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Toll Global Forwarding Americas relocated their corporate headquarters to Springfield Gardens, N.Y. and opened branch offices in Philadelphia and Atlanta.

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday morning announced the Obama administration's plan to continue construction of a national high-speed and intercity passenger

Freight tonnage at New York’s John F.

Global Ship Lease filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the sale of up to $500 million in shares of its stock.

The port of Hamburg increased container traffic almost 13 percent in 2010 from the previous year, driven by booming German exports, rising imports from Asia and strong growth on feeder services to the

Kintetsu World Express, Japan's second-largest international forwarder, said its net profit surged 103.4 percent in the nine months ending Dec. 31 from a year earlier to $79.6 million.

Container throughput at India’s Port of Mumbai surged 31 percent year-over-year in the April-January period, the port authority said Tuesday.

The greatest threat to U.S. trade from the ongoing turmoil in Egypt comes from the impact on operations at the Suez Canal, but U.S.

In the 10th consecutive week of climbing prices, retail diesel jumped 7.5 cents last week to an average of $3.513 per gallon across the country, according to the U.S.

President Obama on Monday carried forward themes of innovation, education and infrastructure construction to turn the U.S. from a consumer economy to one that’s based on selling goods to the world.

Los Angeles Port Police Monday announced the results of a sting operation that netted more than $10 million in counterfeit electronics goods, stolen merchandise and bank receipts.

Truck capacity at a group of six large truckload carriers appeared to stabilize at the end of 2010, after dropping a cumulative 17 percent since the end of 2006.

A significant turnaround in the liner segment coupled with tight cost controls helped state-owned Shipping Corporation of India boost net profit 40 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of fisca

A preliminary report shows heavy truck orders rose 320 percent year-over-year in January, as motor carriers traded in aging pre-recession truck equipment.

Hapag-Lloyd said Monday it will phase out of the business of providing chassis for merchant haulage at ports and at inland intermodal rail terminals on the East and Gulf Coasts and in the Midwest star

Maersk, APL and Hyundai Merchant Marine scored best in on-time reliability among container lines in the fourth quarter, according to a Drewry Maritime Research report that said carriers' overall sched

Dockwise signed a $240 million contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries to build the world's largest heavy-lift vessel.

The Indian Navy and Coast Guard foiled yet another pirate attack and captured a group of Somali pirates Sunday morning in the South Arabian Sea, according to the Navy's Western Command.

With three major truck safety initiatives under way, the Department of Transportation is pursuing an ambitious plan to reshape not only how it enforces compliance with its regulations but also how the

The Export-Import Bank of the United States is accelerating its efforts to get small businesses in the export game, but supporters in industry say the bank needs to make changes to extend its reach.

As Con-way Truckload shifts capacity to external customers, the Con-way Freight less-than-truckload business is finding more capacity in its fleet of 16,800 trailers.

Con-way Truckload is striking a new balance with its big less-than-truckload sister company, Con-way Freight, repositioning capacity to capture freight.

Hanjin Shipping’s planned terminal at the Port of Jacksonville is several years from being completed but it’s already busy with activity — just not the cargo handling the Florida por

If anyone thought President Obama would tuck his embattled intercity passenger rail program into a bureaucratic corner and see it dry up, the president has a far different message.

It’s been five years since the Florida Department of Transportation first ventured into private financing for public infrastructure, and it now has nearly $4 billion on the books.

For everyone from truckers to railroads to port operators who wondered when Washington might finally decide to craft new long-term surface transportation legislation, President Obama and the new Congr

Percy Pyne IV is a New York real estate magnate accustomed to thinking big.

The slow-steaming of vessels on long trade routes may have helped shipping lines slash fuel costs and absorb excess capacity, but time-sensitive shippers are hardly applauding the effort.

May 1 will mark a milestone for importers in the U.S.-Asia trade. Many of the 2011-2012 service contracts they sign with ocean carriers will no longer provide free chassis usage to shippers.

Let the legislative games begin: Even before federal rail regulators start what is likely to be a long, hard slog to tighten oversight of railroads, all sides are maneuvering to control the debate in

Jacques Saade’s return to the helm of French ocean carrier CMA CGM completes a Lazarus-like revival of a company tipped as the most likely casualty of the deepest recession in the history of con

Truckload carriers are rolling out of a strong fourth quarter ready to raise rates.

ProLogis and AMB Property will combine their business, but what they really need is for the logistics market itself to get bigger

President Obama’s plans to visit Brazil and Chile in March are bringing renewed media attention to the region, but South America has been seeing steadily increasing trade levels, especially with

Food importers will be looking more closely at their foreign suppliers — a new food safety measure signed into law early this year requires them to vouch for the safety of imported products and

Concerned about looming completion, the Florida Citrus Commission has commissioned a three-year, $174,941 study to determine if China’s growing citrus industry will cut into Florida’s shar

U.S. growers are in a good position to gain market share in China’s fast-growing fresh fruit market, but will need to continue marketing aggressively, according to a report from the U.S.

Active CC Boxes has opened a depot Frankfurt, Germany, to handle its Kodiak™ reusable shipping containers, cutting repositioning costs for shippers and the company.

Kuehne + Nagel is expanding its South American perishables network by acquiring three companies that together handle about 75,000 tons of air export perishables annually.

UPS is expanding its network of health care distribution by adding new facilities in Singapore; Venlo, Netherlands; Burlington, Canada; and Louisville, Ky.