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In the first two months of 2011, Japanese consumers markedly increased their purchases of U.S. foods, spending 81 percent more on U.S.

In the heady export days of 2007, more than a million metric tons of bagged rice was exported through Northern California’s Port of Stockton.

Slow growth, or even declining revenue, isn’t necessarily a bad thing — if it comes with higher earnings.

Among the many major developments at the Port of Shanghai since the site became the world’s largest container port last year, one of the most intere

Sheila Taylor, who abruptly left as chief financial officer of trucker YRC Worldwide in March, will join CEVA Logistics in the top financial post of the company’s Americas division.

A showdown between Amazon.com and state governments is spreading as the online retailer threatens to shutter more plans for distribution centers in disputes over demands that the company collect taxes

Flood waters on the Ohio River are high enough that barges can navigate over fixed dams, the Army Corps of Engineers reported Friday.

When BNSF Railway decides how to invest its money in infrastructure expansion, it looks to the marketplace for guidance.

The Coast Guard today declared a safety zone for a five-mile stretch of the Mississippi River near Caruthersville, Mo.

Container lessor Textainer reported higher first quarter profit and said it invested $506.5 million on new dry and refrigerated containers to be delivered during the first half of this year.

Transportation and logistics giant Con-way increased revenue 7.2 percent to $1.3 billion in the first quarter, reporting a $6.9 million profit.

The Department of Homeland Security, acting on intelligence seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout, is warning states and other federal agencies al Qaeda has been considering terror plots aga

Container ship owner-charterer Danaos reported a profit of $5.4 million in the first quarter, according to the company.

Less-than-truckload pricing will continue to rise throughout 2011, as a stronger economy “soaks up” excess capacity, said YRC Worldwide’s William D. Zollars.

Union Pacific is boosting its common stock dividend by 25 percent to 47.5 cents per share, and adding $100 million to its railroad capital spending program this year for a $3.3 billion infrastructure

Farmers in the mid-Mississippi River region report that the floods have causes little disruption to grain shipments, according to the Agriculture Transportation Coalition.

Widespread flooding across the U.S. inland river system is slowing some freight and passenger transportation systems, mainly with road closures but including some rail line outages.

Growth during the 2010 trade and economic recovery was rapid at ports up and down the North American coasts, but even the fastest-growing ports in the U.S.

Like the bottom lines of ocean carriers that mostly returned to the black, volume at most of the Top 25 North American ports turned positive last year as the global container trade rebounded from the

A surge in freight in March and higher prices buoyed YRC Worldwide in the first quarter but couldn’t bring the troubled less-than-truckload giant back to profitability.

Diana Containerships, a majority-owned subsidiary of the Greek dry bulk shipowner Diana Shipping, posted first quarter profit of $256,829, reversing a loss of $236,682 in the first quarter of 2010.

CMA CGM will start a new service linking Asia, Indian Ocean Islands and South Africa on Sunday May 8.

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda asked other Asian countries Thursday to “react calmly, based on scientific facts” to rumors that Japanese products may be contaminated with radioac

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda proposed an “Asia Cargo Highway” as Asia’s long-term goal to create seamless flows of goods in the region.

Container traffic through India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) fell 3 percent year-over-year in April, the first month of fiscal 2011-12, according to latest traffic figures released b

Illinois has been notified by the Department of Transportation that it will get another $186 million in rail grants, coming out of $2 billion the DOT is reallocating from funds Florida rejected for a

The Obama administration has been floating draft language for surface transportation legislation that could lead to a tax on vehicle miles traveled, allow states to impose tolls on some existing inter

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Wilmington, N.C.

Growth in freight shipments and payments slowed in April, indicating constrained consumer spending and near-term slowing of the economy, the monthly Cass Freight Index showed.

Labor interests in California are taking the battle over the job classification of drayage truck drivers to the State Assembly with a bill that would define the drivers who serve ports and intermodal

Pirates seized a bulk cargo carrier with 24 Chinese crew members and damaged a container ship owned by Evergreen Marine’s Italia Marittima in separate incidents Thursday in the Arabian Sea.

China Shipping Container Lines and United Arab Shipping Company entered a slot swap agreement for their services operating on Asia-Europe trade routes.

Retailers reported strong April sales that were boosted by pre-Easter sales but tempered by bad weather and signs that rising gasoline

Drewry Shipping Consultants and Cleartrade Exchange on Thursday unveiled a global index of freight rates they said can be used by physical and derivative market participants to manage freight risk.&nb

Pacific International Lines is expanding its China Transpacific service to connect Long Beach with ports in Australia and New Zealand.

The House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday took testimony the MODERN Security Credentials Act, which proposes that a card applicant only has to go a single background check, or “security

John Mica, R-Fla., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, expressed confidence on Thursday that Congress will complete a bill that authorizes the Federal Aviation Administr

Congressional staff on the House Transportation and Infrastructure is making progress drafting legislative language of what could become the panel’s six-year surface transportation bill, said Ch

Higher tonnage, shipments and pricing drove less-than-truckload carrier Saia further into the black in the first quarter, with a net income of $713,000.

Navigation continues as normal on portions of the flooded Mississippi River, although there will be a temporary closure of the river today, according to a Coast Guard spokesman.