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The volume of containers handled by terminals in the Port of Virginia in July increased 7.4 percent from June and by 8 percent over the same month last year.

Brazilian terminal operator and maritime logistics firm Wilson Sons Limited

The owners of J&M Trucking in Lebanon, Mo., were convicted Wednesday for a scheme that defrauded shipper Marine Tracker of nearly $1 million.

Container traffic at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex in July was lackluster, with Los Angeles reporting an increase of 5.5 percent and Long Beach a decline of 8.8 percent compared to July 2011

Union Pacific Railway will spend $20 million to test 25 locomotives with emissions-reducing technology in California, as the railroad works to meet new federal pollution standards that begin in 2015.

A bipartisan group of 25 senators urged the Office of Management and Budget to allocate all money collected through the Harbor Maintenance Tax for port dredging in its fiscal 2014 plan.

HHLA’s profit and container traffic increased in the first half of 2012, but Hamburg’s biggest stevedore forecast flat full-year results amid slowing growth across the North Europe port ra

APM Terminals profit dipped to $160 million in the second quarter from $162 million a year ago as double-digit growth in container traffic in West Africa and Asia was offset by declines across its Eur

Evergreen Line said it will begin a new Straits-Yangon (Myanmar) service in late August i

U.S.-based Intermarine and Denmark’s Scan-Trans Holding

Container ships arrived at their destination ports around the world 83 percent of the time in July, an increase of two percentage points from

Damco’s earnings before interest and taxes jumped 42 percent to $51 million as air freight revenue more than doubled and net revenue increased 12 percent to $1.543 billion.

The Ramadan month of fasting and the build-up to this weekend’s Eid festivities have given air cargo operators a volume surge, according to one leading executive.

Average spot rates on the eastbound trans-Pacific trade lane eased 5.2 percent from last week’s record high, which followed the general rate increase recommended by the Transpacific Stabilizatio Agreement implemented by carriers during the first two weeks of August.

Hapag-Lloyd has joined other major container carriers in announcing a general rate increase on westbound trade from India to Europe, effective Sept. 3.

Cathay Pacific Airways saw further year-on-year declines in freight traffic last month but volumes were steady compared to

The overall vacancy rate of space in warehouses and distribution centers across the U.S.

The looming $1.2 billion federal sequestration could cut nearly 2 billion pounds of air cargo capacity out of the U.S. network, according to a new study.

The owner of the fire-damaged container ship MSC Flaminia has declared general average, meaning all parties with cargo on the ship will proportionally share losses resulting from efforts to save the s

International Longshore and Warehouse Union Coast Committeeman Leal Sundet was not speaking in hyperbole Monday when he said the jurisdictional dispute in Portland between the ILWU and the Internation

The South Carolina Ports Authority has dropped its membership in the American Association of Port Authorities, an SCPA official

Congress should extend the timeline for a costly crash-avoidance technology mandate because most of the railroads won’t meet the end of 2015 deadline, the Federal Railroad Administration recomme

Two new investors filed proposals Monday in a bid to take over terminals operated by the

Dockworkers in Portland suffered a jurisdictional loss late Monday when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that jobs involving the working of refrigerated containers at the port belong to the ri

AMR Corporation, parent of American Airlines, Inc., reported a 4.9 percent year-over-year decline in system cargo ton

The 50 largest U.S. and Canadian truckload carriers ranked by revenue grew 13.4 percent in 2011.

Port congestion resulting from reduced working hours and higher demand during Ramadan is causing shipping delays in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, prompting new liner surcharges.

Ocean carriers are adding capacity on the Far East-Europe route even as trade growth weakens and ship utilization levels continue to fall, according to container market analyst Alphaliner.

German ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd’s net loss narrowed to 7.3 million euros ($9 million) from 10.6 million euros ($13.1 million) a year ago as surging fuel costs more than outweighed slightly high

Maersk Line rebounded to a $227 million profit in the second quarter from a $95 million loss a year ago and a record $599 million deficit in the previous three months as higher container volumes and o

A 14.8 percent year-over-year decline in Indian exports in July pushed the country’s trade deficit up 5 percent to $15.5 billion from $14.8 billion a year earlier.

U.S. diesel prices rose at the fastest pace since March 2011, jumping 11.5 cents in the week ending Aug. 13 as oil prices slipped.

Optimism among retailers is growing as containerized imports are forecasted to increase 6.3 percent in August and 4.8 percent in the 2012 calendar year over the same periods last year, according to th

The owner of the fire-damaged MSC Flaminia said the container ship has been stabilized enough to enter a sheltered coastal area when authorities grant permission.

Overnight air cargo carrier Cargojet reported revenue of $40.5 million in the second quarter of 2012, down $0.

Global port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc.

The action last week by Portland’s harbor commissioners to ensure the port shares in the costs that terminal operator ICTSI incurred because of longshore labor actions in June was a business dec

A.P. Moller-Maersk plans to give up its partnership structure and turn management responsibility over to its six-member executive board on Jan. 1.

Port Canaveral will get $24.4 million in funding from the State of Florida to complete its harbor widening and deepening project to accommodate larger cruise and cargo ships.