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Maersk's pilot program to reduce harmful emissions from ships calling in LA-LB will contribute to ports' clean-air program.

Texas port is preparing for increase in plastic resin exports.

Doubts that Hanjin Shipping wouldn’t join the THE Alliance began once the liner was placed in receivership Aug. 31, fueling speculation that HMM might take its place.

The so-called “freight recession” continues to weigh down demand, volume, and pricing.

Air Canada Cargo will start an all-cargo service between Toronto and Frankfurt.

Medium-sized container lines likely will trigger the next round of consolidation in a bid to keep pace with the market leaders that are pulling ahead following a wave of mergers.

Container volumes at India’s major public ports are continuing to grow at a healthy pace thanks to capacity upgrades and productivity improvements.

Net profit at Nippon Express Co., Japan’s biggest international freight forwarder, surged in the first half of fiscal 2016 despite a revenue decline.

There are signs that shippers expect truckload and domestic intermodal rates to creep higher in early 2017.

Freight rates are on the rise on the Asia to east coast of South America trade lane following a drastic reduction in capacity.

More evidence of shippers’ engaging in a “flight to quality” by favoring container lines perceived to be stable following the Aug. 31 Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy came from Maersk Line's third-quarter results released this week.

Truckload companies USA Truck and Celadon Group are not waiting for a recovery in the truckload market to materialize and pull them out of the red, instead working to get into the black with a stronger focus on their asset-light brokerage businesses.

Lower fuel surcharges, lighter shipments, acquisitions costs blamed for lower profit at less-than-truckload, logistics company.

New double-stack train services connecting Pipavav with northern hinterland points powered the year-over-year growth in shipments at the port.

Trucking is doing better at hiring workers than previous employment data suggested, but still is bumping against a "hiring ceiling."

November should signal the end of the peak-shipping season in the eastbound trans-Pacific trade, but spot rates suggest the peak season is still in swing.

The credit ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded the rating for Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, parent of NYK Line.

A New Zealand company has launched a relatively small, portable scale designed to enable shippers to weigh a container atop a chassis, saying it will help shippers comply with new global container weight rules.

The port of Liverpool on Friday officially inaugurated a new deep-sea container terminal as it works to create a new ocean trading gateway to re-jig the national supply chain.

Spot rates slip with little demand to support the Nov. 1 increases.

The container shipping market is concentrated in the hands of fewer players, which might improve profitability.

Yang Ming Line Chairman Bronson Hsieh has dismissed market speculation that his Taiwan line could merge with Evergreen Marine.

Roadrunner’s push into the expedited shipping market over the last two years provided the trucking company an airbag to protect against crashing truckload and less-than-truckload volumes and rates in the third quarter.

It’s a sign that the so-called “freight recession” that’s softened demand, volume, and freight rates may outlast the calendar year.

Container throughput at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust only inched up in the first seven fiscal months through October.

The Port of Long Beach will chip away at the backlog of empty Hanjin Shipping-leased containers in Southern California that has built up since the container line declared bankruptcy on Aug. 31 when a ship calls to pick up some of the empties.

A solid performance by the Northwest Seaport Alliance in September and year to date indicates that Seattle and Tacoma may have regained regional market share from the Canadian ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert.

IHS Automotive data reveal a significant decline in new commercial truck registrations, especially for heavy trucks.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and DB Cargo have agreed to develop a joint-venture hub at Monfalcone to support European vehicle manufacturers’ exports to the Mediterranean and Asia.

Eimskip will acquire the Norwegian short-sea operator Nor Lines, the latest purchase by the Icelandic container line, which has made expansion via acquisitions a key goal.

The benefits of rising e-commerce demand are lifting revenue, profit at multiple units of XPO Logistics, from last-mile to LTL.

A liquefied natural gas heat exchanger weighing nearly 500 tons was exported via Port Manatee, Florida.

Global air cargo traffic in September rose at the fastest rate since the industry benefited from the disruption caused by the US West Coast ports strike in February 2015.

Air France-KLM Cargo’s third-quarter operating loss soared by almost one-fifth from a year ago as it scrambled to downsize its unprofitable freighter operations.

The Ocean Alliance has released information on its network that begins on April 1, 2017, with the trans-Pacific to see the largest number of loops and port calls.

Discussions between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association about a possible extension of the West Coast waterfront contract apparently ended on a positive note.

A Boston Consulting Group analysis released Wednesday predicts that overcapacity in the shipping industry will significantly worsen.

The steady brew of labor unrest at the port of Santos is hitting Brazilian coffee exports.

The ELD mandate's impact on available truck capacity isn't the only thing shippers should worry about.

Yusen Logistics swung into the red in the first half of fiscal year 2016.