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Kombiverkehr, Europe’s biggest intermodal transport operator, said traffic fell a less-than-expected 16 percent in 2009 from a year ago as demand started to grow again in the final quarter of th

Trailer Bridge swung to a profit of $1 million in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 from a loss of $1.1 million in the same quarter of 2008.

The member lines of the Oceania Vessel Sharing Agreement (Hamburg Süd, Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk Line, and ANL-USL) are planning to add an additional vessel to the weekly Pacific Southwest String (PSW)

The Federal Maritime Commission postponed its meeting this morning to 10 a.m. on Feb. 18.

River traffic is backing up after the second gate failure in five months at an Army Corps of Engineers lock and dam on the Ohio River system.

The Customs and Border Protection Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations, known as COAC, will hold its quarterly meeting on Feb. 25 in Miami.

Mediterranean Shipping Co.

Echo Global Logistics should have no problem recruiting during the recovery.

Kansas City, Mo., February 8, 2010 - Kansas City Southern (KCS) (NYSE:KSU) announced today that on February 5, 2010, Karen L. Pletz notified Michael R.

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) and International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) announced today that Steven F.

New York, NY — Wolfe Research LLC, a premier investment research boutique, announced today that François Trahan — ranked top Wall Street investment strategist by Institutional Inves

CHICAGO, Feb. 5, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Echo Global Logistics, Inc. (Nasdaq:ECHO), a leading provider of technology enabled transportation

UPS will begin in May to furlough 300 or more of its airline pilots to cut operating costs during what the company expects to be a gradual recovery.

A non-vessel-operating common carrier is complaining to the Federal Maritime Commission that an interrelated group of competitors is violating the Shipping Act by operating without a license, tariff o

Canadian National Railway plans to invest about $94 million to develop a logistics park northeast of Calgary, Alberta, and transfer into it most of the operations now at its southeast Calgary rail yar

Before a powerful series of winter storms began to strike early this month, major U.S. railroads enjoyed their strongest traffic in many weeks as January ended.

Import cargo at the top North American container ports will grow 25 percent in the first half of 2010 compared to the same period last year, demonstrating that a sustained trade recovery is under way,

U.S. freight shippers sent their highest shares yet by intermodal combination moves in the 2009 fourth quarter, compared with using trucks only, said transportation consultants FTR Associates.

Truckload demand climbed in the first week of February, with flatbed and refrigerated trucking showing the most strength, Morgan Stanley Research reports.

Three days after a massive winter storm struck the mid-Atlantic region, freight transportation systems were still trying to recover to normal operating levels.

Edward L. Brown Sr., who led the International Longshoremen’s Association in Hampton Roads through the port’s development into one of the nation’s top container ports, died Feb.

Japan Airlines is very likely to maintain its business relationship with American Airlines, rejecting a rival offer from Delta Air Lines, Japanese media reports said, in an apparent flip-flop because

Air France-KLM, Europe’s biggest air cargo carrier, reported freight traffic rose 2 percent in January from a year ago, driven by a recovery on its key Asia-Pacific routes.

Container ship charter rates are rising after two years of steep declines as ocean carriers seek extra tonnage in response to higher cargo volume on key liner trade routes.

Rickmers Maritime Trust, the Singapore-based containership owner, reported fourth quarter net income more than doubled from a year ago as it continued refinancing negotiations with its banks.

OOCL said on Monday it will impose a general rate increase on westbound trans-Atlantic cargo as of April 1.

Five environmental organizations on Friday appealed the Jan. 27 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Sue L. Robinson that allows the dredging of the Delaware River to proceed.

For importers still in denial about the Importer Security Filing rule, Customs and Border Protection has a message: “We’re not delaying enforcement.

It took nearly a year and a stubbornly high unemployment rate before the Obama administration recast its long-awaited $8 billion in rail system grants as part of a jobs strategy.

INTTRA, the Internet portal for ocean freight, is evolving into a commercial entity, churning out products for new markets with the help of a capital infusion from an investment group taking a majorit

There’s room to park around the Port of Baltimore, and that’s a good sign for shipping.

Less-than-truckload carriers can’t put 2009 far back in the rear-view mirrors fast enough.

Truckload carriers, anticipating a gradual increase in shipments this year after a long drought, are calibrating capacity to regain some lost pricing leverage.

Major North American railroads are in good shape to take advantage of a 2010 economic recovery.

Logistics: Haiti’s Lifeline

Rate, Shipper Frustration Both Soaring

Like their counterparts in the U.S., third-party logistics providers in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America enter 2010 with lower growth expectations.

Like most shippers, Wal-Mart Stores is looking for a delivery guarantee from its suppliers. Unlike most others, the world’s largest retailer now is demanding one.

Hapag-Lloyd, the world’s sixth-largest container carrier, is set to move from financial intensive care into operational convalescence.

Ports, cities and labor unions are sharply at odds not only with each other but within their own ranks over efforts to overhaul regulation of harbor trucking, and the rifts will make it even harder fo