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The Transportation Security Administration has made progress toward its goal of scanning all air cargo on domestic passenger flights by Aug.

Publicly traded airlines, railroads, trucking companies and ocean carriers based in North America are showing improved results despite expectations for a sluggish U.S.

The Obama administration is taking the first steps toward streamlining all aspects of export control under “four singularities,” National Security Director James Jones said Wednesday.

The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index slowed in June but was still at a level that suggested U.S. industrial growth.

APL Logistics and Sumitomo Warehouse formed a strategic alliance to jointly market their global supply chain services.

Shipments of smartphones in Western Europe soared 57 percent in the first quarter over last year, marking a dramatic shift in a mobile phone market that has become a foundation of the electronics indu

Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. on Wednesday suggested changes in the Shipping Act to allow the agency to resolve disputes between ocean carriers and shippers.

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The World Customs Organization on Saturday elected senior customs officials from China and South Africa to director positions in the international organization.

The federal government on Tuesday accepted 22 offers from 12 countries to assist in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the State Department announced.

Kuehne + Nagel said it opened a new distribution center near Riga in Latvia.

Truck safety groups are calling for a dramatic reduction in the time truck drivers are allowed to be behind the wheel, saying federal regulators should limit driving time to eight hours and a day and

A widely watched index of consumer confidence dipped sharply in June, weighed down by concerns about jobs.

Truck, train and pipeline shipments between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico totaled $65.8 billion in April, a 32.4 percent increase from a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported.

The nation's largest manufacturers' group called on the Obama administration Monday to enact a broad range of tax, labor and legal reforms it said would make the U.S.

President Obama and South Korea President Lee Myung-bak intend to complete a free trade agreement by November, the two announced during a meeting at the G20 summit in Toronto on Saturday.

Sen. Robert C. Byrd left his stamp not just on the U.S. Senate, where he served 52 years, but on the roads and waterways of West Virginia and the United States.

The Customs and Border Protection’s Commercial Operations Advisory Committee will meet in teleconference on July 15 to vote on the Department of Homeland Security’s National Strategy for G

President Obama named a top lawyer at chemical shipper DuPont to be general counsel at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A.P. Moller-Maersk logistics subsidiary Damco hired Wade Thompson as its new chief commercial officer for the Middle East region, the company announced Monday.

Freight brokers and truckers are critical partners in today’s supply chains, but that doesn’t always make them a happy couple, especially when accusations of fraudulent re-brokering of fre

The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken.

Beijing’s stated decision to allow the yuan to gradually float against global currencies won’t dent the country’s booming export growth, but the move will help stabilize the economy

While it may be well into 2011 before Congress can enact a new long-term funding program for surface transportation, the Obama administration could be just weeks away from laying out what it wants in

Six months after Customs and Border Protection moved to active enforcement of Importer Security Filing rules amid suggestions that the sky would collapse for many importers, the sky looks to be right

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A Miami exporter of heavy equipment for the construction, farm and trucking industries pleaded guilty this week to trying to defraud the U.S.

Sen. John McCain introduced legislation to “fully repeal” the Jones Act, which he said is preventing non-U.S.-flag vessels from helping clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The Senate on Friday afternoon confirmed on a voice vote John S. Pistole to be the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.

U.S. steel imports increased by 4.7 percent in May to 2.2 million tons from 2.1 million tons in April, the American Institute for International Steel said Friday.

Truckload freight demand is slowing, according to the Morgan Stanley Truckload Freight Index.

Four emerging conditions promise to have long-term impact on supply chain management, according to Detlef Trefzger, member of the management board of Schenker.

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Nike plans to increase its orders for footwear and apparel 7 percent over the next six months and will turn to greater use of air freight to “meet the tremendous growth in orders” for the

The Federal Aviation Administration issued $125 million in contracts to develop commercial jet technologies that cut fuel consumption, emissions and noise.

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With the exception of transportation equipment, orders and shipments for manufactured durable goods increased 0.9 percent in May, signaling a growing recovery for core manufacturing.

The Federal Maritime Commission granted Commissioner Rebecca Dye a three-month extension of her fact-finding into vessel capacity and equipment shortages, putting off completion of a report until the

Customs brokers are asking the House Ways and Means Committee to weigh in on legislation that would require foreign manufacturers to have registered agents in the U.S.

The UK's new government said it will sell off state-owned rail, aviation and postal assets as part of a deficit reduction program.