Supply chain

CEVA Logistics boosted second quarter revenue 30 percent year-over-year to $2.244 billion on the basis of strong freight volume, particularly in the Americas and Asia Pacific, the global supply chain

Freight shipments as measured in ton-miles rose 0.2 percent in June from May, in the latest step of a gradual increase

The Department of Transportation unveiled eight marine highway project corridors around the country that it will help through $7 million in current grant funding plus future aid, and listed six major

The U.S. trade deficit widened in June to its highest level since October 2008 as exports slipped 1.3 percent while imports hit a record high, the Commerce Department said.

Former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, died Tuesday in a plane crash at Dillingham, Alaska, a fishing village on Bristol Bay in western Alaska. He was 86.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday 85 percent of the country will be connected by a high-speed rail network within 25 years.

China's export volume in July rose 38.1 percent from a year earlier, down from June’s 43.9 percent rate.

A Pakistani clothing manufacturer is accusing two U.S. freight forwarders of defrauding it out of some $207,000 in payments due.

U.S. poultry producers have the green light to export poultry to Russia.

The barge industry and inland waterways users voiced unanimous support for a 20-year capital spending plan for the Army Corps of Engineers to carry out much-needed construction and rehabilitation on t

A Chinese warehouse company and a U.S. company specializing in refrigerated cold storage are teaming up to provide a new cold storage option in China.

Kuehne + Nagel launched temperature-controlled less-than-containerload services in Japan, tailored to specific requirements of the wine and spirits industry.

One of the first questions raised after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion was whether shrimp and other seafood from the Gulf of Mexico was safe to eat.

Five years after Congress told the Food and Drug Administration it is the agency in charge of regulating the safety of food during transportation, the agency is seeking information on how shipments ar

California’s flower growers have taken a cue from their produce counterparts and will begin to consolidate shipping to save freight costs and better compete with South America’s floral pro

There is no shortage of ideas for meeting President Obama’s goal of doubling exports in five years and creating 2 million new jobs.

GAO RFID unveiled a new radio frequency identification tag it says can give shippers instant temperature information on cargo.

When the Denver Regional Council of Governments wanted to reduce travel time and vehicle emissions, it came up with an environmentally friendly Traffic Signal System Improvement Program.

Around 90 percent of customers using powered refrigeration to ship temperature-sensitive air freight are moving high-value pharmaceutical or health care products, according to Envirotainer CEO Thomas

Despite ongoing rumors that California’s transportation refrigeration unit regulations are on hold, a state agency already has issued $800,000 in fines.

Rate increases for reefer trucking companies are not a foregone conclusion, according to a new survey by Transport Capital Partners.

Leaders of several U.S. agricultural groups are calling for China to increase its imports of U.S. food products. Economists say it’s not only possible, but also inevitable.

Norway’s Green Reefers this month joined the recently established Hamburg Reefer Pool, adding its fleet of 27 specialized reefer ships with capacities ranging from 263,000 cubic feet to 310,000

Trucker C.R. England is taking its cold chain expertise to China, where the refrigerated transport specialist plans to buy a trucking company and set up a domestic distribution network.

More than a year-and-a-half after paying $365 million for IBM’s global logistics operation, Paris-based Geodis says it’s ready to use the acquisition as a launch pad for expansion.

White is the new green for companies in the cold chain that want to improve their environmental rating.

Freight shipment activity has signaled for weeks that the slowdown in the economic recovery was not tipping into a feared “double-dip” recession, and now a slew of official reports backs u

U.S. poultry producers have the green light to export poultry to Russia.

The Port of New Orleans is taking another step toward recovering from the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina by agreeing to build a dockside refrigerated terminal.

A weak jobs report Friday from the U.S. Labor Department added to concerns about a slowing economic recovery and lower transportation volume.

A Senate bill filed Thursday would give the Commerce Department and Customs and Border Protection more authority to investigate importers thought to evade antidumping and countervailing duty orders.

The Senate gutted a House bill for Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization, and used the bill number, H.R.

The Obama administration is guaranteeing a $250 million working capital loan to Ford Motor Company to finance the sale of $3.1 billion in cars and light trucks to buyers in Canada and Mexico.

Mandating the use of stability control systems on heavy trucks could help avoid almost 3,500 rollover accidents and save more than 100 lives a year, industry and federal officials told the National Tr

Three House members are giving the Department of Homeland Security an Aug. 17 deadline for a detailed, port-by-port list of the barriers to implementing a 100 percent scanning regime.

New orders for manufactured goods fell in June for the second straight month, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a report that indicated slowing economic growth.

A Department of Transportation discretionary grant pool for 2010 awards drew thousands of pre-applications seeking tens of billions of dollars to aid infrastructure projects, from a “TIGER II&rd

Agility launched operations in Cambodia, opening an office in the capital Phnom Penh.

The Cass Freight Index for industrial shipping fell back 8.6 percent in July, the first decline in six months and a signal that weakness in the broader U.S.

Legislation calling for a national freight transportation policy would short-change the nation’s highways, the American Trucking Associations said.