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Admiral Thad W. Allen will step down as commandant of the Coast Guard in ceremonies on May 25.

A slight decline in the Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the U.S. in April was the first in more than a year.

Asian economies are leading the recovery of international container trade volume, but strong growth across the region could see pressure on freight infrastructure re-emerge, a senior executive of cont

Con-way completed a $143.7 million stock offering, raising funds for capital expenditures, including new trucks for its fleets.

The U.S. Postal Service is overhauling its mail and shipping structure, merging the expedited and ground operations into a single Shipping Services group.

The world’s top container lines lost an average of $1,500 per 20-foot equivalent unit of fleet capacity while racking up an estimated $15 billion in operating losses last year, AXS-Alphaliner re

Net profit for Transport Corp. of India surged 52 percent from a year earlier to $9.3 million in fiscal 2009-10 ended March 31, despite an 11 percent increase in operating expenses.

Antwerp –The port of Antwerp will hold a breakbulk “summit” next month aimed at boosting its presence in the general cargo sector following a significant decline in traffic in the pa

Exports of U.S. steel mill products jumped 29.2 percent in March from February, according to U.S. Government data.

The May 5 hearing by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure into the Port of Los Angeles' clean-trucks program may spawn yet another investigation of the program, this one dealing wi

The Reliance Network, a partnership linking several regional less-than-truckload carriers in the U.S. and Canada, is expanding while changing some of its carrier members.

Oil spill-fighting equipment from Singapore, China and the UK and a team of salvage specialists from the Netherlands, all on aircraft charters coordinated by UK-based Chapman Freeborn, arrived in New

Trucking executives may get the driver shortage they fear unless they reverse wage trends in the industry, an investment research firm warned today.

A federal judge in Delaware dismissed a shareholder suit that accused Horizon Lines and six current or former senior officers of misleading investors about a price-fixing conspiracy in the U.S.

Panalpina expects to more than double its shipments with food processing giant Cargill under a large new contract the forwarder announced Wednesday.

CDC Software, a hybrid enterprise software provider of on-premise and cloud deployments, acquired TradeBeam Holdings, a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of on-demand global trade management software.

A coalition of 13 organizations with maritime interests – from trade unions to shipowners’ associations and insurers – is joining forces to back a global e-petition demanding concret

A balance of supporters and opponents of a proposed rule that could change the way non-vessel-operating common carriers do business will have their say before the Federal Maritime Commission on May 24

Ocean carriers operating to and from India plan to seek general rate increases aimed at taking advantage of surging demand on major trade lanes.

ANTWERP -- Freight rates for breakbulk and heavy lift cargoes still haven't bottomed out and aren't likely to recover until 2015 at the earliest, a leading industry executive said.

With the help of a riser insertion tool, a four-inch diameter tube inserted into a 21-inch diameter pipe, BP is now capturing about 2,000 barrels of oil a day from the broken oil well polluting the Gu

APL will join the INTTRA e-commerce portal, giving the platform important new reach in the ocean shipping world, the companies announced Tuesday.

Procter & Gamble wants more than 400 of its key suppliers to complete a sustainability report this year on how much power they use and how much waste they generate.

Complaining that port infrastructure received just 8 percent of the stimulus law’s original discretionary grants for transportation, the American Association of Port Authorities says it wants a

The Port of Seattle’s import container traffic soared 70 percent in April over the same month a year ago, helping push overall volume at the port to its highest levels since 2008.

A set of stimulus grants to develop industrial infrastructure, including a rail spur, helped trigger a private firm to make a $650 million investment in a steel rolling mill, said President Obama.

Economists are questioning how long U.S. consumers can maintain their current spending pace in the face of high unemployment, stagnant housing prices and reduced access to credit.

The embattled euro is poised to drop further but the economic impact on North American economies appears to be limited, economists from IHS Global Insight said.

Trucking yield and rates aren't rising as quickly as demand despite a surge in freight volume on highways in the first quarter, according to new figures on the trucking market.

TNT Express Monday launched five day per week air cargo service between Moscow and its main European hub Liege, via Warsaw.

APL Logistics, a unit of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, plans to expand its place in the North American intermodal market with a focus on the link between customers’ international and dom

Kuehne + Nagel contracted to provide road logistics services in Middle and Eastern Europe for Rehau, a manufacturer of polymer-based innovations and systems in construction and the automotive industry

European governments and air navigation service providers must develop more precise procedures to identify ash contaminated air space and allow more flights, said the International Air Transport Assoc

Aerologic, the joint venture cargo airline of DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo, is expanding operations into the United Arab Emirates on a route between Germany and Hong Kong with a connection in the e

Safmarine plans to launch its first direct, fully-containerized service between the Far East, the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa next month.

Charleston’s container volume jumped 28.5 percent in April over the same month last year, marking the fourth straight month of double-digit increases, the South Carolina State Ports Authority re

BP successfully placed a riser insertion tool into the broken pipe that has been leaking oil into the

Driving while distracted is not just a concern on the nation’s highways, as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood unveiled a proposed regulation to target “improper use of distracting electr

President Obama, trying for a third time to get someone to run the Transportation Security Administration, announced Monday he will nominate Deputy FBI Director John S.

Trailer Bridge narrowed its first-quarter net loss to $307,569 from $768,034 a year earlier as the U.S.-Puerto Rico carrier reported increases in revenue and operating income.