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The credit ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded the rating for Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, parent of NYK Line.

A New Zealand company has launched a relatively small, portable scale designed to enable shippers to weigh a container atop a chassis, saying it will help shippers comply with new global container weight rules.

The port of Liverpool on Friday officially inaugurated a new deep-sea container terminal as it works to create a new ocean trading gateway to re-jig the national supply chain.

Spot rates slip with little demand to support the Nov. 1 increases.

The container shipping market is concentrated in the hands of fewer players, which might improve profitability.

Yang Ming Line Chairman Bronson Hsieh has dismissed market speculation that his Taiwan line could merge with Evergreen Marine.

Roadrunner’s push into the expedited shipping market over the last two years provided the trucking company an airbag to protect against crashing truckload and less-than-truckload volumes and rates in the third quarter.

It’s a sign that the so-called “freight recession” that’s softened demand, volume, and freight rates may outlast the calendar year.

Container throughput at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust only inched up in the first seven fiscal months through October.

The Port of Long Beach will chip away at the backlog of empty Hanjin Shipping-leased containers in Southern California that has built up since the container line declared bankruptcy on Aug. 31 when a ship calls to pick up some of the empties.

A solid performance by the Northwest Seaport Alliance in September and year to date indicates that Seattle and Tacoma may have regained regional market share from the Canadian ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert.

IHS Automotive data reveal a significant decline in new commercial truck registrations, especially for heavy trucks.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and DB Cargo have agreed to develop a joint-venture hub at Monfalcone to support European vehicle manufacturers’ exports to the Mediterranean and Asia.

Eimskip will acquire the Norwegian short-sea operator Nor Lines, the latest purchase by the Icelandic container line, which has made expansion via acquisitions a key goal.

The benefits of rising e-commerce demand are lifting revenue, profit at multiple units of XPO Logistics, from last-mile to LTL.

A liquefied natural gas heat exchanger weighing nearly 500 tons was exported via Port Manatee, Florida.

Global air cargo traffic in September rose at the fastest rate since the industry benefited from the disruption caused by the US West Coast ports strike in February 2015.

Air France-KLM Cargo’s third-quarter operating loss soared by almost one-fifth from a year ago as it scrambled to downsize its unprofitable freighter operations.

The Ocean Alliance has released information on its network that begins on April 1, 2017, with the trans-Pacific to see the largest number of loops and port calls.

Discussions between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association about a possible extension of the West Coast waterfront contract apparently ended on a positive note.

A Boston Consulting Group analysis released Wednesday predicts that overcapacity in the shipping industry will significantly worsen.

The steady brew of labor unrest at the port of Santos is hitting Brazilian coffee exports.

The ELD mandate's impact on available truck capacity isn't the only thing shippers should worry about.

Yusen Logistics swung into the red in the first half of fiscal year 2016.

Damco posted another profit in the third quarter.

Weak market conditions and liner network changes contributed to a 28 percent year-over-year fall in third-quarter underlying profit at APM Terminals.

Lufthansa Cargo on Wednesday posted its sixth consecutive quarterly loss, but it sees a brighter future ahead.

South Africa’s national ports authority hinted that planned investment in port projects could be slowed.

Better labor relations at public ports could make the on-and-off again strikes and protests for higher wages and other benefits that cause congestion and delays at major ports less likely.

Rising volume was not enough to offset a sharp fall in freight rates that dragged Maersk Line to a third-quarter loss of $116 million.

The air cargo industry is showing signs of recovering from a tough year with demand rising and higher hopes of a solid peak season.

For decades, the Japanese lines have competed fiercely for their share of the container market, but that has ended with the agreement to merge liner operations.

When freight demand is low and rates are hard to maintain, who wants to buy a used truck? That's a problem truckload carriers face as they try to reduce their capacity to bolster pricing.

Negotiators for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association on Tuesday opened two days of talks on a possible extension of their coastwide contract.

After a US court slapped down a challenge to the federal electronic logging mandate for truck drivers, shippers need to plan for dealing with the rule.

There is no other way to describe the current global transportation market other than as a “bear market.” Driving home this point is Top 50 Global Transportation Service Providers ranking by SJ Consulting and The Journal of Commerce.

The judge hearing Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy motions in the United States has rejected a request by retailer Ashley Furniture to set up an “administrative freeze” on freight payments it owed to the carrier.

A company has successfully tested a hybrid container designed to make it easier to move breakbulk and oversized cargo.

Hapag-Lloyd has filed concessions to European Union competition regulators to secure approval for a planned merger with the United Arab Shipping Company.

Officials at the Port of New York and New Jersey hope a record monthly volume of rail cargo is just the start of the payoff from years of intermodal investment that seeks to give the port a competitive edge as ever-larger ships arrive on the East Coast.