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APL’s average revenue per container declined 2.8 percent in October from the month before, reaching its lowest point since June, as demand leveled off at the end of the peak ocean container shipping s

Shippers aren’t counting on the new, larger vessels coming into container ship fleets to change the balance of capacity and demand anytime soon.

The battle between the Teamsters union and the American Trucking Associations will drag out into next year, but the rules of engagement could change significantly.

Container ship lines enter the slack winter season hoping to stick with the formula that’s begun to reverse last year’s $15 billion in losses.

The Obama administration isn’t letting a little politics-altering event like midterm elections get in the way of its passenger rail program.

The labor concessions approved by 62 percent of YRC Teamsters employees eliminate fears of an imminent shutdown at the nation’s largest trucking operator, both at its nationwide less-than-truckl

With the election over and Republicans set to take control of the House of Representatives with a big majority in January, policy experts expect Congress to do very little for months to sort out trans

It’s a cautious time for railroads. The economy, senior executives say, is too weak to plan for much growth in the year ahead.

The gap between new and used truck prices is widening, and that may further restrict truck capacity in coming years as carriers replace aging equipment.

Which carriers won last year’s less-than-truckload price war? Based on the financial results across the industry, it was those who refused to fight.

A pound of pentaerythritol tetranitrate — PETN — isn’t enough to bring down a target the size of the World Trade Center, but it’s plenty to blow a plane out of the sky.

In the battle to win discretionary cargo destined for the Midwest, the competition among East and West Coast ports can be cutthroat.

Winning a third round of concessions from its Teamsters employees gave YRC Worldwide its best shot yet at survival, extending until 2015 wage and benefit cuts it won last year and sharply reducing its

When Gill Hicks was general manager of the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority in the 1990s, the key to securing approval and funding for what was then the nation’s costliest freight infra

Zim Integrated Shipping Services will sell its minority stake in the Tin Can Island Container Terminal at the Port of Lagos to a new joint venture between China Merchants Holdings and the China-Africa

BNSF Railway promoted Greg Fox to executive vice president for operations, reporting to Carl Ice, whose promotion to the newly created pos

Zim American Integrated Shipping Services said it will upgrade its weekly fixed-day SAX service this month from the U.S. Gulf to the East Coast of South America.

Container volume at six major North European ports will increase 10.8 percent this year over 2009 despite a decline in the fourth quarter, according to the new Global Port Tracker: North Europe Trade

This year's unexpectedly strong peak season for intermodal traffic suggests that shippers are getting ready for lots of packages under the Christmas tree, according to the Intermodal Association of No

Containerized imports are slowing at the 10 major U.S.

What is shaping up to be the nation's first of the targeted shared-use rail corridors for higher-speed passenger and freight operations is moving into a new phase in Illinois.

President Obama tied U.S.

The JOC Week in Review for November 5 gives you the highlights of top news stories from this week, and also a preview of the Nov. 8 edition of the Journal of Commerce.

In 2011, capacity will be king.

The total volume of loaded containers moving through the Port of New York and New Jersey dropped 7.9 percent in September from August, making it the second month in a row of volume declines.

The European Union Nov. 5 gave its security experts a month to draw up tighter air cargo security measures in the wake of two foiled bomb plots on U.S.-bound flights.

The long reorganization of long-haul less-than-truckload carrier YRC is still a work in progress, as the company looks to consolidate by shedding 50 terminals.

Employment rose moderately within key U.S.

A trucking company charged with falsifying driver work records must install electronic onboard recorders in 700 trucks or pay almost $82,000 in civil fines.

United Parcel Service and the Independent Pilots Association, the collective bargaining unit for its 2,800 pilots, Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding that establishes joint UPS/IPA Safety a

“K” Line said it will start offering more container slots between Honolulu and Asia next month on an existing service between Asia and the West Coast of South America.

YRC Worldwide reported a $62 million third-quarter net loss as revenue dropped 5.7 percent from a year ago at the nation's largest less-than-truckload operator.

The UK introduced tougher security checks on air cargo shipments from the Middle East, south Asia and North Africa following last week's

Union Pacific Railroad expects growing volume, higher rates and new pricing on expiring contracts with shippers to push annual revenue up 6 to 8 percent per year over the next five years, Chief Financ

Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray recently joined U.S.

Qantas Airways and Singapore Airlines are grounding their superjumbo A380 aircraft after part of an engine on a Qantas flight appeared to tear apart in flight.

Intermodal traffic rose 20.3 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, driven by a 28.1 percent rise in import-powered international loadings, according to the Intermodal Association of North

Truck maker Navistar shipped about 17,000 vehicles to U.S. and Canadian customers in the quarter that ended Oct.

Panalpina will pay $81.9 million in fines and penalties to settle charges in the United States that it violated bribery laws, capping a case that led to management changes at one of the world's larges

Ocean carrier Matson’s operating profit surged 67 percent in the third quarter on 14 percent growth in revenue as the China trade boomed, supporting a 20 percent increase in parent company Alexander &