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Is this an early sign of the long-awaited economic rebound or just a pocket of optimistic exuberance?

Philip M.

As container shipping struggles with its worst-ever crisis, some carriers are approaching owners of their ships for help.

Business leaders are keeping a steady drumbeat of support for more transportation funding, but they’re finding it hard to be heard above the din raised by the health care debate.

To provide "regular insight into the maritime industry and its daily work," the Virginia Port Authority unfurled a blog this week.

Time is running out for those who want a six-year, transformational transportation bill to make it through Congress before the current surface transportation law expires Sept. 30.

Those who want evidence Twitter is worth a tweet can turn to the Michigan Department of Transportation, which used Twitter to communicate with thousands of motorists July 15 after a tanker truck crash

We’ve been saying for a while that we don’t buy into the story that the sourcing of U.S. containerized imports will be greatly diversified away from China.

Economists, especially those of the armchair variety, keep yapping about “green shoots” heralding a recovery from the worst global recession since the 1930s.

There are no museums dedicated to freight rates that we know of anywhere in the world, but if you know where to look, you’ll find sobering exhibitions on the shipping economy, and its pricing.

The Heritage Foundation’s Ronald Utt is going all Jonathan Swift on the Obama administration.

George Barone was a government witness, but the 85-year old former mob killer and onetime International Longshoremen's Association official apparently gave prosecutors a rough time during hi

Octogenarian labor racketeer George Barone, the government's star witness in a waterfront racketeering trial in 2006, delivered an expletive-filled encore when he took the witness stand in the federal

Sean Devine of Con-way Freight gives an interesting definition of LTL trucking in his new corporate blog.

Q: I know you’ve addressed this problem before, but here it is again. I am a shipper and tendered a truckload of my product to a broker for final delivery in Canada.

The argument between FedEx and UPS over national labor law has brought great attention to the questions surrounding the Railway Labor Act and the National Labor Relations Act, the United States’

Every time the future of the struggling container lines has come up in interviews in recent months, the reaction has been the same: Despite the disastrous confluence of the global recession striking a

After years of fits and starts, ocean carriers finally have warmed to the idea of sharing equipment in chassis pools. Harold Daggett hasn’t.

Every few months I touch base with Tom Kim, the Hong Kong-based shipping analyst for Goldman Sachs, who meets regularly with the major Asian container lines.

Three top transportation nominees appeared before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee yesterday. Here are some brief highlights from their testimony.

The shipping industry is buzzing over this week's extraordinary announcement by the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement, whose members plan to ask customers to renegotiate recently signed service

Shipping is an industry that doesn't spend much time on its image among the general public, and it pays a price for it when there's an accident, oil spill or some other incident that casts the in

Twenty years ago, American filmgoers embraced the feel-good story of “Field of Dreams.” The movie was filmed in Dyersville, Iowa, where, less than a year ago, one of the largest ethanol re

Q: A broker paid a carrier for freight moved for one of the broker’s customers. The customer is in financial trouble and is refusing payment to the broker.

HONG KONG — The skies last week in Hong Kong and Shenzhen were perpetually the dark blue-gray of an impending downpour, the air thick with humidity as the outer bands of a typhoon swept through

No New Diesel Taxes

When trucking analysts talk about the need to reduce capacity in the industry to bolster rates, revenue and stock value, it's important to remember that "capacity" has a name.

Federal prosecutors are ready to have another go at proving links between organized crime and the International Longshoremen's Association.

Asian port throughput figures these days need to be taken with even more than the usual grain of salt.

Glyn Richards wasn't in the same league as Bernie Madoff, but the Ponzi scheme he ran under the cover of All Freight Logistics did as much damage to its victims as Madoff's much larger scam.

Friday's Wall Street Journal has a front-page story that homes in on a key issue for retail supply chains.

Think you have a tough logistics job? Imagine running a supply chain to a landlocked, mountainous country where people keep trying to blow up your personnel and cargo.

You could see this one coming: A.P Moller-Maersk's chief executive was quoted as telling a Danish newspaper that the comp

Transportation bloggers — especially advocates of high-speed rail and transit — may like Rep. James L.

The Obama administration and House transportation leaders both grabbed for the wheel of the surface transportation bill yesterday.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is expected to release its version of the next highway bill in a matter of minutes ... or hours ... or perhaps tomorrow.

You know the debate over the next highway bill is getting serious when AARP chimes in. It just goes to show that transportation affects everyone — and every stage of life.

It's a little early for pre-season football forecasts, but AMR Research has issued a ranking that is sure to generate lively debate among supply chain professionals.

It is a commonly held notion that container lines are inefficient in the management of their container fleets.