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Railroads are hoping winter storms are the main reason freight traffic has slowed since November, but there are growing concerns that a new chill may have taken hold of the broader recovery.

In years past, an incident such as the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt aboard a Northwest Airlines flight would have resulted in many and loud calls for new inspection procedures for cargo carrie

Negotiators have two basic options on the table for controlling greenhouse gases. One is a tax per ton of bunker fuel that can be invested in a greener environment somewhere else on Earth.

Most Air, Ocean Carriers Fail Financial Test

President Obama took his wife and daughters to his childhood home for Christmas vacation, and Hawaii state officials hope the publicity will help fuel tourism.

Food Safety Bill Stalls in Senate The House of Representatives passed a food safety bill by a wide margin last summer and sent it along to the Senate.

The drumbeat of jobs, jobs, jobs in Washington and debate on financing have become major roadblocks to getting a six-year $500 billion transportation bill into gear and onto a fast-paced road to passa

The container shipping industry is in the midst of perhaps the longest wait for a Panama Canal lock opening in, well, a little more than a century.

The dollar is down, global credit markets are easing, consumers in developing countries are beginning to buy more expensive and varied food, and U.S. farm exports are in demand. For U.S.

Generations of shipbuilders and engineers have spent years trying to get ocean vessels to travel faster. Now, container lines are applying new tricks to slow the ships down.

Top railroad executives are throwing down the gauntlet, serving notice to Congress and freight shippers they will push back hard against efforts to tighten rail regulations.

Placing an immediate ban on text messaging by truck drivers last week, the Department of Transportation sent a message easy to read even without a cell phone.

The 12 ocean containers Crowley Maritime managed to get to shore at Port-au-Prince’s crippled port late last month provided only a small share of the enormous relief supplies needed in Haiti, bu

The Fed’s latest “Beige Book” survey, conducted by the economics staff of its 12 district reserve banks, said five regional reports show freight transportation was either “up s

Democratic Party officials are scrambling to bolster the economy and jump-start job creation following a series of losses in midterm elections.

As newcomers and established industry players vie for roles in a global market with surging demand for pharmaceuticals, airlines, forwarders and container manufacturers are trumpeting a wide arr

It used to be that simply picking up and delivering freight was enough to keep every “motor carrier of property” in the land fat and happy.

After a 14 percent decline in intermodal traffic last year, the major western railroads are planning for increased container traffic in 2010.

Like other North American ports, Canada’s two big East Coast ports suffered declining container throughput in 2009, but the downturn at Montreal and Halifax hardly stretched to all trade t

Grocery chains seeking greater control over inbound inventory and manufacturers pursuing more sustainable shipping are making business hotter for refrigerated freight haulers.

Manufacturers and retailers looking to cut shipping costs by slowing their supply chains are finding unlikely new supporters of the strategy: the ocean container lines that carry the overwhelmin

Frozen Food Express Industries, parent of refrigerated trucker FFE Transportation, Dallas, promoted two top executives as it looks for a thaw in the recession that would return it to profitabili

The global reefer container fleet shrank in 2009. Carriers scrapped obsolete units, and not one carrier built a new refrigerated container, according to Bill Duggan of Maersk Line.

China’s Hainan Airlines will convert six 737-300 passenger planes into freighters in a move to increase regional and domestic air cargo capacity in the region.

With new clean-air initiatives quieting environmental concerns, the Port of Long Beach is embarking on a $3 billion capital construction program aimed at protecting the port’s share of shipping

Trade and manufacturing groups are offering strong support to President Obama’s call to double exports in five years to create 2 million jobs, but they also want to see substantive action t

Crowley Maritime Corp. discharged 202 20-foot containers of relief supplies across a beach in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday under its contract with the U.S. Transportation Command.

SINGAPORE — All the worried talk about the project market lagging the overall economy and thus facing a tough 2010 as other sectors ramp up for recovery may turn out to be just that -- worry.

ABF Freight System is holding a "dialogue" with the Teamsters union over pension liabilities and labor costs, the company's top executive said yesterday.

U.S. imports of steel saw their worst year since 1991 in 2009, falling 49.3 percent from the year before, said the American Institute for International Steel.

New orders for manufactured durable goods in December increased $0.5 billion or 0.3 percent to $167.9 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Thursday.

Wal-Mart Stores created a group of global merchandising centers and signed sourcing agreements with Hong Kong buying agent Li & Fung as part of a broad plan to cut supply chain costs by consolidat

SINGAPORE -- Africa, the least-developed continent in the world, is attracting increased attention from the world's biggest manufacturing countries looking for natural resources and an outlet for expo

Cargo theft rose 12 percent last year and averaged a record 72 incidents per month, according to FreightWatch International, which provides logistics security services and data.

NYK Line will be implementing a general rate increase in its trans-Atlantic services from the U.S.

Horizon Lines in its fiscal fourth quarter ended Dec. 20 swung to a profit of $1.3 million from a loss of $20.3 million in the same quarter of fiscal 2008.

Air France-KLM signed a letter of intent to sell two new 777 freighters to FedEx as it downsizes its all-cargo operation.

Japanese ocean carrier “K” Line said its net losses in the last three months of 2009 nearly doubled to $203.3 million from $115.2 million a year earlier as weak volume and rates caused rev

Slow economic growth and uncertainty about oil prices will hobble U.S. transportation companies recovering from the recession, Standard & Poor’s says.

Citing a pre-Chinese New Year "cargo rush," CMA CGM said it will impose peak season surcharges on services from Asia to North and West Africa.