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The Obama administration’s proposed budget for 2012 includes an ambitious plan to collapse a diverse menu of Department of Transportation highway programs into five broad categories and a nation

Nine years after first making loans, the federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing program is stumbling.

The murder of four Americans last month on a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates was an especially ugly reminder of the risks to vessels operating anywhere near East Africa.

Even as Florida was finally shedding $2.4 billion in federal grants for a high-speed passenger rail project the governor killed,

Participation in the Customs-Trade Partnership grew at an average rate of 7.5 percent per year for the past three years, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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After Florida's Supreme Court upheld Gov.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin is making a high-level shuffle of executives to give the agency’s trade facilitation and enforcement divisions a better understanding of each oth

Transportation costs could rise as much as 20 percent if the Department of Transportation cuts the time truck drivers may spend behind the wheel, the National Retail Federation says.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 14-1 to approve the Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act, the latest effort by Sen.

Business interests hailed a U.S.-Mexico agreement on cross-border trucking that is sure to be

The U.S. and Mexico reached a preliminary agreement on resolving a cross-border trucking dispute that led to $2.4 billion in Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods.

Large retailers reported higher-than-expected sales increases in February, a sign that consumers remain optimistic despite rising gas prices and continued high unemployment.

AMB Property, the U.S.-based industrial real estate group, and Germany's Allianz Real Estate formed a $648 million joint venture to invest in trade related logistics properties in the eurozone.

The House voted, 421 to four, to extend federal surface transportation spending programs at current levels through the 2011 budget year that ends in September.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will begin late this month to write its next six-year surface transportation legislation, said Chairman John Mica, R-Fla.

Americans took to the road in increasing numbers last year, taking advantage of relatively low fuel prices as increased confidence in the economic recovery.

Nearly 150 members of Congress urged the Obama administration to drop its proposed hours-of-service rule and keep the current work rules for truck drivers.

India plans to spend an estimated $47 billion on infrastructure development during fiscal 2011-12 to accelerate economic growth and expand global trade.

French trucking, logistics and forwarding company Norbert Dentressangle reported higher profit and revenue for 2010 and said it expects its $310 million

A standoff ended Tuesday between the departments of Transportation and Energy over the use of U.S.-flag vessels to transport goods purchased with DOE loan guarantees.

The Surface Transportation Board's current sole Republican member, Vice Chairman Charles D.

Trade using surface transportation between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico posted a year-to-year gain of 13.8 percent to $66.5 million in December, the Transportation Department reported.

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Amazon.com will build a 1 million-square-foot logistics center in Rheinberg, Germany, in the western part of the country, scaling up the online retailer’s distribution capacity in Europe.

Kuehne+Nagel reported 2010 net profit grew 28.7 percent from the previous year on sharply higher ocean and air freight volumes and gave an upbeat assessment of prospects for 2011.

U.S. steel imports increased month-to-month 9.4 percent in January from December, according to preliminary government data.

NYK Logistics (Americas) announced Monday that Michael Noone is joining the company as chief operations officer on March 1.

Mississippi engine importer PowerTrain and its Wood Sales Company and Tool Mart operations will pay a $2 million civil penalty to settle federal claims that it sold nearly 80,000 non-road engines and

The American Trucking Associations is raising the ante in its challenge to the science behind proposed new truck driver hours of service rules with a statement that studies linking length of sleep tim

The Federal Maritime Commission on Friday posted on its Web site a final version of its proposed rules

Damco, the logistics arm of A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, improved pre-tax earnings 89 percent to $85 million in 2010 before restructuring and other one-off charges.

Transportation consultant Ron Sucik has been tracking the transloading of Asian imports from marine containers into domestic containers in Southern California for a decade, and he has seen transload v

The critical feature of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposal on hours-of-service isn’t necessarily the potential reduction from 11 to 10 hours.

When Florida Gov.

The Department of Homeland Security is calling out the dogs.

There’s a new yardstick for capacity among the many figures the shipping world uses to measure available space: hours.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he is giving Florida Gov.

Port authorities in Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia are joining the Coalition for Responsible Transportation, giving the

Proposed cuts in the port security grant program this year could leave some port areas at risk, said the American Association of Port Authorities.