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The New Jersey Motor Truck Association is discussing a possible lawsuit or Federal Maritime Commission complaint to force New York-New Jersey container terminals to pay truckers for drivers’ waiting time outside terminal gates.

As the frequency of Asia-Europe rail services increases costs will gradually fall, encouraging more shippers to turn to intermodal options to avoid the high cost of air freight and the slow steaming transit times available from lines, one leading logistics executive believes.

The rapid growth of e-commerce in China is a facet of the robust domestic consumption fueling demand for modern logistics facilities, according to Jeffrey H. Schwartz of Global Logistics Properties.

Container volumes handled by U.S. West Coast ports grew more than three times faster than those at East Coast ports in the first eight months of the year, as lingering effects of last year’s labor negotiations and computer problems at one of the biggest terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey dragged down overall throughput growth.

Ship and container reliability levels in the third quarter of 2013 were “disappointing,” according to Drewry Maritime Research’s recently published quarterly Carrier Performance Insight report.

APM Terminals Rotterdam Maasvlakte I in the Netherlands has plans to enhance five of its existing post-Panamax cranes to a 23-container row reach...

U.S. Senate and House members began conferencing Wednesday on a long-delayed water resources bill they aim to send to President Obama by year-end.

U.S. beef exports in September remained ahead of 2012 levels, but pork exports continued to face “a number of challenges"...

Third quarter profit for DFDS, the European short sea shipping and logistics group, rose 13 percent from a year ago as higher North Sea volumes more than offset lower traffic in the Baltic region.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Harbor truckers in Los Angeles-Long Beach are proposing a revolutionary plan to relieve port congestion by keeping marine terminal gates open round the clock, and paying for the increased operating costs by charging a fee on every container that moves through the ports.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Long Beach City Council Tuesday night voted to remove Harbor Commission President Thomas Fields from the port body, scoring a major victory for Mayor Bob Foster, but alienating the shipping lines and terminal operators who call Long Beach home in Southern California.

Chassisfinder.com, an Internet-based chassis reservation exchange owned and operated by Chassis Finder, has expanded its coverage to include locations in or near...

FTR Associates’ Shippers Conditions Index improved marginally in September, but not enough to take it out of deep negative territory...

Harbor truck drivers backed by the Teamsters union made a statement this week by demonstrating against alleged unfair labor practices at three drayage company facilities in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area, but their actions had no impact on cargo-handling at the port complex.

It’s far from a surge of optimism, but shippers’ expectations on how much freight they move via land, sea and air in the coming months is the second highest in the past six quarters.

Li Shaode, 63, has retired as chairman of China Shipping Group, one of the largest state-run shipping conglomerates in China. The Investor Relations Department of the group’s listed company, China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL), has confirmed the news.

The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Trucking Tonnage in October fell for the first time in July, but the group’s economist said it wasn’t surprising for traffic to dip after a strong run.

Jersey City police conducting safety checks of trucks exiting Global Terminal in the Port of New York and New Jersey slowed truck traffic at the facility for a second consecutive day today.

Manufacturers of high-technology products all over the globe are near-shoring or intending to move production closer to the markets they serve.

Rickmers Maritime Trust has established a Singapore $300 million (about US$240.5 million) corporate bond program to fund capital expenditure.

Lufthansa Cargo’s first Boeing 777 freighter will take off from Frankfurt, Germany, tonight, bound for New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, on its first scheduled flight.

The Long Beach Harbor Commission Monday decided to slow down its search for a new executive director to allow the nation’s second-largest container port to regain its political stability.

Port of Los Angeles truck drivers from Green Fleet Systems, American Logistics International and Pac 9 Transportation went on strike this morning to protest labor practices...

Celadon Group has entered into an agreement to acquire selected assets of N. Yanke Transfer Limited...

The Middle East’s leading airlines made clear their common determination to boost passenger and freight market shares this weekend at the 2013 Dubai Airshow as they dominated the headlines with a series of huge orders for new airplanes.

Allcargo Logistics Ltd., India’s leading international freight forwarder and port-based logistics provider, said its consolidated net profit in the second fiscal quarter, which ended Sept. 30, was $6.7 million, falling 28 percent from $9.4 million in the same period of fiscal year 2012-13.

The profitability of Asian carriers with major freighter fleets continues to be negatively impacted by the overhang of excess capacity, but the long-term outlook for air freight is “encouraging,” according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines.

The U.S. Jones Act, which requires that U.S. domestic ocean cargo is carried from port to port in ships that are...

The Port of Virginia handled 206,597 TEUs in October, jumping 17.8 percent year-over-year and surpassing the single-month record for TEUs that was just set in July...

CEVA Logistics today reported a net loss of $54 million in the third quarter of 2013, compared with a net loss of $78 million in the same period last year.

Former Long Beach Mayor Beverly O’Neill told the current mayor, Bob Foster, the city council and the Long Beach Harbor Commission that an item on the council’s Nov. 19 agenda is ill-advised and could lead to a loss of business at the nation’s second largest container port.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex’s total container volume in October was 1.26 million 20-foot-equivalent units, increasing 1.0 percent from 1.25 million TEUs in October 2012.

The bankruptcy of Hainan Pan Ocean Shipping at the end of October brings to an end Capt. Li Kelin’s attempt to repeat his earlier successes in building a shipping business.

The volume of containers handled by major state-owned ports in India declined 4.56 percent year-over-year from April through October, but total cargo tonnage was up 1.68 percent, according to the latest provisional traffic data released by the Indian Ports Association.

Shipping Corporation of India swung to a $19.52 million loss in its second fiscal quarter of 2013-14 from a $47 million profit in the same period a year ago.

Slowdowns by container truck drivers at the Gateway Terminals operated by APM Terminals threaten to worsen congestion in Nhava Sheva Port (Jawaharlal Nehru), India’s largest container gateway.

Major container lines have announced planned rate increases for a variety of trades, as detailed below, slated to take effect in November, December and January.

The 50 largest transportation and logistics companies worldwide grew more slowly in 2012 as the global economy sputtered, increasing revenue only 2.6 percent compared with a more robust 8.4 percent combined growth rate in 2011.