Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Customs and Border Protection is short-handed.

The industrial commodities sector that fuels factory production is sending worrisome signs to a global shipping business concerned with whether the economy is passing through a proverbial soft patch o

Manufacturing growth in the United States accelerated in June for the first time in five months, according to the Institute of Supply Management’s PMI report, bolstering hopes that a spring slow

The Gartner research group raised its projection for global IT spending this year, saying the industry is absorbing the impact of Japan’s natural disasters and now will grow 7.1 percent in 2011.

The Department of Transportation on Thursday announced a slightly scaled-down version of its popular TIGER transportation infrastructure grant program for 2011.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is adopting a five-year strategic plan that looks beyond truck and bus companies to include shippers and brokers in attempts to improve highway safety.&

Mexico may increase the $2.4 billion in punitive tariffs it places on select U.S. goods if the Obama administration fails to implement a cross-border trucking program.

Japan’s slumping exports to the rest of the world have begun to show clear signs of recovery for the first time since the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit the northeastern part of the cou

The Amtrak passenger system is borrowing $562.9 million in the largest-ever credit issued by a federal rail loan program to buy 70 locomotives for two high-density traffic corridors in the Northeast.<

Business groups rushed to praise new efforts to approve long-stalled free trade agreements with

Opponents of a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico fear it will draw thousands of Mexican truckers into the U.S., threatening American jobs.

Christopher J. Connor has been named chief commercial officer for the global organization of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, and Raymond F. Fitzgerald has been named president of WWL Americas.

The Maritime Administration and Customs and Border Protection are offering 48-hour expedited processing of Jones Act waivers for parties that purchase oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has made $5 million available to North Dakota in quick-release road repair funds, while President Obama&rsquo;s disaster declarations for several states means they

Two years ago the U.S. adopted international standards for regulating exhaust emissions from ships.

The Coalition for Responsible Transportation, the Environmental Defense Fund, and U.S.

Japanese export ship orders fell in May for the first time in 18 months on a year-on-year basis, sliding 41 percent to 551,270 tons, according the Japan Ship Exporters Association.

Global demand for softwood number jumped 18 percent last year after plunging to a 50-year low in 2009, and lumber prices in North America, Asia and Europe are at 10-month highs, Wood Resource Quarterl

Federal truck safety penalties against motor carriers jumped 23 percent in 2010, according to data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Canada Post ended its 12-day lockout this weekend, sending thousands of Canadian postal service mail sorters back to work Monday to prepare for mail delivery Tuesday.

Consumer spending was flat last month and dropped 0.1 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars, the Commerce Department said in a report indicating high gasoline prices and unemployment levels are slowin

Japan and Singapore will recognize their respective trade security and facilitation programs, commonly called Authorized Economic Operator programs, under a new agreement.

One group watching international economy drivers says it already sees worrying signs in China&rsquo;s economy.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks programs are nearing the end of their first phase, and despite many controversies, the initiatives exceeded all expectations and have set new standards for redu

Two months after the September 11 attacks, Customs and Border Protection struck a bargain with the trade community: Companies would secure their supply chains against possible terrorist incursion, and

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On a bright spring day in Taipei, groups of camera-toting foreign tourists are standing atop the long row of steps leading into the massive Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, a white marble structure with

There have been plenty of words, warnings and venting as freight shippers and railroads vie to win over rail regulators who could overhaul decades of federal policies.

The U.S. and European Union plan to implement mutual recognition of their supply chain security programs by the end of October, according to a statement signed on Thursday.

The Department of Energy reversed its position within 24 hours on the use of Jones Act vessels for transportation of crude oil purchased by parties from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

A new agreement between Norfolk Southern Railway and the Illinois Department of Transportation will allow work to start on a Chicago rail project at what industry officials call one of the nation&rsqu

U.S. steel Imports increased by 5.6 percent in May from April, according to preliminary government figures.

New orders for U.S. manufactured goods rose 1.9 percent in May, buoyed by a jump in aircraft sales, and the Commerce Department revised its estimate of first quarter GDP growth.

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The Obama administration will release 30 million barrels of crude oil from the U.S.

Leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are ready to introduce a new surface transportation bill, but want a commitment from the Senate Finance Committee to find a way to pay for

European Union trust busters launched an investigation into whether a $322 million rescue of French shipping company SeaFrance by state-owned railway SNCF breached state aid rules.

East and Gulf Coast ports, predicting they will increase their share of the U.S.-Asia trade when the Panama Canal expansion is complete in three years, made a big pitch to industrial real estate devel

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Holt Logistics plans to build the largest rooftop solar installation in North America at its Gloucester Marine Terminal in New Jersey in partnership with SunPower.