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UPS Freight improved transit times between western Canada and points across the United States.

European Union anti-trust regulators launched an in-depth probe of a $20 billion German state aid package for HSH Nordbank, the world's top shipping bank.

Transatlantic AB, the leading Swedish breakbulk and roll-on, roll-off shipping line, said it breached loan covenants after lower cargo volume and weak freight rates pushed it into the red in the third

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru cancelled a global tender to develop its planned 330-meter container berth extension project, originally estimated to cost $130 million.

Asia’s air carriers saw their strongest signs yet of recovery in the air cargo business, reporting their busiest month in nearly a year in September, according to figures released by the Associa

An activist rail shippers’ lobbying group pushed back hard against an industry proposal for Congress to make only limited change in laws governing rail competition.

After a year in which every bit of news coming out of the container shipping industry was seemingly negative, it’s a welcome sign to see indications of growth — and another sign the industry may have

A spate of new orders from one of the world’s most rapidly developing markets promises to sustain project cargo carriers just as they near the end of orders that have kept them busy through the recess

The federal appeals court in New York has brought to an end a legal gold rush of its own making.

The Port of Los Angeles’s task of defending its clean-trucks plan against a lawsuit by the American Trucking Associations got suddenly more difficult on Oct.

The battle to organize harbor truck drivers at U.S.

In the push to mingle more passenger trains in the cargo-dominated rail network, U.S. freight railroads got a key show of support from the Obama administration.

As Congress takes a fresh look at duty drawback, the Treasury Department and Customs and Border Protection are making a modest proposal of their own.

New Deal Logistics, which offers trucking and distribution services from New England to North Carolina, got its start serving the apparel business in New York’s midtown Garment District in the late 19

New Deal Logistics’ Joe Killeen knows retail delivery like he knows Manhattan, which is to say block by block.

The European roll-on, roll-off industry is putting the brakes on a yearlong slide in cargo volumes and rates that stirred speculation of imminent bankruptcies.

The intermodal industry could be facing its biggest shakeup of the decade, as two large intermodal intermediaries and at least two big railroads are reportedly talking about big contracts — ending one

As if steep volume declines and competitive pressures weren’t bad enough, roll-on, roll-off carriers handling heavy equipment are dealing with a global slowdown in construction that has no end in sigh

The evidence of China’s damaging addiction to dirty energy is visible everywhere: Ancient Buddhist statues covered with thick layers of coal dust.

Carriers Face Structural Change, APL Chief Says

YRC Worldwide this week will release what could be the most significant quarterly earnings report in trucking this year, and analysts, customers and competitors — as well as tens of thousands of emplo

Port Newark Container Terminal apologized to truckers for service delays and will issue $100 checks to truckers as it struggles to handle a surge of business that accompanied the shift of Mediterranea

Twenty nations have signed the Rotterdam Rules in its first month, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law announced on Friday.

Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., intends to introduce a bill to improve Coast Guard enforcement of the vessel construction requirements of the Jones Act, his staff said Friday afternoon.

A change in vacation policy allegedly helped less-than-truckload carrier Saia return to profitability in the third quarter.

A significant contributor came out of the RMI RailConnect index of short line traffic starting the week of Oct. 17, taking a bite out of several cargo categories.

The trucking industry is finding the road to recovery has its own potholes.

Members of United States Maritime Alliance, representing Atlantic and Gulf waterfront employers, ratified a coastwide contract extension that International Longshoremen’s Association members wil

The long-delayed project to deepen the Delaware River, which was blocked most recently by the state of Delaware in response to local environmentalist opposition, gained the public backing of two major

The use of global positioning satellite technology by harbor trucking companies can improve freight flow and contribute to reduced congestion and pollution in port cities, a pilot study in Southern Ca

RailRunner, developer of a container-based intermodal transport system, signed a 10-year agreement under which its products will be manufactured, operated, distributed and sold in India by Kolkata-bas

Nearly 80 bus and truck drivers and as many companies may face charges or fines for drug and alcohol violations after a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration investigation.

Ryder System profit fell 66 percent in the third quarter as the company closed some logistics operations and carried less freight due to the global recession.

Truckload and intermodal operator USA Truck lost $1.6 million in the third quarter due to low volume and excess capacity in the freight market.

Pirates seized a Panama-flag ship 180 nautical miles west of the Seychelles, Bloomberg reported.

An advisory panel of railroads and freight shippers that meets regularly with the Surface Transportation Board is urging Congress to adopt cargo switching rules favored by shipper groups, but it bogge

Panalpina’s third quarter results fell significantly below the company’s own expectations.

Air India will begin a daily combined New York/Washington, D.C., service linking Delhi and Kolkata on Dec. 1 with a 777LR.

Horizon Lines earned a profit of $8.4 million in its fiscal third quarter ended Sept. 20, down 24.3 percent from $11.1 million in the same period last year.

A.P. Moller-Maersk launched on Friday an issue of euro bonds to refinance its bank debt and provide a fund for potential acquisitions.