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Cargolux’s losses almost doubled in 2012 to $35.1 million from $18.3 million a year earlier, as Europe’s largest all-cargo airline struggled to cut costs amid depressed demand and continued overcapacity across the global air freight industry.

CAI International reported net income in the first quarter of 2013 was $16.1 million, increasing 11 percent from $14.5 million in the same quarter in the previous year.

Freight transportation leaders' testimony at a newly formed House panel suggests the federal government is moving forward on a national freight infrastructure strategy, even if it lacks the will to fully implement it.

Tens of thousands of Transportation Worker Identification Credentials issued in 2008 and 2009 are hitting their five-year expirations, creating a surge in renewals and complaints about delays.

Knight Transportation reported net income in the first quarter of 2013 was $15.2 million, a 44 percent jump from $10.5 million in the first quarter of 2012.

Pacer International reported net income in the first quarter of 2013 was $1.3 million, improving from a net loss of $0.3 million in the first quarter of 2012.

UPS today reported operating profit in the first quarter of 2013 was $1.58 billion, up slightly from $1.57 billion in the first quarter of 2012.

Costamare’s net income edged up to $24.73 million in the first quarter from $24.53 million a year ago, as the Greek shipowner profited from the sale of a vessel for scrap and kept all its charter ships employed.

Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced on April 23 that it has banned the import of poultry and poultry products, including poultry eggs, from Lower Saxony, Germany, with immediate effect for the protection of Hong Kong's public and animal health.

India’s Cochin Port Authority has completed a dredging project to allow the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal to handle deep-draft ships.

The International Air Transport Association has presented an agenda for aviation in the U.S. to be a strategic catalyst for economic growth and development during President Obama’s second term.

Paul Fisher, president and CEO of CenterPoint Properties Trust, has announced his retirement from the Illinois-based industrial property and transportation infrastructure development company.

The Port of Houston Authority’s commission has ordered four dockside electric container cranes from Konecranes Finland for Wharf No. 1 at Barbours Cut Container Terminal.

Shrinking new export orders were a prime reason for slowing manufacturing growth in China in April, according to preliminary data from HSBC.

Kerry Logistics has started operations at its Asia regional logistics hub in Singapore.

The Port of Seattle reported container volume fell 30.1 percent in March compared with the same month in the previous year, and decreased 19.4 percent year-over-year from January to March...

Steel imports in March were 2.475 million tons, dropping 1.3 percent from 2.508 million tons in February and plummeting 19.3 percent from March 2012, according to preliminary government reporting...

The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 0.9 percent to 123.5 in March, after decreasing 0.7 percent (revised) in February to 122.3.

FedEx Express has entered into a new express air transportation contract with the U.S. Postal Service.

Former Horizon Lines CEO Chuck Raymond has been cleared in the Justice Department’s investigation of antitrust violations in the Jones Act domestic shipping market.

ABS’s board of directors has elected Christoper J. Wiernicki, current president and CEO of the offshore and marine classification services company, to the role of chairman, effective May 1.

Norbert Dentressangle’s freight forwarding division has opened a second office in Rio de Janeiro, about two years after its launch in Latin America.

On behalf of the U.S. and Nigeria, Thomas S. Winkowski, U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s acting commissioner, and Abdullahi Dikko Inde, Nigeria’s customs service comptroller...

TITAN Salvage has refloated the 262-foot cargo ship Danio, after the vessel ran aground at Farne islands, on England’s Northumberland coast, while it was carrying a load of timber from Scotland to Belgium.

In preparation for the European Union air freight security regulations going into effect in Germany on April 29, 2013, Logwin has invested in a second X-ray scanner and more manpower for...

Ryder System reported profit in the first quarter of 2013 of $39.9 million, up from $34.3 million in the first quarter of 2012.

Exports of wood pellets from North America to Europe reached a record 3.2 million tons in 2012, an increase of more than 60 percent year-over-year, with U.S. export volumes more than doubling...

Swift Transportation reported its profit in the first quarter of 2013 was $23.3 million, compared with $6.2 million in the first quarter of 2012.

Stern warnings were given customs brokers to make participation in CBP's Automated Commercial Environment a priority when brokers and forwarders met in Rancho Mirage, Calif., on April 10.

Modernization of cargo-handling operations and maintaining labor peace are foremost on the minds of West Coast waterfront employers as they look ahead to the expiration of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union contract on July 1, 2014.

Canadian Pacific Railway today reported net income in the first quarter of 2013 was C$217 million (about US$211.5 million), a 51 percent jump from $138.4 million in the first quarter of 2012.

What separates a regulation from a commercial contract? Is a municipal port a regulatory agency or a commercial enterprise? And does a Supreme Court precedent set deep in trucking’s regulatory past still hold in this highly deregulated era?

MASkargo, Cathay Pacific and Thai Airways International have settled with the New Zealand Commerce Commission for fixing air cargo prices between February 2000 and February 2006...

Spurred by new, heightened concern about extreme weather events, discussion groups such as the World Economic Forum and the Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals have intensified their efforts to create comprehensive frameworks and common standards for evaluating and enacting risk-mitigation initiatives that are proactive and strategic, rather than reactive or tactical.

Singapore Changi Airport reported air freight volume in March rose 2.5 percent year-over-year to 167,200 metric tons of cargo.

Norfolk Southern today reported first quarter profit of $450 million, rising 10 percent from $410 million in the first quarter of 2012.

Maersk Line has announced several upcoming service changes.

Maersk Line is upgrading its MECL1 and MECL2 services, which connect the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and the U.S. East Coast.