Transport, Trade and Regulation News

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

Procter & Gamble started work this week on a China distribution center the consumer products giant said would be the largest in Asia and an anchor of P&G’s goal to expand domestic and international di

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The UK government Friday said it will press ahead with the privatization of Royal Mail after a report said the com

The U.S. goods and services deficit fell 14 percent from $49.8 billion in June, revised, to $42.8 billion, according to a report Thursday from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S.

U.S. freight shipments increased slightly in July for the second consecutive month, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Japan and India reached a bilateral free trade agreement in Tokyo on Thursday. The pact will eliminate import tariffs on most products traded between the two giant Asian economies within 10 years.

Wal-Mart shifted more of its traffic from truckload to intermodal in its just-completed bidding cycle.

General Motors selected Comprehensive Logistics to manage global inbound logistics and value-added subassembly processes for its newest compact car, the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze.

The National Association of Manufacturers, a major industrial lobbying group in Washington, D.C., launched an advertising campaign to head off new energy taxes after

Dutch express and logistics company TNT this week launched the first fully electric delivery vehicle fleet in China.

The World Food Programme, a United Nations agency fighting hunger, deployed a global logistics visibility platform from GT Nexus to manage its constantly changing global network.

President Obama said he wants long-term transportation legislation to include a permanent infrastructure bank that can make investments outside regular state formulas, and to put his passenger rail pr

Industry groups were scrambling for details on how the administration expects to develop the $50 bil

President Obama proposed to spend $50 billion to "jumpstart" construction of roads, railways and airport runways, the White House said, and pair it with "a long-term framework to reform

Less than a week after being designated a Department of Transportation marine highways project eligible for a share of Maritime Administration grants, one of the East Coast’s best-established s

If there had been no massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, would Congress have given more attention to legislation affecting the transportation and trade communities?

The tools for managing inventory may be growing more sophisticated, but retailers and manufacturers may as well be using a Ouija Board to plan out the movement of goods this year.

Home Depot cut inventory holdings $38 million in the quarter ending Aug. 1 compared to a year earlier as it built more efficiency into its supply chain.

The U.S. unemployment rate edged up to 9.6 percent in August from 9.5 percent in July as weak hiring by private employers failed to keep pace with an increase in people looking for work.

Seaport security, freight transportation infrastructure and environmental protection are key issues for the American Association of Port Authorities.

Industry officials pressing Congress and the White House to lock in long-term transportation spending programs say higher new estimates for the Highway Trust Fund may reduce pressure for legislators t

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Orders to U.S. factories edged up 0.1 percent in July because of strong demand for commercial aircraft. Excluding transportation goods, orders declined 1.5 percent, the biggest drop in 16 months.

Hiring in transportation and warehousing slowed in August, according to Monster Worldwide, as the hiring and recruitment specialist's

Logistics provider UTi Worldwide earned net profit of $18.9 million in the second quarter, up 60 percent from $11.8 million a year ago.

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The Congressional Budget Office is drawing the attention of transportation policy experts with an upbeat estimate that the nation’s Highway Trust Fund should be able to cover its projected spending ne

The Obama administration is taking the first steps toward creating a new export control system that will guard sensitive technology needed for national security while facilitating the exports of less-

A major measure of U.S. manufacturing expanded in August, advancing 0.8 percentage points, defying forecasts of a decline in a slowing U.S.

China’s manufacturing growth improved in August as the nation’s auto sales rose 59 percent from a year earlier, according to reports that dampened concerns about a slowdown in the world&rs

The U.S. Department of Commerce this week began the task of merging two lists of export products subject to government control.

International trade and transportation specialist Paul Bingham joined Wilbur Smith Associates, where he will head the transportation and logistics consulting firm’s economics practice.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and Canada and Mexico rose 4.6 percent in value in June from May and increased 37.6 percent from June 2009, the Transportation Department r

Consumer confidence improved slightly in August despite concern about business and labor conditions, a business research group reported.

President Obama will sign an executive order to establish a center for coordinating export control enforcement, the White House said Monday.

American consumers opened their wallets a little last month as consumer spending rose at a 0.4 percent annual rate, the fastest increase in four months, the Commerce Department said.

A federal judge late Thursday rejected trucking industry arguments that parts of the Port of Los Angeles Clean Truck Programs violate federal law and said controversial provisions affecting drivers an

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A former senior state transportation official said Tuesday the Obama administration must include financing proposals in any federal transportation policy to make the goals credible.