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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood decried the failure of the congressional super committee to reach an agreement on budget reductions on Monday, warning the collapse of the effort could lead to majo

Diesel prices across the United States increased 2.3 cents in the week ending Nov. 21, rising over $4 a gallon for the first time in 26 weeks as crude oil prices fell.

CEVA Logistics is working to re-engineer the supply chains of its aut

Postmaster General and CEO Patrick Donahoe urged Congress on Monday to take a bold approach to reforming the U.S.

Lufthansa Cargo is suspending plans for a $1.35 billion expansion of the airline’s Frankfurt hub because of a German court’s ban on night flights at the airport, according to a published r

Grain transport on U.S.

Containerized imports generally lagged but exports continued to grow in October at the ports of Oakland, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle.

Orders for Class 8 heavy trucks hit a six-month high in October, with manufacturers receiving 29,824 new orders and 28,026 net orders, according to ACT Research.

The Georgia Ports Authority board approved a $6.5 million, 6,000-foot extension of the Mason Intermodal Container Transfer Facility, as the

When Honda resumed production at one of its plants near Bangkok more than a month after shutting its factories amid devastating floods, it seemed to provide a small ripple of optimism for Thai manufac

Japan suffered a trade deficit of $3.56 billion in October, as exports fell amid a slowdown in the global economy and a stronger yen, according to the Japanese government.

Box throughput at leading Asian gateways grew in October despite the economic uncertainties that plague key European and U.S. markets.

Hapag-Lloyd said currency swings and rate competition caused third quarter profit to drop 94 percent year-over-year to $17.5 million, but the German carrier was one of the few major container lines to

Hong Kong International Airport saw cargo volume fall 8.2 percent in October from the same month a year ago as a surge in peak season shipping airlines have been looking for failed to materialize.&nbs

While attending a recent two-day marine highways workshop at George Mason University, I realized the concept has been studied exhaustively for more than 20 years, with no tangible results.

The Port of Long Beach is in the early days of implementing the largest capital expansion program in its history, so it was with a sense of relief that the Southern California transportation community

Is $5.1 billion enough to get the attention of Congress? The loss the U.S. Postal Service piled up in the fiscal year that ended Sept.

Shippers turned to freight brokers for truck capacity in increasing numbers in the third quarter, boosting revenue at third-party intermediaries and at asset-based trucking companies that secure extra

If industrial real estate is an accurate barometer of where the international trade economy is headed, the transportation industry should prepare itself for a surge in freight.

The for-hire U.S.

Container shipping’s latest slide into red ink is reviving talk about mergers and acquisitions among carriers.

Agricultural exports are facing delays at the Port of Oakland as terminals struggle to provide longshoremen with documentation verifying refrigerated containers containing farm products have not previ

James P. Hoffa was re-elected to a fourth term as general president of the Teamsters union Friday, winning 60 percent of the vote.

The Transported Asset Protection Association is rolling out global security standards for trucking and the first trucking security certification program for motor carriers and logistics service provid

Container traffic through the Port of Charleston in October fell 6.3 percent

UPS announced it will raise rates for ground and air parcel shipments an effective 4.9 percent in 2012, matching the price increase for this year and showing confidence the carrier can maintain its st

Hundreds of Occupy Washington D.C.

The California Air Resources Board’s order of all Class 7 drayage trucks to meet the same emission standards that have been in effect for larger Class 8 trucks is intended to close loopholes in

Shippers have reached the “tipping point” in their effort to encourage trucking companies to reduce emissions and conserve fuel, a Swift Transportation vice president said Thursday.

Truckload giant U.S. Xpress Enterprises is expanding its regional operations in the Northeast and its custom critical or expedited business, adding drivers and equipment, U.S.

The issue of whether truck drivers nationwide are employees or independent contractors is far from dead despite a recent

The German travel group TUI plans to sell its remaining stake in Hapag-Lloyd in January and expand further in Russia and China as it redefines its business model, according to

The trans-Pacific and Asia-Middle East trade lanes are most likely to bear the brunt of rate plummeting, as deliveries of ultra-large container ships deliveries peak in 2012 and 2013, according to one

Sea Star Line will plead guilty and pay a $14.2 million criminal fine and the carrier’s former president, Frank Peake, was indicted on a charge of conspiring to fix prices in the U.S.

When the APL Egypt pulled into a berth at Manzanillo International Terminal on the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal last February, it took all of a couple minutes for two ship-to-shore cranes to star

Could Cuba become a new Caribbean transshipment hub? After all, it’s only 90 miles from the United States and has an abundance of labor to work in ports.

Intra-Asia trade will see further growth in the coming years as high-tech companies shift more sourcing to the continent and increasingly target the region’s consumers, according to a survey of

NYK Logistics and Yusen Air & Sea Service, part of Japan’s NYK Group, consolidated operations in India by combining their local arms into a single business unit.

With more than 170,000 ballots counted, incumbent James P. Hoffa commanded 57.2 percent of the votes cast for Teamsters general president in the union’s general election.

Harbor truckers in Southern California are raising concerns that an effort by longshoremen to inspect all chassis before equipment is trucked from Los Angeles-Long Beach will result in unnecessary del