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A wide range of transportation companies have reported higher volumes in the first half and second quarter.

In technology speak, the collecting of data from ELDs is part of the so-called Internet or Network of Things.

Vehicle shipments through the Port of Portland continue to rise at double-digit clip.

The growing popularity of shipping containers by rail from China to Europe is leading to delays as increasing cargo volume begins to overpower European terminals.

Kintetsu is the latest of several leading international freight forwarders that have recorded higher volumes in the April to June quarter.

Concor’s net profit during jumped 36.4 percent year over year.

It took the Competition Commission of Hong Kong almost two years to grant liners a block exemption from anti-trust laws, but the exemption order has been greeted with grumbling by shippers and carriers.

Germany’s Zeaborn Group has consolidated its presence in the heavy lift/project cargo shipping market.

Creditors of bankrupt carrier Hanjin Shipping have filed claims that would give them only a tiny proportion of what is owed, a company attorney has told a New Jersey bankruptcy court.

The New Jersey-based company told the US Federal Maritime Commission that the port authority has asked it to vacate warehouse space, not only at an expense to business but to it shipper customers.

Behind the new services are surging volumes of key commodities.

The toll changes will be the first since the canal opened new locks in June 2016.

It took the Hong Kong regulator almost two years to grant liner shipping a five-year block exemption from complying with the Competition Ordinance, but it starts today.

Shippers want faster door-to-door service from less-than-truckload carriers.

JICA signed the loan deal with the Cambodian government in Tokyo on Monday.

The petitioners have two weeks to appeal the ruling.

“The congestion in Chittagong port has gone beyond the tolerable limit.”

Deutsche Post DHL posted its strongest ever second quarter result.

The project was high on the agenda of a delegation led by Indian Shipping & Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari.

Christie-signed legislation still requires New York's concurrence.

Removal of old transit sheds will provide more open space for cargo.

The US administration under President Donald Trump may have generated shockwaves elsewhere, but little has changed when it comes to Customs cargo clearance.

The orders threaten the industry’s fragile return to profitability.

The schedule reliability of carriers on the four main east-west trades in the first half has improved but remains at unimpressive levels.

Brazilian coastal carrier Mercosul Line last week suffered two accidents.

The company blamed the shipping segment’s poor performance on slumping freight rates and cargo volumes.

By volume, JNPT handled 61,383 TEU during the month via rail.

OOCL in first half profit turnaround as volumes and higher rates push up revenue.

The strong US dollar underpins strong growth in the westbound trade, but exports stagnate.

The trans-Atlantic trade remains an oasis of calm, but political threats and opportunities could shake up the trade.

ILWU three-year contract extension is now official

The situation is so acute at Santos that it has grabbed the attention of the highest levels of the federal government in the capital of Brasilia.

China dominates US scrap paper exports, accounting for almost 84 percent of total containerized wastepaper exports.

Change takes effect on Oct. 2. Longer hours at Barbours Cut to be phased in later.

Carriers indeed have greater pricing power this year.

Bronka’s proximity to the ring road means that shippers will not have to rely on rail as much to get shipments into St. Petersburg.

The biggest Japanese international freight forwarder’s net profit came to 11.1 billion yen ($101 million).

India’s top container gateway is leading the gains.

The Asia-Europe spot market remains volatile, but the familiar ups and downs have been far less compared with rate movements last year.