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BLG, the Bremen/Bremerhaven port company, said container traffic will close the year around 20 percent below the 2008 figure, and auto shipments will slump by 40 percent.

Trucking bankruptcies are beginning to climb again, putting upward pressure on rates just as shippers prepare contracts for bidding in the first quarter of 2010.

U.S. and Canadian activist investors acquired more than five percent of TNT, reigniting speculation of a break-up or takeover of Europe's second largest parcel delivery and mail group.

Schneider National is expanding its regional truckload service into the Northeast, propelled by customer demand in a fourth quarter that is proving stronger than forecast.

Industrial parts manufacturing giant W.W.

A.P. Moller-Maersk signed a new five-year contract with IBM for the provision of IT hosting and support services.

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru plans to set up a port-based export processing zone, a first-of-its-kind project in the country, the port trust said Tuesday.

Air France-KLM, Europe's biggest air cargo carrier, said volume shrunk 14.7 percent in November from a year ago but yields and capacity utilization improve for the second month in a row.

First Ship Lease Trust pulled a planned $200 million note offering Dec. 7, citing the fallout from Dubai World's financial problems.

President Obama will promote David T. Matsuda to head the Maritime Administration from administrator, where he has filled the top position on an acting basis since July.

FedEx scaled up its earnings projections sharply on Monday, saying it is seeing a steady increase in international express shipping demand and new strength in its domestic ground parcel service.

A decline of 3.3 cents in the average retail price of diesel over a five-week period sputtered a little lower in the week ending Dec. 7.

UPS Freight is ramping up operations in Canada, hiring a former YRC Reimer executive to lead its sales efforts.

The $26 billion buyout of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment firm cleared a key antitrust review process.

A Dec. 7 hearing by the National Mediation Board could help clear the way for that agency to make union election rules at railroads and airlines more labor friendly.

TNT said it will focus on its express parcel and freight operations over the next five years to offset shrinking mail volume.

DHL launched direct less-than-container-load services connecting India’s largest container port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) to Dubai.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank is backing a sale of seven locomotives by Electro-Motive Diesel to Iron Ore Company of Canada, with a $10 million loan guarantee for commercial bank financing.

Agents of Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized $260.7 million in bogus goods in fiscal 2009, the agencies announced Friday.

President Obama nominated Senate staff counsel David L. Strickland to be administrator at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation.

Bahrain officially inaugurated its new Khalifa Bin Salman Port on Sunday in ceremonies attended by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

The Department of Transportation has paid out $6.515 billion in reimbursements to states for project spending under the stimulus law for roads, bridges, airports and transit needs.

Cargo moving through Frankfurt-Hahn Airport surged in November to an all-time record for the 15-year-old facility 120 kilometers to the west of Frankfurt International.

While other truckload carriers are still laying up capacity to adjust to lower demand during the recession, Con-way Truckload will shift capacity to double the number of trucks dedicated to short-haul

Canada last week achieved a critical milestone toward building the $3 billion Detroit River International Crossing.

Commercial real estate provider ProLogis may not have signed many blockbuster deals for distribution centers in Europe for the fourth quarter, but the company says an array of new agreements add up to

The best news for the industrial real estate industry at the end of a tough year was that the dismal third quarter wasn’t as bad as the grim first and second quarters.

While the economy’s collapse cut intermodal volumes and some rail lines focused on long-term corridor construction, Union Pacific Railroad went tunneling in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Bankruptcy may be the end of the road for many trucking companies, but it’s becoming a route out of the recession for a few.

Deepening financial troubles may be triggering deep changes at CMA CGM and Zim Integrated Shipping Services.

For years, China’s critics have hoped the country would slow down its export juggernaut, let its currency appreciate and stimulate domestic consumption so China’s imports would incre

When Teamsters locomotive engineers launched a strike against Canadian National Railway on Nov.

A single KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight took off and landed in Amsterdam after only an hour in the air last month, but some hope it carried the airline industry into a new environmental world.

Someday the “sovereign” states of shipping and aviation will join nations of the world in adopting an overall scheme to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Any news of a carrier’s higher volume has a man-bites-dog quality these days.

Geoffrey Giovanetti keeps close tabs on the tippling tastes of American oenophiles. And as managing director of the Wine and Spirit Shippers Association, his business has been good this year.

International maritime shippers don’t miss the congestion that accompanied the surge in import volume earlier this decade, but they’re struggling to adjust supply chains to changes and cut

Is the worst over? It’s starting to look that way for container shipping volume, if not for carriers.

Dubai Debts Threaten Planned UK Terminal

A.P. Moller-Maersk raised approximately $704 million in two separate bond issues, just weeks after it first tapped the corporate bond market.