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Managing freight and logistics costs will be more difficult in 2005 than ever. Not only will the strong demand that surfaced in 2004 continue to drive rates higher in nearly [...]

Driven by a fear of overcapacity, shipping lines this spring slashed their rates on imports from Asia by several hundred dollars per container. Now, with cargo volumes unexpectedly robust through [...]

Shipping lines in the eastbound Pacific are bracing for a decline in freight rates this spring as they enter into contract negotiations with shippers, but the import trade from Asia [...]

Catholic Relief Services' agent in Mombasa was in a quandary. Shipments of U.S. food aid were arriving in containers, and the steamship lines were charging an extra fee for stripping [...]

Q: I've declined 2-year-old original collect freight bills (six bills totaling $24,645) from a major railroad for shipments from Canada to a point in the upper Midwest U.S. based on [...]

Surprise visitors arrived at the headquarters of Horizon Lines, Sea Star Line and Crowley Maritime on April 17, 2008. Armed with subpoenas, FBI agents carted off boxfuls of documents, computers, [...]

Q: We have a carrier who is using a factoring company for its freight bills. We, of course, ordinarily remit payment to the factoring company, not the carrier. But the [...]

After nearly two years of tortured debate in the shipping world over freight transport prices, you can forgive carriers across the modes if they're a bit surprised over the latest [...]

Ocean carrier visions of multiple peak-season surcharges in the eastbound Pacific are vanishing as imports from Asia level off and the market returns to reality. Supply-demand economics in the Asia-to-U.S. [...]

Back in the 1960s when containerization was in its infancy, shipping executives had grave doubts about containers. That wasn't simply because shipping is a conservative industry and containers were new, [...]

While most of the country wilts under stifling heat, U.S. exporters shipping to Asia are enjoying a rather pleasant summer. Freight rates are stable, and shipping space and equipment are [...]

Q: I ordered goods from a company and paid both the cost of the goods and the freight. The company is now 'gone,' and the trucking company is demanding I [...]

Geoffrey Giovanetti keeps close tabs on the tippling tastes of American oenophiles. And as managing director of the Wine and Spirit Shippers Association, his business has been good this year. [...]

Deep discounting slashed less-than-truckload rates in the third quarter as carriers tried to knock the nation's largest LTL trucker, YRC Worldwide, out of business. No one delivered that knockout punch, leaving [...]

By David Hannon Ocean freight buyers are in a tight spot right now. On one hand, many carriers are saying that their current rates have sunk to levels that are [...]

By Tom Stundza Shipments of steel and aluminum products by Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) members remained weak in the U.S. and Canada in May while inventories at metals service [...]

By David Hannon The Baltic Exchange's Capesize Index spiked in June to levels not seen since last September and more than 10 times the index's reading in early December, fueling [...]

By David Hannon In the long-term, overcapacity in the truckload market could be shed by 2010, pushing truckload rates up and more volumes to intermodal. But freight buyers have some [...]

By David Hannon Less-than-truckload shippers that are frustrated by rates that escalate beyond what they would typically pay for a truckload shipment in the same lane now have an option. [...]

By David Hannon 1.2% Drop in BTS' latest Freight Transportation Services Index Source: Bureau of Transportation Services WHAT IT MEANS: That decline pushes the index to its lowest level in [...]

Staff A recent survey from Transport Capital Partners found that spot prices for truckload services have ticked up in the second quarter, but contract truckload rates continue to trend well [...]

Title XI could figure in economic stimulus Government policy to address the nationOs economic ills could be a boon for the U.S. maritime industry, according to maritime attorney Rolf Marshall. [...]

As the industry prepares to close the books on a dismal 2008, thereOs already speculation about which companies will still be standing at the end of 2009. If anyone has [...]

As much as Alaska's infamous 'bridges to nowhere' costing hundreds of millions of dollars came to epitomize all that was wrong with the nation's spending priorities, there is another that [...]

When ocean carriers approach Southern California harbor trucking companies for rate quotes, the truckers have a stock answer: 'We don't know what our rates are going to be this year.' [...]

Executive managing director www.naaai.com For whom the bell tolls . . . After more than a decade of declining export ocean freight rates, the tide has finally turned. U.S. export [...]

U.S. and European companies have beaten a path to China to take advantage of low manufacturing costs. A new report by Boston Consulting Group asserts that retailers and manufacturers may [...]

While attending the recent Coalition of New England Companies for Trade conference, one speaker discussed the difficulties of some of his constituents. These were officials of power plants moving coal [...]

For T. Parker Host Inc., getting short-sea shipping under way is a matter of time and money. Host is a long-established ship agency and brokerage in Norfolk, Va. The company [...]

Port Authority Holds Up Sale Of NYCT: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is withholding approval of the sale of New York Container Terminal on Staten Island [...]

Three months into 2007, we've had no shortage of transportation news. There's been the difficult birth of the TWIC card, the surge of interest in environmental issues, the change in [...]

Luis Ceja has driven his own truck in Los Angeles-Long Beach for 20 years. He says the pay is bad, the hours are long, and he has no health and [...]

Senate Passes Security Bill: The Senate approved broad legislation to bolster efforts by state and local governments to fight terrorists within U.S. borders. Hurdles remain for the bill, which would [...]

When they wanted to get a handle on the future, the ancient Greeks consulted the oracle at Delphi, the Romans read the omens in the entrails of a sheep or [...]

If the proposed 2007 rate increases and the confident talk of the carriers putting them in play are any indication, one would expect continuation of a 'seller's' market for U.S. [...]

If you're looking for word on THE top story for 2007, don't look here. After Sept. 11, 2001, everyone was focused on supply-chain security. After the supply-chain delays of 2004, [...]

Consolidation could prove a silver bullet this year for a trucking industry battling a slowing economy, weak prices and cooling demand for freight service that began in 2006. While shippers [...]

Looking back on 2006, the first thing that strikes me is how fast it seems to have come and gone. Besides that, however, what happened in 2006? Focusing on the [...]

Pool distribution can reduce shipping and transport costs.A business arranges to have its products shipped from assembly lines to regional terminals operated by third parties. There, goods are sorted and [...]

With big profit growth under their belts, the nation's top less-than-truckload carriers are predicting likely rate increases this year as capacity remains in high demand in an expanding economy. 'I [...]

FedEx Freight said Thursday that its general rates would increase 5.9 percent as of July 22. The increase will cover the company's two independent operating units, FedEx Freight East and [...]

For months, U.S. importers had been looking forward to this year's contract negotiations with trans-Pacific container carriers. With big, new ships adding capacity, shippers expected favorable supply and demand to [...]