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Diesel prices across the United States increased for first time in seven weeks in the week ending Jan.

The budget cutting sweeping through Washington won’t help U.S. ports looking to prepare for the big, new ships that will start transiting the expanded Panama Canal in less than three years.

CSX Transportation stands to gain more than $230 million in annual

Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner David Aguilar said he will build on the agency’s accomplishments of the last two years and continue the innovations started by his predecessor.

U.S. Xpress Enterprises picked Todd Smith, former president of truckload operator LinkAmerica, as president of Arnold Transportation Services, a 750-truck affiliate.

Longistics, a full-service provider of global logistics solutions, has announced that Amy Henderson has been promoted to manager of international foreign trade zones.

Yusen Logistics this week launched a weekly less-than-containerload service from Shanghai to Southampton, U.K., as the forwarder builds on a similar service from England to Singapore.

Kerry Logistics will build a 753,000-square-foot logistics center in Zhengzhou, as the third-party logistics provider expands its reach in north-central China.

Canadian Pacific Railway directors unanimously rejected the push by an activist hedge fund investor to replace the company’s CEO with the former chief of rival Canadian National Railway.

Rodolph Davis Moseley, a veteran who founded trucking company Bulldog Hiway Express with a $1,000 loan and a used truck, died Jan. 6. He was 84 years old.

The container ship Rena broke in two in heavy swells over the weekend on the reef off the New Zeala

DHL Global Forwarding this week launched a less-than-container load service between Italy and Kuwait, as the German carrier adds ocean connections to its growing Middle East hub.

Shippers and manufacturers want it in their inventory flow. Carriers on the ocean, land and in the air certainly crave it in the demand for and supply of their vessels.

Last year’s trio of new bilateral U.S. trade pacts — with South Korea, Colombia and Panama — will boost U.S.

Coal exports may account for less than 10 percent of U.S. production, but strong demand from overseas buyers proved critical for domestic mining companies facing weak utility markets in 2011.

More than 60 percent of truckers surveyed in November said they expect volume to increase in 2012, with only 2 percent expecting freight levels to decrease, says trucking acquisition analysis and rese

When the housing market sneezes, the furniture and appliance industries catch a cold. All have suffered poor health that will extend into 2012.

President Obama’s National Export Initiative places a specific emphasis on expanding exports by small and midsize businesses, companies that make up 97 percent of all U.S.

Which kinds of U.S. exports will enjoy the biggest boost from the three new free trade agreements? Beyond its tariff provisions, the Korean pact attempts to eliminate non-tariff barriers to U.S.

Americans are starting to spend money on cars again, and the results are showing up in increased imports of automotive parts.

Industry experts expect the supply-demand trends that drove eastbound trans-Pacific business late in 2011 to extend into 2012.

Third-party logistics providers have their work cut out for them in 2012.

Despite economic uncertainty, companies are expected to expand support of green logistics initiatives in 2012 and are looking for technology to help.

Amid volatile global markets, the need for greater supply chain flexibility and visibility will drive investments in technology in 2012.

When Canadian National Railway announced in August it was expanding a lumber transload facility at Prince George, British Columbia, it marked one of the few events in the past four years with a hint o

It took airline cargo executives several months into 2011 before they started pulling back capacity to meet the reality of reduced shipping demand.

Nearly five years after the Bush administration first negotiated free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, revised versions of those pacts finally will be implemented this year.

Like the Energizer Bunny, the trans-Atlantic trade just keeps going and going.

U.S. exporters of semiconductors and consumer electronics strongly supported the passage of the three new trade agreements, and expect the deals to provide a significant boost to U.S.

You see them more these days than a year ago, the smiling people. Odds are they work in trucking.

Even as other markets remain roiled by uncertainty, the hemispheric trade between the U.S. and South America looks bright for 2012 and even brighter in the years ahead.

Breakbulk shipping faces a challenging 2012 with excess capacity capping freight rates as a slowing global economy depresses conventional cargo volumes.

Housing can’t do it. Technology is strong, but not strong enough to act as the economic driver. And, with consumer demand weak, don’t count on a big retail buying binge.

Economic growth was disappointing in 2011 and a strong rebound is unlikely in 2012, but North America’s railroads will continue to outperform the overall economy, especially in the intermodal se

YRC, looking to restructure its operations as the trucking operator seeks to rebuild its finances, is preparing for talks with the Teamsters union on a redesign of its freight terminal network and how

A collision of three CSX Transportation trains caused a massive chemical fire and possible hazardous chemical spill Friday afternoon in northwest Indiana, according to published reports.

The value of U.S. exports in 2012 will grow at twice the rate of GDP, with the value of outbound shipments expected to expand 5 to 6 percent, said a Moffatt & Nichol analyst.

For those in the air cargo industry, 2011 was a year spent taking inventory of progress on enhancing national security in the wake of the 10-year anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.

Despite a string of natural disasters and the global economic malaise, third-party logistics service providers performed well through the first three quarters of 2011, though the fourth quarter was la

The U.S. economy has undergone major changes in last few decades. In 1950, goods-related activity was 40 percent of GDP.