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The Government Accountability Office took the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration to task for failing to coordinate efforts

London -- Deutsche Post World Net on March 11 unveiled a new strategy that focuses on fusing its freight forwarding, supply chain logistics and express delivery businesses under the DHL brand.

The Government Accountability Office is recommending that the Department of Transportation should modify the way it analyzes the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund to avoid the kind of shortfall that

The cities of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and Memphis, Tenn., signed an agreement to pursue ways to build stringer cargo connections.

Canadian National Railway is starting to move a few trains out of congested downtown Chicago tracks onto a short line route through area suburbs.

Congress passed a huge $409.6 billion omnibus appropriations bill March 10 with a final vote in the Senate of 62-35.

Revenue for Descartes Systems Group in its fourth quarter was not only lower than in the previous year but also lower than the amount of tax credit, which kept the on-demand software-as-a-service prov

The Consumer Product Safety Commission published a final rule outlining the steps importers and manufacturers must take to exempt materials from the lead-content portions of the Consumer Product Safet

Freight transportation services declined in January for the third consecutive month, pulling the Department of Transportation’s index to its lowest level in more than five years.

Consolidated cargo throughput at major ports in India grew by 2.5 percent in the April-February period, amid indications that the slump in trade is affecting traffic growth.

Cargo traffic at Frankfurt airport in February tumbled more than 25 percent from a year ago as the global economic downturn hit Europe's biggest air cargo hub with severe impact.

Zim Integrated Shipping Services changed its service network linking the Mediterranean and the East Coast of South America, effective immediately.

A real estate development company plans to submit a multibillion-dollar offer for the operating rights to the state-owned cargo terminals of the Virginia Port Authority.

Federal regulators cleared the way for Norfolk Southern Railway and northeastern short lines operator Pan Am Railways to launch a New England joint venture railroad.

London -- Lufthansa, Europe's second largest airline, on March 11 reported cargo earnings rose more than 20 percent in 2008 from a year ago but warned revenue and profits will shrink in 2009 as freigh

The 14 container lines that belong to the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement will begin the transition to a new formula for calculating their bunker adjustment factor under their 2009-10 service con

Brian Lutt, president APL Logistics, resigned to pursue an opportunity outside the company, its parent, Neptune Orient Lines announced today.

Japan's two largest airlines saw their international cargo volume continue to nosedive in January amid the deepening global economic slump.

In a bid to secure Asian seafarers for its merchant marine fleet, Japan will sign an agreement with the Philippines on Thursday to launch a joint training project for Filipino sailors.

The National Association of Manufacturers and the Precision Metalforming Association both called on Congress Tuesday to oppose the Employee Free Choice

The U.S. rail economic regulator will consider Union Pacific Railroad’s effort to avoid taking on new long hauls of chlorine.

The harbor trucking community in Southern California will have to scramble to replace or retrofit about 7,500 trucks over the next 10 months in order to meet the next deadline in the Los Angeles-Long

Nova Scotia decided against pursuing a major gateway project involving the Port of Halifax and Canadian National Railway because of high costs.

Officials from the Halifax Port Authority and the St.

Frank J. Walsh, long-time chairman of National Retail Systems, died on Feb. 25 of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 62.

The economic recession spreading around the globe hitting South America, cutting sharply into containerized shipments as well as exports of automobiles and breakbulk commodities such as steel and fore

The current state and future direction of short sea shipping in the United States will be explored next month at the sixth annual Marine Highways Conference.

Amid the deepening slump in the automobile market, car carriers are focusing more of their marketing efforts on oversize, non-automobile cargo to fill the empty space on their vessels’ decks.

Legislation that would exempt domestic maritime shipments from the Harbor Maintenance Tax is now on file in both houses of Congress.

Diesel last week dropped 4.2 cents to an average price of $2.045 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

London -- DFDS, one of Europe's largest short sea shipping lines, blamed a slump in fourth quarter traffic in the Baltic Sea and North Sea for pre-tax profits in 2008 sliding to $37.5 million from $89

London – Hanjin Shipping on March 10 said it will increase ocean freight rates on routes between Asia and Europe and across the Atlantic from April 1.

London – Lufthansa Cargo on March 10 reported freight traffic in February tumbled 24.9 percent from a year ago as the deepening global recession slashed shipments on its Americas and Asian route

Retail giant Costco Wholesale sent a signal of confidence in Japan’s slumping economy this week with the announcement that it will lease a 300,000-square-foot distribution center near Tokyo from

The global outsourced logistics industry will reach an estimated $648.57 billion by 2014, according to a report from Frost & Sullivan.

Longshore workers, truck drivers, repair people and others at the Port of Long Beach who need the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) are being urged to apply for the TWIC as soon a

The International Maritime Organization has organized an alliance of public and private interests to tackle the problem of the spread of exotic marine species by way of ships’ ballast water.

Ron Kirk, President Obama's nominee for U.S.

North America’s short line railroads saw traffic in all categories fall 21.1 percent from a year earlier in the first eight weeks of 2009.