Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Americans' confidence in the economy rose slightly in October but consumers remain uneasy about jobs as retailers head into the holiday shopping season, a monthly survey says.

Perceptions of corruption in the United States and other developed countries have worsened with the financial crisis, according to global rankings released by the watchdog group Transparency Internati

GENCO Supply Chain Solutions said Monday it completed its merger with ATC Technology Corp., forming a combined company that will be privately owned and rebranded under the name GENCO ATC.

Account management, a form of compliance oversight that has been a high-priority item for the trade, will get a trial run beginning Nov. 1.

The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation announced the first national standards to cut greenhouse gas emissions and improve fuel efficiency of heavy-duty commercial diesel

Stimulus spending by the Department of Transportation reached $21.2 billion as of Oct.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin wants to rebuild the agency’s frayed relationship with the customs brokerage community.

When a senior Environmental Protection Agency official last week classified the agency’s new truck engine and fuel standards as “historic,” she was right on target.

There’s one thing with which Richard DiNucci takes exception in a recent Government Accountability Office report: the compliance level achieved under the Importer Security Filing rule.

1. Facilitate Mexican exports to Europe and Latin America by reducing the time it takes to get a certificate of origin, and simplifying the Eligible Products Register.

Mexico is trying to make itself more business-friendly, and it’s embarked on a 12-step program to do it.

A policy designed to restrict foreign companies from selling technology to Chinese government entities is by far the biggest China business issue facing many U.S. technology companies.

Leave it to China to create bipartisanship in the typically polarized U.S. Congress. With U.S.

The U.S. will impose dumping and anti-subsidy duties on glossy paper from Indonesia and China after the U.S.

Global industrial real estate developer AMB Property Corporation signed leases for 563,100 square feet in a recently begun project just outside Sao Paulo, Brazil.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection this week gave the International Trade Data System higher priority at the request of other federal agencies that will receive import data through the ITDS system.

Customs and Border Protection this week began testing digital imaging software in the International Trade Data System to deliver documents to agencies that participate in the ITDS program.

A gauge of future economic activity rose slightly in September, suggesting continued slow growth for the U.S. economy into next year.

Global crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association crept up slightly in September from the same month in 2009.

Business, agricultural, political and labor leaders will gather in Vancouver, Wash., Thursday to celebrate the completion of the Columbia River deepening project, which improves access to the ports of

The Port of Los Angeles has been awarded $16 million from the U.S.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is signing up volunteers to test ocean and rail manifest systems in the Automated Commercial Environment.

The Department of Transportation is “well-positioned” to complete contract talks to launch slow-moving plans for passenger rail construction projects, and none of the 13 targeted projects are in dange

The nation's former top truck safety watchdog is turning to the law -- not as an enforcer but a practitioner.

The freight sector is getting big pieces of the Department of Transportation's 2010 grant fund it calls "TIGER II."

A Somali national who pleaded guilty to piracy charges still awaits sentencing after postponement of a hearing in New York Tuesday.

Commercial warehousing revenue in the U.S. will total $50 billion this year, exceeding pre-recession levels, according to a new report by Armstrong & Associates.

Retailers that survived the Great Recession by cutting costs now see their supply chains as vehicles for growth as well as savings, according to a survey of 175 supply chain managers.

The lone Republican on the Surface Transportation Board, which regulates most types of economic issues involving railroads and their shippers, said he will not seek reappointment after his term ends D

Home construction, a key source of freight transportation volume, rose slightly last month but remained weak amid high unemployment, tight credit and weak prices.

Steel exports increased 6.8 percent in August from July because of higher sales to Canada and Mexico, the largest buyers of U.S.-made steel, Commerce Department data show.

U.S. industrial production fell in September for the first time since June 2009, the Federal Reserve said in a report that could indicate slowing transportation volume in the months ahead.

The Transportation and Energy departments are embroiled in a dispute over the interpretation of the Cargo Preference Act, the 1954 law that gives U.S.-flag operators priority for transporting governme

Just after the clock strikes midnight on the night of Dec. 31, 2012, almost every ship entering the Port of New York and New Jersey, the St. Lawrence Seaway or transiting U.S.

In its push to restructure rail freight shipping in the United States, Washington’s political engine can’t decide what that structure should be.

Mexico will no longer accept a U.S. pilot program as a way of allowing Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S., a senior Mexican diplomat said Friday.

Inventories at U.S. businesses rose in August for the eighth straight month and grew faster than business sales, the Commerce Department said.

After 14 years of drilling, Swiss engineers Oct.

High demand and rising prices for ultra low-sulfur distillates used in truck diesel fuel are signs of a recovering economy, the American Petroleum Institute said.

Manufacturing activity in New York State accelerated in October as orders and hiring improved while backlogs and inventories shrank, according to a monthly Federal Reserve survey.