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The shipbuilding bear market gives container lines a “golden opportunity” to smooth out capacity peaks.

Japanese shipping group MOL is the latest looking to tap into the rapidly growing logistics demand in India.

State port authorities in Georgia and Virginia want US federal maritime regulators to allow them to work together.

The cost of a barrel of crude oil is projected to rise nearly a third in 2017 compared with 2016.

Alliance restructuring offers carriers an opportunity to create niche services.

The recovery of short-term trans-Pacific rates “has happened already for quite some months.”

Trans-Pacific ocean carriers’ newfound discipline on capacity could yield higher rates from shippers in the coming year — if they don’t fold under the pressure.

It highlights the hurdle the US Class I rail industry faces to grow intermodal business.

The largest pain point yet to resolve in refrigerated shipping is the lack of data and transparency in managing the end-to-end cold chain, the former head of Maersk Line's reefer business says.

Several ILA officials threw a surprise curve ball in a pre-negotiation meeting with United States Maritime Alliance, proposing a one-day coastwide work stoppage and Washington march against “government interference” in longshore hiring.

CSX Transportation is geographically, financially, operationally, and managerially unlike the two Canadian railroads Harrison has helmed in the past.

This development could signal that carriers will exert more discipline than last year as they negotiate service contracts.

Eimskip says more acquisitions are on the way in 2017.

The competitive trading environment of 2015 continued into 2016.

Barge routes have had varied success around the United States.

US retailers are seeking the right balance between in-store and online inventories.

“For a fourth year in a row, we recorded an improvement in operating profit.”

New infrastructure is expected to be in place by 2021.

APM Terminals Mumbai said canceled sailings are largely to blame for a return to truck congestion at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust.

After recording seven straight weeks of declines, spot rates on the China-Europe route have increased.

Forwarders are wasting a huge amount of time and effort on managing the ever changing ocean freight rates, and it is placing a significant cost burden on the industry.

Eimskip aims to make weekly visits by 2020.

APL product aims at shippers with day-definite intermodal shipment needs.

As railroads are moving intermodal operations closer to their end markets, those end markets are fighting back projects they say test the limits of local infrastructure.

“Thousands of companies and millions of workers rely on these ports.”

Shipper demands for more integrated services helped spur merger of regional less-than-truckload carriers Central Freight Lines and Wilson Trucking.

It’s the first of what the small East Coast port hopes will be two new services coming to the gateway as ocean carriers and their alliances sort out port coverage this year.

The dockworkers’ union has said changing Spain's dock labor system would cost 7,000 to 8,000 jobs.

Storage companies are struggling to deploy container trailers because of the traffic chaos.

The Ocean Alliance appears to have filled in the missing pieces of its network schedule, releasing the full port rotation and terminal call details.

Shipping cargo across borders, especially into developing countries, is expected to be easier with the adoption of the WTO's new 110-member trade facilitation deal.

Matson's premium China-Long Beach service should be a bright spot in 2017.

Expect significant delays for goods moving via rail Northern California, Nevada, and the Pacific Northwest.

If properly fitted with sensors, a chassis can evolve well beyond its current state of utility.

APM Terminals has nearly tripled the previously announced upgrades at its terminal in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

“Studies estimate that the TFA will cut the average cost of exporting by some 14 percent."

Management group for US East and Gulf coasts reminds union of contract's no-strike clause.

Just over a month remains until the new alliances go live.

In an interview with JOC.com, APM Terminals’ Morten Engelstoft shared his thoughts on the global marine terminal operating business.

The New York Stock Exchange-listed company’s operating revenue shrank by almost $70 million.