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Diesel fuel prices fell for the seventh straight week across the United States in the week ending Dec. 21, with the national average price sliding 2.2 cents, the U.S.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is delaying for six months the deadline for submission of driver vehicle inspection reports under the agency’s new roadability regulations for intermoda

Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr. will be the new commandant of the Coast Guard, President Obama announced on Tuesday.

FreightCar America named former senior executive Edward Whalen its new president and CEO after Christian Ragot left the company this week under what the railcar manufacturer said was mutual consent.

Containerized imports at 10 major U.S.

Regional trucker Saia, seeking to restructure debt obligations amid falling demand and high costs, said Tuesday it will sell 2.3 million shares to institutional investors as part of a plan to make imp

WASHINGTON — Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox asked the U.S.

Navistar International, the Warrenville, Ill.-based truck and engine manufacturer, on Monday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net profit of $86 million, reversing a $343 million net loss in the same qua

France’s biggest longshoremen’s union is calling for two 24-hour strikes in January in the latest revolt against privatization of container terminals at seven of the country’s biggest ports.

The truckload carrier owners of Transplace sold the third-party logistics and technology operator to a New York-based private equity firm, the companies announced Tuesday, saying the deal will allow n

YRC Worldwide won important approvals from lenders and the Securities and Exchange Commission for the debt-for-equity swap the trucking giant needs to avoid filing for bankruptcy protection.

The world’s top 22 ocean container carriers lost some $11 billion in the first nine months of the year and face further losses in 2010 as the industry digs out from the worst downturn in its 50-

The government lowered its estimate of U.S.

Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell said he will nominate Maritime Administrator Sean Connaughton the commonwealth’s seecretary of transportation.

The Port of Seattle will pay BNSF Railway some $81 million for a 42-mile section of track northeast of the port, ending a long negotiation the port says will keep the line open to freight service.

A week after most large trans-Pacific container carriers sought an “emergency” increase in U.S.

Teamsters officials, trying to save carhauling work in the troubled automobile manufacturing jobs, say General Motors agreed to protect existing jobs at the company and remains in talks with the union

WASHINGTON — Congressional legislation has done little to assure the federal government that U.S.

Softwood lumber markets strengthened in the third quarter in China and northern Africa but remained slow in the U.S. and Japan, according to forest industry analysts Wood Resources International.

Global steel production in November jumped 24 percent over a year earlier to 107.5 million metric tons, but was down 5.2 percent from October, according to the World Steel Association.

States with the two largest seaports ranked in the top five among states with the most-congested urban interstate highways, according to a Reason Foundation report.

A Singapore government agency fined a logistics company executive about $50,000 for safety violations that resulted in a 2007 accident that killed a worker, according to local reports.

NEWARK, N.J.

Containerized exports at the Port of Oakland soared 39.7 percent in November over the same month a year ago, a new sign of growing demand for U.S. goods overseas.

Zim Integrated Shipping Services held a naming ceremony for the Zim Colombo, a newly built 4,255-TEU vessel, at the state-owned Jaya Container Terminal in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

TOKYO — Japan’s merchandise trade surplus with the United States expanded in November for the first time in 27 months as the pace of decline in Japanese exports slowed significantly, according to prel

Roadrunner Transportation Services expects to launch its initial public stock offering now that the economy is more stable and the trucking company has withstood the downturn in demand.

While many trucking companies are cutting prices to attract customers, Roadrunner Transportation Services is acquiring them.

Kraft Foods is cutting carbon dioxide where the rubber meets the road, shaking 50 million truck miles out of its global distribution operations and taking 50,000 trucks off highways since 2005, elimin

Pacer International is capping a transformational year for the major intermodal middleman with a sudden change in leadership.

For years, executives of U.S.-based multinationals quietly complained the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act put them at competitive disadvantage by making it illegal for U.S.

Santa Claus arrived early this year at the three container terminals in Port Newark and Port Elizabeth, N.J.

Econocaribe, a Miami-based non-vessel-operating common carrier specializing in Latin America and the Caribbean, didn’t handle much cargo for Europe before 2007, when it linked up with Ecu-Line,

When cargo volume in the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex was booming two years ago, terminal operators opened gates early, worked through the lunch hour and offered five night and weekend ga

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey hasn’t decided on the next step to phasing out older trucks, but drayage companies already are apprehensive about the path the port will take.

Another front is opening in the battle over the classification of workers as independent contractors.

It’s been nine years since Congress approved the down payment for the Automated Commercial Environment, the entry processing system that was to take Customs and Border Protection into the 21st c

Given the secretive way a rail regulatory overhaul was crafted in the Senate over recent months, it seemed inevitable the landmark bill would emerge late in a jammed legislative calendar and req

For Bob Scribner, the relative ease of shipping goods out of Asia in 2009 came to a crashing halt late this fall as the holidays approached.

‘Rate Restoration’ Gives Way to ‘Emergency Revenue’