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Rail industry officials are generating plenty of heat over potential proposals in Congress to reshape railroad regulation as they wait for a key Senate panel to offer the legislation.

When the Port of Oakland submitted its application for a TIGER grant under the Obama administration’s economic stimulus program, the Northern California port wanted to differentiate itself from the hu

If there’s a distinguishing factor about the freight brokers and logistics companies of the Transportation Intermediaries Association, it’s their size.

The intermodal industry is carrying its share of recession-based pain, but it could make strong gains when the economic recovery gains momentum.

Kansas City Southern, smallest of the seven Class I railroads, saw net profit fall 47 percent from a year earlier to $25.8 million in the third quarter.

Bruce J. Carlton took charge at the National Industrial Transportation League just as the economy began its worst contraction in decades.

With an audacious business deal, the most legendary investor in the United States and perhaps the most visionary leader of North American railroads could change the freight industry for a generation t

Trinity Industries has some wind at its back, pushing North America’s largest railcar maker and a major supplier of wind energy towers and barges into profitability.

Pacer International is hoping its new agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad solidifies the company’s long-term business, but it may have a more immediate impact on the broader U.S.

YRC Worldwide is taking a giant leap over the chasm of bankruptcy, offering bondholders up to 95 percent of its common stock in return for wiping more than $500 million in debt from its books.

Prostitutes crowded the East River docks 175 years ago, attempting to lure the thousands of sailors in port on any given day into surrendering most of the pay they had earned from as much as two years

It could be a study of contradictions.

By the end of last year, the Port of Mobile had completed much of the work on several new infrastructure projects aimed at dramatically boosting cargo volume.

Just back from a marketing trip to Ningbo, China, Canadian logistics executive Craig McKay says he is “flabbergasted” about how much shipping agents at the Chinese seaport know about operations back a

Jet fuel prices around the world reached their highest levels of the year in October, topping out at more than $2 a gallon on the U.S. West Coast, according to the U.S.

The head of BNSF Railway said he has shopped the planned acquisition by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway among U.S. policymakers in Washington, D.C., and gotten a favorable response.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Anne S.

Freight transportation employment fell again in October, the Labor Department said, and many of their major customer groups shed jobs as well.

Neptune Orient Lines is relocating its administration and service center in China to the western city of Chongqing.

P.B. (Kaj) Shah, senior vice president of customer service, Thursday was named President of Ingram Barge Company. The appointment was announced by Craig E. Philip, CEO of Ingram Barge Company.

Days after its deal to become a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway holding company, BNSF Railway said it forged a tentative multi-year labor contract agreement with its train engineers.

Profit at rail equipment maker FreightCar America fell 89 percent from a year earlier to $1.1 million in the July-September period as sales fell 77 percent to $55 million.

The Orcelle Fund, a grant-awarding body created by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, is looking for innovative new maritime projects to support.

British Airways will pay a $4.2 million fine under a ruling by a Canadian court that the airline participated in a cargo price-fixing cartel between 2002 and 2006.

OOCL christened the OOCL Dalian on Thursday, the tenth Panamax vessel in its line of 16 4,500-TEU ships ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries at its Geoje Shipyard in South Korea.

OOCL on Friday announced a peak season surcharge on shipments of westbound refrigerated cargo from Europe to Montreal.

London -- British Airways reported a record $485 million pre-tax loss in the first half of the fiscal year amid collapsing premium passenger numbers and cargo revenue.

The Department of Homeland Security completed deployment of non-intrusive scanning equipment to detect radiation emanating from materials used in nuclear devices at all Northern border land ports of e

Trucking and intermodal shipment operator J. B.

Evergreen Line said Thursday it is scaling down its operating fleet and rationalizing its services in an effort to cope with market conditions.

New loadings of bulk railcar traffic declined mildly in the final week of October at major U.S.

Credit risk evaluator Fitch Ratings warned it may cut Berkshire Hathaway’s debt ratings over its $26 billion buyout of BNSF Railway.

Air cargo officials are hailing the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision this week to reject a Burbank, Calif., airport’s request for a ban on overnight flights, saying the curfew wa

The largest customer for railcar builder American Railcar Industries is now bankrupt, but ARI says it believes the equipment finance operations of CIT Group will continue as normal while the fleet own

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved Nov. 3 the sale of time definite regional carrier Velocity Express to private investor Comvest Investment Partners.

BirdDog Logistics acquired Churchill Transport Group and its affiliate CTG Financial.

Freight railcar builder American Railcar Industries saw third-quarter profit fall 85 percent from a year earlier to $1.1 million, as sales dropped 64 percent to nearly $79 million.

Freight traffic slid 2.2 percent in the latest week at small North American railroads measured by the RMI RailConnect index.

Less-than-truckload carrier Con-way says it moved toward "more aggressive" price discounting in the third quarter than it normally uses and started hiring back workers to cope with tonnage g

The Airbus A330-200F cargo jet made its maiden test flight Nov. 5, launching the European aerospace firm's challenge to U.S. rival Boeing in the market for mid-sized freighters.