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House Republicans are wasting no time asserting their new majority on transportation programs.

The stunning increase in super-post-Panamax container ships provides carriers with economies of scale and a tricky management challenge.

When crude oil prices raced to more than $145 a barrel in mid-2008, bunker surcharges ratcheted up just as quickly.

As 2011 gets under way, less-than-truckload carriers increasingly are thinking outside the pallet, expanding and launching non-traditional services in a bid to secure more freight and reach deeper int

Few events signaled a logistics recovery as loudly as last year’s $512.6 million acquisition of ATC Technology by GENCO Supply Chain Solutions.

Shipping industry leaders are underwhelmed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s decision on a general plan for altering the Bayonne Bridge to allow larger ships to pass underneath.

The penchant of environmental regulators to set goals calling for the use of technology not fully developed is raising alarms for the transportation industry.

Dave Akers is trying to sort out what’s real and what’s not in all of last year’s ocean carrier announcements of new peak season surcharges on the trans-Pacific starting Jan. 1.

ABF Freight System is expanding service to the Dominican Republic as trade with the Caribbean nation picks up, led by U.S. exports to free trade zones.

Across North America’s railroads, intermodal traffic is running strong.

It may be months before truckers know how many hours they’ll be allowed to drive under new federal work rules, but they almost certainly will have less time to accomplish the work they now do an

The greening of the freight transportation industry will take another big step this year, but years of preparation will limit disruption as carriers transition to cleaner ships, trucks and locomotives

Before last October, the U.S. had exported $8 billion in goods to China in a single month only once: December 2009, at the beginning of the economic and trade recovery. In October, the U.S.

Patrick R. Donahoe Jan. 14 took the oath of office as the 73rd Postmaster General of the United States. He vowed to return the U.S.

Truckload carrier Transport America is expanding by acquiring Southern Cal Transport, a Birmingham, Ala.-based trucking company.

Rising gasoline prices and high unemployment caused a widely watched index of U.S. consumer confidence to weaken in January.

Canadian transportation company Vitran is expanding into the Southeastern U.S. by purchasing the $70 million less-than-truckload division of Milan Express.

Growth in personal computer shipments worldwide slowed down sharply in the fourth quarter, expanding 3.1 percent over the year before, under growing competition from other media devices, according to

Flexi-Van Leasing will add Jacksonville to the list of South Atlantic depots where the company offers its FlexiDay program for daily chassis rentals to motor carriers.

The Frankfurt Airport in 2010 racked up a record tonnage of cargo, which increased 21.5 percent to 2,231,348 metric tons, its parent FRA said Friday.

India’s Port of Chennai, rattled by serious congestion since mid-November, faces more delays as a three-day local festival holiday begins Friday.

Output at U.S. factories, mines and utilities rose a faster-than-expected 0.8 percent in December, the sharpest increase in five months, the Federal Reserve said.

U.S. retail sales rose for the sixth consecutive month in December, capping a year in which sales grew at the fastest rate since 1999, the Commerce Department said.

NATO's anti-piracy force found no crewmembers or pirates onboard a Danish breakbulk ship that Somali pirates hijacked and then abandoned, officials said Friday.

Australian airline Qantas will pay $26.5 million to a group of U.S. importers to settle a lawsuit over its role in an air freight pricing cartel.

Members of four union groups at the two major Canadian railways voted to strike if negotiations fail by deadlines late this month and early next month.

Hamburg Sud North America on Thursday announced the realignment of its top management team. Three executives assumed new responsibilities.

The presidential commission that investigated the Deepwater Horizon disaster said the Jones Act did not prevent

Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corporation acquired Optimodal, the largest intermodal chemical sector service provider in the United States.

Traffic surged at major North American railroads in the first full week of January, compared with the same point in 2010, as bulk carload shipments jumped 16.1 percent and intermodal moves increased 7

India plans to spend an estimated $110 billion to develop ports and shipbuilding by 2020 as it aims to expand its overall ocean cargo-handling capacity to 3.2 billion tons and implement major reforms

The members of the Caribbean Shipowners Association announced Thursday a series of general rate increases over

The Port of Los Angeles capped a year of record containerized exports with a 5 percent increase in December over December 2009.

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to post a year-to-year gain of 8 percent in January and to rise modestly during the first half of the year, the National Re

ProLogis plans $800 million to $1 billion in new development this year in Asia, Europe and North America, the industrial real estate giant said Tuesday.

Con-way Freight says it expects the company's operating profit to fall by nearly a third in the fourth quarter because soaring healthcare costs are offsetting improvements in shipping demand.

The new chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, signaling domestic transport goals similar to those of the Obama administration, says he wants to advance several initiatives

The U.S. manufacturing outlook remains healthy despite indications of slowing expansion, a quarterly survey of 62 manufacturers said.

The U.S.

Port Klang, Malaysia's largest container port, expects double-digit growth in cargo this year, the Port Klang Authority said.