Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Five years after Congress told the Food and Drug Administration it is the agency in charge of regulating the safety of food during transportation, the agency is seeking information on how shipments ar

When the Denver Regional Council of Governments wanted to reduce travel time and vehicle emissions, it came up with an environmentally friendly Traffic Signal System Improvement Program.

More than a year-and-a-half after paying $365 million for IBM’s global logistics operation, Paris-based Geodis says it’s ready to use the acquisition as a launch pad for expansion.

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

A weak jobs report Friday from the U.S. Labor Department added to concerns about a slowing economic recovery and lower transportation volume.

A Senate bill filed Thursday would give the Commerce Department and Customs and Border Protection more authority to investigate importers thought to evade antidumping and countervailing duty orders.

The Senate gutted a House bill for Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization, and used the bill number, H.R.

The Obama administration is guaranteeing a $250 million working capital loan to Ford Motor Company to finance the sale of $3.1 billion in cars and light trucks to buyers in Canada and Mexico.

Mandating the use of stability control systems on heavy trucks could help avoid almost 3,500 rollover accidents and save more than 100 lives a year, industry and federal officials told the National Tr

Three House members are giving the Department of Homeland Security an Aug. 17 deadline for a detailed, port-by-port list of the barriers to implementing a 100 percent scanning regime.

New orders for manufactured goods fell in June for the second straight month, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a report that indicated slowing economic growth.

A Department of Transportation discretionary grant pool for 2010 awards drew thousands of pre-applications seeking tens of billions of dollars to aid infrastructure projects, from a “TIGER II&rd

Agility launched operations in Cambodia, opening an office in the capital Phnom Penh.

The Cass Freight Index for industrial shipping fell back 8.6 percent in July, the first decline in six months and a signal that weakness in the broader U.S.

Legislation calling for a national freight transportation policy would short-change the nation’s highways, the American Trucking Associations said.

A bill introduced in the House last week matches Senate legislation calling for a national freight transportation

U.S. manufacturing growth slowed for the third straight month in July as the sector's year-long recovery showed new signs of weakness, the Institute for Supply Management reported.

Expansion of Chinese manufacturing activity slowed in July, according to an independent survey and a Chinese government report.

The harbor drayage community in Southern California is warning there will be a shortage of truck capacity during the peak shipping season.

The Senate isn’t giving up on scanning all maritime containers arriving in the U.S., but lawmakers appear willing to ease the law to make it more palatable to opponents at home and abroad.

When the Obama administration completed the paperwork to release $100 million in a stimulus grant to help untangle Chicago’s time-wasting web of railroad tracks and city streets, it tied the spe

Sen. Frank Lautenberg knows congestion, and he wants to do something about it.

Distribution centers will crop up in unlikely places as transportation corridors shift and energy demands bring new markets to light, a location consultant says.

The best-laid plans to build a new container port in North Carolina are foundering on the shoals of environmental and community opposition.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday approved a new Water Resources Development Act, the vehicle that authorizes new projects to be carried out by the Army Corps of Engine

U.S. economic growth slowed to a 2.4 percent annual rate in the second quarter as consumer spending remained weak and the trade deficit widened, the government said.

Major Japanese international freight forwarder Yusen Air & Sea Service said that it posted a net profit of 1.163 billion yen ($13.4 million) in the April-June period on a consolidated basis, compa

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday approved expedited studies of harbor deepening in the Port of Charleston, adding a provision for the plan in the Water Resources Devel

Congress is headed toward the 15th extension of authorizing legislation for the Federal Aviation Administration since the law expired in September 2007.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., on Thursday introduced a bill that would enhance the ability of ports to enact clean-air programs, while opening the door to unionization of harbor truck drivers.

South African antitrust regulators called for seven airlines to be fined 10 percent of their annual local revenue for fixing fuel surcharges and freight rates for cargo flown in and out of the country

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke used a July 28 visit to the UPS Global Operations Center in Louisville, Ky., to woo U.S.

World trade by sea, land and air will grow by 8.1 percent in 2010 after declining by 7.2 percent last year, according to a forecast published by IHS Global Insight.

Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods dropped 1 percent last month, the second straight monthly decline and the largest drop since August 2009, the Commerce Department said.

Startup ocean carrier Hainan P O Shipping is asking the Federal Maritime Commission to grant the same exemption to the Controlled Carrier Act that the FMC gave to three other Chinese carriers in 2004.

Senate legislation introduced Tuesday would suspend the 100 percent scanning requirement for marine containers in favor of a “more reasonable” risk-based approach, until scanning technolog

Air France-KLM swung to a modest operating profit in its fiscal first quarter from a steep year-earlier loss, excluding the impact of an Icelandic volcanic, eruption due to a strong recovery in cargo

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood came under fire Tuesday from House lawmakers over infrastructure financing, taking heat from those for and against raising taxes to pay for hig

A bill introduced in the Senate on Monday would continue the congressional call to scan 100 percent of ocean containers, but includes a small change in language that could make the idea more feasible.

The first draft of a new rule on the time truckers may spend behind the wheel was sent to the White House July 26 for what’s expected to be a three-month review.