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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.

Hub Group says it expects to see more intermodal business than previously forecast for 2016 after the company reported profit growth in the first quarter.

Gary LaGrange will retire after 16 years as president and CEO of the Port of New Orleans.

Standard & Poor’s has placed Hapag-Lloyd on negative credit watch.

The new Ocean Alliance will have the largest market shares of critical east-west trades.

There appears to be no real relief in sight to the supply chain woes that have long plagued Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, India’s busiest public container gateway, costing shippers and the trade in general in more ways than one.

The fleet of idled container ships has shrunk slightly as several large vessels laid-up have returned to service, according to Alphaliner.

Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s state-owned railway, is pressing ahead with plans to list its DB Schenker logistics unit on the stock market.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide moved more goods in the U.S. by truck in the first quarter.