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Diesel prices fell last week for the first time in seven weeks, sliding an average of 3.3 cents to $3.094 per gallon, according to a report Monday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The watershed Los Angeles clean-truck lawsuit is one step closer to conclusion, with the port stating in its closing arguments that it is exempt from federal pre-emption law because it is a market par

Overall container volume at Germany’s Port of Hamburg slipped 4 percent to 1.8 million 20-foot equivalent units in the first quarter, but loaded containers posted a 1.6 percent increase.

Agility, the Kuwait-based global logistics company, reported first quarter profit fell 52 percent from a year ago and warned future earnings will be hit by the loss of U.S.

Manufacturers in New York say their business improved for the tenth consecutive month in May, according to The Empire State Manufacturing Survey.

Damco, the combined brand of A.P. Moller-Maersk logistics activities, joined the DASH7 Alliance, an international group promoting the use of an advanced wireless sensor networking technology.

Trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line expanded its international freight forwarding business, opening four regional command centers to guide shipments through its domestic and global networks.

Roadrunner Transportation Services completed an initial public offering, becoming one of a very few trucking and logistics companies to go public in recent years.

The euro weakened to $1.2234, a four-year low against the dollar, and some economists predict it will fall even lower, a development that would help European exports but hurt U.S. exporters.

The container volume handled by Georgia’s ports jumped by 25.6 percent in April, making five months in a row that they recorded double-digit growth.

DP World India took delivery of six rubber-tired gantry cranes that are to be installed at its International Container Transshipment Terminal, the country’s first deep-water transshipment facili

The International Register of Shipping opened an office in Singapore as part of its strategy to expand its worldwide presence.

Airports in Europe, including Amsterdam Schiphol and London Heathrow, reopened Monday after a new wave of shutdowns because of volcanic ash disrupted airline operations and prompted new worries about

Air France-KLM's cargo business is set to report an annual $614 million operating loss this week, according to French newspaper Le Figaro.

The air shipping industry met a May 1 deadline for screening 75 percent of cargo on U.S.

The Department of Transportation keeps saying it wants to “get trucks off the road” in reshaping the nation’s freight and passenger infrastructure.

The Department of Transportation’s policy plans for 2010-2015 would: -- Focus transportation policy on “achieving strategic outcomes” in broader national goals.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach spent almost $80 million combined on incentives to get carriers and owner-operators driving clean diesel trucks.

Asia-Europe Trade Extends Rally

A rail customers’ rally, held at the outset of a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill, was one part reunion and one part backslapping celebration as shippers and their advocates reveled in what they

When Congress gave the Consumer Product Safety Commission new authority and responsibility over children’s products in 2008 following widespread reports of tainted imports, the agency seemed to

February’s Customs Update addressed the growing problems caused by corporate identity theft and its impact on international trade (“Protecting Your Identity,” The Journal of Commerc

The sound reverberating from Echo Global Logistics is the boom created by its rocketing sales.

Although Echo Global Logistics is grounded in trucking, “I’m kind of the only trucker here,” CEO Doug Waggoner said. That’s an advantage for Waggoner and Echo.

Ports on the Great Lakes, which traditionally handle dry and liquid bulk, breakbulk and project cargo, are looking at a future with containers.

One by one, the major shipping lines pushed to the brink of bankruptcy have received financial infusions enabling them to survive.

Barely a week after reporting the worst financial results in its four-decade history, freighter operator Cargolux announced its first round-the-world service with an ambitious Europe-Asia-North Americ

For a few hours this month, Congress trained a spotlight on someone rarely noticed in Washington — the trucker who works the nation’s ports, hauling containers from docks to distribution p

At first blush, it makes sense that start-up carrier The Containership Co. chose the new Port of Taicang as its home base in China, but CEO Jakob Tolstrup-Moller said it was the other way around.

Nearly a month after an explosion destroyed the BP/Transocean Deepwater Horizon deep-sea drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, oil was still gushing from two leaks in the rig’s shattered well hous

Profitability and higher pricing evaded Con-way Freight in the first quarter, despite a 34.8 percent surge in freight tonnage that filled the carrier’s less-than-truckload network.

The nation’s top business lobbyist today called on the Obama administration and Congress to adopt a “robust trade expansion program” and create as many as 20 million U.S.

CMA CGM will add calls at Mobile, Ala., and Pusan, Korea, to its Asia-Gulf of Mexico service, effective May 20, the company announced Friday.

The Department of Transportation is expected to brief members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on a plan for cross-border trucking with Mexico before Mexican President Felipe C

Retailers, motor carriers and environmentalists have joined forces in the Southeast to develop a clean-air initiative to reduce harmful emissions from harbor trucks.

Intermodal marketing companies tilted their traffic share much more toward rail-truck combination moves in the first quarter and away from all-highway loads, according to the Intermodal Association of

Cross-border trade with Canada isn't just about sales and profit, it's about millions of jobs, U.S. and Canadian business executives told members of Congress this week.

U.S. industrial production rose during April as businesses restocked inventories in response to rising demand, the government said Friday.

The CEO of Norfolk Southern Railway told investors that railroads are fighting a group of “cynical and short-sighted” shippers who are pursuing a new federal regulatory bill that jeopardiz

Neptune Orient Lines, Singapore-based parent of ocean container carrier APL, narrowed its first-quarter net loss to $98 million from $245 million a year earlier and said trends point to a return to pr