Latest news

CMA CGM, the financially troubled French ocean container carrier, booked a $1.4 billion net loss in 2009 but returned to profit in the final quarter of the year.

London – TNT’s net profit nearly doubled in the first quarter on strong gains in expedited shipping demand, but the Dutch express and mail carrier said it remains cautious about what it ca

Even as the U.S. Gulf Coast braces to deal with an unprecedented oil spill, ports remained open Monday and commercial vessel traffic proceeded in the region with no noticeable slowdown.

The average price of diesel last week jumped 4.4 cents to $3.122 per gallon, the highest point for diesel since October 2008, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The Cass Freight Index of U.S.

Stimulus project spending by the Department of Transportation reached $11.393 billion as of April 23, up $926 million from the end of March.

YRC Worldwide is reaching deep into other modes of transportation as well as investment banking and corporate restructuring as its remakes its board of directors.

Truck rates paid by Canadian shippers increased in February, rising from a 1.6 percent drop in January, according to the Canadian General Freight Index.

Hamburg Sud and its Brazilian affiliate Alianca said Monday they plan to charge shippers a general rate increase of $461.41 per 20-foot equivalent unit on June 1 for all cargo moving from Europe to po

The manufacturing sector expanded in April for the ninth consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 12th consecutive month, said the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing

UK transport company FirstGroup has put its rail freight unit up for sale, attracting several British and European bidders, according to the Financial Times.

Damco, the combined brand of A.P. Moller-Maersk logistics activities, reached outside the company to hire Todd Renehan as its new chief commercial officer for North America.

Continental and United airlines plan to merge, the carriers announced Monday, creating the world’s largest airline by revenue and the largest cargo carrier among passenger airlines in the United

It’s barely May, but it’s already turning out to be a very good year for North American railroads.

Shippers expect to see prices rise this year for U.S. domestic transportation but most are not projecting big increases even amid concerns over tight capacity, according to a new survey.

Railex Defies Recession, Expands Despite the economy, Railex is expanding and hopes to have a facility open in the Southeast within the next year.

Like cardiologists looking for signs of life in emergency room patients, container volumes depicted in the inaugural ranking of The Journal of Commerce Top 25 North American Container Ports show only

The recovery no longer appears to be uncertain for intermodal middleman Hub Group.

That year, exporters in most sectors saw their foreign markets expand, enjoyed a weakening dollar and easy trade finance, and in general had little trouble with transportation and logistics.

A global shortage of ocean containers is exacerbating the difficulty U.S. exporters face in finding empty boxes for shipments from the Midwest and other locations away from import centers.

Cargo thefts escalated as the economy slumped over the past two years, with 879 incidents reported in the U.S., according to Freightwatch International.

Last summer, food safety legislation sailed through the House of Representatives with broad, bipartisan support and little controversy.

The Obama administration says it wants to pursue new trade agreements as a way to increase exports of U.S.

Seventeen transportation and logistics companies were named to this year’s Fortune 500 list of biggest U.S. companies.

The Transportation Security Administration has moved up enforcement deadlines and said that by May 1 at least 75 percent of cargo must be screened before it goes in the bellies of passenger aircraft.

Cargo owners have access to various channels of compensation if their shipments are lost at sea, damaged during inland transit or arrive late to the destination, but their best recourse is not found i

Across the U.S., states struggling with multibillion-dollar deficits are willing to consider almost anything to help balance their budgets, from licensing hypnotists in Connecticut to slashing univers

Ask importers their top concern this year as they wrapped up service contract negotiations with ocean carriers in the eastbound Asia-to-U.S.

A year after merging Yellow Transportation and Roadway, YRC Worldwide is working to better coordinate national carrier YRC with its regional subsidiaries, and reorganizing its management team.

The Surface Transportation Board clearly was not happy with Canadian National Railway after a consultant reported that CN trains were blocking Chicago suburban roads vastly more often than the railroa

For the 200-plus years U.S. officials have been collecting customs duties, licensed brokers have been doing the detailed work that keeps importers’ goods moving.

The four major South Atlantic ports are in a race against time and, to some extent, each other to prepare for the bigger ships that will start coming to the East Coast from Asia after the Panama Canal

Domestic Shippers Brace for Rate Hikes

Trucking’s heavy-haul sector left the recession lighter than when it entered the downturn, but the industry is ready to bulk up again as spending on infrastructure and energy projects increases.

Economists at the International Monetary Fund are optimistic about the global economy, saying it will grow 4.2 percent in 2010.

Universal Truckload Services earned $2.1 million in net profit in the 13 weeks ended April 30, almost entirely from sales of marketable securities.

Miami International Airport’s cargo traffic grew 24 percent in the first quarter, including a 38.1 percent jump in March, as a recovery in expedited shipping through the gateway to Latin America

Toronto-based trucker Vitran says price discounting in the less-than-truckload world appears to be leveling off, helping the carrier improve its financial picture this year.

Demand for distribution space in Europe remained "surprisingly resilient" during the global economic recession of 2009 due to resurgence in trade in mid-year and a shortage of modern, effici