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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.

At a time when federal support for high-speed rail is grabbing headlines, the nation needs to pay more attention to its ports, says the head of one of the nation’s largest container ports.

In an effort to revive the long-delayed Doha Round of global trade negotiations, U.S.

Leaders of the 19-nation Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa said Monday that they are ready to launch a customs union to facilitate the free movement of goods in the region.

The corporate owner of a Korean-flag bulk carrier will pay a $2.2 million fine for violating U.S. oil pollution laws, the Justice Department announced Friday.

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said its composite leading indicator for the OECD area rose in April, reaching 93.2 compared with a revised 92.7 in March.

The volume of container traffic handled by the Port of Hong Kong dropped 20 percent in the first quarter to 4.6 million TEUs, according to statistics published last week by the Census and Statistics D

MOL said last week it is considering spinning off its container shipping division and selling it to a non-Japanese shipping line as one option to turn around the loss-making business.

Companies that prepared for the recession by coordinating their supply chain divisions with departments that manage engineering and marketing are in the best position to emerge stronger than ever.

The world's airlines will collectively lose $9 billion in 2009, almost double the forecast less than three months ago, according to the International Air Transport Association.

Japan's two largest airlines saw their international cargo volume fall in April on a year-on-year basis amid the deep global economic slump, according to their monthly reports.

Leif Holm-Andersen, director of transportation and logistics at Arrow Electronics, has been using freight payment software for several years, and he wouldn’t dream of going back to old-fashioned proce

Given less pressure on capacity and a focus on high-speed rail, goods movement advocates are unlikely to get everything they want out of the upcoming five-year reauthorization of the nation’s highway

West Coast waterfront employers are bracing for a 30 percent increase in the assessments that fund longshore benefits programs, unless last-minute deals can be worked out with the union and federal re

It’s been a long-standing truism among automobile industry watchers that U.S. carmakers have to make smaller cars. For companies that serve that foundation of U.S.

A new security requirement could lead to a shift in the cross-border trucking market with Canada and higher costs for shippers.

Each year, an estimated 150 million invoice transactions are processed in the ocean shipping sector, with the average cost ranging from $20 to $60 per invoice.

The California Air Resources Board is prepared to help the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach subsidize purchases of low-emission trucks, but CARB does not want the ports’ clean-trucks fees to be a h

All that talk about the economy starting to turn around has a lot of rail industry officials scratching their heads, and wondering when they will be able to count on any strengthening in shipments tha

Liner shipping executives are raising their glasses to American wine drinkers, for they make up about the only consumer market where demand has not plummeted for imports from the Mediterranean.

Canada and the United States agreed in May to make permanent a pilot project called Shiprider that pairs the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and U.S. Coast Guard.

Gianluigi Aponte has always been a gambler.

Weak pricing in the less-than-truckload market isn’t deterring carriers from building density to cut transit times and use service to win business in a shrinking market.

Companies that prepared for the recession by coordinating their supply chain divisions with departments that manage engineering and marketing are in the best position to emerge stronger than ever.

Transporting refrigerated cargo is becoming an oasis for motor carriers that are finding it hard to make money hauling other kinds of freight.

The Federal Maritime Commission is at the eye of a bitter dispute over whether split routing, as practiced by Global Link Logistics, is legal.

Railroads may have won one battle in their bid to fend off rail regulatory legislation, but shippers believe they’re closer to winning the war in Congress.

Singapore Airlines’ cargo division lost $168.7 million in its 2009 fiscal year as freight demand plummeted in the three months ending March 31.

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

Fifty-nine House members have signed a letter urging the authors of a new transportation bill to promote energy security and combat greenhouse gases.

TNT, providers of express and mail delivery services, launched the first-to-market and only integrated road network across South America, linking Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

Grand Alliance members OOCL and Hapag Lloyd are replacing smaller vessels on the joint NWX service operated in cooperation with ZIM with two ships with a capacity of 8,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units

Just Born, maker of Peeps and Peanut Chews, purchased a 600,710 square-foot warehouse in Bethlehem, Pa., to serve as the central storage and distribution point for all its products.

The European economy is not doing as badly as the United States, according to figures from Eurostat.

The decline in railroad jobs appears to have stalled in May, while trucking employment edged slightly higher.