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Discussions between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association about a possible extension of the West Coast waterfront contract apparently ended on a positive note.

A Boston Consulting Group analysis released Wednesday predicts that overcapacity in the shipping industry will significantly worsen.

The steady brew of labor unrest at the port of Santos is hitting Brazilian coffee exports.

The ELD mandate's impact on available truck capacity isn't the only thing shippers should worry about.

Yusen Logistics swung into the red in the first half of fiscal year 2016.

Damco posted another profit in the third quarter.

Weak market conditions and liner network changes contributed to a 28 percent year-over-year fall in third-quarter underlying profit at APM Terminals.

Lufthansa Cargo on Wednesday posted its sixth consecutive quarterly loss, but it sees a brighter future ahead.

South Africa’s national ports authority hinted that planned investment in port projects could be slowed.

Better labor relations at public ports could make the on-and-off again strikes and protests for higher wages and other benefits that cause congestion and delays at major ports less likely.

Rising volume was not enough to offset a sharp fall in freight rates that dragged Maersk Line to a third-quarter loss of $116 million.

The air cargo industry is showing signs of recovering from a tough year with demand rising and higher hopes of a solid peak season.

For decades, the Japanese lines have competed fiercely for their share of the container market, but that has ended with the agreement to merge liner operations.

When freight demand is low and rates are hard to maintain, who wants to buy a used truck? That's a problem truckload carriers face as they try to reduce their capacity to bolster pricing.

Negotiators for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association on Tuesday opened two days of talks on a possible extension of their coastwide contract.

After a US court slapped down a challenge to the federal electronic logging mandate for truck drivers, shippers need to plan for dealing with the rule.

There is no other way to describe the current global transportation market other than as a “bear market.” Driving home this point is Top 50 Global Transportation Service Providers ranking by SJ Consulting and The Journal of Commerce.

The judge hearing Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy motions in the United States has rejected a request by retailer Ashley Furniture to set up an “administrative freeze” on freight payments it owed to the carrier.

A company has successfully tested a hybrid container designed to make it easier to move breakbulk and oversized cargo.

Hapag-Lloyd has filed concessions to European Union competition regulators to secure approval for a planned merger with the United Arab Shipping Company.

Officials at the Port of New York and New Jersey hope a record monthly volume of rail cargo is just the start of the payoff from years of intermodal investment that seeks to give the port a competitive edge as ever-larger ships arrive on the East Coast.

Maersk Line will announce its third-quarter results on Nov. 2, the first set of financials by the world’s largest container line since CEO Soren Skou outlined a strategic review of the group in September.

Hoegh Autoliners subsidiary steps up competition for Southeast US cargo.

DSV’s operating profit surged 18 percent in the third quarter as ocean, air, and ground freight posted solid growth.

The tightrope that California ports must walk in balancing the commercial needs of their private-sector tenants with the demands of state and local environmental regulators played out last week at events in Oakland and Los Angeles-Long Beach.

A New Jersey legislator said he will likely drop a plan to charge beneficial cargo owners a fee in an effort to cut drayage pollution at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Wilmington has regained its ability to tap Asian imports after the 2M Alliance of Maersk Line and Mediterranean Co. plugged a hole at the North Carolina port caused by the collapse of Hanjin Shipping.

Synergies can be obtained through a single operating unit.

Kuehne + Nagel’s adoption of the freight rate management platform CargoSphere is another sign that the type of technological disruption that has taken place in other sectors of the economy will occur more gradually and less destructively in shipping.

A merged NYK Line, “K” Line, and MOL would be the dominant mover of containerized goods from Asia to the United States if operations were to begin today.

Japan’s Big Three container lines downgraded their full-year earnings forecasts and said they expected record losses as their fiscal first-half results illustrated the financial difficulties that motivated their Monday announcement they would merge.

Rickmers Maritime Trust plunged to a net loss in the third quarter from a profit a year earlier.

Container lines face “huge” headaches as they seek routes to deploy vessels made redundant on the Asia-Europe trade lane.

With no turnaround for container shipping in the foreseeable future, the three largest Japanese shipping companies are merging.

Three Japanese lines seek scale benefits in move to merge container divisions.

Of the world’s top 50 transportation service providers, only a handful registered revenue growth in 2015.

Despite a "soft industrial backdrop" and lower fuel surcharges and revenue, less-than-truckload carrier YRC Freight raised profits nearly 25 percent year-over-year in the third quarter and opened a new terminal.

Some shippers will have to pay premiums to get on vessels during this late peak season.

Credit agency Fitch Rating has given an AA- rating to two Port Authority of New York and New Jersey consolidated bonds, saying the authority's outlook is “stable.”

Hyundai Merchant Marine is one of five bidders for the trans-Pacific and intra-Asia networks of bankrupt Hanjin Shipping.