Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., presided over the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, at times speaking fluent French to equal parts amusement and annoyance of his audience.

The Maritime Administration on Thursday announced three public meetings in February 2011 to gather local views to shape future transportation and investment policy for the Great Lakes.

The Department of Transportation wrapped up negotiations with Alabama and Tennessee for a $105 million federal stimulus grant to help build intermodal terminals for Norfolk Southern Railway’s Cr

The incoming chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said the federal and state governments should increase existing highway capacity rather than spend millions for expanded

A coalition of prominent transport trade groups is warning that a change to House rules proposed by Republicans may undermine spending from the Highway Trust Fund.

The Department of Transportation signed an implementing agreement for the big Colton Crossing project to use a $33.8 million stimulus

The maritime community has until Dec.

Caterpillar Logistics Services is expanding its reach in the Middle East with a new 450,000-square-foot parts distribution center in Dubai, part of what the company says is a larger global expansion e

Federal transportation regulators released a long-anticipated proposal Thursday that would overhaul work rules for truck drivers, but the long-anticipated proposal puts off a decision on whether

Federal Maritime Commissioner Rebecca F.

New orders for commercial aircraft and parts plummeted $6.6 billion in November, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Thursday.

Two bills that could have had significant consequences for the supply chain died quietly as the 111th Congress adjourned Wednesday.

Sales of previously owned homes, a key indicator for containerized import volume, in November rose 5.7 percent from the previous month but remained at the lowest levels in more than a decade.

It's not just shoppers spending heavily ahead of the holidays. The Department of Transportation said it sent states another $401 million in the week ending Dec.

Nike took a hit on Wall Street on Thursday as the sporting goods and apparel maker said rising costs in transportation as well as commodities would hurt profit margins in coming months.

Japan’s recovery kicked into high gear in November as exports and imports not only grew but grew faster for the first time in months.

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The House on Tuesday passed legislation by a 215-144 margin that will give the Food and Drug Administration greater authority over the food chain.

The owner and operator of the container ship NYK Meteor paid $38,500 on four counts of violating speed restrictions imposed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The House this week may put the final stamp of approval to legislation that will give the Food and Drug Administration greater authority over the food chain.

The House on Tuesday approved reauthorization of a popular program aimed at reducing emissions from diesel engines. The Diesel Emissions Reduction Act now goes to the president for signing.

Business Roundtable named former Michigan Governor John Engler as its president, effective Jan. 15, 2011. Engler, 62, succeeds John Castellani.

President Obama said he will nominate Ann Begeman, the Republican staff director at the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, to be the third member of the Surface Transportation Boa

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For several years, the $35 billion loan pool known as the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program has sat largely unused despite pleas by small railroads to make its credit more avai

As 2010 runs out of road, CSA 2010 is getting a name change.

Nine months after launching a high-profile investigation into pricing and service disputes between shippers and carriers that boiled over last spring, the Federal Maritime Commission remedy appears to

The public debut of CSA 2010 sent up red — or orange — flags across the trucking industry and among shippers, freight brokers and even on Wall Street.

The cynics among export control advocates say many presidential administrations promise reform, few get started and none finish the task.

After a painful fall and a slow climb back, U.S.

BNSF Railway says shifting cross-border train inspections from its “rudimentary” facilities inside Texas to better sites in Mexico would reduce congestion as well as “risk in the wor

Short line railroads and producers of biodiesel fuel sold at truck stops are among the winners in the giant tax cut package that President Obama signed into law Dec. 17.

The White House Council on Environmental Quality on Thursday announced 13 steps the government will take in 2011 to prevent the spread of Asian carp into the Great Lakes.

Two closely watched measures of future economic activity suggest the U.S. economy will recover in 2011, a development that would support rising freight transportation volumes.

When President Obama in March announced the National Export Initiative, skeptics scoffed at his goal of doubling U.S. exports as unrealistic.

India and China reached an agreement Thursday to boost trade between the countries to $100 billion by 2015 and accelerate investment flows, the countries announced in a joint statement.

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman-designate John Mica, R-Fla., on Thursday named 20 new committee members to join 12 Republican veterans.

U.S. manufacturing activity is decelerating but should continue to grow modestly next year, the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI reported in its quarterly report on the outlook for 27 major industries.

The House Democratic Caucus on Thursday named Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D-W.Va., ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Saddle Creek, a Lakeland, Fla.-based 3PL, plans to expand its integrated logistics services with the acquisition this week of ProLog Logistics, a warehousing and fulfillment company headquartered in S