Transport, Trade and Regulation News

For everyone from truckers to railroads to port operators who wondered when Washington might finally decide to craft new long-term surface transportation legislation, President Obama and the new Congr

It’s been five years since the Florida Department of Transportation first ventured into private financing for public infrastructure, and it now has nearly $4 billion on the books.

With three major truck safety initiatives under way, the Department of Transportation is pursuing an ambitious plan to reshape not only how it enforces compliance with its regulations but also how the

The Export-Import Bank of the United States is accelerating its efforts to get small businesses in the export game, but supporters in industry say the bank needs to make changes to extend its reach.

Let the legislative games begin: Even before federal rail regulators start what is likely to be a long, hard slog to tighten oversight of railroads, all sides are maneuvering to control the debate in

If anyone thought President Obama would tuck his embattled intercity passenger rail program into a bureaucratic corner and see it dry up, the president has a far different message.

The U.S. and Canada agreed Friday to work more closely together to better focus infrastructure investment needed to speed cross-border trade.

The Surface Transportation Board is delaying until June 22 from May 3 a public hearing on "the current state of competition in the railroad industry," acting on

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says there's a "strong possibility" Congress will send a surface transportation bill to President Obama sooner rather than later.

Cross-border trade, security and energy will top the agenda Friday when President Barack Obama meets Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The Department of Transportation could lose some $4 billion in discretionary spending after House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., on Thursday instructed subcommittees to cut $74 b

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 9 percent last month but January snowstorms produced the smallest increase in jobs in four months.

U.S. Steel appointed Malisa J. Sommers managing director of transportation and president of Transtar, the company’s transportation subsidiary, effective Feb. 1.

Major U.S. retailers reported above-expected January sales, despite bad weather in much of the country and continuing concerns about high unemployment and a slow economic recovery.

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Trade between the United States and India jumped 31 percent year-over-year in the first 11 months of 2010, driven largely by increased imports from India.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States is ready with financing and support for U.S.

The Environmental Protection Agency will review whether a waiver applies to rules set by the California Air Resources Board on cargo handling equipment

Jacobson Companies, a global 3PL headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, is expanding into Europe with the help of a strategic partnership with Rhenus Logistics, a $3.7 billion logistics service provider b

The federally subsidized Build America Bonds that states, cities and agencies could issue under the 2009 economic stimulus package, generated sales totaling $181.3 billion before their bond program ex

The value of U.S. trade using surface transportation to and from Canada and Mexico was 15.5 percent higher in November than a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported Tuesday.

Manufacturing activity in January reached its highest level since May 2004 and posted its 18th consecutive year-to-year increase, the Institute of Supply Management reported.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is gathering international support for an all-modes "trusted shipper"

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The Department of Transportation on Monday proposed all trucking companies be required to install electronic onboard recorders to monitor driver hours of service.

Long-stalled legislation to fund operations of the Federal Aviation Administration got under way again in the 112th Congress.

Distribution center giants ProLogis and AMB Property announced an agreement Monday to merge their businesses, bringing 600 million square feet of warehouse space in 22 countries under one corporate ro

It’s not quite 2008 again, but heads up: After two years of relative stability, transportation fuel prices are creeping back up, raising costs across the supply chain and concerns that the heavi

When it comes to transportation policy issues in Washington, freight shippers want it all.

Barely two weeks into his first term, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder threw his support behind a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, giving new hope to supporters.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica and several other key members of that panel from both political parties are warning the Surface Transportation Board against taking

Chairmen of the Federal Maritime Commission on Feb. 2 will take part in a roundtable to discuss the agency's past, present and future.

Because of the heavy winter storms that hit the U.S. Northeast region this week, including the area surrounding our printing plant, delivery of the Jan.

Amazon.com will add an unspecified number of distribution centers this year as the online retailing giant tries to keep up with growing demand for its expanding lineup of products.

Hostility toward proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules could come to a boil at a Feb. 17 public hearing with federal regulators in Arlington, Va.

Damco, the logistics unit of A.P. Moller-Maersk, formed a joint venture with General Holding Corporation to provide logistics and forwarding services to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

Consumer spending and exports fueled 3.2 percent growth in the U.S. economy during the fourth quarter, completing a year in which the economy grew 2.9 percent, the Commerce Department said.

Key senators who tried to push rail regulatory legislation in the last Congress re-introduced those measures this week, with one trying to toughen broad oversight powers while the other would strip ra

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica took Amtrak to task in a field hearing Thursday in New York City, saying the passenger rail agency "will never be capable

Spain became the first country to ratify the Rotterdam Rules, a new international agreement governing liability for damages to