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The Jawaharlal Nehru Port at Mumbai, India’s busiest container port, closed Monday morning following a collision between two vessels on Saturday that left hundreds of containers floating in the

BNSF Railway posted a $603 million net income for the second quarter, up 49.3 percent from a year earlier as revenue rose 23.5 percent to $4.094 billion.

Mediterranean Shipping Company and the Shipping Corporation of India formed a vessel sharing agreement to launch a direct container service linking the Indian subcontinent and the Mediterranean, start

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 rebound in container volume and rates has NYK Line, MOL and “K” Line profitable again and more optimistic about the months ahead.

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.

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.

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.

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

Surging freight volume and tightening truck capacity in the second quarter put freight brokers and third-party logistics providers in a vise, as the cost of purchased transportation shot up faster tha

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.

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

North Baltimore, Ohio — Scheduled for opening in early 2011, CSX says this 185-acre site south of Toledo will also become the “nerve center” of its entire intermodal network.

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

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

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

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.

One of the most significant changes in the 54-year history of maritime containerization is unfolding rapidly at U.S.

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

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

The country’s largest less-than-truckload carrier is nowhere near as large as it used to be, but YRC Worldwide is far closer to profitability.

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

Add chassis to the list of transport equipment in short supply this year as the early recovery in demand caught carriers and leasing companies with their chassis down.

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

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.

As rail executives peer through the fog of uncertainty around the economic outlook for the rest of the year, many find their intermodal business lighting the path ahead.

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

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.

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

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

The Panama Canal Authority said it received three bids on Aug.

An Environmental Protection Agency grant of nearly $1.1 million will go to add battery-powered air conditioning units to at least 101 long-haul trucks, targeting those operated by KLLM Transport Servi

A push-pull this week over future rail legislation had state farm commissioners urging Congress to enact a law to force more shipper-oriented competition onto U.S.

Senators Thursday introduced a bill that would let states decide whether to allow tractor-trailers as heavy as 97,000 pounds on Interstate highways.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority and the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League said Friday they concluded several months of mediation and reached a settlement, ending a years-long battle

An increase in the cost of shipping shoes has Sen. Herb Kohl kicking about the classification system used to help price less-than-truckload freight.

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

Evergreen Line, OOCL and Dubai-based Simatech Shipping will launch joint liner service beginning Aug. 20 connecting Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Middle East.

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.