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President Obama is set to unveil final rules Tuesday that for the first time set fuel efficiency and carbon emission standards for a wide range of commercial trucks and buses.

MCC Transport, A.P. Moller-Maerski’s intra-Asia shipping division, launched a 13-day transit service between China and Bangladesh.

Profit at the parent of Orient Overseas Container Line fell 39 percent in the first half of 2011 on falling freight rates and OOIL forecast “difficult” conditions for the rest of the year

Vessel traffic through the Panama Canal will be affected this month by maintenance and dredging.

Japan on Monday extended for a year punitive tariffs on ball bearings and tapered roller bearings imported from the United States in retaliation for a U.S.

Container traffic at major ports in India grew a mere 2 percent from April through July compared with a year earlier, according to the latest traffic data released by the Indian Ports Association.

Geoffrey Giovanetti has a favorite East Coast port gateway for seaborne imports of wine and spirits destined for the Midwest, but he generally leaves the choice of ports and the intermodal facilities

Federal Maritime Commissioner Mario Cordero has a solution for the discordant state of Washington politics: music.

The Longshore Workers Coalition, the intra-union group that has criticized International Longshoremen’s Association leadership, was relatively quiet during last month’s ILA convention in H

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Soon after Maersk Line CEO Eivind Kolding challenged ocean carriers to compete on the basis of sustainability in June, Danish consulting firm SeaIntel Maritime Analysis unveiled the Container Carrier

A two-month longshoremen’s strike in 1977 left Harold Daggett so strapped he qualified for food stamps, but Daggett said he couldn’t tap family members for a loan “because they were

Peter Tirschwell’s July 18 commentary, “Season of the Switch,” put a new twist on the East Coast vs.

Who’d have thought that a museum in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley would point to issues now flaring in Washington about the role of government investment in the nation’s infrastructur

The first half of 2011 hasn’t been good for the Port of Virginia for reasons largely beyond its control.

Horizon Lines says it is making “significant progress” on a refinancing announced two months ago, but the financially struggling container line still lost $7 million in the second quarter

As Harold Daggett basked in the applause of union delegates after his election as International Longshoremen’s Association president, loudspeakers came alive with the Sam Cooke classic “A

Ports from Oakland, Calif., to New York are adopting clean-trucks programs that will require independent owner-operators who in many cases make $35,000 a year or less to shell out more than $50,000 fo

Truckload carriers seem to be traveling a different route than the rest of the sputtering U.S. economy.

Consolidated Chassis Management plans to take over day-to-day management of its six intermodal chassis pools and allow shippers and motor carriers to join container ship lines in supplying the pools w

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Friday proposed raising tolls on bridge and tunnels crossing Hudson River by as much as 50 percent to pay for capital expenses, including the massive p

The U.S. Postal Service lost $3.1 billion in its third fiscal quarter ending June 30, deepening the Postal Service's financial woes as it gets closer to running out of cash.

Spot rates for trans-Pacific trade fell for the second week in a row, while pricing on Asia-Europe trade lanes improved for the week ending Aug.

Trucking employment was essentially flat in July, with for-hire carriers adding only 1,300 jobs for a 0.1 percent increase from June to about 1.28 million employees, according to seasonally adjusted d

Crowley Maritime plans to add roll-on, roll-off service to Tampa in September as part of the carrier’s Central American service, which handles ro-ro, breakbulk and project cargo.

Chilean ocean carrier CSAV will implement a general rate increase on westbound shipments from India to Europe, starting Aug. 15.

Falling demand in the Asia-Pacific region pulled cargo traffic at Air France-KLM down 2.7 percent in July.

NuStar Logistics and EOG Resources, an oil and gas company, jointly develop and own a facility at St.

U.S. job growth increased more than expected in July as a rise in private payrolls offset shrinkage in government jobs, the Labor Department said.

International Container Terminal Services will complete the first phase construction of a terminal at the Port of La Plata in Argentina next year.

China’s Ningbo Port saw container traffic increase 13.7 percent year-over-year to a new record of 7 million 20-foot equivalent units in the first six months of the year.

A key measure of Chinese manufacturing fell for the straight month to its lowest point in more than two years in July, adding to the mounting worries over the direction of the global economy.

In the trans-Pacific, capacity is surging and rates are sagging. In South America, Africa and the Middle East, demand is buoyant.

An unofficial “go-slow” campaign by a group of dockworkers at the Gateway Terminals India operated by APM Terminals threatens to worsen congestion in Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru), India&

APL said its trans-Pacific services missed their arrival window only seven times in 114 port calls to the U.S.

Hapag-Lloyd said Friday it will apply a port congestion surcharge on shipments moving through India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), making it the second carrier to do so in a month.

Con-way increased its net profit 111 percent to $29.4 million in the second quarter, as the company’s revenue increased 3.2 percent to $1.35 billion.

Canada’s Port of Prince Rupert reported loaded container volume soared 33.1 percent in July on Thursday, an unusually strong expansion that came as most North American ports are showing lacklust

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Lines will be hard-pressed to enforce peak season surcharges from Aug. 15 on Asia-U.S. lanes, said analysts and forwarders based in Asia.