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Seaboard Marine said it will launch a weekly fixed day sailing from Brooklyn, N.Y. to and from Colombia. Calls in Colombia include the ports at Cartagena, Barranquilla and Santa Marta.

The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority and the Panama Canal Authority signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday that is aimed at increasing all-water container traffic from Asia to Philadelphia

European Union foreign ministers agreed June 15 to extend an anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia until the end of 2010.

Hanjin Shipping became the third major container line in a month to announce it is launching a direct service between Vietnam and the United States.

TNT Express extended its European road service into four former Eastern bloc countries, the company announced Monday, taking a big step toward integrating the entire continent in its expedited network

The long-time advertising director of The Journal of Commerce, P. Robert Potesky, died June 11 after a brief illness at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, N.Y.

The Paris Air Show opened Monday with subdued optimism.

When Theo Zwygers went to the podium at a major rail industry conference in Chicago last month, the soft-spoken plastics industry executive hardly looked like a firebrand rising up against the nation’

A bipartisan think tank is calling for sweeping reform of U.S. transportation planning, infrastructure funding and federal oversight — and a highway bill, too.

It took less than 24 hours for Anne S. Ferro’s nomination as the nation’s top truck safety official to become embroiled in the dispute over truck driver hours of service.

Just one year AGO, Michael J. Ward was in the fight of his career as chairman, president and CEO of CSX Corp., parent of one of the four largest U.S. railroads.

Shipper support is building for heavier trucks on U.S. highways.

If surviving the recession is the first priority of trucking companies, the second might be making sure their network operations survive another round of negotiations with customers.

There is one thing President Obama has consistently made known since his campaign days — his feelings about the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, a still-unratified accord he called ``badly flawed’’ wi

Fasten your seat belts, the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler are about to disrupt every aspect of an already-battered North American automotive supply chain.

If breakbulk carriers want to feel depressed, they have reasons: Cargo volume is slowing, rates are down and hard times are spurring competition from container ships and other vessels.

Saddled with contracts to build more ships than they need for the foreseeable future, shipping lines and charter ship owners are trying to cancel orders or at least delay delivery of new ships for as

A warning to shippers, carriers and manufacturers seeing rays of light in commodity prices and the Baltic Dry Index: Beware the false dawn.

There may be some glimmers of hope on the global economic horizon, but they are too early to affect the bottom line of UTi Worldwide, a major provider of global logistics services.

An unnerving game of “chicken” played out on the lower Mississippi River recently.

While many ports in the Gulf region are focused on waterside projects, the Port of Beaumont, Texas, this summer will begin a long-awaited project to reconfigure the port’s railyard, moving it from the

Of the roughly $1.7 billion in stimulus funds allocated to navigation needs including maintenance and construction, more than $356 million is heading to the U.S.

The Calcasieu Ship Channel, which serves the Port of Lake Charles, is only recently back to its project depth of 40 feet after several years of falling short.

Radoje “Rod” Vulovic, 67, a founder and chief operating officer of U.S. Ship Management, died Friday in Charlotte, N.C., after a prolonged illness, his business partners announced.

A severe terminal congestion at India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru prompted port management to seek immediate intervention with Container Corp.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are working overtime to change their reputation among cargo interests as being the nation’s high-cost, business-adverse gateway for trade with Asia.

The sound today at the Port of Long Beach, and among angry Canadian ports, is the sound of wind rushing out of the sails of a dispute over alleged port subsidies.

YRC Worldwide did not apply for relief under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Associated Press reported June 12.

Jet fuel prices in New York soared an average of 17.2 cents, or more than 10 percent, the first week of June to the highest levels so far in 2009, according to the U.S.

European Union competition regulators on June 12 cleared the planned acquisition by Deutsche Bahn, the German state railway, of Poland's biggest privately-owned rail freight company.

London -- European Union anti-trust regulators on June 12 opened an in-depth investigation of plans by DSV, Scandinavia's biggest trucker, and Danish shipping line Vesterhavet, to take joint control o

The Port of Baltimore saw mixed cargo throughput in 2008. Container throughput was flat; breakbulk volume soared to a record.

A bill sent to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee would mandate a shift of freight traffic to rail and intermodal carriers while linking transportation policy directly to national e

Trade moving by truck across the U.S.-Canadian border is so far unaffected by the start of the latest security upgrade two weeks ago.

The Teamsters union hopes to use a successful organizing effort at a Penske Logistics site in Southern California as a springboard toward larger efforts to bring logistics industry workers into the un

Stimulus packages adopted by the U.S. and other countries to combat the global recession could distort trade, said the European Commission in a confidential report disclosed by Reuters.

London -- Cargo traffic at UK ports fell by 9 percent in the first quarter from a year ago, led by sharp falls in containers, roll-on, roll-off shipments and cars amid the sharpest economic contractio

Horizon Lines said it will pay $20 million to settle class-action lawsuits that alleged antitrust violations in the Jones Act trade between the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico.

Venezuela is moving to nationalize the companies that operate some of its main ports, Reuters reported Thursday.

Boeing is cutting back its forecast for air cargo growth over the next 20 years because of the global economic downturn but still expects the world’s freighter fleet to expand by more than 1,300