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Robert Sanchez will succeed Anthony G. Tegnelia, who is retiring as president of Ryder Global Fleet Management Solutions after 33 years with Ryder System.

Con-way Freight, which has struggled to regain its financial footing in the less-than-truckload market, announced the departure Tuesday of John G. Labrie as president.

E-commerce provider Inttra said its ocean shipping transactions surged 33.8 percent in the last 12 months and now total more than 350,000 container transactions a week.

Retail diesel prices fell for the second week in a row, dropping an average of 2.2 cents to $2.957 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Direct ChassisLink, which Maersk set up last year as neutral provider of chassis to truckers, said it will extend service to California and other southwestern U.S.

The Department of Transportation is starting to push out the first of nearly $17.6 million in a multi-layered stimulus grant for upgrades of some Appalachian freight short line railroads, by nailing d

Federal and state officials broke ground last week on a federally funded project to repair a crumbling cargo pier at Honolulu, six months after it won a $24.5 million grant from the Department of Tran

Freight broker Greatwide Logistics Services named Tyler Ellison, a veteran of two of the country’s largest trucking operators, to the new post of group president for transportation management and corp

A manufacturing group lowered its economic forecast through next year on Monday, saying the U.S. economy has downshifted to a "slow-growth mode" as consumers spend less and save more.

Singapore Changi Airport handled 158,000 metric tons of cargo in July.

Five marine terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey will raise some handling fees by 2 percent and impose new charges for early delivery of export containers and for improperly documented haz

China Shipping Container Lines, Hanjin Shipping, CMA CGM and Hyundai Merchant Marine will launch a direct joint service from Asia to Mexico and the West Coast of South America, starting on Sept.13.

An index of Canadian trucking activity fell 19 percent in July from the month before, freight services provider TransCore said Monday, but the decline was in line with seasonal shipping patterns.

Rail industry products supplier Wabtec completed its planned acquisition of electronic instrument maker Bach-Simpson from Global Railway Industries for about $13 million.

Nippon Express, Japan's largest freight forwarder, last week opened a representative office in Bangladesh, expanding its global logistics network with a foothold in the growing Southeast Asian export

Container ship charter rates are still climbing through the summer as ocean carriers compete for increasingly scarce tonnage to keep pace with surging cargo volume on key routes from Asia to North Ame

The Department of Transportation this month announced eight marine highway projects expected to be the pioneers along DOT-designated marine highway corridors:

A new era in trucking financial discipline need not mean dark ages for shippers.

If a trucking renaissance ever arrives, it would look a lot like Old Dominion Freight Line and Knight Transportation.

After enduring one of the worst stretches in decades that culminated in last year’s economic and trade recession, the freight transportation industry is finally in recovery.

Harbor truckers on the West Coast like to call at Matson Navigation terminals. The gates and container yards are always fully staffed, and gate operations are efficient.

Railroads and shipper activists are trying to make sure their issues are on the table when lawmakers return to Capitol Hill after their August break, especially because the legislators have a lot on t

In two years, the first of 10 small container ships are to begin shuttling international containers between major East Coast ports and smaller ports ranging from Maine to Texas.

After years as the stepchild of the Automated Commercial Environment, the International Trade Data System is showing life of its own -- and none to soon.

As the United States turns its attention to the need to expand ports and inland road and rail connectors to meet trade growth, the country’s planners can only contemplate the path to port expans

David Congdon has a message other trucking executives might not want shippers to hear: Truckers don’t necessarily have to raise rates to build profit.

You know the transportation market has reached an “inflection” point when a shipper picks up a trucker’s bar and restaurant tab.

The trans-Pacific shipping recovery so far has sailed past the Port of Tacoma, but the Pacific Northwest port’s new executive director insists Tacoma will be ready to draw in new business.

Just when North American intermodal cargo handlers were getting used to the idea that domestic rail-truck combination moves might catch up to ship-to-train international business, this year’s se

Ingram Barge, already the largest operator on the inland waterways system, this week announced t

ALG Worldwide Logistics realigned the senior management team at its freight forwarding division, with a new president and two vice presidents.

One year after he became chairman of the Surface Transportation Board that regulates economic issues between railroads and shippers, Daniel R.

CEVA Logistics is launching an expedited surface freight service between the U.S. Gulf Coast and Alberta, Canada, aimed at the energy sector, the company said Friday.

Federal and state officials pulled more than 100 truck drivers off the road for drug and alcohol violations in a two-week investigative sweep.

The recession isn't over for many small trucking companies. While larger competitors report record volumes and stronger bottom lines, many smaller carriers are still struggling to stay in business.

When container shipping companies expand services, it’s important to note from where they’re starting as much as where they’re going.

Germany's HSH Nordbank, the world's largest shipping bank, reported its first quarterly operating profit for almost two years and reaffirmed its goal of booking an annual profit in 2011.

At a time when freight traffic was slowing and worries spreading about a slowdown in the U.S.

Panalpina inaugurated a dedicated oil and gas logistics hub in Singapore designed to boost the Swiss supply chain management firm's presence in the fast growing Asian market.

The Department of Transportation's payouts of stimulus checks to states for work on roads, bridges and other projects reached $17.134 billion as of Aug.