Transport, Trade and Regulation News

U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., said the U.S.

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U.S. consumer sentiment fell this month to its lowest level since March 2009, reflecting depressed income and low employment levels, a widely watched survey reported.

Maersk Line, Ltd., won a multi-year contract valued at up to $126 million to operate and maintain five container and roll-on, roll-off ships for the U.S. Navy.

U.S manufacturing activity was flat in June, the Federal Reserve said, although utility and mining output pushed overall indust

Semiconductor manufacturers are raising their projections for industry shipments in 2011, forecasting sales will grow 5.4 percent over l

Lawmakers will have to cut through a knot of "confusing, contradictory" rules to establish effective regulations co

Damco, the logistics arm of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, will manage Marks & Spencer’s mainland China hub operation, as the British retail giant diverts cargo from its U.K.

European Union competition regulators launched an investigation into public loans to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport

Retail sales rose 0.1 percent in June as a rise in spending at automobile dealerships and chain stores offset a drop in gasoline prices, the Commerce Department said.

An index of manufacturing activity grew more slowly during the last three months but indicated expansion for the seventh consecutive quarter.

E-commerce giant eBay and consumer products manufacturer Newell Rubbermaid are taking ownership stakes in Shipwire, giving the shippers strong roles in the management of the growing outsourced distrib

Freight carried by for-hire transportation carriers declined 1.8 percent in May from April to its lowest level since November, the Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Ind

The Department of Transportation’s payments to states for infrastructure work funded by the 2009 stimulus law reached $29.6 billion by the end of June, with thousands more road and rail construc

Prologis, the world’s largest industrial property developer, said Monday it has signed four new lease agreements with third-party logistics providers totaling about 723,000 square feet of distri

President Obama is keeping his message about improving the nation’s transportation infrastructure front-and-center, using debate on the federal budget deficit to say a debt deal with Congress co

Major railroads are warning customers that shipment delays, detours and track outages from the flooding Missouri River could last weeks longer, suggesting the river will have disrupted

Congressional committees moved three long-stalled free trade agreements closer to ratification as members held a “mock markups” for implementing the bills Thursday.

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Democrats wasted no time Thursday in denouncing House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jo

House Republicans on Thursday unveiled a $210 billion, six-year surface transportation bill they said could be leveraged to $450 billion, setting up a showdown with highway advocates and Democrats who

The Cass Freight Index for U.S.

The regulator of economic disputes between railroads and their freight shippers has slashed its filing fee structure, meaning rail customers can file a major challenge to freight rates for $350 instea

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Japan’s exports of agricultural, fishery and forestry products fell for the second straight month in May on a year-over-year basis, plunging 16.6 percent to 30.6 billion yen ($382.5 million), ac

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., on Thursday will try again to bridge a partisan gap in a push to develop legislation that would implement critical and controversial free trade a

Third-party logistics provider Echo Global Logistics expanded in the Southwest by acquiring Advantage Transport, a non-asset truck brokerage firm in Phoenix.

A long-awaited transportation bill will make its debut Thursday when the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee releases a "responsible, multimodal" spending plan likely to c

U.S. service industries expanded for the 19th straight month in June but growth slowed from May, the Institute for Supply Management said.

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Factory orders by U.S. businesses grew 0.8 percent in May, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a report that suggests improving confidence in the economy following a slowdown in the spring.

Exporting companies are starting to see the fruits of the Obama administration’s effort to streamline and modernize the outdated export control system.

There’s an odd disconnect in Washington these days — even odder than usual — on how, and how much, to invest in transportation infrastructure.

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

Customs and Border Protection is short-handed.

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.