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South Carolina’s ports in Charleston and Georgetown, as well as its coastal waterways, stand to gain more than $17 million in additional funding for channel deepening and maintenance dredging fo

Third party logistics company OHL recently hired Patrick Moebel as president, Americas for its global freight management and logistics business unit.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is raising its fees on imported agricultural commodities, effective Oct. 1.

The recovery in freight traffic hit some washouts at major U.S. rail operations in the week ending Sept.

Port Manatee on Sept. 30 received a federal grant of $998,542 through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to pay for security upgrades.

RailAmerica will sell a minority stake of the short line holding company now owned by Fortress Investment Group, in an initial public offering of common stock.

FedEx Trade Networks, the freight forwarding subsidiary of FedEx, appointed Fred Schardt president and chief executive officer, effective Oct. 1.

SNCF, France’s state-owned railway, said it will sharply increase container traffic and offer high speed express services as part of a $1.5 billion plan to boost market share and move its freigh

The Panama Canal Authority said Thursday it will extend the discount program introduced in June to provide short-term cost reductions and greater flexibility to its reservation system through the end

A closely-watched measure of manufacturing in the United States slipped in September, retreating for the first time this year after eight months of steady improvement, signaling any prospects for econ

An Environmental Protection Agency stimulus grant of $1.73 million will help the state-owned Alaska Railroad and other transport operations curb diesel emissions.

The Senate late Wednesday passed 62 – 38 a budget resolution that included a one-month extension of existing highway programs.

The Shipping Corporation of India said it will delay the acquisition of 72 new vessels it had planned to buy during the 11th Five-Year Plan covering 2007 to 2012.

Congress and the Obama administration should move determinedly to improve the U.S.

Maersk Line’s plans to save money by replacing a number of its Danish deck officers with foreign nationals ignited controversy in Copenhagen, where the world’s largest container line is ba

A proposal to provide German government guarantees for $1.8 billion in loans to Hapag-Lloyd by its owners will probably be decided by Germany’s Bundestag today.

Rickmers-Linie is expanding its co-operation with Japan's Eastern Car Liner on the trans-Pacific trades with the launch of a new eastbound service.

International Longshoremen's Association delegates voted overwhelmingly Wednesday for a two-year extension of the union contract covering 18,500 Atlantic and Gulf dockworkers.

The United Steelworkers’ Local 1976, based in Montreal, ratified a three-year contract deal with Canadian Pacific Railway that raises wages three percent in 2010 and 2011 but leaves pay unchange

A Greek ship management company will pay a $2.7 million fine and a $100,000 community service payment after pleading guilty to violations of two environmental and one vessel safety law in federal cour

After an absence of almost a century, electric trucks are poised to make a comeback on city streets in the U.S.

MOL received government approval to establish a new joint terminal operating company in Vietnam.

Evergreen Line will increase its rates from European ports to ports along the Mediterranean, beginning Oct. 1.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday kicked off a two-day Distracted Driving Summit in Washington, D.C.

Real gross domestic product decreased at an annual rate of 0.7 percent from the first quarter to the second quarter, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The U.S. Congress is unlikely to ratify the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement in 2009 because it is focusing on health care reform and energy-related legislation, U.S.

Surface trade with Canada and Mexico sank 28 percent in July compared with a year earlier, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Sept. 30.

Air France and KLM are integrating their commercial operations in the United States Oct. 1, more than five years after their merger.

Negotiators for the International Longshoremen’s Association and ILA employers met in small groups Tuesday holding discussions into the night.

The Port of Long Beach will reduce truck pollution in the harbor by almost 80 percent by the end of the year, two years earlier than port executives anticipated when they launched the clean-truck

Ship leasing company Danaos took delivery of its 42nd containership, the CMA CGM Moliere with a capacity of 6,500 20-foot equivalent units, adding new capacity even as ocean carriers around the w

A German government committee delayed a decision on $1.8 billion of state-backed loan guarantees to ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd due Sept. 30, to address questions raised by lawmakers.

Babcock & Brown Infrastructure, the financially troubled parent of pan-European bulk/break bulk stevedore Euroports, rejected a refinancing proposal from a group of international hedge funds.

The Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority on Tuesday confirmed that Alec G. Dreyer will be Houston’s 11th port director in 90 years.

Highway programs that are due to expire at midnight Wednesday will get a one-month reprieve if the Senate agrees to a continuing resolution on the fiscal 2010 federal budget.

German lawmakers are expected to approve $1.8 billion of state loan guarantees for Hapag-Lloyd, the country's largest ocean container carrier.

The fleet of idled container ships controlled by charter ship-owners reached a record high in September and exceeds the number of unemployed vessels controlled and operated by ocean carriers for the f

DB Schenker and TransContainer are planning a joint container hub in Riga, the capital of Latvia on the Baltic Sea.

The U.S. Coast Guard will hold six public meetings on its proposed rulemaking for ballast water discharge. USCG plans to offer a live Webcast of each public meeting as well.

Seeking more targeted logistics business in specialized shipping sectors, TNT on Tuesday rolled out an inventory and transportation service aimed at critical spare parts in Southeast Asia.