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Higher rates and better utilization of its equipment helped Covenant Transportation pull out of the red and post a profit for the fourth quarter and the year.

French ports were at a standstill for the fourth successive day Jan.

Japanese shipping group MOL reported higher container shipping profit but cut its earnings forecast for its fiscal year ending March 31, citing weakness in bulk and tanker markets.

Long-stalled legislation to fund operations of the Federal Aviation Administration got under way again in the 112th Congress.

Egyptian ports were closed or operating at sharply reduced capacity amid a seventh day of anti-government protests Monday, but the Suez Canal remained open for transits.

NYK Line’s net profit jumped more than tenfold in the Japanese shipping company’s October-December fiscal third quarter as improved container shipping results offset higher fuel costs and soft bulk ma

Caterpillar-owned locomotive builder Electro-Motive Diesel locked in orders to sell 44 freight power units to Ferrocarril Mexicano, and five more to Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway.

Finland-based Cargotec said it will acquire Navis from Zebra Technologies for about $190 million.

Japan's All Nippon Airways swung to a net profit of $457.3 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2010, compared with a net loss of $428.1 million a year earlier.

A Cyprus-registered container vessel collided with an Indian naval warship off the Mumbai harbor Sunday. No injuries or oil spill were reported.

Freighter operator Southern Air named Robert L.

Distribution center giants ProLogis and AMB Property announced an agreement Monday to merge their businesses, bringing 600 million square feet of warehouse space in 22 countries under one corporate ro

Florida is something of a bystander when it comes to handling container trade with Asia, but the state’s business community wants that to change.

Barely two weeks into his first term, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder threw his support behind a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, giving new hope to supporters.

The Christmas list keeps getting longer.

When Union Pacific executives consider how to build on big 2010 gains, they increasingly talk about the “value proposition” North America’s biggest freight railroad offers shippers.

There’s one area where FedEx Freight will stick to the LTL playbook: pricing.

U.S. infrastructure in rough shape, you say? Bridges collapsing and highways congested? Financing and investment lacking? We’re not alone.

When it comes to transportation policy issues in Washington, freight shippers want it all.

Truckers trying to keep a tight grip on capacity are rethinking how they use it.

It’s not quite 2008 again, but heads up: After two years of relative stability, transportation fuel prices are creeping back up, raising costs across the supply chain and concerns that the heavi

The fragile state of the retail supply chain became clear to Wayne Spain in December as he went from store to store searching for a particular gift.

What’s most likely to keep trucking executives awake in the early hours of the morning this year? If you said higher fuel prices, stingy lenders or rising equipment costs, forget it.

There’s been no shortage of argument and legal battling over the clean-trucks programs at Southern California’s ports, but there’s no dispute that the program has worked remarkably w

Bill Logue will launch a new trucking company Jan. 31 — FedEx Freight. It will look much the same as the old FedEx Freight. Its rates won’t change.

The Indian Navy and Coast Guard destroyed a pirate mother ship, the Prantalay, that had been used to attack a CMA CGM vessel in the South Arabian Sea and arrested 15 pira

Friends of the Earth in California cautions that the condition of the ocean environment should be a factor in developing a marine highway system.

Orders for new container ships are returning to normal levels this year as orders decline 21 percent over the last year, according to a new report by BIMCO, an independent shipping association based i

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica and several other key members of that panel from both political parties are warning the Surface Transportation Board against taking

Truckload operator USA Truck lost $1.8 million in the fourth quarter, despite a decline in empty miles and substantial increase in trucking revenue.

Cargo volume at London Heathrow Airport tumbled 9.4 percent in December as a series of winter storms and tougher year-over-year comparisons halted the airport’s year of strong gains in freight handlin

The Indian Coast Guard foiled an attempted pirate attack Friday by two skiffs that were closing in on a CMA CGM container ship in the Arabian Sea about 300 miles off the coast of southern India.

Canadian shipping costs dropped for the second straight month in November, as freight demand cooled in the fall, according to the Canadian General Freight Index.

The Suez Canal remained open Friday as riots against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak spread across Egypt, raising concerns the protests could disrupt oil transport and other shipping.

Stronger intermodal and trucking demand gave J.B. Hunt Transport Services a fourth quarter boost, with net profit increasing 39 percent to $57.9 million.

Chairmen of the Federal Maritime Commission on Feb. 2 will take part in a roundtable to discuss the agency's past, present and future.

Because of the heavy winter storms that hit the U.S. Northeast region this week, including the area surrounding our printing plant, delivery of the Jan.

Maersk Line refuted a report Friday that it stopped handling cocoa exports from Ivory Coast and is not taking new orders for imports in to the country.

Amazon.com will add an unspecified number of distribution centers this year as the online retailing giant tries to keep up with growing demand for its expanding lineup of products.

Ocean World Lines, an NVOCC subsidiary of freight transportation and logistics provider Pacer International, opened an office in Szczecin, Poland.