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Cosco Shipping Ports is tipped as a likely frontrunner in the bidding for a tender to build and operate a third container terminal at the southern Spanish port of Algeciras.

Shipping Corporation of India and Shreyas Shipping and Logistics could not increase profits in the first fiscal quarter as they teamed up to corner coastal demand.

Container throughput at China’s main ports rebounded in July after a poor first half of the year.

No surprises as a weak October encourages G6 to withdraw sailings on major east-west trades.

Kerry Logistics has a soft first half as weak trade growth puts the brakes on volume.

Cargo records at Pactl continue to fall, with the best seven-month total ever posted.

Truck and rail traffic in Southern California back to normal after wildfire contained.

Authorities at the Port of New York and New Jersey are scrutinizing trucks bought under a program that awards grants to replace older, polluting drayage vehicles.

ACL expects its new ships to provide an edge.

The idle container ship fleet is back to more than 1 million 20-foot-equivalent units after a brief dip in July.

The new agreement highlights how Savannah, along with a handful of other U.S. ports, are tapping intermodal rail networks connected to inland hubs

DFDS raised its full-year outlook and increased profit following a strong second quarter at a time other transportation companies have posted losses or downgraded their full-year outlooks.

The new CC1-CC2 was made from the merging of two Asia-North America West Coast Central China products into a new Central China Combo service.

Don’t expect any significant increase in container freight rates next year.

The Directory of Trucking includes select companies hauling truckload, less-than-truckload, refrigerated, flatbed and expedited freight in North America.

Despite an uptick from June last month, lots of available trucks are likely to keep truckload and intermodal rates soft, Cass and Avondale Partners say.

Hanjin and HMM’s U.S. imports and exports were down in the first half compared with the same period a year ago despite general growth in both.

The continued closure of at least one railway line and a highway disrupted the flow of containers to and from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles Friday in the fourth day of a savage wildfire wreaking havoc in the northeast Los Angeles area.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration wants to test whether some under 21-year-old truck drivers are as safe as their older counterparts.

DP World views containerized rail as a bright spot in the emerging Asian economy.

Trans-Pacific spot rates in both directions fell for third straight week.

Pacific International Lines has signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s largest public port operator and a mainland construction giant to develop new markets.

Strikes and slowdowns by Brazilian customs officers are causing chaos and losses for shippers and shipping lines.

Cosco Shipping Ports appears to be bucking the trend of poor throughput growth reported by major terminal operators so far this year.

Asia-Europe spot rates fell for the fourth consecutive week, with not enough peak season demand to lift prices.

Logistics property developer GLP has entered into a long-term agreement with box-maker China International Marine Containers.

Tech firms are locked in a battle for the hearts and minds of freight forwarders and shippers as they develop online marketplaces aimed at streamlining the freight booking and rate management process.

A major North American intermodal group isn’t expecting a dramatic rebound in business next year.

A wildfire northeast of Los Angeles continued to disrupt the flow of containers to and from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles Thursday, but road and rail traffic was less affected than Wednesday, officials said.

Retailers such as Wal-Mart want to reduce inventory while offering more products.

Containers shipped from the U.S. to China that are subject to that country’s regulations designed to prevent the spread of Zika virus won’t have to be fumigated but can instead be disinsected.

DB Schenker veteran Jochen Mueller will join logistic provider Dachser.

The Chinese logistics giant Sinotrans Shipping posted a loss for the first half of 2016, blaming overcapacity and a depressed international shipping market.

APM Terminals Pipavav, or Gujarat Pipavav Port, did as much as a port could ask to increase its traffic in the first fiscal quarter but fell short.

DP World’s profit surged in the first half and the global container terminal operator said it will continue to outpace market growth.

There will be a time and cost element to fumigating your cargo on arrival in China to comply with Zika measures, forwarders tell shippers.

Net absorption of warehouse and distribution space in the U.S. during the first six months of 2016 was the strongest since 2007.

Refinancing saves XPO Logistics money that can be reinvested in "optimizing" its global business.

The Chinese Olympic team wasn’t the only group of visitors from the manufacturing powerhouse in Brazil this month.

The dramatic descent of spot prices to five-year lows in both directions on the trans-Atlantic shipping route has sparked questions about how low the price can go, and if the once sleepy, stable route has changed.