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Falling trade with Asia sent cargo traffic for European airlines down 4.4 percent in November, the sharpest year-over-year decline in 2011, according to the Association of European Airlines.

Groups representing shippers say new rules on work hours for truck drivers will reduce efficiency across their supply chains, complicating delivery schedules, raising costs and even undermining safety

Regional operator Cross Creek Trucking is shut down this week after federal safety regulators withdrew the company’s authority e

The union representing FedEx Express pilots says it is “outraged at the casual dismissal of cargo pilots and their families” in the

U.S. international containerized trade grew about 3.7 percent in 2011, a sharp slowdown from the double-digit from the year before, according to preliminary figures from PIERS.

When demand for shipping space plunged during the 2009 recession and freight rates collapsed, many shippers who were still moving goods tore up their fixed-rate annual contracts and demanded lower pri

Drewry Shipping Consultants is banking that rate indexes will come into greater use worldwide, not only as a base for adjusting shipping contracts but also as a pricing mechanism for shippers, carrier

For almost 26 years, Pat Quinn and Max Fuller proved you don’t have to be related to be successful partners in trucking.

Despite disputes over funding levels and where to find the money, Democrats and Republicans agreed on a broad swath of the safety agenda in several bills the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportatio

Required use of electronic onboard recorders on trucks and buses, a multimodal freight policy and new powers for federal safety agencies are inching closer to becoming part of a broader transportation

The long transformation of the truckload carrier is due to pick up speed in 2012 as freight demand accelerates and trucking companies seek more stable, profitable business models in an economy still s

Local and state governments seeking a piece of the $500 million in TIGER grants available next year would be wise to pitch projects relating to intermodal rail.

Maersk Line is closing 2011 much as it started the year, lobbing another bombshell onto a container shipping business engulfed by tumbling freight rates and soaring losses over the past 12 months.

The average spot rate for container shipping from Asia to Europe jumped 7.4 percent in the past week, part of a broad increase in pricing on east-west trade lanes that sent the

United Arab Shipping Company will seek a general rate increase on westbound trade from the Indian Subcontinent, Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf to North Europe and the Mediterranean, starting Jan.

Hanjin Shipping is selling its stake in the Hanjin Group’s holding company, prompting suggestions in South Korea that the container line will separate from the larger business.

Many Japanese companies are still feeling the pinch of heavy flooding in Thailand because of supply chain disruptions, according to an emergency survey conducted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and

Hapag-Lloyd imposed an “emergency revenue charge” on all containers moving from the Indian Subcontinent to the U.S. and Canada.

If there’s a terrorist cell in America plotting to export weapons of mass destruction, it hasn’t been discovered yet. That’s crazy talk, maybe.

Alan Bersin, the head of Customs and Border Protection, on Thursday said he will leave his post at the end of the month after the Senate failed to confirm his appointment.

Container throughput at the Port of Seattle in November fell 1.8 percent year-over-year, as a 6.1 percent decrease in exports offset a 2 percent rise in imports.

The American Trucking Associations said Thursday it is considering legal action against tougher new truck

The union representing UPS pilots asked a federal court on Thursday to review the Department of Transportation’s

Federal safety regulators issued tougher new hours of service regulations for truck driv

When FedEx reported the busiest day for shipments in its history a couple of weeks before Christmas, the company credited not its flashy signature express delivery but the business segment that once s

FedEx Express is adding capacity in the air. It’s also putting off adding capacity in the air.

With freight rail efficiency pretty much at its limits in stacking containers vertically, railroads increasingly are looking for improvements in the other direction.

Lakshman Achuthan raised eyebrows in September by declaring the U.S. economy was “tipping into a new recession, and there’s nothing policymakers can do to head it off.”

Asian demand for grain helped pushed loaded container exports up 14.2 percent at the Port of Tacoma in the first 11 months of 2011.

Hamburg-Sud and Mediterranean Shipping Co will merge their Mediterranean-East Coast South America services in January, cutting capacity in a bid to boost flagging freight rates.

The parent of Concert Group Logistics said Wednesday the U.S.

Evergreen International Airlines, an international cargo carrier, will gain a second 747-400 converted freighter next year under a Boeing program to modify the widebody at a plant in Xiamen, Chin

Japan’s trade deficit expanded for the second straight month to $8.78 billion in November, as exports fell 4.5 percent year-over-year and import jumped 11.4 percent, according to preliminary fig

Maersk Line will impose a new round of general rate increases on its Far East Asia services in January.

Oakland city officials have rejected a call for city leaders to use strong tactics to prevent Occupy protestors from shutting down the Port of Oakland again.

The Federal Aviation Administration exempted cargo pilots from the tougher limitations it placed on work rules for airline pilots on Wednesday, but Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he would as

Panalpina said its recently opened 32,800-square-foot logistics facility in North China will become the Swiss logistics group's hub in the growing region.

Customs and Border Protection may allow exporters to join a voluntary supply chain security program, and Japan, Colombia and Costa Rica are onboard for a test run of the program.

Trucks handled more freight November, as manufacturing output and a restocking of retail inventories helped i

Hapag-Lloyd will start calling at the Port of Baltimore in February as the first U.S. port of call on its Gulf of Mexico Express from North Europe to the U.S.