The board of the Virginia Port Authority voted unanimously to extend the contract of its top executive for another three years.

Hundreds of people showed up Aug. 2 for a chance to pack and ship products to Amazon customers, as the e-commerce company held a giant job fair at nearly a dozen U.S. warehouses.

CSX’s efforts to streamline its operations have brought complaints from customers about deteriorating service. But the head of the railroad is blaming the problems on resistance to change within the company.

Great Lakes Basin Transportation entered its response July 31 to opposition groups’ arguments that its application to build a 271-mile freight railroad from northwest Indiana to southeast Wisconsin should be rejected.

Matson Inc. sailed over a shallow trough of lower Hawaii cargo shipments to produce a 33% profit gain in the second quarter largely driven by enhanced business in China and Alaska.

Ryder System Inc. will provide dedicated transportation, logistics and fleet management for Mattel Inc. at the toy maker’s Jonestown, Pa., distribution center.

General Electric Co. plans to end most locomotive manufacturing at a century-old Pennsylvania factory as the company looks to cut costs amid a sharp downturn in the domestic rail market.

A growing U.S. economy sparked a jump in fuel demand from companies and travelers in June, which may help to ease a persistent supply glut.

His tiny company, Plug Power Inc., makes hydrogen fuel cells, and for years he struggled to find customers. No longer. In April, Amazon.com Inc. agreed to try out the technology in forklift fleets at 10 of its warehouses.

Amazon.com Inc. reminded investors that luring shoppers away from stores and dominating the cloud-computing industry isn’t cheap.