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The connectivity will facilitate trade between Bangladesh and a landlocked Indian state.

The two major Mexican railroads have a shot at convincing shippers to convert more of their cargo from roads and highways to the tracks.

Many of the logistics providers the JOC surveyed believe their shipper customers are woefully unprepared.

“Even without the hurricane it still would have been difficult to get these loads moved.”

There is a rocky road ahead.

Improved performance is crucial for Europe rail to encourage more customers to switch from road transport, and new EU rules on coordinating infrastructure will help rail reliability.

A growing market share doesn’t translate to an improving economic environment and rising profits for the trucking business across Europe.

False logs are an "epidemic," and shippers are vulnerable, speakers tell the JOC Inland Distribution Conference. The latest federal data back them up.

GDL operates the largest container freight station at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT).

At the US-Mexican border, a long-term, costly imbalance in north- and southbound tractor-trailers threatens to slow cross-border supply chains.

A long-shot proposal has been floated to build a railroad that supporters say could make it quicker and cheaper to move cargo by land between Mexico’s Pacific and Gulf coasts than the Panama Canal.

The deal would complement MSC’s ZAO Container Terminal in Russia’s busiest port of St. Petersburg.

By volume, October railed containers totaled 62,091 TEU.

Based on “back-of-the-envelope” analysis, the capacity of the domestic container fleet was slightly lower this year than during the peak month of November last year.

Container Corporation of India delivered solid results in the second fiscal quarter.

A survey of shippers and logistics service providers (LSPs) shows broad agreement truck capacity is getting tighter, but the LSPs expect rates to rise higher next year than shippers anticipate. Electronic logging devices may be a reason.

Anheuser-Busch InBev seeks a special ingredient that would make its supply chain flow as smoothly and freely as lager from a tap: dynamic, real-time shipment data.

There’s plenty of innovation and potential pitfalls coming down the tracks.

It is the second straight quarter of double-digit gains for the company.

Bangladesh is India’s seventh-largest trading partner by volume.

As the Dec. 18 ELD mandate draws closer, Ryder System said it will equip all of its rental trucks with portable ELDs, helping short-term truck renters comply with the law.

E-commerce is accelerating, underpinning an uptick in global trade and US economic growth, XPO's Jacobs said.

Double stacking trains is more efficient than single stacking trains and increases the capacity and the economies of scale of each train.

Purchased transportation costs rose steadily in the third quarter.

As intermodal rail container and trailer volumes hit historic highs, pressure, that may lift pricing in 2018 and beyond, is building.

Houston is adjusting operations and investing heavily in infrastructure to meet heightened competition for US resin exports.

Growth in truckload pricing is accelerating.

Latest Teamsters organizing effort focuses on changing owner-operator model and federal pollution rules governing ports.

More complex supply chains and faster fulfillment demands create opportunity for logistics "insourcing" among shippers, Haversack Logistics founder says.

“Last year, there were hardly any robberies.”

China had planned to divert 15 percent of its overall container flows between it and Europe.

Moves to shift European cargo from truck to rail ignores the fact that shippers choose their transport mode based on their individual supply chain needs.

Continued slow growth in the global economy suppressed revenue at the world’s top 50 transportation service providers.

CSX Transportation discontinued more domestic intermodal services in an overhaul to build cargo density amid peak season.

Third-quarter earnings reports reveal across-the-board increases in transportation rates, with little sign pressure will ease soon.

A shortage of rail cars has caused Russian rail rates to surge.

Savannah rail project promises two-day faster hinterland transits to Southeast and Midwest shippers.

Rhenus has opened two new hubs in Europe to handle the growing cargo volumes at its air and ocean divisions.

The second-largest US provider of chassis, Direct ChassisLink Inc., has agreed to acquire the domestic fleet of the sector’s top provider.

The ports’ sheer volume of cargo, and more importantly, the container moves per vessel call, are where the problem starts.