Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods rose 0.3 percent in July but only because of a 76 percent jump in sales of commercial aircraft, the Commerce Department said.

Japan's exports grew for the eighth consecutive month in July, but the pace of that growth slowed for the fifth month in a row as the yen gained strength and the global economic recovery faltered.

Closeout retailer Big Lots said its mid-summer inventory levels swelled as it scheduled import shipments early to avoid possible problems with container shortages during the traditional August-October

Sales of previously occupied homes fell more than 27 percent last month to the lowest level in 15 years, the National Association of Realtors reported.

The Tri-City Regional Port District in Granite City, Ill., on Monday received a $6 million check to begin work on a terminal and railroad loop to expedite the movement of cargo between land carriers a

Federal and state officials broke ground last week on a federally funded project to repair a crumbling cargo pier at Honolulu, six months after it won a $24.5 million grant from the Department of Tran

A manufacturing group lowered its economic forecast through next year on Monday, saying the U.S. economy has downshifted to a "slow-growth mode" as consumers spend less and save more.

After years as the stepchild of the Automated Commercial Environment, the International Trade Data System is showing life of its own -- and none to soon.

As the United States turns its attention to the need to expand ports and inland road and rail connectors to meet trade growth, the country’s planners can only contemplate the path to port expans

In two years, the first of 10 small container ships are to begin shuttling international containers between major East Coast ports and smaller ports ranging from Maine to Texas.

Railroads and shipper activists are trying to make sure their issues are on the table when lawmakers return to Capitol Hill after their August break, especially because the legislators have a lot on t

The Department of Transportation this month announced eight marine highway projects expected to be the pioneers along DOT-designated marine highway corridors:

One year after he became chairman of the Surface Transportation Board that regulates economic issues between railroads and shippers, Daniel R.

CEVA Logistics is launching an expedited surface freight service between the U.S. Gulf Coast and Alberta, Canada, aimed at the energy sector, the company said Friday.

Panalpina inaugurated a dedicated oil and gas logistics hub in Singapore designed to boost the Swiss supply chain management firm's presence in the fast growing Asian market.

The Department of Transportation's payouts of stimulus checks to states for work on roads, bridges and other projects reached $17.134 billion as of Aug.

The board of directors at logistics provider OHL elected Scott McWilliams, currently chief executive officer, to the position of executive chairman of the board and selected Bert Irigoyen, current pre

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the U.S. increased 0.1 percent in July to 109.8, following a 0.3 percent decline in June, and a 0.5 percent increase in May.

Retailer Lowe’s will sharply scale back its inventory expansion in the second half of this year after seeing inventories grow ahead of sales in the second quarter, company officials said.

Former BAX Global leader Joey Carnes this week became chairman and CEO of MIQ Logistics, where he'll work with former BAX hand John Carr, president and COO.

Home Depot, gaining benefits from a long-term supply chain improvement program, says it reduced inventory holdings $38 million in the quarter ending Aug.

Industrial production increased 1 percent in July, driven by manufacturing, especially of motor vehicles and parts, according to a report Tuesday from the Federal Reserve.

In a followup to the Department of Transportation’s earlier allocation of $8 billion in stimulus grants for faster and expanded inter-city passenger rail service, the DOT said it has taken 77 ai

Mexico stepped up its pressure on the U.S. in the dispute over cross-border trucking on Monday, expanding the list of American goods that will be hit with punitive tariffs.

Stimulus money is rolling out of the Department of Transportation.

The Army Corps of Engineers is caught in a web of competing political, commercial and environmental interests that impairs its ability to maintain and modernize the nation’s waterway infrastruct

The Brussels-based organization that lobbied the European Union on behalf of liner shipping companies ceased those efforts last month but is staying open as a trade association.

Manufacturing, wholesale and retail inventories rose in June, reinforcing claims that the wave of goods restocking benefiting t

The Pennsylvania Transportation Commission approved a 24 percent cut in the budget for infrastructure improvements through 2022.

Retail and food services sales increased 0.4 percent from June to July, according to a report Friday morning from the U.S. Census Bureau.

CEVA Logistics boosted second quarter revenue 30 percent year-over-year to $2.244 billion on the basis of strong freight volume, particularly in the Americas and Asia Pacific, the global supply chain

Freight shipments as measured in ton-miles rose 0.2 percent in June from May, in the latest step of a gradual increase

The Department of Transportation unveiled eight marine highway project corridors around the country that it will help through $7 million in current grant funding plus future aid, and listed six major

The U.S. trade deficit widened in June to its highest level since October 2008 as exports slipped 1.3 percent while imports hit a record high, the Commerce Department said.

Former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, died Tuesday in a plane crash at Dillingham, Alaska, a fishing village on Bristol Bay in western Alaska. He was 86.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday 85 percent of the country will be connected by a high-speed rail network within 25 years.

China's export volume in July rose 38.1 percent from a year earlier, down from June’s 43.9 percent rate.

A Pakistani clothing manufacturer is accusing two U.S. freight forwarders of defrauding it out of some $207,000 in payments due.

The barge industry and inland waterways users voiced unanimous support for a 20-year capital spending plan for the Army Corps of Engineers to carry out much-needed construction and rehabilitation on t

Freight shipment activity has signaled for weeks that the slowdown in the economic recovery was not tipping into a feared “double-dip” recession, and now a slew of official reports backs u