 2014.

Air freight has regained some of the ground it lost during the recession but faces difficulty for at least the next two years, David Hoppin, managing director of transport and logistics analyst MergeG

Cargo traffic for Asia-Pacific airlines grew 32.1 percent in April as carriers expanded capacity at the sharpest rate yet to meet recovering demand in the region, according to the Association of Asia

CSX Transportation is promoting William Clement as president of its intermodal unit on the retirement of longtime executive James R. Hertwig, the company said Friday.

Container ship lines may be "shooting themselves in the foot" by restoring vessel capacity faster than cargo volumes rise, a new report by Axis Intermodal UK warns.

Leaders of the House Ways and Means trade subcommittee were upbeat Thursday afternoon about redirecting Customs and Border Protection’s focus to facilitating trade and collecting revenue after a

APL, the world’s fourth-largest container line, is looking to invest in China’s intermodal rail network as Beijing focuses economic development on industrial plants in the country’s

The rapid growth of Vietnam's international trade can only be sustained if hurdles in landside infrastructure are surmounted, an executive with APM Terminals told a conference in Ho Chi Minh City Frid

UPS planned to begin the first furloughs of pilots this weekend under what the company calls an “unfortunate, but necessary” cost-cutting measure to scale back its air express flight opera

The government of Peru declared a 60-day emergency in an effort to end a dock strike at Callao, the country’s largest port.

A spike in containerized shipments lifted rail intermodal volume at mid-May, but major North American railroads and short lines are seeing traffic flatten for many cargoes in the bulk carload categori

CEVA Logistics reported increases in first-quarter profit and revenue, saying higher volume offset tighter margins.

Broward County's Board of Commissioners is lining up behind plans to expand Port Everglades by increasing berth space at the Florida port’s Southport Turning Notch.

Container volumes at West Coast ports followed an upward trend in April, with most of the ports reporting increases in imports and exports.

With vessel capacity tightening and demand increasing on the trans-Atlantic, OOCL Thursday announced it will increase freight rates in both directions starting July 1.