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Small railroads across North America started 2010 with traffic near the levels of mid-December but below the recent November peaks, according to the RMI RailConnect index of short lines and regional c

Horizon Lines cut its debt by $38.1 million during the fourth quarter and completed its fiscal year with $28 million less in funded debt than a year earlier, the company said Wednesday.

Retail stores saw a mild recovery in December and a reversal of last year’s downturn in holiday sales.

BONN, Germany, Jan.

Containerized exports in Southern California soared in December, increasing 40.2 percent over December 2008 at the Port of Los Angeles and 30.9 percent at the Port of Long Beach.

Ryder is in close contact with its national charitable partner, the American Red Cross, which is working alongside a team of international relief agencies, to respond to the disaster in Haiti.

Intermodal logistics provider RoadLink named L. Michael Shelton as president, reporting to CEO Mike Haley.

Orient Overseas Container Line will implement a peak season surcharge on all Asia-to-Europe freight, effective Feb. 1.

12:23 p.m. -- FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown says the Haitian government is not accepting incoming flights because ramp space at the Port-au-Prince airport is full and no fuel is available.

A spokesman from the Red Cross on NPR said the agency is channeling its relief supplies in through the Port of Santo Domingo because it can't use the Port of Port-au-Prince.

An inspection by the Coast Guard cutter Forward found port facilities at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, were severely damaged in the Jan. 12 earthquake and apparently unusable.

With the staggering scale of human tragedy becoming more clear, Direct Relief extends our deepest sympathies to the people who have lost loved ones in Haiti.

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering’s worldwide offices are currently working around the clock on a large number of charter requests from international aid agencies following the Haiti earthquake.

Cargo bookings by the individual lines in the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement suggest that vessel utilization levels in the trade will run in the mid-high 90 percent range in most trade segments

German entrepreneur Klaus-Michael Kuehne called on TUI to sell its Hapag-Lloyd stake to make room for a new owner and a more stable shareholder set-up at the container shipping line.

The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement on Thursday elected Kim Young Min, president and CEO of Hanjin Lines, as the new chairman of its executive committee, replacing Neptune Orient Lines CEO Ron Wi

Logistics and transportation operators trying to bring badly needed aid to Haiti are trying to overcome the enormous devastation to infrastructure from the earthquake that has devastated the nation, k

(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.; Jan.

YRC Worldwide is engaging its competitors -- and the media -- in a fierce battle for freight and customer confidence after squelching fears of a near-term bankruptcy.

ATLANTA, Jan.

Union Pacific Railroad over the weekend tested an ultra-long 18,000-foot double-stack train on a run from Texas to Southern California, but the railroad apparently does not intend to run such long tra

Port Everglades, Fla., announced that it will waive tariffs for relief cargo being sent to Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake.

DB Schenker Rail acquired an additional 11 percent of the Italian rail freight operator NordCargo, bringing its total stake in the Milan-based company to 60 percent.

Honeywell is helping UPS upgrade the handheld computers its drivers use.

While North American rail hauls of intermodal equipment fell 14.6 percent in 2009 to 11,670,350 units, largely due to a shrinking ocean container market, the biggest part of the domestic rail-truck bu

Production of heavy trucks will increase 22 percent in the first quarter, as manufacturers work to fulfill the last orders placed by truckers in 2009, ACT Research says.

Asia’s containerized exports to Europe grew 2.4 percent in November, the first year-over-year growth in the key world trade lane during 2009, according to the European Liner Affairs Association.

Leaders of a coalition for export control reform are confident that recommendations they made to the White House may result in a system that protects national security without impeding exports of U.S.

The two recession years of 2008 and most of 2009 left carloads of bulk materials and equipment at major U.S. railroads down 18.2 percent from 2007, said the Association of American Railroads.

Officials with Crowley Maritime were in touch with relief organizations about shipping emergency aid to Haiti Wednesday, but the company was still trying to determine what would be needed or how it co

Recovery in freight transportation services was slow and fitful in the six months through November 2009, as a small increase in output in November brought the government’s Freight Transportation

A.P. Moller-Maersk named Stephen Fraser as head of the Danish group’s information technology division.

Ports America and the Maryland Port Administration have closed on a previously announced 50-year lease and operating concession that includes construction of a new berth with 50-foot water depth at Ba

Seaboard Marine announced Jan. 13 that it will not receive cargo consigned to Haiti until further notice.

Evergreen Line on Wednesday announced it will increase rates next month on westbound cargos it carries from Europe and the Mediterranean to the Far East, including Japan and Australia, and the Indian

International cargo volume grew for Japan’s two largest airlines in November, but domestic cargo declined.

Japan Airlines, the biggest air carrier in Asia, is set to file for bankruptcy protection under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law as early as Jan.19, according to Japanese media reports.

The new $510-million Red Sea Gateway Terminal at Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Islamic Port marked its opening with its first call by a container vessel, the Al Muttanabi with a capacity of 3,802 20-foo

The spot rate for shipping a 40-foot container from Hong Kong to Los Angeles jumped 10 percent so far this week compared to the week ended Jan.

A Somali suspect in the hijacking of the U.S.-flag Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean last April has been charged with involvement in two additional hijackings, Federal prosecutors in New York said Tu