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Port Hueneme, a small port 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles, is scheduled for some changes in its top executives, the number of vessel calls each week and the type of vessels that call the port.

Bananas are the world’s most traded fruit.

Consumers in every part of the globe must be following the old adage “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

CMA CGM denied reports Friday it is close to signing a $2 billion order for 20 large container ships from China, but the ocean carrier confirmed it is discussing possible charter deals with shipyards

Ethiopian Airlines became the first African customer for the 777 freighter, placing an order for f

The number of foreign trade containers moving through the Port of Tokyo rose 9.7 percent in the fi

President Obama, moving to prevent a potential strike against major U.S.

The Port of Los Angeles said Thursday it will not appeal an appeals court ruling striking do

Wei Jiafu, chairman of Cosco Group, the world’s fourth-largest container line by capacity and the largest carrier based in China, will be the opening keynote speaker at

FedEx Freight expanded its service center in Butte, Mont., to a 65-door facility to make it a less-than-truckload hub in the Northwest.

With a mild 0.6 percent gain in the latest week, major North American railroads again set a new all-time high in intermodal loadings with 313,026 containers and trailers in the week ending Oct.

Norfolk Southern Railway is launching in mid-October a new double-stack rail service that will connect Virginia’s ports to central North Carolina.

A broad-based pickup in bulk railcar shipments pushed freight carloads up 2.2 percent at major North American railroads in the week ending Oct.

The federal Smartway program recognized teams at Ikea, Kraft Foods, Pepsico, Lowe’s and J.B. Hunt for making achievements in environmentally sound transportation.

The Panama Canal Authority ordered 14 new tugboats in anticipation of more vessel traffic when the canal completes its

Rick Calhoun sees the inland waterways infrastructure crisis from the perspective of both shipper and carrier.

Federal regulators are due to issue a final rule on changes in truck driver hours at the end of this month, but opponents say the Obama administration should let the clock run out.

“If it was easy, everyone would be doing it,” the logistics director for a large U.S. health care products importer and exporter said recently.

An election that could determine the course of the Teamsters union and the tenor of its relations with employers begins Thursday as ballots are mailed to Teamsters.

Maersk Line plans to increase freight rates on westbound cargo from the U.S. to the Far East, starting Nov. 15.

Maersk Line changed the port rotation of its MESA Service connecting the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and South Africa.

Maersk Line on Thursday denied reports that it is using its market size and economies of scale to drive weaker carriers out of the Asia-Europe trade and gain market share.

The Republican-controlled House is speeding toward a conflict with the Department of Transportation that could scuttle changes to trucker hours of service rules.

The National Retail Federation forecasts a 2.8 percent increase in holiday sales, and said

Container ship charter rates are in free fall as ocean carriers cut back on hired tonnage amid plunging freight rates, rising overcapacity and sluggish cargo growth on key trade routes.

A European Union scheme compelling all airlines to pay for carbon emissions on flights to and from the 27-nation bloc from next January is legal, the EU’s highest court said in a preliminary opi

International Airlines Group, the owner of the merged British Airways-Iberia carrier, boosted cargo traffic in September by 1.6 percent year-over-year as the Spanish airline’s growth compensated

Horizon Lines completed a complicated $652.8 million refinancing that saves the largest U.S.

The Canadian government said it will “vigorously defend” its trade policies and infrastructure investments against any of the findings of a Federal Maritime Commission study looking into t

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood cleared a $196.5 million grant for Michigan to spend on track upgrades, the first part of a nearly $350 million federal investment in a east-west track segment now

Georgia’s Port of Brunswick hit an annual record in auto and machinery unit traffic, as the number of units handled grew 40 percent year-over-year in the fiscal year 2011 that ended June 30, sai

Two of the world’s largest candy makers say they will work together to sweeten their supply chains and reduce their carbon footprint in North America.

Wal-Mart said it has learned to treat each supplier uniquely and when to let vendors run their own transportation since taking control of inbound logistics from its suppliers 18 months ago.

The North American fleet of passenger aircraft will grow 41 percent over the next 20 years, according to Boeing, but the largest growth will come in narrowbody planes unsuited to heavier cargo transpo

BNSF Railway says by the time it has finished with historic flooding along the Missouri River and elsewhere this year, it expects the tab to be “about $375 million.”

The London P&I Club warned that shipowners face a significant increase in exposure to claims and fines in jurisdictions suffering from high interest rates and protracted legal proceedings.

The Federal Maritime Commission, jumping into a dispute over the shift of imported containers from the United States to Canada, voted Wednesday to launch an inquiry over whether the U.S.

Net orders for heavy-duty Class 8 trucks rose in September, posting month-to-month and year-over-year gains, according to two vehicle research firms.

Horizon Lines said it expects to complete a $655 million refinancing by Thursday following agreement by holders of 99.3 percent of its convertible notes to swap their bonds for a combination of stock

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