Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The Maritime Administration awarded two contracts totaling $3.1 million for disposal of two ships in the Suisun Bay reserve fleet.

Chinese officials assured a U.S.

Memphis-based third party logistics provider Mallory Alexander International Logistics expanded into the Charleston, S.C., market with the acquisition of forwarder Tradesource from Atlantic Services G

A company that develops explosive-detection equipment for the military is expanding into the cargo world with technology that can sniff out bombs.

Wholesale inventories increased for a ninth consecutive month in September and grew faster than sales, suggesting that the restocking that has boosted transportation volume may lose steam in the month

India and the United States plan to create a $10 billion infrastructure debt fund as a public-private partnership to expedite investments in India's infrastructure, according to India's commerce minis

Worldwide shipments of personal computers grew 7.6 percent in the third quarter over last year, falling short of earlier projections thanks in part to lackluster growth in the United States, according

The labor concessions approved by 62 percent of YRC Teamsters employees eliminate fears of an imminent shutdown at the nation’s largest trucking operator, both at its nationwide less-than-truckl

With the election over and Republicans set to take control of the House of Representatives with a big majority in January, policy experts expect Congress to do very little for months to sort out trans

Winning a third round of concessions from its Teamsters employees gave YRC Worldwide its best shot yet at survival, extending until 2015 wage and benefit cuts it won last year and sharply reducing its

A pound of pentaerythritol tetranitrate — PETN — isn’t enough to bring down a target the size of the World Trade Center, but it’s plenty to blow a plane out of the sky.

The battle between the Teamsters union and the American Trucking Associations will drag out into next year, but the rules of engagement could change significantly.

The Obama administration isn’t letting a little politics-altering event like midterm elections get in the way of its passenger rail program.

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In 2011, capacity will be king.

Employment rose moderately within key U.S.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico was 25.3 percent higher in August 2010 than in August 2009, reaching

The Federal Reserve's policy panel said Wednesday it will buy $600 billion in long-term U.S.

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The wave of Republicans taking over the House on Tuesday swept out Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., one of the most passionate supporters of the Coast Guard and U.S. merchant marine in Congress.

The Cass Freight Index for U.S. shipments fell 5.2 percent in October from the month before, dipping to its lowest point in three months.

Net profit for Transport Corporation of India surged 38 percent from a year earlier to $3.3 million in the second quarter ending Sept.

Manufacturing growth accelerated in October as new orders and production surged to push the PMI index up 2.5 points to 56.9 percent, according to the nation's supply executives in a report on business

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin wants to enlist customs brokers as “trusted partners” in securing the nation’s borders against contraband and weapons of mass d

Walter Arsenault doesn’t buy that organized crime has vanished from the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Retailers that survived the Great Recession through unprecedented, at times desperate, cost-cutting are transitioning from their slash-and-burn mentality to one of growth and prosperity next year and

For an office at the heart of the federal government’s effort to harmonize international trade compliance and enforcement, Customs and Border Protection’s Commercial Targeting and Analysis

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SHENZHEN, China — China’s government is sending a strong message that it wants to redirect the country’s huge export economy inward, focusing on growth in domestic consumption and in

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Trucking operators have long fought calls for new fuel efficiency and emissions standards.

Wanted: 28 candidates experienced in freight transportation, inland distribution and the marine highway system. Where: Washington, D.C. Contact: Maritime Administration.

Implementation of the employee-driver mandate in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan may not begin at the end of 2011 as planned. That appears to be the outcome of a ruling by U.S.

The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for mail coming out of Yemen this weekend as new details emerged about the movement of explosives in packages bound for the United States.

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The Food and Drug Administration needs to improve its ability to inspect foreign facilities that manufacture products subject to its regulations in the U.S., the Government Accountability Office said

Orders for durable manufactured goods rose 3.3 percent in September but fell 0.8 percent excluding the volatile category that includes aircraft.

U.S. steel imports posted a month-to-month decline of 3.2 percent last month but were up 73.9 percent from the depressed levels of September 2009.

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Economic growth in developing nations such as China, India and Brazil is proceeding at a much faster pace than in the developed countries, providing greater export opportunities for the U.S., accordin