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German train drivers have put off a strike scheduled for Monday to continue negotiations on a new co

The Port of Mumbai, India's leading cargo hub, handled 43.16 million tons of cargo in the third quar

Terminal operator DP World announced on Monday it will make further investment of more than $32 mill

Forward Air promoted three officers in its operations and legal departments. Chris C. Ruble

The air freight and express sectors will continue to grow in the mid-single digit range, despite rec

Less than one week after crude oil futures shot over the $100 per barrel mark, the average retail pr

Echo Global Logistics hired Scott Pettit as chief financial officer. Pettit leaves Insurance

Japanese carrier NYK announced it earned a renewal of its certification in the Customs-Trade Partner

Polar Air Cargo Worldwide hired Lufthansa Cargo veteran Thomas Betenia as vice president sales and m

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its two North American Free Trade A

UPS this week rolls out a substantially expanded express freight option with guaranteed door-to-door

The International Longshoremen's Association said the Justice Department's latest civil racketeering

China Shipping Development Co., the dry and liquid bulk shipping subsidiary of China Shipping Group,

Just two months after integrating the resources of four companies to create a supply chain managemen

Cargo traffic for U.S. airlines, pushed by a surge in trans-Atlantic trade, grew 3.5 percent in Nove

Even if the global economy slows in 2008, advanced technologies such as transportation management sy

Former U.S. Customs Commissioner Robert C. Bonner, who led the move to focus the country's oversight

An article on Trailer Bridge in the Dec. 24 issue contained incorrect company income and revenue fig

Customs Files '10+2' Proposal: The wait is over. After weeks of speculation, Customs and Border Prot

William F. Lyte is a senior client manager with Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, a West Coast engineering,

For three years, the Teamsters union has worked tirelessly to organize harbor truck drivers at U.S.

There may be light at the end of the Port of Miami tunnel project. The $931 million project, under d

For at least two decades, the fate of the global economy has depended on the United States. When the

First you drive three hours south from San Diego on a two-lane road through arid, sparsely populated

Some calamity befalls a seaport. Police, fire and rescue units respond. Local, state and federal off

The alarm sounded at Puerto Cortes, Honduras, indicating the container had something radioactive in

I recently read an article by Jack Welch, former chief executive of General Electric, addressing hig

2008 would hardly seem the year for air-cargo operators to take bold strides in new directions. If a

What was once a simple storage building or way station for supplies and inventory is taking on incre

Railroads had conflicting results in their intermodal operations last year. Intermodal volume declin

Usually when analysts start to talk about a potential recession, the economy is in one. This is espe

REVIEW: Global trade grew fast enough in 2007 to sop up the huge amount of new vessel capacity that

May you live in interesting times" is an old Oriental curse. U.S. railroads certainly lived in inter

Customs and Border Protection has a layered defense to protect international supply chains from terr

As international traders, if we learned anything in 2007, it was that change is inevitable and is ha

2008 will be another year of accomplishment - and enormous frustration - for the U.S. trade communit

Think about port security as a brick wall. Over the past five years, the federal government, interna

Congress recently adopted the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (H.R.

After six years of peace at West Coast ports, waterfront employers are gearing up for contract negot

Weaker eastbound trans-Pacific demand and the combination of U.S. intermodal rate increases and more