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The growing disconnect between passenger and cargo demand continued in November as data from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) showed robust growth in the international air passenger business while air freight markets remained weak.

Traditionally seen as a reliable barometer of the global trade environment, the most recent transit and receipt figures from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) are less than encouraging.

Consultants McKinsey and Co. believes it has found one of those elusive win-win solutions for carriers and container terminals in the area of pricing that could potentially save the industry up to $3 billion a year.

The refrigerated freight market has experienced some unseasonally high demand this winter, according to DAT Solutions. That comes on top of growing demand for refrigerated, or reefer, equipment in general.

Former American President Lines CEO W. Bruce Seaton, who pioneered the post-Panamax container ship and scheduled transcontinental stacktrains, died Dec. 26 at the age of 90 in Greenbrae, California.

Carriers are finally achieving some measure of relief in freight rates as vessel load factors improve with the approach of Chinese New Year. Spot rates on the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index spiked to both the West and East coasts this week in advance of the two-week celebrations that begin on Feb. 8.

The Port of New York and New Jersey handled a record 286,798 cargo containers of all sizes in November as an increase in import loads offset a dip in loaded exports at the largest U.S. East Coast port.

The U.S. government closed one of the largest trucking companies in the Northeast, Land Air Express of New England, last week, but has not released details to the public on why the carrier was shut down.

North Europe’s stagnant economy is expected to produce a decline in container volume at the region’s ports during the first half of 2016, Hackett Associates and the Hamburg-based Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics said.

Shares on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges were suspended on the first trading day of the year after stock prices plunged following indications that December manufacturing activity in China contracted for the 10th consecutive month.

Two years after being appointed as acting chief financial officer of Orient Overseas International Ltd., the parent company of OOCL, executive director Alan Tung can finally hang the CFO nameplate on the door to his office.

The port of Antwerp has called for its main rival Rotterdam to join forces to confront the challenge of China’s growing investment in southern Europe ports that could lure container traffic from the Le Havre-Hamburg range.

Container throughput at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, India’s largest major, public container gateway, edged up nearly 1 percent in December compared to the same month in 2014, the newest port data collected by JOC.com shows.

Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, the operator of Cambodia’s largest port, plans to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange in the first half of 2016.

There will be no sustained recovery in the dry bulk or container shipping sectors this year amid overcapacity in the industry and slowing demand for raw materials from China, said "K" Line president and CEO Eizo Murakami.

The U.S-flagged APL Guam called at the island of Guam for the first time on Jan. 1 to mark the maiden inbound shipment to the Western Pacific island as part of the carrier’s Guam Saipan Express (GSX) service.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has opened its accident docket on the cargo ship El Faro and released the first underwater photos and video of the ship, which sank Oct. 1 off the Bahamas with the loss of its 33-member crew.

Softness in key parts of the global economy is producing cautious forecasts about U.S. containerized imports and exports in 2016. High retail inventory levels have cast a pall over imports. The strong dollar and weak overseas demand are putting a dent in exports.

High debt levels at Hanjin Shipping and Hyundai Merchant Marine will make it difficult for the South Korean container lines to take advantage of their government’s new S1.2 billion fund to assist the country’s struggling shipping and shipbuilding companies.

This year, the U.S. transportation industry will receive the first funding from some $205 billion allocated for highway and $48 billion allocated for transit projects, and approximately $10.8 billion in grants for freight projects allocated over the next five years, the largest allocation over the longest period of time in nearly a decade.

The CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, the largest container ship to call in the United States, docked at Oakland on Friday, six days after stopping at Los Angeles on its first U.S. call.

Despite growing at the slowest pace in four years, U.S. containerized imports of tableware and household goods reached an all-time high in 2015, riding on the back of increasing disposable income and an ongoing recovery in the home sales market.

China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, the fifth-largest in the world and third-busiest in China, lifted 20 million 20-foot-equivalent units for the first time in its history, joining an elite club of four other ports that have passed that milestone.

U.S. freight rail traffic was down 9.7 percent year-over-year in the week ending Dec. 26 as a double-digit drop in carload traffic offset a 1.6 percent gain in intermodal volume, the Association of American Railroads reported.

Containerized cargo passing through Kazakhstan between Asia and Europe is on track to hit 1.7 million 20-foot equivalent units annually by 2020 after volume through the key hub rocketed 34 percent year-over-year to roughly 47,000 TEUs in 2014, according to the national rail operator.

DP World said its International Container Transshipment Terminal, or Vallarpadam Terminal, at India’s Port of Cochin has had a “remarkable” year of growth, with significant volume and productivity gains amid tight market conditions.

Adani Ports’ aggressive efforts to woo more ship calls at its newly-acquired Kattupalli Port on India’s east coast appear to be bearing fruit.

The government of India reiterated the importance it places on participating in the development of the port of Chabahar in southeastern Iran as the two countries work on agreeing to specific terms that would allow the project to commence.

U.S. domestic intermodal spot rates continue to fall thanks to plentiful capacity aided by mild weather and weak demand, according to third-party logistics provider IDS.

U.S. shippers and motor companies have one more thing to cheer about heading into the New Year after the average price of diesel hit the lowest point since the spring of 2009.

China Airlines, Yang Ming Line and Chungwa Post, Taiwan’s national postal service will cooperate on sea and air freight services to better compete in the booming e-commerce market in Asia.

The fleet of idle container ships above 500 twenty-foot-equivalent units has shrunk for the first time since July due to scrapping of older vessels, rather than increased cargo demand, as charter rates hit all-time lows, according to Alphaliner.

South Korea logistics company CJ Korea Express has sold 20 percent of its stake in its loss-making terminal in Busan port to a unit of China Shipping Group.

The building of a terminal with an initial capacity of 500,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units annually in Nova Scotia inched closer to reality after a China infrastructure construction company earlier this month agreed to study the feasibility of such a project

The awarding of a public-private-partnership contract to DP World for the construction and operation of International Container Transshipment Terminal, also known as Vallarpadam Terminal, at India’s Port of Cochin has come under fire from the country’s public spending watchdog.

The time that truckers spend taking delivery of containers inside of marine terminals in Los Angeles is not nearly as long as the drayage industry believes, but there is still room for improvement, the president of PierPass said Tuesday.

China approved the merger of China Merchants Group and Sinotrans & CSC as it continues to restructure its state-owned sector and create companies that can compete internationally.

Global carrier schedule reliability in November reached its second-highest level since 2011, according to SeaIntel.

Truckers in Los Angeles-Long Beach are buying as many new and post-2007 model trucks that they can get their hands on in order to take advantage of a tax break that took effect Dec. 18, but time is running out. The accelerated depreciation provision expires at midnight Thursday.