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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

The Port of Savannah is using a modified silt suspension system to maintain a depth of 48 feet at four of its Garden City Terminal berths and to increase oxygen levels in the river.

Retail sales last month climbed to $366.4 billion, up 0.4 percent from March to April, according to a report Friday from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Norfolk Southern Railway’s domestic intermodal business grew 35 percent year-over-year in April, expanding at a faster pace than even a robust first quarter for the business, Chairman, President

The Department of Homeland Security will issue new security grants for critical infrastructure that total $789 million, covering ports, freight rail and transit systems plus buffer zones around sensit

First-quarter intermodal shipments across North America rose 8.4 percent, as domestic rail-truck moves outpaced even a sharp rebound in international containers placed aboard trains.

Members of the Senate Finance Committee took Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin to task during his confirmation hearing Thursday for failing to fill out immigration forms to ver

Revenue shot up 58 percent in the first quarter at ground and air carrier Express-1 Expedited Solutions, rising to $31.6 billion, as the economic recovery fueled sales.

Rail equipment makers L.B.

APM Terminals reached a tentative agreement Thursday to lease its showcase $500 million terminal in Portsmouth, Va., to the Virginia Port Authority for 20 years.

The nation's freight tonnage shrank almost 13 percent last year, but is set to expand 25 percent by 2021, according to a report by the American Trucking Associations.

Truckload spot freight volume jumped 291 percent in April from the same month a year ago, hitting its highest level since June 2008, according to TransCore.

Con-way will sell some 4.3 million shares of its stock in a special offering aimed at bringing new cash into the trucking and logistics company for what Con-way said would be “general corporate

The United States and Canada need to emulate businesses pursuing a "single market" strategy for trade and security, a top Procter & Gamble executive says.

The Port of Felixstowe reduced its carbon emissions 8.3 percent in 2009 compared with the previous year, the port announced in its annual Environmental Report.

Railroads, shippers and leasing firms activated about 18,000 idled railcars of various cargo types during April, a slowdown from the pace of recent months.

DFDS, the leading north European short sea shipping line, reported sharply higher earnings and revenue in a "considerably better than expected" first quarter buoyed by rising roll-on, roll-o