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U.S. container ports finally turned the corner in December, with imports estimated to be higher than in December 2008.

Crowley Maritime is swapping the jobs of its senior management team.

Rail supplier Portec Rail Products began selling its fault detection product line in China, expanding sales in that country.

Air France-KLM, Europe's biggest cargo airline, carried 8.5 percent less freight in December than a year ago, led by a double digit drop in traffic on the key Asia-Pacific network.

A gigantic snowstorm across the Appalachian region, followed by mishaps that shut down both conveyor belts at a huge coal export terminal, brought 2009 to sour close for rail shipments of export coal.

The economic recovery may turn out to be crueler than the recession for trucking companies battered by the worst downturn in decades.

The loading and unloading of containers stopped on Jan.

YRC Worldwide clinched a deal with reluctant bondholders last month with a lot of help from its good friends, the Teamsters.

Forget Times Square.

Mercedes-Benz USA opened its newest vehicle processing center Monday at the Port of Brunswick, Ga., with the arrival of more than 1,600 Mercedes-Benz autos on MOL’s roll-on, roll-off ship, the P

Health care has been the subject of intense political debate in Washington, but it wasn’t on the table in contract bargaining between the International Longshoremen’s Association and Unite

With a two-year contract extension barely in place, the International Longshoremen&rsquo;s Association and Atlantic and Gulf waterfront employers already are looking ahead to their next negotiations.<

OOCL on Monday christened its newest vessel, the OOCL Seoul, the 14th SX vessel in OOCL&rsquo;s line of 16 SX class vessels with capacities of 8,063 20-foot units that it has ordered from Samsung Heav

Shipping lines in eastbound Pacific lanes are recovering from their worst losses ever through a series of small, staggered rate increases, a new policy aimed at gradually returning the industry

The St. Lawrence Seaway last year saw its lowest volume in nearly 40 years, the seaway&rsquo;s management company announced.

Railroads and shippers are in a growing dustup over coal dust that could change the way key rail cargo is handled.

For an inland waterways industry struggling under the weight of crumbling infrastructure, it&rsquo;s no longer about just wanting to raise its public profile in Washington.

What&rsquo;s the TEU capacity of the biggest container ships? It depends on who&rsquo;s counting and which measuring stick is used.

The Department of Transportation ended 2009 with $7.955 billion in money already disbursed from last February&rsquo;s stimulus program, up about $1.4 billion from the end of November.

If there&rsquo;s a constant theme in freight transportation&rsquo;s evolution in recent times, it&rsquo;s that bigger is better.

U.S. rail and water transport jobs edged up slightly in December, but the larger trucking and air sectors continued to cut back.

Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for Western Washington charged a clerk for Maersk with stealing more than $250,000 from the company by means of a long-running wire fraud.

Seaspan on Jan. 8 took delivery of its latest containership. The MOL Empire from Hyundai Heavy Industries has a capacity of 5,100 20-foot equivalent units.

North America&rsquo;s railroads face challenges in 2010 notably different from those most freight-hauling industries must deal with: how to generate better results after what in many ways was a banner

Trucking executives rolled into 2010 hoping business, if not much better, would not be any worse than in 2009. But they aren&rsquo;t expecting much of a boost early in the year.

When the worst recession in a generation spread throughout the global trade community, it became harder for shippers to ignore potential benefits of the latest Web-based electronic technologies for ma

The air freight industry faces an August deadline to meet U.S. government mandates to have 100 percent of the cargo on passenger aircraft screened.

If there&rsquo;s any safe harbor from the container shipping&rsquo;s financial hurricane, it&rsquo;s marine terminals.

Breakbulk shippers and carriers were spared the worst of the global recession last year, but they may be less fortunate in 2010.

Last year was a normal year for trucking. Of course, 2009 was not a normal year when measured against averages.

The future of coal is not what it used to be, and that simple fact can alter the business model for freight railroads.

Rail executives, transportation analysts, economists and commodity specialists are looking to the housing market for signs of the direction of lumber shipments, but the market has been sending mixed m

This year promises to be the second-best year ever for agricultural exports, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

If this were a movie, we&rsquo;d call it &ldquo;What Shippers Want.&rdquo; As the first decade of the new millennium wound down, The Journal of Commerce hosted its 2nd Annual Shippers Roundtable to ta

If any segment of the trucking industry were naturally resistant to recession, it would be food hauling and refrigerated transport.

A big concern for the trade community this year can be summed up in three letters: A-C-E.

The U.S. is exporting more wastepaper to Asia, and that&rsquo;s a good sign for the global economy.

Money from the 2009 economic stimulus will become highways, bridges, airports and mass transit systems in 2010, and that’s welcome news to members of the American Road & Transportation Builders Associ

How do you budget for air cargo costs when pricing is on a wild roller coaster? Presented with serious backlogs at major Asian gateways, airlines spent much of October and November pushing up rates.

The global economic downturn is creating significant challenges for anyone managing the movement of goods, but experts say it also is creating new opportunities for third-party logistics providers.