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Lufthansa Cargo boosted freight volume 17.8 percent in March from a year ago as sharply higher German exports and strong growth in the Americas extended the recovery at Europe’s largest cargo ai

Horizon Lines says most of its customers are sticking with the financially ailing container line despite an accountant's note that cited doubt about the company's status as a going concern.

The select group of trucking companies with more than a billion dollars in annual revenue expanded last year, as three carriers shot past the revenue threshold.

Railcar owners across the U.S., Canada and Mexico took 22,667 cars of various types out of storage during March, shrinking the idled fleet to 18.7 percent of the total as freight traffic continues to

The Department of Transportation is still sending checks to states under the 2009 stimulus package, with reimbursements for completed work reaching $27.1 billion through March 31.

CN acquired more than 1,000 new containers, which the railroad expects to use to serve manufacturers and distributors of grocery and consumer goods in domestic markets across Canada.

Diesel prices soared 10.2 cents last week to a national average of $4.078 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Containerized imports at U.S. ports in April are projected to increase 9 percent over April 2010, which would mark the 15th consecutive month of year-over-year improvement in the U.S.

Combined revenue for the 50 largest U.S.

Ship Finance International placed a $230 million order for four vessels with a capacity of 4,800 20-foot equivalent units each, the shipowner announced April 11.

The Department of Transportation got a flurry of rail grants locked in just under the wire last week, obligating over $300 million to projects so states could start spending them even if the federal g

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration released plans Friday for a new pilot trucking project with Mexico "to test and demonstrate" the ability of Mexican truckers to operate safely within th

Washington state and federal officials reached agreement to formally obligate another $145 million to that state's passenger rail program.

Qatar Airways will add three 777 freighters to its fleet, the carrier announced Monday, speeding up the expansion of all-cargo capacity in the fast-growing Middle East market.

Moody’s upgraded the credit rating of DP World a notch to investment grade.

The CKYH alliance among Cosco, "K" Line, Yang Ming and Hanjin Shipping is restructuring and upgrading its all-water services from Asia to the U.S. East Coast later this month.

International Airlines Group, formed by the merger of British Airways and Iberia, announced it will run the carriers' cargo operations as a single business unit.

Two years after container ship lines began moving away from their 55-year-old practice of supplying U.S.

France launched the final tender for a company to build and operate a canal that will link Paris to Europe's inland waterway system and its largest port, Rotterdam.

Japan is set to start radiation checks on ships and containers leaving three main international ports in and near Tokyo for foreign ports by the end of this month.

Toyota said its North American vehicle plants will operate on a reduced schedule during the next several weeks to conserve components whose supply chains were disrupted by the March 11 Japan earthquak

Virginia is dangling its 50-foot-deep harbor as a fisherman dangles a lure.

In the world of container shipping contracts, 18 months can seem like an eternity.

Using inland and coastal waterways to haul more cargo-laden containers and trailers would add “abundant and cost-effective new freight capacity,” while cutting highway maintenance costs, T

Department of Transportation officials will quickly sort through a pile of applications as they prepare to redistribute $2.43 billion in grants, most of which came from money Florida turned down for a

From the manufacturing floor, the trucking business has rarely looked better.

Intermodal marketing giant Hub Group demonstrated its faith in the economic recovery last week with the $83 million acquisition of Exel Transportation Services.

After three volatile years, operators serving the transportation supply chain in the trans-Pacific are gearing up for a solid, though unspectacular peak shipping season, with the main efforts aimed at

On the theory that the whole is greater than the sum of two parts, NYK Group is creating a global logistics giant by tapping the synergies between two of its subsidiaries and combining them under a si

The global economy is still on a growth trajectory despite a pair of surprise blows that could nick trade volumes in the months ahead.

Maersk Line, Ltd., the U.S.-flag subsidiary of Maersk Line, won a contract for the operation and maintenance of two ships in the U.S.

The International Longshoremen's Association called off a threatened strike at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Japanese automakers plan to resume production at domestic auto plants this month but said they’re still struggling with shortages of parts and unreliable electrical supplies that will hamper output.

Much of the freight transportation system will operate normally in the increasingly likely event of a federal government shutdown, as essential services from air traffic control to barge locks keep wo

President Obama will send the Senate three more nominees for trade jobs in his administration, two for the Export-Import Bank and one for the International Trade Commission.

TNT, the Dutch mail and express company, said it will proceed with plans to spin off its express division in May despite a

Just where do NVOCCs fit?

In the 13 years since Congress passed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act, NVOs finally have achieved relative parity with vessel operators in the marketplace monitored by the FMC.

The Federal Maritime Commission’s new rules on non-vessel-operating common carrier Negotiated Rate Arrangements, which will become effective on April 18, establish a new pricing option for licen

Worldwide spending on semiconductor capital equipment soared 143 percent in 2010, according to a research report that pointed to a strong turnaround in production for a key market for expedited shippi