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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

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