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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

Container volumes at U.S.

Charleston media are speculating that the South Carolina State Ports Authority narrowed its search for a new chief executive down to James Newsome, the president of Hapag-Lloyd (North America).

DHL Global Forwarding Japan launched direct less-than-container-load services connecting Tokyo and Yokohama to Chicago.

As Union Pacific Railroad feels out today’s freight market and plans for when it might pull out of its downturn, Chairman, President and CEO James R. Young is cautious.

The westbound movement of agricultural products is outperforming general merchandise, and the U.S.

FedEx is going after UPS directly in an aggressive new campaign the express carrier launched Tuesday against efforts to make the company a more ready target for unions.

Qantas will launch an Australia-New Zealand air cargo service this month with a 767 freighter operation leased from U.S.-based Air Transport Services Group, the airline announced Tuesday.

Ocean carrier MOL launched river barge service from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to bring containers via the new deep-water terminal in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, to the United States.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are on track to achieve many of the environmental goals in their clean-trucks program almost four years ahead of schedule, thanks to an aggressive strategy for

Air France-KLM, Europe's biggest cargo airline, said its freight traffic stabilized in May after steep declines over the past six months.

Japanese carrier MOL has refuted a report by Reuters that it is considering “spinning off” it container division.

Indian Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan called for speedy execution of various port capacity expansion projects in a bid to boost the country’s infrastructure sector.

Future transportation policy will break down the Department of Transportation’s “Stonehenge” structure — restructuring a group of monoliths — Rep. James L.

Infusing cash to keep the Highway Trust fund afloat at the end of fiscal 2009 is a matter of payback, Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., said Monday.

Retail diesel soared 14.6 cents to $2.498 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Not since the panic of last June have prices shot up so fast.

The Port of Long Beach can “live with” a court order limiting its ability to impose concession plans on the harbor trucking industry, but will fight to keep what it considers key elements

UPS and the Independent Pilots Association averted an immediate furlough of 300 UPS pilots through voluntary cost-cutting programs identified by the IPA that could save $131 million over the next thre

Big shippers are throwing their weight behind legislation allowing heavier trucks on federal roads as a way to boost carrier productivity, save fuel, and cut transportation costs.

Maersk Line will increase rates on services from the Far East to Europe on July 1. In July and September, rates will go up on services between Europe and the Middle East and South Asia.