Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Cross-border trade with Canada isn't just about sales and profit, it's about millions of jobs, U.S. and Canadian business executives told members of Congress this week.

U.S. industrial production rose during April as businesses restocked inventories in response to rising demand, the government said Friday.

Retail sales last month climbed to $366.4 billion, up 0.4 percent from March to April, according to a report Friday from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Department of Homeland Security will issue new security grants for critical infrastructure that total $789 million, covering ports, freight rail and transit systems plus buffer zones around sensit

Members of the Senate Finance Committee took Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin to task during his confirmation hearing Thursday for failing to fill out immigration forms to ver

The United States and Canada need to emulate businesses pursuing a "single market" strategy for trade and security, a top Procter & Gamble executive says.

Alan Bersin, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, is likely to get sharp questioning from the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday over his compliance with regulations to verify the eligibil

Climate and energy legislation proposed May 12 by Sens.

Air cargo workers could have a new path through the credentialing jungle if Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration follow through on recommendations by Customs&rs

Virginia's new Republican governor is seeking a green light for tolling on a portion of I-95 near the North Carolina border.

The Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Index, which measures month-to-month changes in ton-miles shipped, rose 0.9 percent in March from February for the third consecutive monthl

The U.S. trade deficit rose to its highest level since October 2008 as higher oil prices offset continued increases in exports, the Commerce Department said.

Supply chain software company RedPrairie acquired SmartTurn, an inventory and warehouse management software developer.

Inventories held by wholesalers rose for a third straight month in March while sales increased even faster, the Commerce Department reported.

Automotive and hardware retailer Pep Boys will pay $5 million in civil penalties under a settlement in what the Environmental Protection Agency says is its largest case ever involving imported vehicle

Global semiconductor sales, which helped lead a decline in technology shipping in the last two years, are set to rebound strongly with growth of 30.6 percent this year, the iSuppli market research gro

Damco rolled out a new Kewill forwarding system to manage air and ocean shipments, including multimodal, between Asia and Europe.

In a victory for labor attempts to organize transportation workers, the National Mediation Board said it will now determine a majority in a unionization election based on the votes cast and no longer

A new federal report on freight transportation calls on the departments of Agriculture and Transportation to favor a “systems-based approach” to U.S.

The prospects for changing harbor trucking regulation in the United States rest with Congress, but groups fighting efforts to change federal law say the impact of any changes would hardly end at port

From its inception two years ago, the American Trucking Associations’ challenge to the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program drew sharp rhetoric in Southern California over whether the respon

Shipowners or operators who pay ransom to Somali pirates could face U.S. civil penalties or criminal prosecution under a White House “Executive Order concerning Somalia.”

-- National transport planning should look more at the interlocking network, instead of each mode separately, since farm goods, coal and other rural shipments need a systemwide approach to reach marke

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The Federal Maritime Commission will hold a public meeting on May 24 to gather comments about a proposed rule designed to exempt licensed non-vessel-operating common carriers from the legal requiremen

The Food and Drug Administration should ask Congress for the authority to require companies to recall contaminated food products, according to the Government Accountability Office.

The Small Business Administration is offering low-interest loans of up to $2 million in working capital for certain docks, boatyards and other facilities hurt by the spreading oil spill along the Loui

Pending legislation in the Senate to add shipper-friendly competition rules on the rail industry won’t move ahead unless it also strips railroads of exemptions they enjoy from antitrust law, sai

The head of the American Trucking Associations, in a sharply worded letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, warns that a new government focus on shifting freight off trucks is based on misinfor

Port executives on Wednesday spelled out the differences between the port of Los Angeles truck concession agreements and the port of Long Beach registration agreements in testimony before the House Co

The Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control on Wednesday issued interim rules for sanctioning U.S.

It may be 2011 before Congress passes a surface transportation bill, says Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., ranking Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

A proposed long-term vision to guide the Department of Transportation would focus on major freight system corridors, curb carbon use by freight operations and use more multi-jurisdiction planning inst

New orders for manufactured goods grew for the 11th month of the last 12 in March as demand for nondurable goods, such as petroleum products, offset slippage in orders for durable goods.

At a congressional hearing Wednesday morning on harbor trucking in southern California, carriers and shippers will be watching closely to see if lawmakers warm to the idea of giving local authorities

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Stimulus project spending by the Department of Transportation reached $11.393 billion as of April 23, up $926 million from the end of March.

The manufacturing sector expanded in April for the ninth consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 12th consecutive month, said the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing

Economists at the International Monetary Fund are optimistic about the global economy, saying it will grow 4.2 percent in 2010.

The Obama administration says it wants to pursue new trade agreements as a way to increase exports of U.S.