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Decrying ocean container carrier business practices, the head of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee called Thursday for the end of antitrust immunity for vessel operators in the Uni

After delaying sweeping truck safety changes, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is “absolutely on target” to meet its new deadlines, FMCSA administrator Anne S.

Shippers and freight brokers are facing a “landslide” of lawsuits related to truck accidents, says Tucker Company Worldwide President Jeffrey Tucker.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and representatives from Class I railroads met Wednesday to discuss building a nationwide high-speed rail network, the secretary said.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood may want to get more diesel-guzzling trucks off the road, but he says that doesn’t mean he undervalues the trucking industry.

The U.S. must find more “innovative” ways to fund infrastructure projects, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday.

Japan Airlines Corp. (JAL) and All Nippon Airways Co.

The U.S. trade deficit hit a 16-month high in April as exports declined faster than imports, the Commerce Department reported.

American Stevedoring Inc. fired what may be the last shot in a bitter, five-year battle with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

YRC Worldwide's stock plunged to a record low Wednesday, dropping from about 31 cents to 22.2 cents per share before pulling up to 23.1 cents when the market closed.

The Obama administration’s third nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration faces the Senate Commerce Committee for his nomination hearing on Thursday morning.

The Department of Transportation paid out more than $13 billion to reimburse states for work done under last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The Freight Transportation Services Index rose for the third consecutive month in April, climbing 0.3 percent from March, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics said.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission will begin issuing detention notices on June 14 for the imported goods that it regulates.

Shippers in the United States cut their logistics spending last year by $244 billion, or 18.2 percent, reducing the logistics share of the economy to a historic low in a rush to scale back inventories

Panalpina, the Swiss global logistics and freight forwarding group, began operations at a 450,000-square-foot, state-of-the art multimodal transit and logistics hub in Dubai.

The management company for the chemical tanker M/T Chem Faros received an $850,000 fine after pleading guilty on Monday to violating anti-pollution laws, the Justice Department said.

AMR Research ranked Apple as the world’s best supply chain manager for the third straight year, putting technology pioneer at the top of AMR’s annual Supply Chain Top 25.

Cargo volume at major ports in India grew 3.5 percent in the April-May period compared with a year earlier, according to latest traffic figures released by the Indian Ports Association.

ProLogis announced two new agreements Tuesday for large distribution centers in Asia and Europe, giving the logistics site developer contracts for more than a million square feet of new warehouse spac

The new commissioner of Customs and Border Protection is pledging to balance security with facilitation of trade and to improve a Customs-business relationship he said has become “strained and i

Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a bill into law today making Georgia the 28th state to ban cell phone texting while driving. The law will apply to all drivers effective July 1.

Logwin is now operating out of a 64,600-square-foot, consolidated freight station “state of the art” facility in Shanghai, the company said June 7.

Tens of thousands of trucks and buses will be stopped for safety inspections by state police this week in the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual Roadcheck.

EU to Investigate Ocean Carriers

The top Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure says time is running out for Congress to pass a comprehensive six-year surface transportation bill. According to Rep.

Because industrial commodity prices tend to be highly volatile, a swing in prices often catches decision makers unawares.

Chicago is not only the nation’s crossroads, but also its chokepoint.

President Obama’s goal of doubling U.S. exports within five years generated a set of nation-specific marketing plans, according to a senior U.S. trade official.

Bad news was everywhere at the end of May: The Dow was plunging 300 points, North and South Korea were rattling sabers, the eurozone crisis was threatening to spread, and an underwater gusher of crude

If all segments of the economy were firing on as many cylinders as the agriculture industry is right now, the already stronger-than-expected economic recovery would be even more robust.

A nationwide information system that can track the locations and speeds of hundreds of thousands of trucks on U.S. highways is much more than a wild-eyed notion.

The trade community is facing a denser compliance jungle than at any time before or since the September 11 attacks as Customs turns its attention to enforcing regulations that for years took a backsea

Two highway safety advocacy groups often bitterly at odds with the trucking industry honored the top safety executive at one of the nation’s largest truckload carriers, signaling potential

President Obama used a visit to a commercial truck dealership outside Washington, D.C., Friday to highlight how the economic recovery has spurred hiring in equipment suppliers to the freight sector.

Transportation hiring inched up in May as overall weakness in private job creation was offset by a surge in temporary government employment of census workers.

UTi Worldwide says it is raising prices for shippers after the global freight forwarder saw its profit margins squeezed amid rapid growth in demand in the company’s fiscal first quarter.

The clean-trucks program and other pollution-reduction measures slashed harmful diesel emissions at Los Angeles last year, according to the port's 2009 air emissions inventory.

A preliminary list of 100 significant North American infrastructure projects identifies $400 billion in projects called critical to long-term economic competitiveness.