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Maersk Line is poised to disclose its first-quarter results after a bruising three months.

At a time when many transport operators say prices are being beaten down, less-than-truckload freight haulers in the U.S. are winning rate increases in annual contract bids.

Marine highways, or container transport via inland and coastal waterways, have had a rough go in the United States, but the U.S. Maritime Administration says it has learned from missteps.

The fluid state of affairs involving ocean carrier alliances is making the intermodal exchange of containers at marine terminals more complex.

Hanjin Shipping and Hyundai Merchant Marine have confirmed they are in discussions with other container lines on forming alliances.

The diverging fortunes of two container terminals in Itajai, Brazil, open a window into how carrier consolidation and the merger of joint services can impact port terminals worldwide.

CEVA Logistics posted a positive performance in the first quarter despite tough market conditions.

Hanjin Shipping has reached out to ship charterers to request their patience and understanding as it tries to restructure its debt.

U.S. shippers expect to ramp up their conversion of freight from truck to intermodal rail to the highest level in a year and a half, according to a new survey.

Ports will have to compete for business as never before over the next decade, Port of Long Beach CEO Jon Slangerup said.

After three straight weeks of decline, the spot rate for shipping a 40-foot-equivalent unit container from Shanghai to the West Coast shot up this week.

Japan’s government has officially introduced a much-anticipated system designed to ensure the smooth implementation of the International Maritime Organization's SOLAS container weight rule from July 1 and reduced the fines for non-compliance.

Hermann Yu, president of the Taiwanese container line Yang Ming Marine Transport, died at home on April 27, the company has announced. He was 59.

The U.S. Coast Guard Thursday gave its stamp of approval to two alternative methods for obtaining certified container weights to comply with new international regulations.

Yusen Logistics Co.’s group net profit was shaped by an uneven performance across its business segments and geographic regions.

Gati Ltd., India’s leading express distribution and supply chain solutions provider, saw its group net income decline in fiscal year 2015 to 2016.

Intra-Asia trade will increasingly benefit from the rapid growth of consumption in Asia as a higher percentage of cargo is shipped to end markets in the region instead of to destinations in other parts of the world.

CMA CGM, the third-largest global container line, got the go-ahead on Friday from the European Union to acquire Neptune Orient Lines, the parent company of APL, but with one condition.

Spot freight rates on the Shanghai-North Europe and Asia Mediterranean trades shot up this week.

Technology is playing an increasing role in the management of freight rates.

Long-awaited guidelines on how China will implement the SOLAS container weight rule have been released.

Container traffic through the Port of New York and New Jersey fell in March.

Political convulsions in Brazil are taking a toll on the port sector, forcing the resignation of Ports Minister Helder Barbalho mere months after he assumed the position.

The government of Ukraine plans to significantly reduce tariffs on container shipments via the trans-Caspian international transport route.

Indian maritime authorities and other stakeholders will meet to deal with "still-unresolved" commercial and operational complexities tied to the July 1 implementation of new container weight rules set by the International Maritime Organization’s SOLAS convention.

The Port of Houston has announced how it will handle the SOLAS verified gross mass rule.

Japan’s three largest container lines mostly reported dismal financial results for fiscal 2015 on Thursday.

The cost of transshipping containers by truck using international motor carriers in Russia has doubled.

A big new container shipping alliance aimed at blunting the power of a partnership between the world’s two largest ocean carriers and promising to shake up the other major vessel-sharing agreements will not set sail until it passes muster with global regulators.

The Port of Charleston and its CEO James Newsome are emerging as mavericks in the increasingly heated debate over a global container weight rule.

The decline in global piracy continued into the first quarter, but attacks are rising in some parts of the world.

Fiscal year 2015-16 earnings tumbled at India’s largest port-based logistics provider, Gateway Distriparks Ltd.

ANA Holdings Inc. and Japan Airlines Corp. both increased their group net profits despite cargo weakness.

CMA CGM has introduced a new container to corner the live lobster market.

DP World managed to defy a sluggish container shipping market.

Could U.S. freight volumes rise and overall economic growth slow?

Container throughput at South Korea’s Incheon Port expanded in the first quarter.

The struggles of South Korea's largest container lines have created a new top shipowner in the country.

A California Senate committee Wednesday approved legislation that will provide a partial tax exemption for terminal operators that purchase zero- or near-zero-emission cargo-handling equipment, expediting the progress California’s ports are making toward becoming the greenest in the world without significantly increasing the cost of shipping through the ports.

A local cold-storage provider near the Port of Oakland has decided to expand after seeing the results of the port's efforts to improve the movement of refrigerated products between the port and its warehouses.