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NYK Line plans to issue $325 million of bonds maturing in 2021 with a 1.218 percent coupon, the carrier’s lowest for a 10-year security since February 2003, according to Bloomberg.

Standard & Poors downgraded its outlook for CMA GCM to negative and affirmed its B+ plus rating on the French ocean carrier’s debt.

BNSF Railway Chairman and CEO Matt Rose believes the best way to get U.S.

Weakening economic conditions haven’t slowed trucking giant Landstar System, which says it gained truckload freight and raised rates in July and August.

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Class 8 truck orders rebounded in August, despite dire predictions for the U.S. economy, according to preliminary figures from two research groups.

Saddle Creek promoted Mike DelBovo, a 14-year company veteran, to the new position of president of transportation at the contract logistics operator.

Weakening economic conditions led Journal of Commerce Economist Mario O. Moreno to lower his forecast for U.S.

CMA CGM added a direct call at the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal, a DP World facility in India’s Port of Cochin, to its North Europe-Mediterranean-Oceania service.

McDonalds’ plan to add more than 700 restaurants in China by 2013 signals the growing market for cold chain logistics providers.

Container shipping will wrestle with excess capacity through 2011 but vessel supply and demand should come into better balance in 2012, said consultant Philippe Hoehlinger.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sent President Obama and Congress a detailed list of job-creation measures it supports, with a heavy focus on taking steps to expand U.S.

New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda vowed to make a decision “as soon as possible” on whether to join the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.

The Cass Freight Index for U.S. shipments grew 4.4 percent in August over the same month a year ago, the smallest gain in a year-and-a-half and a sign of fragile demand in the American economy.

Air France-KLM is launching a new round of cost cuts, including a hiring freeze and deeper capacity reductions, as the European airline group moves to preserve profitability amid deteriorating conditi

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration upheld the use of stickers to identify trucks complying with a drayage registry established by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The Teamsters union filed a lawsuit last week in an attempt to block the Obama administration’s plans for a cross-border trucking pilot project with Mexico.

Keith W. Tantlinger, the innovative engineer whose inventions turned Malcom McLean’s vision for container shipping into reality, died at his home in Escondido, Calif., on Aug. 27.

Air cargo is losing market share to container shipping as high air rates and falling ocean freight rates widen the price gap between the two transport modes, said International Air Transportation Asso

President Obama said the jobs plan he unveils Thursday will include proposals to put unemployed construction workers busy with new road and bridge projects.

Container ship operator CMA CGM, hit by sharply declining bond prices and falling freight rates, faces a 90 percent chance of defaulting on payment obligations over the next five years, according to a

CEVA Logistics said the expansion of its less-than-containerload offerings to include service from Hamburg to New York is the first of many LCL service additions for the year.

Around 9 a.m. Eastern time on Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. James M.

CMA CGM is upgrading its Gulf Bridge Express service linking the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico and the Caribbean with the addition of direct calls in New Orleans and Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.

Financially ailing CSAV says it will seek a $1.2 billion capital injection in October after the Chilean ocean carrier sank deeper into the red in the second quarter.

FedEx Express, in a significant expansion of its Asia operations, opened its largest express facility in China.

FreightWatch International, a logistics security services provider, will offer shippers real-time temperature monitoring services in conjunction with its cargo monitoring capabilities.

Klinge, a York, Pa.-based refrigeration technology manufacturer, has developed a unit for so-called triple containers, or tricons.

Paramount Citrus has acquired a south Texas-based full-service cold storage facility for the produce industry previously owned by Border Cold Storage.

Members of Global Cold Chain Alliance lobby administration officials during assembly in Washington

Distribution planners looking for the ideal location to build an inland port probably wouldn’t zero in on Minot, N.D., but that didn’t stop Greg Johnson, president of North Dakota Port Ser

The freight rail industry is fighting a regulation that allows the federal government to fine Class I carriers if Amtrak-provided data shows the railroads caused delays in passenger service.

APM Terminals will spend $1 billion on a new container terminal in Moin, Costa Rica, as part of a corporate strategy to have container operations gain market share in the produce business in the regio

Kuehne + Nagel will acquire J. van de Put Fresh Cargo Handling of Amsterdam, a Dutch handling agent for perishable goods.

Exporters anxious to locate equipment can breathe a little easier: Container carriers and leasing companies are on track to purchase a record number of new refrigerated containers this year, according

Ports around the United States are anxious to encourage greater use of intermodal rail for inbound shipments, but when does that encouragement amount to an illegal subsidy for rail transport?

McDonald’s is opening one restaurant a day in China and plans to continue that pace for the next several years.

Pacific Coast-based Gordon Trucking is pointing its business toward the East Coast. The Pacific, Wash.-based truckload carrier is acquiring Central U.S.

Kerry Logistics is building an 85,300-square-foot facility in Wuxi, an economic hotspot in China’s Jiangsu province.