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Israeli ocean container carrier Zim Integrated Shipping Services has signed a non-binding agreement to sell its stake in an unnamed non-Israeli marine services company for between $130 million and $17

With international package volume rising, DHL Express is hiring as many as 300 workers at its hub in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Because industrial commodity prices tend to be highly volatile, a swing in prices often catches decision makers unawares.

A nationwide information system that can track the locations and speeds of hundreds of thousands of trucks on U.S. highways is much more than a wild-eyed notion.

The less-than-truckload field’s largest network alliance — the sprawling, multicarrier Reliance Network of regional carriers — is undergoing some changes, expanding its reach on the

To small trucking companies working the ports in California, using independent contract drivers to haul containers creates a symbiotic relationship, giving owner-operators the freedom they prize and t

Chicago is not only the nation’s crossroads, but also its chokepoint.

Bad news was everywhere at the end of May: The Dow was plunging 300 points, North and South Korea were rattling sabers, the eurozone crisis was threatening to spread, and an underwater gusher of crude

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.

Building the more fuel-efficient heavy trucks the Obama administration wants to see on U.S.

The trade community is facing a denser compliance jungle than at any time before or since the September 11 attacks as Customs turns its attention to enforcing regulations that for years took a backsea

If all segments of the economy were firing on as many cylinders as the agriculture industry is right now, the already stronger-than-expected economic recovery would be even more robust.

Demand for future rail capacity appears to be as clear as mud.

EU to Investigate Ocean Carriers

The top Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure says time is running out for Congress to pass a comprehensive six-year surface transportation bill. According to Rep.

Container lines are steadily returning vessel strings to the trans-Pacific trade, but not fast enough to relieve capacity constraints in both directions.

Two highway safety advocacy groups often bitterly at odds with the trucking industry honored the top safety executive at one of the nation’s largest truckload carriers, signaling potential

Seaspan said it bought a new container ship this week from China’s Zheijiang Shipbuilding, the first vessel the maritime charter operator has purchased since 2007.

President Obama used a visit to a commercial truck dealership outside Washington, D.C., Friday to highlight how the economic recovery has spurred hiring in equipment suppliers to the freight sector.

The number of Chinese airports allowed to offer direct cargo services to Taiwan will increase from two to six under a new air transport accord between the two countries' civil aviation authorities.

Truckers in South China who are seeking higher earnings reportedly blocked the main road leading to ports in western Shenzhen on Thursday, and threatened to take their protest to larger ports if they

The Army Corps of Engineers issued interim reports Friday indicating existing barriers are keeping Asian carp from migrating through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and related channels, easi

ACL/Grimaldi will start calling at Savannah with its West African Service in early July, the Georgia Ports Authority said Friday.

Truckload rates are spiking 10 percent and higher as rising freight demand collides with deep cuts in capacity, according to freight brokers.

OOCL said Friday it will raise freight rates on southbound cargo it transports from Asia to New Zealand as of July 15.

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