Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Few new industries have attracted as much attention in recent years as wind energy, a business that could bring big shipping business through Gulf Coast ports.

Domenic Veneziano wants to change the way the Food and Drug Administration inspects products and enforces importer compliance. All he needs is a law to give him the authority to do so.

President Obama’s push for more and faster intercity passenger rail service has come up hard against the needs of freight railroads that control most of the tracks.

The National Industrial Transportation League on Friday threw its support to the Shipping Act of 20

A $20.2 million federal stimulus grant will allow construction on a final piece of a six-lane highway interchange near the Otay Mesa port of entry close to San Diego, California’s largest freight bord

The Cass Freight Index for U.S. shipping reached its highest point in more than two years in September, growing 1.9 percent over the month before, Cass Information Systems announced Friday.

A freight transportation bill filed Thursday calls for a Goods Movement Trust Fund financed by a hike in diesel fuel taxes, but leaves open the possibility of other forms of revenue.

The Department of Transportation served notice this week that it will increasingly tie a low-interest loan account for railroad track improvements to a broad array of Obama administration policy goals

The Department of Transportation in a new report underlined the importance of enhancing and guarding freight rail while developing a national passenger rail system, but the agency left out any mention

U.S. manufacturing grew at the slowest pace in 10 months in September as inventories rose, signaling slower growth in production and freight shipments.

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The Department of Transportation unveiled a group of stimulus grants to spur states to develop inter-city passenger rail corridors, as federal officials try to get a high-priority program moving.

John M. Cullather, one of the most respected maritime experts on Capitol Hill, will retire at the end of the 111th Congress, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James L.

The value of trade moving by surface transportation between the U.S.

First-claims for unemployment benefits edged downward last week, the government said in a report with positive implications for freight transportation, while the estimate of second quarter economic gr

The Department of Transportation is using the last of its transit grants under the economic stimulus law to build wind turbines to power three bus buildings in Lafayette, Ind., and linking several adm

Customs and Border Protection announced Wednesday it was formally ending its effort to reinterpret the “first sale” rule for placing value on imported products.

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Slowing orders from shippers this fall, particularly for Asia-to-Europe goods, are signaling a “very, very weak” peak shipping season, according to global supply chain operator CEVA Logistics.

Customs brokers will play a key role in getting small and medium sized businesses into a Customs and Border Protection account management system, Commissioner Alan Bersin told members of the National

Japan's trade surplus with the rest of the world narrowed for the first time in 15 months in August as imports grew faster than exports, according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Minist

In the first progress report on its ambitious National Export Initiative, the Obama administration rapped a solid base hit, but business leaders are looking for home runs.

Any trucking industry appeal of a ruling for the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan will hinge on whether a court believes the country’s largest port is run not only by a government agency bu

Nearly three-fourths of rail shippers want Congress to pass a regulatory reform bill, according to a Wall Street analyst’s survey, and many shippers say they might consider filing their own chal

The recovery in industrial real estate is like a building only half completed: The framework for improved business is there, but no one is ready to declare the job done.

That loud buzz you heard from Washington was the shipping community stirring over the prospects of a bill that would all but abolish ocean carriers’ antitrust immunity.

The Port of Los Angeles’ timetable for implementing the employee-driver concession requirement in its clean-trucks plan starts next year, but the harbor trucking industry in Southern California

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Canada’s ports and inland road and rail networks operate under a very different regime from those in the United States.

A stimulus-type grant fund of $600 million at the Department of Transportation has drawn nearly 1,000 applications from states totaling $19 billion in aid requests.

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The Department of Transportation’s push to complete infrastructure stimulus projects led it to pay out $6 billion over the summer to reimburse states for completed work, nearly a third of the amount t

A private research group’s index of U.S. leading indicators rose in August more than forecast, suggesting a continued slow expansion of the economy.

DB Schenker Logistics expanded its network in southeastern Europe with the opening of a logistics center in Pardubice, near Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic.

An Indianapolis holding company says it will keep the chairman of OIA Global Logistics in place after buying a majority stake in the company, but LDI named a new CEO to run the business.

The Federal Maritime Commission Bureau of Trade Analysis is preparing a list of questions for shippers, carriers and intermediaries in connection with its study of the effect of removing European carr

Greek lawmakers Wednesday voted to reform the nation's protected trucking industry as striking drivers clashed with police and blocked key highways on the tenth day of a nationwide walkout.