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Exports out of the Port of New York and New Jersey fell more than 20 percent for the fifth straight month in April, pushing overall container traffic at the East Coast’s largest port down 17.8 p

A.P. Moller-Maersk is considering an additional 175 layoffs at its iconic Danish shipyard because of a lack of orders.

Diesel prices rose for the sixth straight week, ending with an average jump of 7.4 cents to $2.572 per gallon nationwide on June 15, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Loaded container traffic at the Port of Long Beach fell 22.6 percent in May, but the port showed signs of improvement in its busiest month so far in 2009.

Freight traffic for European airlines fell in April at its sharpest rate yet, a 22.9 percent drop that signaled the downturn for air carriers is getting deeper.

The $521 million expansion at the Cape Town container terminal is progressing well, with the first of four berths to be deepened expected to come on stream in July, Transnet Port Terminals reported on

Manufacturers across the state of New York are still struggling but the outlook for the next six months is improving, according to a closely watched monthly survey.

The next time a brilliant idea about how to reduce traffic congestion flashes across your mind, write it down. It could win you $50,000.

Con-way Freight will soon begin offering “truckload-style” pricing for large less-than-truckload shipments by capping rates in an effort to funnel more business into its higher-cost LTL fr

Seaboard Marine said it will launch a weekly fixed day sailing from Brooklyn, N.Y. to and from Colombia. Calls in Colombia include the ports at Cartagena, Barranquilla and Santa Marta.

The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority and the Panama Canal Authority signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday that is aimed at increasing all-water container traffic from Asia to Philadelphia

European Union foreign ministers agreed June 15 to extend an anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia until the end of 2010.

Hanjin Shipping became the third major container line in a month to announce it is launching a direct service between Vietnam and the United States.

TNT Express extended its European road service into four former Eastern bloc countries, the company announced Monday, taking a big step toward integrating the entire continent in its expedited network

The long-time advertising director of The Journal of Commerce, P. Robert Potesky, died June 11 after a brief illness at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, N.Y.

The Paris Air Show opened Monday with subdued optimism.

Just one year AGO, Michael J. Ward was in the fight of his career as chairman, president and CEO of CSX Corp., parent of one of the four largest U.S. railroads.

Shipper support is building for heavier trucks on U.S. highways.

If surviving the recession is the first priority of trucking companies, the second might be making sure their network operations survive another round of negotiations with customers.

There is one thing President Obama has consistently made known since his campaign days — his feelings about the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, a still-unratified accord he called ``badly flawed’’ wi

A bipartisan think tank is calling for sweeping reform of U.S. transportation planning, infrastructure funding and federal oversight — and a highway bill, too.

A warning to shippers, carriers and manufacturers seeing rays of light in commodity prices and the Baltic Dry Index: Beware the false dawn.

An unnerving game of “chicken” played out on the lower Mississippi River recently.

If breakbulk carriers want to feel depressed, they have reasons: Cargo volume is slowing, rates are down and hard times are spurring competition from container ships and other vessels.

Saddled with contracts to build more ships than they need for the foreseeable future, shipping lines and charter ship owners are trying to cancel orders or at least delay delivery of new ships for as

The Calcasieu Ship Channel, which serves the Port of Lake Charles, is only recently back to its project depth of 40 feet after several years of falling short.

It took less than 24 hours for Anne S. Ferro’s nomination as the nation’s top truck safety official to become embroiled in the dispute over truck driver hours of service.

There may be some glimmers of hope on the global economic horizon, but they are too early to affect the bottom line of UTi Worldwide, a major provider of global logistics services.

Of the roughly $1.7 billion in stimulus funds allocated to navigation needs including maintenance and construction, more than $356 million is heading to the U.S.

When Theo Zwygers went to the podium at a major rail industry conference in Chicago last month, the soft-spoken plastics industry executive hardly looked like a firebrand rising up against the nation’

While many ports in the Gulf region are focused on waterside projects, the Port of Beaumont, Texas, this summer will begin a long-awaited project to reconfigure the port’s railyard, moving it from the

Fasten your seat belts, the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler are about to disrupt every aspect of an already-battered North American automotive supply chain.

Radoje “Rod” Vulovic, 67, a founder and chief operating officer of U.S. Ship Management, died Friday in Charlotte, N.C., after a prolonged illness, his business partners announced.

A severe terminal congestion at India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru prompted port management to seek immediate intervention with Container Corp.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are working overtime to change their reputation among cargo interests as being the nation’s high-cost, business-adverse gateway for trade with Asia.

The sound today at the Port of Long Beach, and among angry Canadian ports, is the sound of wind rushing out of the sails of a dispute over alleged port subsidies.

YRC Worldwide did not apply for relief under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Associated Press reported June 12.

Jet fuel prices in New York soared an average of 17.2 cents, or more than 10 percent, the first week of June to the highest levels so far in 2009, according to the U.S.

European Union competition regulators on June 12 cleared the planned acquisition by Deutsche Bahn, the German state railway, of Poland's biggest privately-owned rail freight company.

London -- European Union anti-trust regulators on June 12 opened an in-depth investigation of plans by DSV, Scandinavia's biggest trucker, and Danish shipping line Vesterhavet, to take joint control o