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The North American Free Trade Agreement’s cross-border freight growth of 3.2 percent in 2015 — representing 14.7 million truck and rail containers crossing both borders — exceeds the global ocean container trade’s weak gain of 1.3 percent in the same period.

Trucking firms in Russia are consolidating and expanding their services in a bid to remain competitive with containerized rail transportation.

Reliable, time-guaranteed freight service is becoming the new mantra for Indian Railways.

The legislation would implement a new preclearance agreement.

The potential impact of China’s Belt and Road initiative is starting to emerge.

Shippers, especially retailers, want better end-to-end visibility to better manage inventory, but they need to connect gaps in their supply chains.

An online marketplace for dynamic less-than-truckload spot rates is expanding rapidly as technology helps shippers, carriers meet goals.

A new Panama Canal container route to the U.S. Gulf from Asia will replace and build on an intermodal rail service that Maersk Line launched via Mexico.

Canadian freight operator Manitoulin Global Forwarding added temperature-controlled trucking to its portfolio.

The NFI Industries case is unusual, but not the first such whistleblower action in trucking.

Competition in the soft market means lower domestic intermodal rates for shippers today, but a peak season turnaround — when volumes are expected to accelerate back to 2015 levels — could end historically low pricing.

The Port of Virginia has closed its Virginia International Gateway terminal to inbound truck traffic.

The spring freight bounce fell flat for the Phoenix-based trucking company.

Canadian National Railway announced Tuesday that chief executive officer Claude Mongeau will step down at the end of June, just months after returning to the railroad’s helm following treatment for a throat tumor.

At the U.S.-Canadian border, rising truck volumes are a welcome sign of economic improvement. But an 8 percent increase in truck crossings in Detroit in the first quarter also raises concerns about the speed and fluidity of cross-border freight traffic.

The Port of Oakland’s largest terminal operator is addressing looming congestion problems by preparing to charge a fee to support night gates.

Kansas City Southern Railway cross-border and domestic shippers are grappling with disruptions.

An inter-terminal truck transfer system at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has had success.

The U.S. employment numbers for May highlight a rift in transportation hiring.

Less-than-truckload shipments only inched upward in May.

Schneider acquires two companies.

The Teamsters union is accelerating its efforts to organize harbor truck drivers in Southern California.

A surge in auto exports, as well as other goods, helped lift trucking activity at the three largest U.S.-Canada border crossings.

Russia is making it easier for shippers to secure spot containerized rail transport.

The battle over truck driver hours-of-service and the 34-hour restart will likely roll into a House-Senate conference committee this summer.

A container block train bound for Duisburg in Germany pulled out of the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi at the weekend, the latest milestone in the development of China-Europe container rail links.

Switzerland will open the world’s longest rail tunnel June.

Some truckers working at the Port of New York and New Jersey are turning away from the leasing system that dominates the industry.

An increase in Asian freight shipped straight to Mexico means fewer trucks heading south from the U.S., tighter capacity for northbound shipments.

By many accounts, the U.S. is in a freight recession. So why are regional less-than-truckload carriers building terminals, expanding into new territories and adding customers?

"I think that's not something we didn't expect," Canadian Pacific Railway Chief Executive Officer E. Hunter Harrison said Wednesday in New York City at a conference hosted by transportation research firm Wolfe Research.

Higher U.S. diesel prices and fuel surcharges may threaten transportation savings.

Freight costing "is a huge challenge," Estes Express Lines' chief operating officer told a technology conference.

A rule change that enters force September 1 in Russia threatens shippers and foreign over-the-road transportation companies with increased costs.

Estes Express will roll out Estes Final Mile by the end of 2016, as e-commerce grows and traditional freight markets stagnate.

Trucking, shipping interests attack use of data they call flawed in proposed motor carrier ratings.

India’s port connectivity infrastructure, which is a source of regular frustration for shippers and logistics providers, should show some improvement in the coming years.

Fulfilling orders from supplier warehouses are likely to shift freight patterns and increase home-delivery demand.

Despite "positive" economic indicators, freight volumes seem stuck at a "standstill."

UPS partners with SAP to bring 3-D printing to more manufacturing supply chains.