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While other truckload carriers are still laying up capacity to adjust to lower demand during the recession, Con-way Truckload will shift capacity to double the number of trucks dedicated to short-haul

Canada last week achieved a critical milestone toward building the $3 billion Detroit River International Crossing.

Commercial real estate provider ProLogis may not have signed many blockbuster deals for distribution centers in Europe for the fourth quarter, but the company says an array of new agreements add up to

The best news for the industrial real estate industry at the end of a tough year was that the dismal third quarter wasn’t as bad as the grim first and second quarters.

While the economy’s collapse cut intermodal volumes and some rail lines focused on long-term corridor construction, Union Pacific Railroad went tunneling in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Bankruptcy may be the end of the road for many trucking companies, but it’s becoming a route out of the recession for a few.

Deepening financial troubles may be triggering deep changes at CMA CGM and Zim Integrated Shipping Services.

For years, China’s critics have hoped the country would slow down its export juggernaut, let its currency appreciate and stimulate domestic consumption so China’s imports would incre

When Teamsters locomotive engineers launched a strike against Canadian National Railway on Nov.

A single KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight took off and landed in Amsterdam after only an hour in the air last month, but some hope it carried the airline industry into a new environmental world.

Someday the “sovereign” states of shipping and aviation will join nations of the world in adopting an overall scheme to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Any news of a carrier’s higher volume has a man-bites-dog quality these days.

Geoffrey Giovanetti keeps close tabs on the tippling tastes of American oenophiles. And as managing director of the Wine and Spirit Shippers Association, his business has been good this year.

International maritime shippers don’t miss the congestion that accompanied the surge in import volume earlier this decade, but they’re struggling to adjust supply chains to changes and cut

Is the worst over? It’s starting to look that way for container shipping volume, if not for carriers.

Dubai Debts Threaten Planned UK Terminal

A.P. Moller-Maersk raised approximately $704 million in two separate bond issues, just weeks after it first tapped the corporate bond market.

Neptune Orient Lines said volume grew 23 percent in November compared to the same month a year ago at its container line APL but that pricing and demand also slipped from October.

Retailer Williams-Sonoma says improved supply chain management, including cuts in transportation costs, were a major reason the company swung to a profit in its recent fiscal third quarter despite sli

Edward J. Kelly, the head of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s cargo division, died on Friday on complications from pneumonia.

Rep. James L.

President Obama plans to propose a new set of job-stimulating efforts on Dec.

Officials have locked down a Chicago shipping channel while they dump in poison to prevent what could become an invasive fish species disaster, but the barge industry says the effort is also killing s

The market for class 8 trucks is likely to slump at the end of the year and to slow further in 2010, said transportation analyst FTR Associates.

An Iowa short line railroad will receive a federal grant of nearly $7 million to rebuild a bridge torn away in June 2008 by the flooding Cedar River.

The Cass Freight Index for shipments fell 7.9 percent in November compared to the same month last year, the smallest decline in a year and a half in the closely watched measure of U.S.

London - Teesport, the UK's third largest port, is facing an immediate 20 percent drop in annual revenue after Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus announced Dec. 4 it will mothball a nearby steel mill.

President Obama says large-scale transportation projects that are supposedly “shovel-ready” may not provide the quick boost for jobs needed in the halting American economic recovery.

China Shipping Container Line celebrated the 10th anniversary of its first West Coast calls with a commitment to customers to adjust to changing economic times in order to meet their service requireme

Manufacturers gave shipping a push in October as shipments of manufactured goods, up four of the last five months, increased $3.1 billion or 0.8 percent to $368 billion.

Italy's dock workers' unions suspended a nationwide port strike scheduled for Dec. 18 after lawmakers modified planned reforms of waterfront labor laws.

All major transportation industries reduced their employment levels in November, in line with a still-weak recovery in freight shipping; however, warehousing added jobs.

Dubai World's financial problems will not affect the construction timetable of Europe's biggest container terminal in which its subsidiary DP World is the largest investor, the port of Rotterdam said

Japan is providing financial support to shore up slumping vessel exports amid flagging demand from ship owners.

FedEx will raise list prices for its ground parcel service an average 4.9 percent in 2010, matching the rate increase announced by competitor UPS.

Cargo traffic at Continental Airlines jumped 16.5 percent in November, the strongest year-over-year growth yet in 2009 amid growing signs of stability in the freight market for U.S.

Big U.S. railroads reached a new milestone even as the Thanksgiving holiday trimmed their work week, with bulk carloads showing the smallest decline so far this year from 2008 levels.

If Congress produces a jobs bill after Thursday’s White House jobs summit, state officials have 9,500 reasons why transportation infrastructure should get a major piece of the action.

A lower Canadian income tax rate, realignment of management and cutting back the number of employees helped same-day delivery specialist Dynamex stay even with last year’s profit figures for its

Rail equipment builder GE Transportation signed up Brazilian railway operator America Latina Logistica as a new customer, with an order to deliver 10 new locomotives to ALL this year.