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Freight demand remains strong, even in summer, carriers say, and that’s allowing them to pick and choose the most profitable freight, with peak season just ahead.

APL’s blockchain aims to include a range of container shipping processes, with an example of the platform’s utility being the elimination of the redundancy, needless rekeying, and back-and-forth of one essential task.

It is another bad news, good news statistic for Antwerp and Rotterdam. The bad: an intermodal operator has warned that barge congestion is already causing delays of up to 36 hours at Antwerp and 72 hours at Rotterdam. The good: container volume growth continues to shine.

Anyone who drives through the Wando Welch Terminal in Charleston or Garden City Terminal in Savannah would quickly see that the room is there for chassis, if they were available.

As Cosco continues to guide its customers through email transmissions for the booking of cargo, there was good news on Wednesday.

Tariffs on containers are unwarranted and will needlessly raise costs throughout the supply chain, business leaders testifying on Capitol Hill agreed.

Log-Net’s $14.4 million jury verdict provides hope to small logistics providers seeking to defend their proprietary value added, but the case also serves as a note of caution for smaller, growing tech companies.

Protesters — seeking a special, community-based reservation program for jobs and education — blockaded all main highways and port connecting arteries.

A slight dip in demand for air cargo in the first quarter has quickly reversed, with volume steadily increasing on the east-west trades.

Local trade sources said that labor groups are pressing for a reversal of an action by APM Terminals.

A variety of factors, including strong domestic US freight demand, is putting pressure on cross-border trucking between Mexico and the United States.

The expansion is needed to process increasing cargo volumes in the Manaus industrial park, also known as the Manaus Free Trade Zone.

Since Cosco’s overseas operations have not been affected, communication with US offices is able to take place, although at a slower pace, a key Cosco official said Tuesday.

Jean-Jacques Ruest has been with Canadian National since 1996, spending the last eight years as executive vice president.

The exchange is about encouraging carriers and shippers to move past a system driven by uncertainty: beneficial cargo owners face no penalty for booking a certain volume of cargo on a ship, and then failing to send it; and carriers face few consequences for leaving containers on the dock.

Maersk, the world’s largest ocean carrier, said India — riding a wave of economic reforms — registered an impressive year-over-year increase in its export-import trade with the member countries.

Despite strong demand, the Hong Kong-based firm said Friday that increases in material costs, particularly corten steel, accounted for a marginal interim net loss for the first half of 2018, compared with a $16.6 million profit for the same period in 2017.

The Northwest Seaport Alliance argues the market share loss is due to cheaper intermodal rail rates, but Prince Rupert says that is not the case — that two other factors are driving its value proposition.

The two candidates standing for election appear to have identified the correct formula concerning two leadership factors.

The latest expansion in South Carolina provides yet another data point concerning one vessel trend in North America.

Shippers should be pleased by an increase in competition in several Baltic region trade lanes.

A longtime consultant said three factors are the reason the sector has turned the corner.

Geopolitical factors have driven outlook revisions by key container shipping stakeholders.

Amid a slew of low water-level carrier surcharges, the Port of Montreal said concern that its future is limited by its shallow draft is overplayed.

Many truckload carriers are on their second round of pay hikes this year as freight demand grows faster than driver supply. Can they keep pace with the peak?

Eastbound trans-Pacific spot rates are mostly holding their strength even as volume growth slows and trade tensions mount.

Could a looming trade war shake up one of the most stable global shipping lanes?

E-commerce and high-speed rail are enabling China-Europe rail services to give the air cargo industry a run for its money.

A Mexican government crackdown on double tractor trailers sparks shipper fears of trucking capacity reduction, potentially forcing them to pay more for trucking services or use rail.

Acquisitions boost revenue, profit for Iowa-based Heartland Express as US freight demand pushes the limits of ‘transportation infrastructure.’

A deal between the port of Santos and pilots will allow more cargo to enter the port and provide carriers with more operational flexibility.

Singapore's local drayage market has historically been highly disorganized and reliant on outdated modes of communication.

While higher pay should improve labor relations, a host of other worker concerns remain unresolved.

Zim is linking up with the 2M Alliance in a bid to trim costs and capacity on the Asia-US East Coast trade.

Shippers express concern about a recent spike in container dwell times in Vancouver, but Global Container Terminals Canada and Canadian National Railway say the fluctuations do not mean things will get worse during peak season.

Shorter (and sometimes longer) contracts, volume commitments, and even higher rates are among the many types of bait shippers are using to capture elusive truckload capacity.

New York City and the Port of New York and New Jersey are preparing for a future of strong growth and more demanding supply chains.

Declining volume is forcing capacity cuts and heaping additional pressure on carriers battling to cope with rising operating costs.

Major ports’ productivity statistics collected from official sources show vessel turnaround times have dramatically improved in recent years.

Once cyclical, problems such as the driver shortage are becoming systemic. That threatens to ‘bake’ higher costs into transportation rates.