Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Supporters of the port of Los Angeles clean trucks program stepped up the pressure on House leadership on Thursday when they presented a letter signed by 113 labor, environmental, community and religi

Orders for manufactured durable goods fell for the first time this year in April as demand for aircraft slumped, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

The Senate this week took the first step in putting together its wish list for the 2010 edition of the Water Resources Development Act.

Japanese international trade fell 21 percent in fiscal 2009, which ended on March 31, returning the country to a trade surplus as imports slumped much more rapidly than exports, according to prelimina

The Fortune 500 list of largest U.S. businesses ranked by revenue includes 17 transportation and logistics companies this year, from UPS to Con-way.

Descartes Systems Group acquired privately-held Imanet, a provider of enterprise and on-demand technology to customs brokers, freight forwarders, exporters and self-clearing importers.

The Department of Transportation is making nearly $49 billion of delayed highway funds available to states, following last month’s passage by Congress of the HIRE Act.

A Vehicle Miles Traveled tax may be gaining mileage on Capitol Hill, but the nation’s truckers want an alternate route.

Lawmakers last week filed in the House a bill to authorize $60 million in loan guarantees for merchant ship construction under the Maritime Administration’s Title XI program.

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Nineteen U.S. states had more than $1 billion in export sales to China last year, according to an annual survey by the U.S.-China Business Council.

The International Monetary Fund says the world economy is recovering from the global crisis better than expected but at different speeds in different parts of the world.

Companies that outsource production and turn warehouse and distribution functions over to wholesalers may reduce operating expenses, but they are also making it easier for cargo thieves to invade thei

The Obama Administration will consolidate licensing, control lists and data systems to bring a “Byzantine” export control system into a single office, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said T

The Federal Maritime Commission issued a warning on Monday of an email scam involving a bogus lottery solicitation.

Customs and Border Protection is setting up the ACE Business Office to work out the needs of the Automated Commercial Environment.

Recovering financial and labor markets caused the Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index, a gauge of future U.S.

When Chinese Premier Hu Jintao told President Obama last week that China won’t yield to external pressure and that any revaluation of China’s currency must be “based on its own econo

The Federal Railroad Administration unveiled the government’s first funding pool specifically for the collision avoidance and locomotive remote control systems that U.S.

Truckers got a BIG BREAK — and Pennsylvania a big hole in its budget — when federal authorities said no to a state proposal to slap tolls on east-west Interstate 80.

With the transportation industry searching last year for any “green shoots” to hint at a recovery in the freight sector, this year there are plenty of saplings.

Short-sea shipping advocates may have the Department of Transportation’s ear, but they still need to convince shippers their concept will float.

The U.S. Maritime Administration’s plan to construct marine highways won’t just take pressure off roads.

The global economy is expected to grow 3 percent this year, with emerging nations growing fastest, the U.S.

Oil refiners’ deliveries of distillates, which include diesel fuel and are closely correlated with overall U.S.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the construction work under way to expand the Panama Canal “will have a profound impact on the way goods move around the world.”

Consumers are buying again and business inventories are creeping back up but retailers say they don’t plan to abandon the lean inventory practices they adopted during the recession.

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The Bunning blockade of March is finally being overturned for about 2,000 Department of Transportation workers who lost 20 percent of their pay for the first two weeks of that month.

The Department of Transportation’s chief financial officer became the latest administration official to speak out against raising motor fuel taxes to bolster federal revenue and infrastructure s

SAN ANTONIO — A senior Commerce Department official on Wednesday outlined one of the tactics the government will use to meet the president's goal of doubling exports and creating 1 million jobs in fiv

The Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Index, which measures month-to-month changes in freight shipments in ton-miles, rose for the second straight month in February.

Disbursements by the Department of Transportation under the economic stimulus law reached $10.437 billion as of March 31, an increase of about $1 billion from February to pay for projects dominated by

Retail spending posted its fourth consecutive month of gains in March, the Commerce Department reported.

Supply chain software vendor JDA Software today released a "product roadmap" reflecting the integration of its products with those of recently acquired i2 Technologies.

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Jeffrey Coppersmith, the new president of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America, is taking charge at a time when things are looking up for the organization.

GT Nexus appointed Léo Apotheker to its board of directors.

The U.S. trade deficit widened in February as rising imports of consumer and industrial goods offset a small increase in exports, the Commerce Department said.