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The stricter enforcement of Chinese forwarding regulations could force container lines to turn away business and force forwarders out of the market.

Global Ports, Russia’s biggest container terminal operator, boosted profit by 6 percent in 2013, even as revenue declined due to lower oil exports.

A proposed rule that would require truck and bus drivers to replace paper logbooks with electronic devices is “on the street” and available for review online...

UPS will raise its less-than-truckload general base rates an average of 4.4 percent March 31...

Roadrunner Transportation Systems is expanding its international logistics business by acquiring Unitrans International, a non-asset logistics provider, for $55.5 million.

SHANGHAI — Forwarders in China still can’t deduct freight payments of a value-added tax, even though Chinese officials provided additional guidelines earlier this year.

Union and non-union truck drivers at Port Metro Vancouver today were reviewing the 14-point action plan...

The world’s largest transportation and logistics company is getting larger as demand for e-commerce, time definite international express delivery and supply chain services drives up revenue and profit at Deutsche Post DHL.

Canadian National Railway today obtained an injunction against striking union and non-union truck groups that will prevent their drivers from blocking access...

Change is coming to the Mexican freight rail industry, but it’s too soon to determine whether the push for reform will lead to a major overhaul or something much more moderate.

Truckload carriers kept more of their drivers on payroll in the fourth quarter, but driver turnover at large truckload carriers remains high, according to the American Trucking Associations.

The Port of Virginia said repeated snow storms and the subsequent congestion and lost work days in February resulted in continued operating losses and affected container traffic...

The Canadian federal government, the provincial government of British Columbia and Port Metro Vancouver have announced a 14-point action plan...

Manuel Coronel Kautz, the president of the Nicaraguan Canal Commission, has announced that the traditionally proposed Nicaragua canal route up the San Juan River...

India’s exports shrank for the first time in eight months in February on a year-over-year basis...

The Toy Industry Association is advising its members to make contingency plans for their summer-fall shipments...

Orbcomm, a global wireless asset-tracking company, has acquired Euroscan, expanding its product line and ability to track refrigerated containers and trailers worldwide.

“K” Line said a trucker strike at Port Metro Vancouver has forced the carrier to declare force majeure and to divert import containers for local Vancouver delivery to Tacoma, Wash.

As container ships grow ever-bigger, the potential of catastrophic losses is also growing.

The FMCSA is close to publishing its much anticipated proposed rulemaking that would require all heavy truck drivers to use electronic devices to complete their daily and weekly logs.

In the 14-year growth of INTTRA, it has evolved from a startup launched by several carriers as an online cargo-booking service for their customers into a portal where shippers can see where...

The Port of Hong Kong got a much needed boost in its capacity to handle container mega-ships...

Lufthansa Cargo’s earnings slumped 27 percent in 2013, but it was one of the few airlines that turned a profit in a subdued global air freight market.

With more shippers choosing to defer shipment to delayed air services, ground and even ocean transport, the air cargo industry needs to respond boldly...

Etihad Rail, the United Arab Emirates’ national railway network developer and operator, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Abu Dhabi Ports Co. for the development of an integrated bulk and container railway terminal facility at Khalifa Port.

U.S. red meat exports kicked off 2014 on a “positive note,” although market conditions suggest the year ahead could be “challenging,” according to statistics...

Canadian National Railway told forest product shippers that the ongoing truck strike at the Port Metro Vancouver is preventing the railroad from taking all of their lumber and pulp carload shipments for transloading into containers.

Rising labor costs and a shortage of workers in coastal China are two of the most serious problems footwear producers in that country face...

TRAC Intermodal’s planned move into drayage is the first step in the company’s effort to expand its portfolio to provide “a broad suite of logistics services,” CEO Keith Lovetro said.

Box Ships posted its 11th consecutive quarterly profit, but the Greek container shipowner skipped a dividend payment to help it survive a slumping charter market.

WASHINGTON — A breakbulk and container line, and three non-vessel operating common carriers have agreed to pay $350,000 total in civil penalties following Federal Maritime Commission allegations that they violated the Shipping Act of 1984 and the agency’s regulations.

The European Commission has adopted a proposal to temporarily remove customs duties on Ukrainian exports to the European Union until Nov. 1, 2014...

Carriers’ schedule reliability from Shanghai to Oakland, Calif., showed the greatest variation in eastbound Asia-to-Southern California route performances...

The release of a new study on the Mexican freight railway industry provides ammunition to the sector’s defense of its concession agreements, and hints at a potential compromise between the railroads and legislators aiming to open up industry to other carriers.

The trucking environment in Vancouver is turning uglier by the day, with drivers who dare to work at the Canadian port facing retribution from striking drivers, and cargo diversion already becoming a reality.

Congestion at New York-New Jersey port terminals has begun to ease with improved weather and the post-Chinese New Year lull in imports, but motor carriers say operations remain hampered by a shortage of chassis.

Tonnage is growing by double digits for Old Dominion Freight Line, rising 11.7 percent year-over-year in February after climbing 10.1 percent in January.

Ship Finance International today announced the acquisition of two 5,800-TEU post-Panamax container ships from a German KG fund just a week after the NYSE-listed company bought seven 4,100-TEU vessels from a German charter shipowner.

The ports of Seattle and Tacoma can each gather information on their operations, facilities and rates, and share the data with the other after the Federal Maritime Commission unanimously approved the discussion agreement last week.

United Arab Shipping Company’s decision to exercise an option for a sixth 18,000-TEU vessel simultaneously highlighted the growing importance of size as ocean carriers seek to cut unit costs and increased the pressure on rivals to scale up to mega ships.