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Truckload spot market rates are slipping lower, and U.S. shippers under pressure to lower costs are looking for ways to curtail or forego contract rate hikes during bids.

Canadian Pacific Railway is asking the U.S. government to vet the viability of its proposed merger with Norfolk Southern Railway.

Japan is planning to increase involvement in infrastructure projects in Africa as it looks to strengthen its foothold in what Tokyo considers to be one of the world’s last major growth markets.

TNT Express returned to the black in the fourth quarter of 2015 as strong growth in European revenues more than offset declines in Brazil and China and its restructuring program gained momentum.

Plunging freight rates amid sluggish demand and excess capacity in the Indian coastal shipping market caused a sharp fall in net earnings in the third fiscal quarter at Shreyas Shipping and Logistics, according to a company filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Fifteen leading ocean container carriers, including Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM, have offered to change their practices for setting freight rates to settle an antitrust probe, the European Commission said Tuesday

Adani Hazira Container Terminal, a privately operated, alternative gateway on India’s west coast, last week celebrated the first ship call of the Galex service, an intra-Asia loop operated jointly by Emirates Shipping Line, Hanjin Shipping, Korea Marine Transport Co. and Regional Container Lines.

A formal United States Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation into the sinking of the U.S.-flag vessel El Faro and the loss of 33 lives last October will begin Tuesday, seeking a cause for the deadliest American merchant marine disaster since the sinking of the Marine Electric in 1983.

Philippine agricultural shippers are awaiting an exemption from the Metro Manila peak-time truck ban for vehicles registered under the Terminal Appointment Booking System, an electronic platform aimed at eliminating truck congestion.

China announced additional safety requirements for companies dealing with dangerous goods as it continues to highlight its resolve to overhaul safety procedures in the wake of the deadly Tianjin blasts and to punish those responsible.

Ukraine and Russia have blocked each other from trucking containers across each other in a tit-for-tat fight over the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, further impeding trade with the European Union after Poland blocked Russian trucks earlier this month.

DFDS almost doubled its operating profit in the fourth quarter of 2015 on increased freight volumes on its key north European short-sea routes that helped to deliver a record full year performance.

Deutsche Post DHL is said to be mulling a sale or spin-off of its troubled freight forwarding unit to focus on its key express delivery and mail businesses.

APM Terminals Mumbai, which loads the majority of the freight passing through Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, has moved a step further with its gate automation drive, allowing faster truck turnarounds at India’s biggest, public container gateway.

Falling freight rates amid a weaker global demand pulled down net earnings during the third fiscal quarter at Allcargo Logistics Ltd., India’s leading international freight forwarder and port-based logistics provider.

The eyes of Texas and other U.S. Gulf ports are fixed on the opening of the new Panama Canal locks later this spring. Port executives expect the long-delayed opening to post-Panamax vessel traffic will be a seminal event in the growth of their volumes, but later rather than sooner.

A widening east-west trade gap is going to push up container repositioning costs for carriers as Asian importers broaden their sourcing origins, according to Drewry.

Depressingly weak trade data greeted China as the country slowly gets back to business after the lunar New Year holidays.

E-commerce opportunities on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are helping TransForce compensate for loss of energy, less-than-truckload volumes.

A round of belt tightening has begun at LTL and truckload carriers as U.S. trucking companies start to shift from cautious optimism about the year ahead to outright caution as the U.S. economy slows to a crawl. Although trucking executives generally expect a stronger second half of the year, “uncertain” at best describes their outlook.

South Carolina-based Southeastern Freight Lines is revamping its business in Canada, replacing an interline partnership with a direct cross-border offering that gives the company more control over door-to-door service.

This spring’s arrival of three post-Panamax cranes at the Port of Gulfport, Mississippi, has been upstaged by a shipyard contract that’s expected to get the port off the hook for repayment of millions of dollars in hurricane relief funds.

UPS, one of the world’s largest transportation firms, is the first major user of North America intermodal rail services to publicly weigh in on the proposed merger of Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern railways, saying it opposes the potential tie-up.

Spot rates in the eastbound Pacific were flat this week as vessels left Asia filled with consumer merchandise before factories there closed for the annual Chinese New Year celebrations.

After volume rose 2.6 percent year-over-year in 2015, the Santos port authority expects volume through South America’s largest container port to inch up slightly this year, as the recession takes its toll, particularly on trade with its top trade partner, China.

The Port of Oakland Commission Thursday approved a $1.5 million program to help fund night and weekend gates during the next 12 weeks when Outer Harbor Terminals will transition out of the port and its cargo volume is redistributed to other facilities.

DP World on Friday unveiled a plan to invest $1 billion in India over the next few years, as the Dubai-headquartered terminal operator looks to tap into potential growth opportunities in the emerging Asian economy.

Retail inventories expanded in the U.S. in December, as slower than expected sales at brick-and-mortar stores kept large piles of goods largely intact. Those inventories are likely to be a drag on U.S. freight shipments in the first quarter, adding to fears of a new recession.

U.S. domestic intermodal spot rates aren’t rising, suggesting the traditional surge of imports ahead of Chinese New Year, when Asia factories close for about two weeks, is weak.

Big Port of St. Petersburg, Russia’s busiest seaport in terms of container traffic, posted a 27.8 percent year-over-year decline in container throughput for 2015 but is planning to regain its lead in the market in the coming years.

APM Terminals plans to retrofit at least five cranes at its Pier 400 terminal at Los Angeles to make them capable of handling fully laden mega-ships of up to 20,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units.

Mentions of a recession-like environment from top transportation executives and lackluster growth in domestic and international freight volumes are sparking fears that a U.S. freight recession is upon us that could be a harbinger of something even worse: an outright economic recession.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, India’s largest port infrastructure developer, recorded a big jump in its net earnings in the third fiscal quarter on the back of continued capacity expansion.

Japan’s Kintetsu World Express saw its group revenue soar 26.3 percent year-over-year in the first nine months of fiscal 2015, which ends March 31, to 295.159 billion yen ($2.57 billion), but that wasn’t enough to stop the company from downgrading its full-year revenue and profit forecasts.

Vietnam’s preferential access to European Union markets and those of the U.S. once free trade deals between the two blocs are ratified will accelerate growth in the country’s already booming apparel and footwear markets, believes global tag and label maker Avery Dennison.

The United States and any other country that is party to SOLAS can delay implementation of the International Maritime Organization’s controversial container weight rule by up to a year, a fact bound to increase pressure on the U.S. Coast Guard to extend the deadline past July 1 to avoid potential trade disruption.

In a sign that U.S. container volumes in 2016 could turn out better than forecast, the Port of Los Angeles last month handled 704,398 twenty-foot-equivalent units, making it the busiest January in the port’s history.

Chassis provider TRAC Intermodal and a technology provider have unveiled cloud-based software designed to allow intermodal equipment providers and motor carriers to automate billing and reconcile invoices.

Truck turn times at the Middle Harbor container terminal in Long Beach will improve greatly when the automated facility receives its first vessel April 7 because truck traffic will be completely separated from vessel operations, the company’s top executive said.

Fitch Ratings is warning that the new International Maritime Organization’s Safety of Life at Sea container weight mandate is poised to slow cargo throughput at U.S. ports as carriers, shippers and terminal operators grapple with rule set to take effect July. 1.