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Shipping lines in eastbound Pacific lanes are recovering from their worst losses ever through a series of small, staggered rate increases, a new policy aimed at gradually returning the industry

The St. Lawrence Seaway last year saw its lowest volume in nearly 40 years, the seaway’s management company announced.

Railroads and shippers are in a growing dustup over coal dust that could change the way key rail cargo is handled.

For an inland waterways industry struggling under the weight of crumbling infrastructure, it’s no longer about just wanting to raise its public profile in Washington.

What’s the TEU capacity of the biggest container ships? It depends on who’s counting and which measuring stick is used.

The Department of Transportation ended 2009 with $7.955 billion in money already disbursed from last February’s stimulus program, up about $1.4 billion from the end of November.

If there’s a constant theme in freight transportation’s evolution in recent times, it’s that bigger is better.

U.S. rail and water transport jobs edged up slightly in December, but the larger trucking and air sectors continued to cut back.

Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for Western Washington charged a clerk for Maersk with stealing more than $250,000 from the company by means of a long-running wire fraud.

Seaspan on Jan. 8 took delivery of its latest containership. The MOL Empire from Hyundai Heavy Industries has a capacity of 5,100 20-foot equivalent units.

Although the surge in fourth-quarter imports offered some hope U.S.

North America’s railroads face challenges in 2010 notably different from those most freight-hauling industries must deal with: how to generate better results after what in many ways was a banner

This year promises to be the second-best year ever for agricultural exports, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Last year was a normal year for trucking. Of course, 2009 was not a normal year when measured against averages.

How do you budget for air cargo costs when pricing is on a wild roller coaster? Presented with serious backlogs at major Asian gateways, airlines spent much of October and November pushing up rates.

Despite a drop of more than 10 percent in sales for a foundation of the electronics industry, the Semiconductor Industry Association raised projections for the year ahead, based on better-than-expecte

Breakbulk shippers and carriers were spared the worst of the global recession last year, but they may be less fortunate in 2010.

Money from the 2009 economic stimulus will become highways, bridges, airports and mass transit systems in 2010, and that’s welcome news to members of the American Road & Transportation Builders Associ

To judge from the number of carriers and logistics providers that unveiled temperature-controlled products in 2009, the industry sector was a bastion of stability in a crumbling world.

The worst of the recession may be over for U.S. apparel importers and retailers, but the industry may have suffered some permanent damage. U.S.

Rail executives, transportation analysts, economists and commodity specialists are looking to the housing market for signs of the direction of lumber shipments, but the market has been sending mixed m

Never mind the market trends, there’s one reason shipping, rail and trucking executives may be looking at this year with optimism for freight volume and even some measure of profitability.

If any segment of the trucking industry were naturally resistant to recession, it would be food hauling and refrigerated transport.

If this were a movie, we’d call it “What Shippers Want.” As the first decade of the new millennium wound down, The Journal of Commerce hosted its 2nd Annual Shippers Roundtable to ta

When the worst recession in a generation spread throughout the global trade community, it became harder for shippers to ignore potential benefits of the latest Web-based electronic technologies for ma

The air freight industry faces an August deadline to meet U.S. government mandates to have 100 percent of the cargo on passenger aircraft screened.

If there’s any safe harbor from the container shipping’s financial hurricane, it’s marine terminals.

A big concern for the trade community this year can be summed up in three letters: A-C-E.

The global economic downturn is creating significant challenges for anyone managing the movement of goods, but experts say it also is creating new opportunities for third-party logistics providers.

With the holidays come and gone, international shippers and ocean carriers are asking whether the rate hikes carriers got last fall on their Asia-Europe and trans-Atlantic services will hold through t

Although the worst seems to be over in the construction equipment and steel sectors, levels of production and trade remain low, and no one expects the recovery to be rapid.

Barack Obama’s first year as president had little impact on the global trade community because his administration has zeroed in on several other issues as its top priorities: Health-care reform,

Rail freight shippers in the United States have plenty of reason to see 2010 as a time when government actions could fundamentally reshape their industry.

Trucking executives rolled into 2010 hoping business, if not much better, would not be any worse than in 2009. But they aren’t expecting much of a boost early in the year.

The future of coal is not what it used to be, and that simple fact can alter the business model for freight railroads.

The U.S. is exporting more wastepaper to Asia, and that’s a good sign for the global economy.

Truckload demand gained strength in early 2010, with little sign of a post-holiday downturn, according to Morgan Stanley.

The state of Illinois returned fire Jan. 5 in the escalating legal battle over closure of locks on the waterways linking Lake Michigan to the Mississippi-Illinois river system.

The Federal Maritime Commission’s newest member, Michael A. Khouri, was sworn in on Jan. 7, the commission announced.

Metro Ports recently announced three new personnel appointments: Patrick Furrow, senior VP HR & administrative services; Kenneth Keane, director, safety; and Steve Mathis, director, business devel