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Beluga Shipping took delivery of the first of 16 new 20,000 deadweight-ton ice-class P-series vessels, the Beluga Houston.

The American Trucking Associations is suing the Department of Transportation in an attempt to force it to declare what supporting documents trucking companies must keep to prove their employees comply

National Retail Systems, the New Jersey-based logistics provider, appointed Patrick Ahern to the new position of vice president, International.

Orient Overseas (International) Limited, the parent of container line OOCL, said Tuesday it sold its real-estate subsidiary Orient Overseas Developments Limited to CapitaLand China (RE) Holdings Co fo

A Northern Air Cargo Boeing 737 aircraft landed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti this afternoon at 2pm. EST from Miami, FL in support of earthquake relief efforts in the region.

Maersk plans to expand its Direct ChassisLink program throughout the Midwest and the Ohio Valley as of March 1.

DHL Express, trying to close the books on its painful withdrawal from U.S. domestic business, said Tuesday it will donate its Wilmington Airport facility to local authorities in Ohio.

Lufthansa Cargo pilots will vote on strike action after the German carrier and their union failed to reach agreement on a new contract.

French dockworker leaders set a mid-February deadline for the government to respond to their demands for more waterfront jobs or face further industrial action.

Japan Airlines, the biggest air carrier in Asia, filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors on Tuesday, marking one of the biggest corporate failures in Japanese history.

Con-way Freight is speeding service by a full day in some lanes by cutting transit times to 460 U.S. destinations.

Trailer Bridge plans to expand the frequency of its service to the Dominican Republic from every two weeks to weekly, the tug-barge operator said Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of Transportation took steps this week to facilitate the rapid flow of rescue and relief personnel and supplies to Haiti following the major earthquake there on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — The Postal Service announced today it has placed a temporary hold on all mail destined to the nation of Haiti.

Riviera Beach, FL - Port Commissioner Wayne Richards is taking a leading role in Palm Beach County's response to the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti.

Payments by the Department of Transportation to reimburse states for stimulus projects reached $8.101 billion as of Jan. 8, DOT said, up about $1.3 billion in the past month.

SEATTLE, January 18, 2010 - As recovery efforts in the wake of Haiti's devastating earthquake continue, tugs and barges from two Seattle-based companies are in the U.S.

Hanjin Shipping plans to raise trans-Atlantic rates in both directions in three quarterly increases on April 1, July 1 and Oct. 1, the carrier announced Monday.

Maersk Line’s AE7 Asia - Europe service Jan. 13 called at the Port of Felixstowe in the UK.

Deltaport, Canada’s largest container terminal, opened a third berth Monday, increasing the capacity of the Port Metro Vancouver, Canada, facility by 50 percent.

The head of Southern California’s PierPass, rejecting suggestions the marine terminal program is too costly to operate with the downturn in container volume, says the terminals will continue to offer

The United Nations’ World Food Program said it will use five routes to overcome logistics obstacles as it steps up delivery of relief supplies to Haiti.

The Maritime Administration is sending four special-purpose cargo ships and a high-speed vehicle-passenger ferry to help with Haitian relief efforts.

U.S. military forces are leading efforts to punch through sea, air and road bottlenecks slowing the delivery of food and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

CMA CGM on Monday officially appointed Philippe Soulie, former head of French construction group Cnim, CEO of the troubled ocean container carrier.

Flatbed trucking has been flatlining.

Lufthansa is supporting the international emergency operations in aid of the earthquake victims in Haiti. Lufthansa Cargo on Jan.

The 278-foot house barge Crimson Clover arrived Sunday night at Port-au-Prince, the first commercial vessel to reach the port since the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Wal-Mart Stores is pursuing new savings in sourcing in ways that could help it wrest more control over inbound freight from its vendors and lower inventory costs.

Deutsche Post DHL is kick-starting the stalled consolidation of Europe’s standard parcel delivery business by leaving the business in the U.K. and France.

The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement is adding another member and changing its governance and management structure to better deal with what carriers say are insufficient trans-Pacific freigh

Ocean carriers’ service cutbacks are forcing shippers to book further in advance and pay higher rates to keep their containers from being left on the dock.

Global trade is recovering as the major industrialized countries slowly climb out of recession. U.S. imports are increasing after months of declines.

At a time when infrastructure is crumbling and resources are depleted, the Army Corps of Engineers needs fresh thinking about the way it manages the inland rivers system, according to a working group

A Surface Transportation Board case involving a new 80-mile rail line in Alaska suggests a potential fissure between the railroad industry’s three key economic regulators even as Congress debate

When heavy snows and frigid weather hit much of the nation in the first two weeks of the year, several states lifted weight restrictions on trucks, some to help endangered crops to get to market and o

With shipments valued in the tens of millions of dollars, Pfizer is no stranger to cargo security, so the pharmaceutical giant is taking part in the Transportation Security Administration’s Cert

Even after 14.5 percent average annual growth in container traffic between 2002 and 2007, the container shipping revolution still has a long way to go in India.

India may be showing sharp growth while the rest of the trading world struggles out of the economic downturn, but it is the one area where the country is lagging that has shippers and logistics operat