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The Senate is expected on Tuesday evening to reject President Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan, with $50 billion in transportation grants plus $10 billion to fund an infrastructure bank.

President Obama designated six large transportation construction projects for fast-track permitting and environmental reviews to get them into their building phase faster and spur job creation.

Struggling Japan Airlines said that its international cargo volume dropped for the 15th successive month in August on a year-over-year basis, plummeting 54 percent to 18,815 tons.

U.S. trade volume is expected to rise 62.3 percent in the next 15 years but the U.S. share of global trade will fall behind China’s, according to a new forecast by HSBC Bank.

Kuehne + Nagel entered into an agreement to acquire Carl Drude, a logistics provider in the center of Germany, for an undisclosed sum.

APM Terminals won a 25-year concession to operate the container terminal at the port of Gothenburg, Sweden’s biggest container gateway.

Chilean container carrier CSAV is reorganizing its IMEX 1 Service connecting India, the Middle East and Europe, starting this month.

The Grand Alliance will suspend its Japan-China Express service to the U.S. West Coast for the slack winter season beginning in late October.

Ocean carriers and charter shipowners have placed orders worth $57 billion for new container vessels over the next four years, with about half of the value of orders made as the industry emerged from

The judge handling the volatile jurisdictional dispute at a grain terminal in Washington provided little clarification of the situation by suggesting a labor arbitrator should determine the legality o

YRC Worldwide is moving toward a reverse stock split to boost the per share value of its common stock and avoid being kicked off the Nasdaq exchange.

International container traffic during the first six months of 2011 at the Port of Nagoya rose 4.9 percent year-over-year, as auto exports grew 38.3 percent at Japan's top global trade port and gatewa

Bulk chemical hauler Quality Distribution paid $8.5 million for Greensville Transport of Virginia, expanding its intermodal tank container business.

The transportation piece of the Obama administration’s 2009 stimulus program has paid out more than $7 billion in the first nine months of 2011 to reimburse states for completed projects, accord

Ferrovial cut its stake in BAA to below 50 percent, in a deal valuing the operator of London Heathrow, Europe’s third largest cargo airport, at about $7.4 billion.

Air France-KLM’s cargo traffic in September dipped 3.4 percent year-over-year as a steep decline on the Asia-Pacific network outweighed a small increase in Americas traffic.

Qatar Airways is launching scheduled freighter services to Atlanta, Houston and Toronto, the latest expansion in the Gulf Arab carrier’s bid to become one of the world’s biggest air cargo

Philippines Airlines’ cargo business resumed last weekend after one of the country’s largest cargo carriers completed the outsourcing of its operations.

Excess capacity and insistence on chasing unprofitable market share will cause many container ship lines to lose money this year despite global volume growth of more than 7 percent, Drewry Maritime Re

A $120 million port and multimodal transport project in Myanmar will open up international trade with India’s isolated North East provinces.

India’s port privatization program suffered a serious setback when all major shortlisted bidders pull

While economists and observers of trade flows have been debating contradictory data on the direction of the U.S. economy for several months, one measure has been unwavering.

Exports of U.S. pork totaled 169,547 metric tons, valued at $480.1 million in July, an increase of 16 percent in volume and 24 percent in value over July 2010.

Liner carrier CSAV says its board of directors will inject $1.2 billion into the company, and split the liner shipping business from a subsidiary that is involved in the marine service sector.

Damco, the freight forwarding arm of A.P.

To U.S. farmers, the free trade agreements negotiated with South Korea, Colombia and Panama several years ago have been something like a bumper crop cruelly out of reach, unable to be harvested.

The Georgia Ports Authority approved a $4.75 million project that will expand the Port of Savannah’s capacity for refrigerated container storage by 45 percent.

There’s an old joke, if you think economics can be funny, that goes, “Economics is the only field in which two people can share a Nobel Prize for saying opposing things.” Well, I don

Some in the perishables industry already are talking about lawsuits as the Food and Drug Administration rolls out new fees for inspections of some imported foods.

The U.S. Meat Export Federation has published guidelines for managing and expediting the export of red meat products to Mexico.

During the latest round of negotiations for the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership in Chicago last month, U.S.

In some ways, Con-way Freight, with $3.1 billion in revenue last year, fared better over the past two years than its largest competitors, YRC and FedEx Freight.

Just how successful has PierPass been at the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach?

When political upheavals erupted across North Africa and the Middle East last February, it was just the beginning of a tumultuous time at the Suez Canal Container Terminal.

Maersk Line has a new direct weekly service from Latin America to the Black Sea. Called Ecumed, the service links Ecuador with Spain, Turkey and the Black Sea, using eight 2,500-TEU vessels.

The Obama administration in late September filed an unfair trade complaint with the World Trade Organization against China’s anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed on U.S.

Exports of U.S. beef in July set a new value record of $513.1 million on volume of 120,424 metric tons.

After a brief, recession-driven pause in growth in 2009, global perishable refrigerated trade expanded 3 percent in 2010, and is expected to increase at that level for the next few years, according to

YRC Worldwide hopes to emulate the recent success of its regional carrier Holland on a broader scale by naming Jeff Rogers president of national carrier YRC.

Two years ago, the nation’s largest trucking companies were locked in a no-discount-barred price war that slashed less-than-truckload rates across the industry and cut into the bottom lines at F