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Three new senators will take office during the lame-duck session of Congress, giving them an early chance to stake out positions and reshape Senate vote calculations even before most new GOP lawmakers

Global container lines are seeing “green” in their efforts to conduct business in a more environmentally friendly way.

A two-month-long decline in spot freight rates on major east-west containerized trade lanes extended into this month amid softening demand.

It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas in the intermodal business.

When suspected al Qaeda terrorists attempted to use the global air cargo network to deliver explosive devices from Yemen last month, the Middle East’s reputation as the world’s terror capi

Less-than-truckload carriers are turning away unprofitable freight and refining networks to lower costs and gain efficiency, but shippers have largely held off the kind of price hikes those carriers s

American Feeder Lines Holding appointed Rudy Mack, former president of Hapag-Lloyd’s Americas region, as chief operating officer, giving the U.S.

A Maersk container ship was waiting in the French Port of Le Havre Friday to have its cargo secured after it lost 26 containers overboard on Tuesday in a powerful storm in the Bay of Biscay.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the demise of a U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement are grossly exaggerated, said Frank Vargo, vice president for international economic affairs for the National

The Canada Border Services Agency on Thursday announced a final rule requiring transmission in advance of data for freight remaining on board cargo loaded at a U.S. port.

U.S. consumer sentiment rose more than expected as the holiday retail season got under way in early November, buoying freight transportation prospects, a widely watched index showed.

A.P. Moller-Maersk may sell bonds after discussions with investors to diversify its financing sources and to raise funds for new investments.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will raise rates for container transport from Asia to the U.S. on Dec.

The U.S. Postal Service lost $8.5 billion in its fiscal year ended Sept.

Rickmers Maritime lost $55 million in the third quarter as charges for canceled ship orders ate up operating profit.

TRAC Intermodal on Dec. 1 will open its West Coast Metro Pool in Oakland and Los Angeles, leasing chassis to harbor trucking companies and ocean carriers on a short and medium-term basis.

There is only a "slim" chance the appellate court handling the Port of Los Angeles clean-truck case will agree with U.S.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will impose bunker surcharges on containers moving between North Europe and the Mediterranean and Venezuela, Central America and the west coast of South America as of Dec.

DHL announced a major expansion of its Asia-Pacific service logistics business in May, including a doubling of its footprint in India and China, expansions in Singapore and Japan, and a $70 million in

The cold chain may be the weakest link in distribution in China, and specialty U.S. trucker C.R. England sees that as an opportunity.

The Asia-Pacific region is filled with logistics challenges, including infrastructure, regulatory framework, licensing issues and disparate customs rules.

In a sign of growing strength in rail freight demand, North American railcar leasing firms and other car owners pulled 12,799 more railcars out of storage in October, said the Association of American

The Port of Seattle Commission authorized an additional expenditure of $110,000 in incentive money to encourage shipping and cruise lines to burn low-sulfur fuels in their auxiliary engines while at b

President Obama's deficit cutting panel delivered plans for transportation policy that include a gradual 15-cent increase in federal fuel taxes to shore up the Highway Trust Fund and a proposal that t

A shipper organization wants the Obama administration to release rewritten hours-of-service rules for truck drivers, kept under wraps since July.

Ulrich Ogiermann, facing charges that he took part in a global air cargo price-fixing conspiracy, stepped down Thursday as president and chief executive of freight airline Cargolux and was replaced by

Wilh. Wilhelmsen boosted third quarter earnings 55 percent from a year ago, driven mainly by a strong rebound in ocean car shipments among Asia, Europe and North America.

The economy may be slowing, but truck demand is picking up, and will double by 2013, according to ACT Research.

A resurgence of iron ore and coal shipments combined with a healthy increase in grain exports to drive an upward trend on the St. Lawrence Seaway as the current shipping season comes to an end.

Container throughput at major ports in India for the April-October period surged 12 percent over the same period last year, the Indian Ports Association said Thursday.

Global Ship Lease, the NYSE-listed container ship charter owner, reported a narrower third quarter loss as it revealed it won't be taking delivery of two new vessels because it can't finance the $155

The Australian state of Queensland agreed to sell a 99-year lease on the Port of Brisbane to a group including Global Infrastructure Partners and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority for $2.1 billion in

Lufthansa carried 18.3 percent more cargo in October than a year ago.

CEVA Logistics said its core profit jumped 26 percent in the third quarter over the same period a year ago to $117.9 million as revenue soared 32 percent and business grew sharply from the second quar

The American Trucking Associations recruited a top Republican Senate staffer to lead its advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill, including its campaign to secure reauthorization of the surface transportatio

New York-New Jersey marine terminal executives testified they're doing what they can to chip away at inefficient labor practices such as paying union timekeepers up to 27 hours a day, but they said th

California's ocean and air cargo exports increased by double digits in September compared to the same month last year, marking the 11th consecutive year-over-year monthly increase in the state's expor

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told the governors-elect of Wisconsin and Ohio they cannot redirect federal passenger rail grants to other uses once they take office, so the Department of Transpor

Railcar and barge builder Greenbrier Companies earned a $7.7 million net profit in its fiscal fourth quarter that ended Aug.

The bomb discovered on a UPS plane at a UK airport last month was timed to detonate over the easter