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Norfolk Southern Railway’s third-quarter profit fell 41.7 percent from a year earlier to $303 million, as rail revenue fell 28.7 percent to $2.063 billion.

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee approved President Obama’s nominees to head key agencies overseeing transport security, trucking safety and hazardous material shipment

Heavy truck manufacturer Paccar eked out a $13 million third-quarter profit on $2 billion in combined truck and financial service revenue, but its net was down 96 percent from a year earlier and its t

In the wake of deep capacity cuts by the three New World Alliance carriers (APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine and MOL) and Maersk Line a week ago, OOCL announced the second phase of its "rate restoration"

Changing the type of bonds the federal government uses could improve infrastructure financing, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation.

The ports of Seattle and Tacoma reported mixed results in September container volumes although the trend lines are generally positive.

French container carrier CMA CGM is seeking a further rate increase on freight from the East Coast of South America to Mediterranean, Persian Gulf and North European ports.

Truckload carrier Covenant Transportation Group lost $13.6 million in the third quarter on freight revenue, excluding fuel surcharges, of $133.3 million.

A supply chain official at a major sporting goods shipper says a “war council” after the global financial meltdown last year led the company to cancel its new orders and scale back invento

Canadian Pacific Railway’s profit of $183 million in the third quarter increased 14 percent from $161 million in 2008.

Federal truck driver hours of service rules will be revised and a new rule proposed within nine months under an agreement between the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Teamsters union a

Container traffic fell only 6 percent in the third quarter at terminals operated by DP World, signaling a recovery from steep falls in the first half of the year.

Mediterranean Shipping Company will seek a rate increase on the westbound trades from India to Europe, as part of a new rate restoration program.

Maersk Line plans to start a new dedicated feeder service between Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates and Umm Qasr in southern Iraq in November.

Scania, the Swedish truck maker, said the downturn in the European market has leveled off as it reported third quarter earnings plunged 85 percent from a year ago.

German container shipowners, who control a third of the world box ship fleet, are facing increasing financial difficulties and the threat of bankruptcy as charter rates test fresh lows with the end of

Japan’s three largest shipping lines, NYK Line, MOL and “K” Line, on Tuesday reported losses for the first half of their fiscal years ended Sept.

Canadian National Railway will have to expand its monthly reporting to regulators about its newly acquired short line outside Chicago, as the Surface Transportation Board said the reports must include

Maersk said more than 700 truckers in the Northeast and Ohio Valley have signed up for a subsidiary’s new program that charges motor carriers $11 a day for unrestricted use of intermodal chassis

Retail diesel prices took a third consecutive leap this week just before oil prices dropped sharply with the rebound of the U.S. dollar.

Trans-Pacific shipping rates are rising, but not high or fast enough for ocean carriers, says Wei Jiafu, president and CEO of China Ocean Shipping Co.

An American Trucking Associations executive said New York and New Jersey politicians will regret endorsing Los Angeles-style clean-truck regulations that he said represent a thinly disguised effort to

The Port of New York and New Jersey should develop container-handling facilities in Brooklyn while continuing to expand in New Jersey and Staten Island, Rep.

The global forwarding and logistics group Panalpina and its long-time airline partner Atlas Air renewed their cooperation agreement.

The Coast Guard will hold two more public meetings about proposed ballast water discharge standards before the end of a public comment period.

After major shifts in operations and structure, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings increased net profit by 181 percent in the third quarter to $14.7 million.

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.

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 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

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

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

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

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.

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

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