Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Japan and India will sign a free trade agreement Wednesday to eliminate import tariffs on most products traded between the two giant Asian economies, the Japanese government announced Tuesday.

The Department of Transportation's budget would increase 66 percent to $128 billion under the president's proposed 2012 budget

The Army Corps of Engineers will have nearly $1 billion cut from 2010 expenditures for civil works, and what money remains will be concentrated on waterways and harbors with the greatest levels of com

The president's 2012 budget proposes a modest increase for the Department of Homeland Security, up 0.7 percent to $43.2 bill

The budget plan President Obama sent to Congress would sharply expand the Department of Transportation's discretionary grants program, which covers multi-modal construction projects, and would create

A strong majority of Americans want better roads and bridges, but they want someone else to pay for them, according to a survey released Monday.

President Obama is asking Congress for a six-year surface transportation spending plan that would spend $556 billion, including a $50 billion quick-start investment piece similar to what he proposed i

What do a crushed stone supplier in Texas, automobile producers across the U.S. and the Washington state potato industry have in common?

Janet Napolitano is taking her message about global supply chain security on the road — and across the oceans.

Even before regulators consider bringing various “exempt” rail shippers under federal processes that allow them to file rate and service complaints against railroads, the Department of Tra

A year ago, Customs and Border Protection promised to take a new route to completing the Automated Commercial Environment.

The last five years produced a high, low and then a rebound in merger and acquisition activity in the transportation and logistics markets.

A former House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee staff member faces up to seven years in prison after

Importers would see a 60 percent increase in transportation taxes if Congress approves a measure aimed at raising revenue for national freight transportation.

The Federal Maritime Commission on Feb. 16 will take up the thorny question of exempting non-vessel-operating common carriers from maintaining published tariffs.

Rising prices for imported crude oil caused the U.S. trade deficit in December to increase 5.9 percent from the previous month, the Commerce Department said.

Amazon.com says it will close its distribution center in Irving, Texas, because the state is demanding the Internet retailer pay $269 million in sales taxes.

Looking to cut landed costs, ARCOP announced in November 2010 it had selected Transplace as its 3PL to manage shipments throughout the United States.

The global economic downturn halted, at least for a time, the moves by many companies to manage the movements of goods through supply chains under the principles of total landed costs.

GT Nexus defines landed costs as “the sum of all expenses to purchase, transport and import goods from one place to another, within a country or across continents, including border fees, duties,

Congress may tackle an overhaul of the tangled transportation security credentialing system.

The number of people filing for state unemployment benefits dropped to a two-and-a-half-year low last week, the Labor Department said in a report that indicated the U.S.

Italian authorities are looking for a way of disposing of a container containing radioactive material that has been sitting on the dock at the port of Genoa for more than six months.

DP World opened a new inland container terminal in ceremonies Thursday in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., Wednesday introduced legislation to reduce truck pollution at container ports -- and to make it easier for the Teamsters union to organize harbor truck drivers.

What is being billed as a “common sense” bill to reduce regulatory burdens would remove a congressionally-imposed December 2015 deadline for railroads to deploy positive train control technology on ro

The Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Index, which measures shipment volume in ton-miles, rose 1.5 percent in December from its November level.

An advocacy group for energy security is calling for a national transportation policy that emphasizes market-based incentives to reduce energy consumption.

The Federal Maritime Commission's inquiry into the effects of slow steaming on the maritime marketplace is officially under way. The commission announced the study at its meeting Jan.

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday morning announced the Obama administration's plan to continue construction of a national high-speed and intercity passenger

President Obama on Monday carried forward themes of innovation, education and infrastructure construction to turn the U.S. from a consumer economy to one that’s based on selling goods to the world.

ProLogis and AMB Property will combine their business, but what they really need is for the logistics market itself to get bigger

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