Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Japanese semiconductor maker Renesas Electronics said Wednesday it will resume production at its flagship Naka factory on June 1, much earlier than the previously planned June 15.

The amount of freight carried by for-hire carriers rose 1.9 percent in March from February to reach its highest level since July 2008, the Transportation Department reported.

A major retail shipper says ocean carriers have not stopped providing chassis for imported container moves despite widespread shipping company announcements and that he’ll try to opt out of any

Department of Transportation payouts to states for infrastructure projects from the 2009 stimulus law reached

Retailers and other beneficial cargo owners are citing cost containment as their top priority in negotiations with logistics providers, according to a warehouse industry executive.

Members of Congress are having second thoughts about the Transportation Worker Identification Credential system now that a Government Accountability Office report is questioning the effectiveness of t

The U.S. trade deficit rose 6 percent in March as higher oil prices offset rising exports fueled by demand for overseas autos, chemicals and machinery.

Rep. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., will re-introduce a bill Wednesday aimed at creating safer and more secure parking spaces for long-haul truck drivers.

Karl Gernandt will succeed Klaus-Michael Kuehne as chairman of German forwarder and logistics company Kuehne + Nagel.

A $14 million increase in fuel costs helped boost operating expenses at food service company Sysco 10.6 percent in the last quarter, cutting into the food service distributor's operating profit.

U.S. wholesalers’ inventories rose for the 15th straight month in March but sales grew even faster, signaling that companies will continue to add to stockpiles to meet demand.

China’s trade surplus jumped to $11.43 billion in April as surging exports outpaced import growth despite government efforts to shift the nation’s economy toward more domestic consumption.

One-third of Japanese firms expect to see their revenue and profit decline in the fiscal year 2011-2012 which started on April 1, due mainly to the impact of the devastating earthquake and tsunami tha

Japan’s economic growth will slow to 1.5 percent in inflation-adjusted terms this year from 3.9 percent last year, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific fore

Consumers are gradually becoming more willing to borrow and banks more willing to lend, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said in a report.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration wants to extend the deadline for its truck driver hours-of-service rule as it seeks additional comments.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, unveiling a shift in strategy for allocating federal rail spending, sent $2 billion on Monday to passenger networks around the country after Florida had rejected t

FedEx Express is building a Southeast Asia hub operation in Singapore that will become the carrier’s second-largest facility in Asia after its main sorting operation in Guangzhou, China.

CEVA Logistics reported its profit expansion accelerated in the first quarter, with the $102 million earnings growing 36.5 percent year-over-year on improving freight management margins up across the

If the Surface Transportation Board is inclined to impose new competition and shipper access rules on U.S. railroads, the Obama administration appears to be OK with it.

Embattled Horizon Lines says it is facing a “challenging” year for its operations even after dodging a debt default and bankruptcy filing thanks to a timely assist from the Justice Departm

It’s a strange anomaly that in this environmentally conscious, time-is-critical age when most trade processing is handled by computer, vessel operators still file manifests for ships leaving U.S

The National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America is cautioning the U.S.

The Global Cold Chain Alliance has signed a service partnership agreement with Cascade Energy.

In the first two months of 2011, Japanese consumers markedly increased their purchases of U.S. foods, spending 81 percent more on U.S.

When disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan strike, there is an immediate need for food, medicine and shelter to be sent to affected areas.

Drug and health care companies are being told that how you distribute products can be a billion-dollar decision.

The $6 billion refrigerated warehouse industry in the U.S.

The latest International Monetary Fund forecasts predict China’s economy may surpass that of the United States in real terms by 2016, coinciding with the end of the Socialist state’s 12th

Virginia is moving ahead with an intermodal freight strategy even as the federal government in large part is still talking about it.

Within the last year, Cincinnati-based Chiquita added 4,700 PrimeLINE units equipped with the QUEST power-saving mode to the 1,250 previously acquired for its banana fleet.

Sheila Taylor, who abruptly left as chief financial officer of trucker YRC Worldwide in March, will join CEVA Logistics in the top financial post of the company’s Americas division.

Flood waters on the Ohio River are high enough that barges can navigate over fixed dams, the Army Corps of Engineers reported Friday.

When BNSF Railway decides how to invest its money in infrastructure expansion, it looks to the marketplace for guidance.

The Department of Homeland Security, acting on intelligence seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout, is warning states and other federal agencies al Qaeda has been considering terror plots aga

Farmers in the mid-Mississippi River region report that the floods have causes little disruption to grain shipments, according to the Agriculture Transportation Coalition.

Widespread flooding across the U.S. inland river system is slowing some freight and passenger transportation systems, mainly with road closures but including some rail line outages.

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda asked other Asian countries Thursday to “react calmly, based on scientific facts” to rumors that Japanese products may be contaminated with radioac

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda proposed an “Asia Cargo Highway” as Asia’s long-term goal to create seamless flows of goods in the region.

The Obama administration has been floating draft language for surface transportation legislation that could lead to a tax on vehicle miles traveled, allow states to impose tolls on some existing inter