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Horizon Lines says it has found a way out of a financial crisis triggered by the company’s guilty plea and fine for price-fixing in the Puerto Rico trade.

The Port of New Orleans and the terminal operator owned by Mediterranean Shipping Co.

The Port of Houston doesn’t have to wait for the opening of the Panama Canal’s larger locks in 2014 for the arrival of bigger post-Panamax ships.

Slow-steaming by container ship lines is thickening the fog of war between shippers and carriers over bunker fuel surcharges.

Just when new monthly reports on U.S.

In less than 10 years, China will be crisscrossed by a national highway system 53,000 miles long that will cover all the country’s cities with populations of 250,000 or more, all logistics parks

Lufthansa Cargo traffic growth slowed to a “normal” 4.4 percent in May compared with a year earlier from double-digit increases earlier in the year as the impact of reactivating its laid-u

The flooding Missouri River is cutting off rail lines, yards and shippers for several major North American carriers, and the range of outages will expand in the next week.

Shippers expect truckload capacity to keep tightening over the next year, but believe the less-than-truckload market will be more stable, according to a recent survey.

A recent survey of shippers had some good news for YRC Worldwide: Only 6 percent of those surveyed plan to reduce freight shipped with the trucking giant as it restructures to avoid bankruptcy, and 17

Shipment volume for small railroads grew 10 percent in the week ending June 4 from the same week last year, the strongest gain in more than a month and a sign the bulk freight industry appears to be s

Noka Shipping, a Greek ship management company, agreed to pay $900,000 in fines and was barred from operating in the United States after pleading guilty to multiple water pollution charges.

Rates for containerized ocean shipping exports from the United States to Asia are sliding this spring as a sharp upturn in vessel capacity offsets relatively strong demand for U.S.

International air freight rates out of Asia edged up to the highest point in six months in April, according to the Drewry Air Freight Price Index, which showed average pricing growing 5.7 percent from

Diana Containerships on Friday set the price of its public offering of 14.25 million shares of its common stock at $7.50 per share.

Ryder System is banking on expansion. The $5.1 billion truck lessor closed on a $900 million revolving credit facility with its banking group Thursday.

Air France-KLM cargo traffic slipped 1.4 percent in May from a year earlier as higher volume in the Americas couldn’t offset lower shipments on Asia-Pacific routes.

GSC Logistics, an Oakland, Calif.-based transportation provider and 3PL, expanded into the Pacific Northwest by acquiring Best Way Trucking, a port trucker in Seattle and Portland, Ore.

The Port of Hong Kong, getting off to a slow start in 2011, saw ocean container volume grow a scant 1 percent in the first quarter from a year ago, according to the Census and Statistics Department of

The National Industrial Transportation League is urging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration not to change the truck driver hours-of-service rules.

Orient Overseas Container Line took first place in the annual ocean carrier performance survey

Container services resumed this week at the Port of Sendai-Shiogoma, the most important port in Japan’s northeastern region of Tohoku, nearly three months after the devastating March 11 earthqua

Neptune Orient Lines said it would issue S$300 million (US$244 million) in 10-year bonds to help finance the purchase of new container ships for APL.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index extended its slide in May, falling 0.9 percent following April's 0.5 percent decline and an “exceptional”

U.S. wholesalers’ inventories rose 0.8 percent last month, held down by tighter automotive inventories, while sales increased 0.3 percent, the Commerce Department said.

Following an acquisition and East Coast expansion, trucking company Roadrunner Transportation Systems is reorganizing its management team.

TNT Express launched a dedicated 767 freighter service between India and Europe, claiming the added capacity will consolidate the Dutch company’s market leadership in Asia-Europe express deliver

President Obama is keeping open the option of drawing oil out of the U.S.

Two national trucking groups called on the Department of Transportation to begin researching the benefits of crashworthiness standards for heavy trucks.

Record exports fueled by a slumping dollar combined with a drop in automotive and oil imports to shrink the U.S. trade deficit in April by 6.7 percent to $43.7 billion, the lowest since December.

Qatar Airways acquired a 35 percent strategic stake in Cargolux, Europe’s biggest all-cargo airline, on Thursday taking a major step toward its goal of becoming one of top players in global air

The International Air Transportation Association named former Cathay Pacific chief executive Tony Tyler to replace Giovanni Bisignani as head of

Customs and Border Protection announced a major step toward fulfilling a 10-year-old goal of giving importers a “single window” to government.

A New England-Halifax shuttle service, launched by American Feeder Lines as the forerunner of a planned coast-wide network of short-sea services, will begin service next week.

The Federal Maritime Commission will seek public comment on a proposal for an exchange rate adjusted bond rider for non-vessel-operating common carriers that do business in China.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce leaders said Wednesday that the U.S. and Mexico should elevate their efforts to promote security and trade facilitation at the border.

Coal and coke mining firm Oxbow Mining is suing the two largest U.S.

European shippers are endorsing the call for radical changes in the container industry by Maersk Line CEO Eivind Kolding, but the European Shippers Council said Maersk has a heavy legacy to overcome a

Ryder System expanded its truck leasing operations in the United Kingdom by acquiring British heavy truck leasing firm Hill Hire for approximately $252 million.

Freight volume carried by for-hire transportation companies in April fell 1 percent from the previous month but was up 3.7 percent from April 2010, the Transportation Department reported.