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The proverbial “green shoots” that some analysts detect in recent economic indicators are not appearing in the global container shipping industry.

Will shorter work assignments equate to the same pay for unionized rail workers? A federal court has been asked to decide.

When Maersk Line officials this year looked at the service requirements of their trans-Pacific customers, they came to a shocking conclusion: “Even we couldn’t get the scale we wanted on o

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has caused a lot of hand-wringing because of its Buy American provisions. Is that concern warranted?

President Obama is filling out his team to regulate railroads.

Environmentalists cheered a July 1 federal court ruling that allows the California Air Resources Board to regulate emissions from oceangoing vessels, but the maritime industry insists regulators shoul

The Obama administration, calling it “Stage 1” of a sweeping reform of transportation policy and funding, formally presented its proposal to Congress for a transportation reauthorization b

In 2006, the Army’s 1st Infantry Division came home from Germany to settle at Fort Riley, Kan.

Do tanks fly?

It may be hard to imagine, but the U.S. was once Cuba’s largest trading partner by far, and its greatest source of tourism and foreign investment.

At a time when North American railroads are idling equipment and workers, slashing capital project spending and trying to ride out a severe traffic slump, Kansas City Southern is celebrating the compl

Trucking bankruptcies may be on the rise again after declining 49 percent in early 2009, as higher fuel costs and the recession grind down carrier profit margins.

Truckload carrier Landstar System is expanding off-road by acquiring two technology companies that give it greater reach into shippers’ freight networks.

Monson Trucking isn’t the first trucking company to fail in this recession, but it is one of the oldest.

Intermodal Traffic may be down, but the companies that put containers and trailers on trains aren’t out for the count.

As it struggles to stay on track and regain speed, Pacer International faces a deadline.

From 2004 through 2008, U.S. exports to Brazil, Colombia, Chile and Argentina — South America’s four largest economies— more than doubled. While U.S.

With the first half of 2009 behind us, it’s the usual time to assess how the six-month period looked and where we stand versus our annual budgets.

Automobile and roll-on, roll-off traffic between the U.S. and the Middle East is in slow recovery mode after falling hard and fast.

The Maritime Administration would provide grants to develop U.S. marine highways under a bill passed by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

Hapag-Lloyd, the world’s fifth largest container carrier, will get approximately $1 billion in financial support from its owners as it seeks additional aid from the German government and lenders

The Port of Long Beach received a $4 million grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to replace or retrofit 114 machines at marine terminals in order to reduce diesel emissions.

China's trade surplus last month shrank to $8.25 billion from $13.4 billion in May, the General Administration of Customs said on Friday. Economists had expected a surplus of $15.0 billion.

Short line railroads surveyed for the RMI RailConnect index hauled 85,276 combined carloads and intermodal units in the week ending July 4, well ahead of the Memorial Day week at the end of May but no

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YRC Worldwide’s stock rose 60 cents to $1.49 a share July 9 on news that the financially strapped trucking enterprise reached a tentative agreement on cost cuts with the Teamsters union.

The U.S. trade deficit fell in May to its lowest monthly level since November 1999, as exports registered a small gain but imports dropped for the tenth month in a row.

Frankfurt airport, Europe’s top air cargo hub, reports the decline in cargo traffic slowed in June.

Small shipyards in 10 states will divvy up $17.1 million in grants to obtain cranes and other equipment from welding gear to cutting tables.

All U.S.-flag ships in international commerce would have to be built in the United States if language approved July 9 by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee becomes law.

The global recession and other recent economic changes “reinforce the importance of innovative, sustainable business practices that lead the transition to a low-carbon economy, promote economic develo

The U.S. Postal Service is greening its fleet of delivery trucks with 1,000 E-85 ethanol-powered and 900 hybrid gasoline-electric trucks.

Cosco Corporation (Singapore), the shipbuilding unit of China’s state-owned shipping line, announced on Friday that it has agreed to delay deliveries of eight dry bulk vessels at the request of two Eu

Two shipping consortia that provide services between northeast Asia, Brisbane and New Zealand said today they are cutting capacity on the route by combining their two loops.

Major U.S. railroads reported stronger traffic over the July 4 holiday period than over the Memorial Day week, and had the lowest decline in year-over-year numbers since March.

New legislation will give Louisiana importers and exporters a $5 per-ton tax credit on breakbulk or containerized cargo on oceangoing vessels through a Louisiana public port authority.

Maersk Line plans to launch its new chassis pool arrangement throughout the Northeast on Monday, Aug. 3.

Japan’s two largest airlines saw their international cargo volume continue to fall in May on a year-on-year basis, but the slump in the two airlines’ international cargo operations is easing as they b

Cross-border trucking over the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, the busiest commercial connection between the United States and Canada, fell by nearly a third in the first hal

The Port of New York and New Jersey on Thursday was awarded three grants totaling nearly $11 million to implement clean air programs at the port.