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DP World’s profit is likely to drop by 54 percent to $265 million this year from $572 million last year as lower trade volumes at its global container terminals cut revenue and operating income,

Ryder System inked a multi-year contract with plastic pallet maker Intelligent Global Pooling Systems to distribute and redeploy up to 175 million pallets annually to IGPS’s North American custo

Exports of U.S.-made steel fell 42.7 percent in April, compared with a year earlier. Total steel exports in April were 617 thousand tons.

The solution to freight corridor congestion may be through reducing commuter congestion, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

Port Everglades may become the first East Coast port in the United States to install cold ironing, an emissions-cutting practice that has become common for container lines at West Coast ports.

Sberbank Capital, a unit of Russia's largest bank, the state-controlled Sberbank, acquired a 10 percent stake in Global Ports Investments, one of Russia’s leading container and oil products term

It may no longer be the worst of times in rail freight traffic, but it’s still close. U.S.

EU trade commissioner Catherine Ashton and Canadian trade minister Stockwell Day initiated negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement that could provide as much as $28.2 billion in

African businesses can become far more competitive, but African governments and their international partners will need to improve access to finance, resist pressure to erect trade barriers, upgrade in

Cargo handled by Hong Kong International Airport’s top freight handler edged up 1.8 percent in May from April in a slim sign of improvement at the world’s largest international freight air

The American Trucking Associations renewed its call on Congress to mandate a 65 mph speed limit and require trucks to install electronic speed governors to insure they comply.

The American Association of Exporters and Importers named former AAEI General Counsel Marianne Rowden as its new president and CEO.

A non-profit Web site known as Global Trade Alert, www.globaltradealert.org, was launched this week to celebrate World Trade Week in the United Kingdom.

U.S. airlines burned 7 percent more fuel in March and April than in the first two months of the year. But the cost of that fuel increased only 1 percent as prices slid significantly in March.

A hopeful sign appeared on the economic horizon Thursday with a small month to month advance in retail sales as reported by the U.S.

The Port of Authority of Marseilles-Fos, France, acquired a 10 percent stake in the Pagny Terminal, an inland multimodal hub at the northern end of the Rhone-Saone corridor between Chalon and Dijon, F

The Port of Long Beach is concerned that it faces unfair competition from British Columbia’s Port of Prince Rupert because of Canadian government subsidies.

Support for a significant reorganization of the Department of Transportation along intermodal or even “mode-neutral” lines is growing in Washington as pressure mounts to produce a surface

Thorsten Neumann, head of security Central Europe, Middle East & Africa for Nokia, has been re-elected as chairman of the Transported Asset Protection Association for the Europe, Middle East and A

OHL appointed three C-level executives, promoting all from within the third party logistics provider.

Chicago-based Echo Global Logistics acquired Raytrans Distribution Services in a combination the companies say will merge size with technology.

A unanimous vote by the Harris County Commissioners Court yesterday gave final approval for the creation of the Houston Ship Channel Security District, a public-private partnership that will fund and

President Obama picked Deborah Hersman to chair the National Transportation Safety Board, drawing quick praise from labor, and said he will renominate former airline union executive Harry Hoglander to

A key government measure of U.S. freight shipping fell to its lowest level in seven years in April, the government reported.

The U.S. Navy warned Tuesday that pirates in the Gulf of Aden are increasingly operating at night and could expand their raids into the Red Sea.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin surprised the global trade community by announcing Tuesday that Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan would abandon their separate talks to join the World Trade Organiza

Lufthansa reported the six month long plunge in cargo traffic leveled out in May, mirroring the experience of its close European rivals Air France-KLM and British Airways.

Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. has been nominated to fill a position on the Federal Maritime Commission, the White House announced late Tuesday.

Weak imports and even weaker exports increased the U.S. trade gap to $29.2 billion in April, up from $28.5 billion in March, revised, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S.

Containerized traffic handled by major ports in India dropped 12.5 percent in the April-May period, according to data released by the Indian Ports Association.

The Office of Economic Adjustment awarded the Port Authority of Guam $2 million in federal stimulus funding to bolster its modernization efforts.

A cap-and-trade energy program would mean huge costs for the trucking industry and American consumers, the American Trucking Associations told Congress.

World Trade Organization head Pascal Lamy said Tuesday that senior U.S.

The Mississippi may in a few years be laced with giant underwater turbines using the force of the river’s flow to generate power if Free Flow Power Corp, a Massachusetts-based hydropower develop

Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plans to increase its nuclear divisions’ earnings by 50 percent by 2020 through constructing new nuclear plants and providing after-sales services and nuc

Two months after YRC Worldwide received approval from its lenders to use real estate as collateral for union pension deferrals, the Teamsters union formed a committee to consider whether changes are n

The clock is ticking on the next highway bill, which is scheduled to become law by Sept. 30.

A bipartisan think tank is calling for sweeping reform of U.S. transportation planning, infrastructure funding and federal oversight as part of this year’s highway bill.

Deep recession affecting the steel plants ringing the Great Lakes basin in North America is creating huge decreases in shipments of iron ore and limestone for those same plants, the Lake Carriers' Ass

A Norfolk Southern Railway executive said his company is exploring the potential to eventually electrify some freight rail lines in connection with passenger rail corridors, but the chief executive of