Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Panalpina hired executives from rivals Kuehne + Nagel and DHL to head up its core ocean and air freight divisions and brought in a former Timex Group supply chain executive to run its logistics arm.

The Retail Industry Leaders Association is remaining neutral “at this point in time” in a congress

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday will introduce what it calls an important new tool to gauge the effectiveness of transportation infrastructure.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Tuesday he will be working on a bill to create a national infrastructure bank that should be ready by the time the 112th Congress convenes in January 2011.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he is initiating a new regulatory process to ban texting and limit use of mobile devices by commercial truck drivers while hauling hazardous materials.

The Greek parliament will vote on controversial plans to deregulate road transport Tuesday as a nationwide truck drivers' protest strike entered its second week.

Home construction jumped 10.5 percent in August from the previous month but the housing market sent more tepid signals to the shipping world since the increase came mainly from apartments and condomin

Customs and Border Protection has not clearly defined the purpose of its Importer Self Assessment, the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General said on Monday.

The National Bureau of Economic Research says the recession that began in December 2007 ended 18 months later in June 2009, making it the longest post-World War II downturn.

A draft bill by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee would severely control ocean carriers' actions in the marketplace. Its limits would abolish nearly all antitrust immunity.

President Obama late Friday nominated Long Beach Harbor Commissioner Mario Cordero to the Federal Maritime Commission.

Rick Blasgen knows logistics.

One of the most common supply chain inquiries we receive at AMR Research is the request for benchmarking data.

The shipping surge that benefited many truckers in the second quarter also boosted third-party logistics companies and freight brokers, raising the total dollars they billed 13 percent over the same q

President Obama’s Labor Day speech was a call to action to build and refurbish transportation infrastructure on “roads, rails and runways.” Water transportation was conspicuous by it

This fall’s annual edition of the JOC e-logistics directory includes profiles of 60 providers of logistics and supply chain products and services.

The Federal Maritime Commission’s decision this summer to extend to the end of the peak shipping season its high-profile fact-finding investigation of container shipping capacity and equipment s

The transportation and logistics companies that made the Inc. 5000 list this year are mostly young and comparatively small, but they’re growing very, very fast.

President Obama’s bid to overhaul long-term transportation policy, and jump-start the plan with a $50 billion infusion of funds, already accomplished one goal: It’s quickly driving the pol

Consumer sentiment slipped in early September to its weakest level in more than a year because of rising financial concerns among higher-income households, a new survey indicates.

The UK Office of Fair Trading raided the offices of a truck manufacturer in Britain Thursday and arrested at least one executive in a price-fixing investigation.

The federal government will step up its efforts to help U.S. exporters sell goods abroad, the White House said Thursday.

Freight costs on shipments from India will go up substantially effective Oct. 1 following a tariff increase decision by state-owned rail operator Container Corporation of India.

A failure to communicate between two Department of Homeland Security agencies on advanced supply chain security technology was a factor in the waste of $2 billion in taxpayers' money, members of the S

The International Chamber of Commerce launched the latest revision of its internationally-recognized trade terms Incoterms 2010.

More than 30 shipper groups pledged their support to Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., if he moves forward with legislation to abolish antitrust immunity for ocean carriers.

U.S. industrial production growth slowed to 0.2 percent in August as automakers cut back on production following an unusually strong July, Federal Reserve data show.

Marc Althen will become president of Penske Logistics, succeeding Vincent Hartnett, who will retire in January after 38 years with the Penske organization.

DB Schenker Logistics is investing $87.5 million on the construction of a multi-modal hub and corporate office near Helsinki airport in Finland.

Supply chain management company CEVA Logistics appointed Dominik Tichelkamp global head of CEVA’s growing ocean freight business.

The Washington State Department of Transportation will be able to launch 21 additional infrastructure projects because of savings the stat

U.S. business inventories rose 1 percent during July, the seventh consecutive monthly increase and the largest in two years, the Commerce Department reported.

The nation's largest retail group said aggressive back-to-school promotions and state tax holidays helped fuel the str

Retail sales rose 0.4 percent in August, the largest month-to-month increase in five months, the Commerce Department said in a report interpreted as a sign the economy is wobbly but regaining momentum

U.S. steel exports fell 14.4 percent in July from June but exceeded the depressed levels of 2009.

As Commodity Forwarders prepared for the final deadline in tough new rules for screening shipments that move on passenger aircraft, the specialist in perishables shipping faced a problem it had not fo

MIQ Logistics understands the perils of being the biggest player in any particular market.

Wall Street might be bearish on the economy, but truckers are bullish on Wall Street.

Brazil doesn’t have a good road network.

With a $50 billion startup infrastructure proposal and a pledge to reform the way Washington sets transportation spending policy, President Obama offered his vision of the next six-year infrastructure