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American Stevedoring Inc. fired what may be the last shot in a bitter, five-year battle with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

YRC Worldwide's stock plunged to a record low Wednesday, dropping from about 31 cents to 22.2 cents per share before pulling up to 23.1 cents when the market closed.

Norfolk Southern Railway is tapping Axion Power International to develop a battery management system for the all-electric yard locomotive it unveiled last year.

The Obama administration’s third nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration faces the Senate Commerce Committee for his nomination hearing on Thursday morning.

The Department of Transportation paid out more than $13 billion to reimburse states for work done under last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The Freight Transportation Services Index rose for the third consecutive month in April, climbing 0.3 percent from March, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics said.

Maersk Line and Hamburg Sud will add a second string in their service between Asia, South Africa and the East Coast of South America in July in response to increased cargo demand during the peak shipp

Cary, N.C., June 9, 2010 (James Street Media Services)--Railinc Corp. announced today that Robert Simora was promoted to Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Global cargo security firm Freightwatch is launching a covert freight tracking service in the U.S. with Qualcomm, the satellite communications and equipment tracking giant.

Container traffic at major ports in India for the April-May period increased by 21 percent over the same period last year, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement on Wednesday.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission will begin issuing detention notices on June 14 for the imported goods that it regulates.

Shippers in the United States cut their logistics spending last year by $244 billion, or 18.2 percent, reducing the logistics share of the economy to a historic low in a rush to scale back inventories

Panalpina, the Swiss global logistics and freight forwarding group, began operations at a 450,000-square-foot, state-of-the art multimodal transit and logistics hub in Dubai.

The management company for the chemical tanker M/T Chem Faros received an $850,000 fine after pleading guilty on Monday to violating anti-pollution laws, the Justice Department said.

Truckload carrier Heartland Express is purchasing an undisclosed number of 2010-model-year Class 8 tractors from Navistar, replacing older vehicles in its fleet.

The Port of Long Beach on Tuesday launched a $40 million project to deepen its main access channel so the largest vessels in use today will be able to proceed directly to berth.

AMR Research ranked Apple as the world’s best supply chain manager for the third straight year, putting technology pioneer at the top of AMR’s annual Supply Chain Top 25.

The Toll Group is acquiring the DPEX Group, one of the largest independent express air freight businesses in Asia, from Qantas, the company announced today.

Air freight prices out of Shanghai jumped 18.4 percent on average in April from March to their highest point so far in 2010, according to Drewry Shipping Consultants.

Owners of railcars across North America pulled only 747 cars of all types out of storage and activated them for revenue service during May, a time when intermodal volume was still surging but many car

WASHINGTON, June 08, 2010 – International security advisory firm Command Consulting Group (CCG) is pleased to announce that recently departed U.S.

AIT Worldwide Logistics has appointed Ray Fennelly the Vice President of Global Business Development for its corporate headquarters location in Itasca, IL.

Intermodal volume at the largest U.S.-owned railroads surged in May at its faster year-over-year pace ever, reflecting both strength in rail-truck combination hauls and how weak traffic was in May 200

Cathay Pacific will start flying cargo across the Atlantic for the first time in July when the Hong Kong carrier debuts an around-the-world freighter service.

Emirates Airline added 32 A380 aircraft to its orders for the “superjumbo” Airbus plane on Tuesday, giving new momentum to the carrier’s rapid expansion in capacity out of its Dubai

India's central government declared Port Blair a major port as of June 1, falling under the purview of the Indian Ports Act. The declaration puts the port in line for greater investiment.

Cargo volume at major ports in India grew 3.5 percent in the April-May period compared with a year earlier, according to latest traffic figures released by the Indian Ports Association.

ProLogis announced two new agreements Tuesday for large distribution centers in Asia and Europe, giving the logistics site developer contracts for more than a million square feet of new warehouse spac

The Panama Canal Authority awarded Belgian maritime projects specialist Dredging International a contract to dredge the man-made Gatun Lake, a major step in expanding the canal’s ability to hand

The new commissioner of Customs and Border Protection is pledging to balance security with facilitation of trade and to improve a Customs-business relationship he said has become “strained and i

U.S. diesel prices fell for the fourth straight week in the week ending June 7, with the national average price sliding 3.4 cents to $2.946 a gallon, the U.S.

Charter operator Euroseas, joining an increasingly lively market for container ships, announced the purchase Monday of a used Handysize vessel, bringing its fleet to 16 ships.

Trucking employment last month grew at its fastest pace since it began to recover in March, and that mode led a broad gain in May that extended across all freight transportation modes.

Schneider National offered a $5,000 signing bonus for drivers willing to work for its Dedicated Services division in Chambersburg, Pa.

Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a bill into law today making Georgia the 28th state to ban cell phone texting while driving. The law will apply to all drivers effective July 1.

Logwin is now operating out of a 64,600-square-foot, consolidated freight station “state of the art” facility in Shanghai, the company said June 7.

UPS said Monday it is bolstering its technology to simplify multimodal shipments and give importers more control over packages and less-than-truckload freight.

The world’s airlines will book net profits of $2.5 billion in 2010, the International Air Transportation Association said, just three months after it forecast a $2.8 billion loss.

Tens of thousands of trucks and buses will be stopped for safety inspections by state police this week in the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual Roadcheck.

Rickmers-Linie launched a breakbulk, project cargo and heavy-lift liner service linking North Asia with the U.S. East Coast and South America.