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Hamburg Sud christened the first of two identical container ships, both of which have a slot capacity of 4,600 20-foot equivalent container units, in Mexico on Saturday.

President Obama proposed to spend $50 billion to "jumpstart" construction of roads, railways and airport runways, the White House said, and pair it with "a long-term framework to reform

Owners of North America’s rail equipment fleets are betting the thriving intermodal market will maintain its growth pace, placing orders for new equipment with hard-hit railcar manufacturers.

A federal judge’s ruling upholding the concession requirements in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program hardly brings the case closer to resolution.

Chris Badger is worried about competition from both coasts of North America.

A fledgling market for futures contracts based on container freight rates cleared its initial hurdles but faces a big obstacle: skeptical ocean carriers.

The recovery for the largest U.S.

The tools for managing inventory may be growing more sophisticated, but retailers and manufacturers may as well be using a Ouija Board to plan out the movement of goods this year.

Less than a week after being designated a Department of Transportation marine highways project eligible for a share of Maritime Administration grants, one of the East Coast’s best-established s

Seven months after their antitrust exemption expired, European shipowners participating in a marine insurance pool are under investigation for potentially anti-competitive activity.

Home Depot cut inventory holdings $38 million in the quarter ending Aug. 1 compared to a year earlier as it built more efficiency into its supply chain.

Norfolk Southern Railway has been literally changing the landscape of freight rail transportation in the eastern United States for three years, carving out new clearances through the Appalachian Mount

The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority edged one step closer to securing what could be the largest loan ever from a little-used Federal Railroad Administration finance program.

If there had been no massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, would Congress have given more attention to legislation affecting the transportation and trade communities?

Last year’s less-than-truckload price war is still claiming victims, but not those once expected to fall. Two of Con-way Freight’s top officers, President John G.

The collision that sent ocean containers tumbling from a container ship into Mumbai’s port channel last month may have been an unforeseen accident, but the boxes fell into very busy business wat

A UPS 747-400 freighter crashed just after takeoff from Dubai on Friday. Both crew members died, according to local reports.

In a new sign that trucking companies are investing in new capacity again, net heavy truck orders jumped 8.3 percent in August from July and were up 16.8 percent from a year ago, according to prelimin

The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines reported a 27.7 percent increase in traffic in July, slower than the year-to-date average of 33.7 percent.

Polar Air Cargo will pay a $17.4 million fine to settle charges the freighter operator took part in a global conspiracy with other airlines to fix international air cargo prices.

The U.S. unemployment rate edged up to 9.6 percent in August from 9.5 percent in July as weak hiring by private employers failed to keep pace with an increase in people looking for work.

Cargolux is adding a fifth flight to the trans-Pacific service the freighter operator launched this year, bringing more capacity into Asia markets that are seeing sharp gains in air cargo services.

German railroad company Deutsche Bahn said it will spend $525 million on new rail cars, locomotives and cargo facilities across Europe in 2010 to keep pace with rising freight traffic.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it will increase freight rates on its services between North America and Europe and the Mediterranean as of Oct. 1.

Deutsche Post, the German postal and logistics group, does not have to repay state aid and interest of $1.5 billion, the European Union’s highest court ruled.

Seaport security, freight transportation infrastructure and environmental protection are key issues for the American Association of Port Authorities.

A wide-ranging increase in railcar loadings lifted volume in the bulk commodities and equipment categories of rail traffic to their highest levels this year.

Kansas City Southern, the smallest of the North American Class I carriers, predicts second-half 2010 revenue growth of nearly 20 percent and says its rail lines have "fully recovered" from the impact

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shut down an Alabama trucking company involved in an accident that killed 11 people in March.

The congestion at marine terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach that has plagued harbor truckers for much of the year is beginning to dissipate, thanks to a working group formed by truckers, the ports an

Major North American railroads racked up big intermodal numbers for the third straight week in the week ending Aug. 28 and set a new 2010 high in train loadings of containers and trailers.

Industry officials pressing Congress and the White House to lock in long-term transportation spending programs say higher new estimates for the Highway Trust Fund may reduce pressure for legislators t

The closely watched Cass Freight Index for U.S.

DP World became the world’s third-largest terminal operator, according to the latest rankings of global operators by Drewry Shipping Consultants, which based the rankings on container throughput last

The offshore oil platform Vermillion 380 blew up Thursday morning in the Gulf of Mexico, catching on fire and forcing 13 workers into the water.

North America's small railroads saw freight traffic for the week ending Aug. 28 rise to the highest level since late April, continuing a volume rebound that began in July.

Orders to U.S. factories edged up 0.1 percent in July because of strong demand for commercial aircraft. Excluding transportation goods, orders declined 1.5 percent, the biggest drop in 16 months.

Hiring in transportation and warehousing slowed in August, according to Monster Worldwide, as the hiring and recruitment specialist's

Gulf & Ohio Railways, Inc. (G&O), headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., intends to acquire South Carolina’s Lancaster & Chester Railway Co. (L&C), the two have announced.

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Aug.