Latest news

Because of congestion, terminal management closed the export gate at Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal in India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru.

Horizon Lines said it expects to default on its loans as the result of a $45 million fine for price-fixing in the Puerto Rico trade and could be forced into bankruptcy if a deal can’t be worked out wi

Restoration work on Japanese transportation systems devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern part of th

The Grand Alliance is resuming service to the Japanese city of Nagoya operated by Hapag-Lloyd on March 31, according to a bulletin by OOCL.

Japan's commerce with the U.S.

A U.S. District Court in San Juan issued a temporary restraining order on Friday in favor of Crowley Puerto Rico Services.

Canadian Pacific Railway unveiled a plan to spend nearly $103 million in its North Dakota network this year and next, and said it should aid several big commodity cargo groups there.

After a record 15 weeks of price increases, diesel took a tenth of a cent drop a week ago but started cli

UPS launched four additional direct flights from Hong Kong to Europe, expanding its next-day delivery coverage for packages and heavy freight.

Rail equipment supplier Wabtec said a stronger U.S.

The Indian navy and coast guard captured 16 Somali pirates and rescued 16 hostages after a three-hour running battle in the Arabian Sea, according to media reports.

Crowley Maritime is adding a direct, fixed-day sailing from Port Everglades, Fla., to St. Maarten in the Caribbean that will reduce transit time by one full day.

Consumer spending in the U.S.

Ohio is dropping a controversial rule that extended safety regulations designed for larger vehicles and for-hire truck fleets to thousands of small private carriers.

Maersk Line is taking delivery of the first of a series of 22 container ships called Wafmax that are specifically designed for the limitations of the West African market.

Wal-Mart Stores will reopen 12 of its Seiyu stores in Japan that were affected by the earthquake, and is hoping to open the remaining 12 impacted stores as soon as possible, a spokesman for the U.S.-b

The earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and devastated a swath of Japan is promising a deeper impact on the country’s economy and global supply chains, and triggering what experts say m

Container ship charter rates are still rallying even as freight rates are falling as ocean carriers seek additional tonnage to defend market share amid strong cargo volume ahead of the summer peak shi

Air France-KLM Cargo added new freight services linking its twin Amsterdam and Paris hubs with the U.S., Peru, Cambodia, China, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Japan Airlines flew out of bankruptcy protection on Monday, about 14 months after going into it.

The columns of red and black numbers in the rankings of the Top 40 Container Lines by volume reflect the tenuous recovery from the deep downturn in trade that hit carriers so hard in 2009.

Maritime and intermodal industry officials are raising alarms that the proposed federal hours-of-service rules for domestic U.S.

Weeks before North Carolina nailed down an implementing agreement with Norfolk Southern Railway to spend $461 million in passenger rail stimulus funds, the state’s transportation secretary said

The freight payment and audit business flows smoothly most of the time.

Vessels and containers arriving at U.S. ports from Japan will face inspections by the U.S.

Less-than-truckload carriers are doing something they haven’t done in a long time — hiring.

Industrial real estate activity is picking up in Southern California, and that’s a good sign for the economy and for shipping — the 1.5 billion-square-foot market is a bellwether for wareh

Selecting a freight payment and audit firm is an important strategic decision that shouldn’t be taken lightly.

Union Pacific Railroad will soon start hauling a grain product about 2,000 miles in unit trains of hopper cars from the Midwest to Southern California, and then transload it to intermodal trainloads o

If Congress agrees an infrastructure bank should be part of an overall strategy to draw on private resources to build public infrastructure, lawmakers will have at least two models to consider.

From the bridge of a container ship passing through the Panama Canal, the signs of the canal authority’s huge expansion project are clearly visible.

At first glance, the figures don’t appear to add up on the Asia-Europe container shipping trade lanes.

Hong Kong’s billionaire Li Ka Shing has achieved a number of records with his IPO of Hutchison Whampoa’s Hutchison Port Holdings Trust on the Singapore stock exchange.

What could go wrong in paying for the shipment of a single ocean container?

The U.S. farm sector is on the cusp of an explosion in exports, and the liner shipping industry will be a major beneficiary.

Retired executive Ronald P. Schley, a veteran of 33 years in the shipping industry, died March 14 in Sparks, Nev., after a lengthy illness. He was 72.

FedEx Freight was the largest less-than-truckload carrier in the U.S. for the second consecutive year in 2010, a survey of the top LTL 25 trucking companies says.

Modification of the tariff-filing requirements for cargo consolidators that will take effect on April 18 may not give non-vessel operating common carriers everything they wanted, but NVOs should be be

Strong demand for truck equipment, particularly dry-van trailers, spurred a 105 percent increase in trailer shipments in February, ACT Research said.

The American Association of Port Authorities elected Jerry A. Bridges, executive director of the Virginia Port Authority, to serve as its 2011-2012 chairman of the board.