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Panalpina Group, the Switzerland-based logistics and forwarding provider, reported its net profit dropped 77.9 percent during the first half of 2009 compared with the same period last year, to $15.9 m

Container volume statistics compiled by Pacific Maritime Association confirm that West Coast ports in the first half of 2009 took a terrible beating, with overall volume falling a combined 20.7 percen

The idling of North American steel plants is giving the St.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller said proposed rail reform legislation may not emerge in the few days remaining before the Senate starts a planned month-long recess on Aug.

Mediterranean Shipping Company (USA), joining the push by ocean carriers to pump up depressed container shipping price, announced a series of rate increases Tuesday starting Sept. 1 for U.S.

Marine terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach will maintain the PierPass traffic mitigation fee at the current level of $50 per TEU despite declining cargo volumes.

United Airlines had its busiest month for freight in nine months in July, with the carrier’s traffic growing 5 percent from the month before.

Non asset-based transportation holding company Circumference America consolidated operations and sold its intermodal division, Radius Rail Logistics.

Kansas City Southern bolstered its withered cash resources by completing a planned issue of $75 million worth of new common stock.

Defects in railroad tracks were the leading cause of train accidents in the first five months of 2009, says a Federal Railroad Administration report.

Global logistics company Expeditors International of Washington earned net profit of $54.1 million in the second quarter, down 24 percent from a year ago.

A swift conclusion to the long-delayed Doha round of negotiations could "act as a stimulus for recovery" from the global recession, World Trade Organization head Pascal Lamy said Tuesday.

Cargo revenue at Taiwanese carrier EVA Air plunged 51 percent in the first half of this year as falling Asian exports cut the airline’s freight traffic by nearly a third.

Inflation remains well under control in the 30-nations that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Paris-based research organization said Tuesday.

MOL Auto Logistics (India), the local arm of Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K.

Nippon Express, Japan's largest freight forwarder, suffered sharp declines in sales and profit in the April-June quarter.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, long viewed as the most fee-focused ports in the country, will not initiate their proposed infrastructure fee anytime soon.

The average retail price of diesel fuel climbed 2.2 cents to $2.55 per gallon last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

New Jersey clerical employees of Evergreen Shipping Agency (America) remain on the job following the declaration of an impasse in negotiations with the International Longshoremen’s Association o

Virginia International Terminals is laying off 90 employees, or 20 percent of its work force, immediately, the operating affiliate of the Virginia Port Authority announced Aug. 3.

Technology provider INTTRA rolled out an upgraded version of its online ocean shipment booking tool Monday, adding capabilities that enable shippers and forwarders to send more detailed booking inform

Klaus Rud Sejling will assume the position as Head of Group Strategy Office in A.P. Moller - Maersk as of Nov. 1, the company announced Monday.

A closely watched index of industrial shipping in the United States fell back slightly in July from the month before, Cass Information Systems announced Monday, amid growing signs that the year-long d

The Institute of Supply Management's manufacturing index jumped 4.1 percentage points in July to its highest point in a year and accelerating figures in the closely watched report suggest manufacturer

Logistics provider Agility opened a 139,900-square-foot logistics hub near Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.

Short line railroads tracked by the RMI RailConnect index hauled more than 90,000 cargo units in the week ending July 25, for the first time in more than a month as carriers saw moderate but steady ga

All Nippon Airways lost $307 million in the April-June quarter, compared with a group net profit of $69 million a year earlier.

DSV, the largest Scandinavian trucking and logistics company, reported a larger-than-expected decline in second-quarter earnings and lowered its full-year forecast to reflect shrinking ocean, air and

The growth rate of the index of industrial prices measured by The Journal of Commerce and the Economic Cycle Research Institute moved into positive territory for the second week in a row in the week e

Israel Corp. said it will provide a $350 million cash injection into Zim Integrated Shipping Services as part of a recovery plan for its struggling ocean container shipping unit.

British Airways swung to a net loss of $175 million in the fiscal first quarter from a $44.6 million profit in the same period in 2008 and warned of tough trading conditions for cargo and passengers t

For all the debate over “green shoots” and “brown shoots,” it is increasingly clear that a global industrial recovery is taking root and is starting to fertilize economic recovery worldwide.

In 2007, when the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were experiencing robust growth, executives at the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority suggested collection of the rail corridor’s user fees

A significant reform of U.S. export controls long criticized as deeply flawed and counterproductive is in the works, and exporters hope for major changes in the regulations.

There may be less cargo to go around, but that’s not stopping professional thieves who are just as bold as ever but now targeting higher value products.

At this point in the recession, with rail employment at the lowest levels of the decade and traffic stuck in a stubbornly low range, even hefty profits don’t inspire rail executives to see good times

Let’s face it, whether in good times or bad, no one wants to pay more for services or goods than they had been paying.

On the surface, at least, domestic parcel shipping looked remarkably strong at UPS amid the U.S. economic wreckage.

When the Port of Tampa decided recently to tear down its 35-year-old cold storage site and build a bigger facility as part of a larger container terminal expansion, the port was defying trends at port

Pacer International, the Concord, Calif.-based intermodal and logistics company, took another step toward a transformation of its business model when it agreed to sell its heavy-haul trucking segment