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DFDS, the Denmark-based intra-Europe shipping line, reported lower third quarter profit and revenue on sharply lower container and roll-on, roll-off traffic across its pan-European network.

Singapore Airlines added Atlanta to its freighter schedule with weekly 747-400 service that connects the city to service that stretches around the world.

Iberia swung to a third quarter loss from a year-earlier profit, the Spanish airline reported Friday, highlighting the financial pressures that spurred its planned $7 billion merger with British Airwa

Hanjin Shipping’s quarterly net loss deepened to $338 million in the third quarter ended Sept.

Kenan Advantage Group, the nation’s largest bulk over-the-road fuel transporter, is expanding its territory and business in the Pacific Northwest by acquiring the assets of fuel hauler Reinhard

Unifeeder, the largest short-sea container carrier in northern Europe, acquired InterMarineContainerLines, Poland's biggest feeder shipping line.

Struggling Japan Airlines suffered a net loss of $1.47 billion in the first half of fiscal 2009, which started in April.

The city of Los Angeles has spent more than $1 million in lobbying and litigation to defend the port’s clean truck concession requirements, according to a Southern California attorney.

London – British Airways and Spain’s Iberia said November 12 they have struck a preliminary agreement for a merger.

The economic stimulus law has now racked up more than 10,000 transportation construction projects that it is backing, according to Vice President Joseph Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.<

Total intermodal volume in the United States and Canada during the third quarter fell 16.4 percent compared with the same period last year, to 2,995,043 units, the Intermodal Association of North Amer

OOCL joined other major carriers in a general rate increase that will apply to all dry shipments from the United States to Hong Kong, Macau and South China.

Financial executives at transportation companies are more pessimistic about the economy than their counterparts in other businesses, and few plan to hire workers in the next six months, according to a

CMA CGM announced Nov. 12 a general rate increase on freight from the United States and Canada to Australia and New Zealand.

Bulk railcar loadings slipped while intermodal traffic picked up in the latest week for major railroads operating in the United States.

Freight railcar and barge builder Greenbrier posted a $6.7 million profit in the June-August period that was its fiscal fourth quarter, for its best result of the past year even though net income was

Hamburg Sud christened the fifth new ship in a series of identical 5,900-TEU container ships in Antwerp Thursday, naming it the &ldquo;Rio Bravo.&rdquo;

HHLA, Hamburg's leading container stevedore, reported steep declines in third quarter revenue and profit as box traffic slumped in its key Asia-Europe and Baltic markets.

APM Terminals, the container terminals division of A.P.

The output of the freight transportation industry declined 0.5 percent in September from August, blunting a three-month long recovery, according to a report Thursday from the U.S.

Reporting quarterly earnings for the first time since it went public with a new stock offering last month, short line railroad operator RailAmerica posted a 21 percent increase in profit to $3.5 milli

Update 5:00 p.m. ET, 11-12-2009: BA, Iberia Agree on Merger

The port of Rotterdam said it will give ocean ships and inland river barges a 7 percent "once-only crisis rebate" on harbor dues in 2010, the first reduction in tariffs in over 20 years.

FedEx&rsquo;s freight forwarding division said Thursday it is adding seven offices in Asia and Europe as part of what the company calls &ldquo;an aggressive global expansion&rdquo; of its forwarding o

Danish shipping giant A.P.

NYK said Thursday it would raise up to $1.58 billion through a public equity offering to strengthen its balance sheet as it hastens reforms to cope with a global shipping slump.

Royal Boskalis Westminster of the Netherlands, the world&rsquo;s biggest dredging company, agreed to take over Smit Internationale, the Rotterdam-based harbor tug, marine salvage and heavy lift shippi

Charter shipowner Danaos Corp. saw its profit drop by 41.4 percent in the third quarter ended Sept.

FedEx says it expects no more audits from the Internal Revenue Service now that the agency for the second time dropped a look at potential penalties in the company’s classification of parcel division

West Coast port directors and executives from the two Class I western railroads meeting in China cited their region's deep-water ports and extensive ocean and intermodal rail services as reasons why t

Shares of trucking company Celadon Group began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Nov. 10, after the Indianapolis-based company shifted its listing from the Nasdaq stock market.

Absorption of industrial real estate space is trending upward and port container volumes in November could experience the first year-over-year gain since July 2008, according to a new index introduced

Hanjin Shipping petitioned the Federal Maritime Commission to allow it to submit a &ldquo;universal notice&rdquo; of its pending corporate reorganization into two separate units instead of having to s

At a time when many trucking companies are hard up for cash, Werner Enterprises says it will deliver $90 million in special dividends to shareholders next month.

Emirates Shipping Line will use GT Nexus as the portal to connect its customers with its freight booking systems through the Internet, the technology company announced Wednesday.

Grand Alliance partners Hapag-Lloyd, NYK Line and OOCL said Wednesday they will reduce their Asia-Europe services during the winter from four loops to three starting from Dec. 28.

Cathay Pacific Airways reported its strongest cargo figures of the year in October, with traffic reaching its highest level of 2009 and aircraft operating at their highest load factors in several year

Kintetsu World Express, Japan's second-largest international forwarder, suffered sharp drops in revenue and profit in the first half of fiscal 2009.

Agility, the Kuwaiti-controlled global logistics company, increased third quarter profit by 15 percent from a year ago on lower revenue as it focused on emerging markets and government contracts to co

BAA reported cargo at its seven U.K. airports, including London Heathrow, increased in October for the first time since August 2008.