Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The United States and Mexico moved closer to a new cross-border trucking agreement with plans for a "working group" to consider "next steps" toward reviving cross-border trucking.<

Customs and Border Protection will continue its layered strategy for supply chain security while continuing to look for ways to carry out Congress' mandate to scan all inbound containers, Deputy Commi

U.S. companies will spend more than anticipated on information technology this year, as demand for communications equipment spurs purchasing, a Forrester analyst said.

Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, watched U.S. and Spanish customs officials screen U.S.-bound containers as she toured the port of Barcelona on April 10.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Department of Transportation&rsquo;s inspector general are targeting &ldquo;significant weaknesses&rdquo; in the explosives shipments over

The U.S. Postal Service is in the midst of what may be its deepest restructuring since the most familiar delivery operation in the United States first put its letters on airplanes.

In what may be an initial step toward changing how the federal government invests in freight infrastructure, the Department of Transportation is convening a large board of industry and academic econom

From one end of the country to the other, shippers of the largest grain crops &mdash; soybeans, wheat and especially corn &mdash; are gearing up to fill the supply chain needs of late 2010 and 2011.

In the latest sign of the Obama administration&rsquo;s commitment to inland waterways, the Department of Transportation is launching a formal marine highway program to be funded through dedicated gran

Rhode Island is still drying out from late-March floods that swamped the state and shut down a part of Interstate 95 between New York and Boston, but the Department of Transportation is already sendin

The Department of Transportation&rsquo;s payments to states for work done under economic stimulus projects reached $10.264 billion by March 26, up $286 million from a week earlier.

The Maritime Administration&rsquo;s final regulation to implement its Marine Highway Program took effect with publication in the April 9 Federal Register.

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Concern is building that coming climate change legislation in the Senate could propose a tax on motor fuels that would divert some future fees from the Highway Trust Fund.

The global economy is expected to grow 3 percent this year, with emerging nations expanding more rapidly than the United States and Europe, the Paris-based trade credit insurer Coface said in a report

Deutsche Post DHL signed a five-year contract with Volkswagen to handle in-plant logistics at the German car manufacturer's assembly plant in Slovakia.

Arrow Electronics, a global distributor of electronic components and computing products, agreed to acquire Converge, a leading provider of reverse logistics services for electronics manufacturers and

McLeod Software, a software provider for the trucking industry, joined Descartes' United by Design program.

CEVA Ground, the domestic road transport services division of CEVA Logistics in China, achieved the Transported Asset Protection Association TSR-2008 validation.

Freight forwarder Echo Global Logistics will open an office in Dallas, Texas, on April 5.

Industrial real estate owner and developer AMB Property extended its development portfolio in Asia in the first quarter with 11 new leases in six properties in China, Japan and South Korea.

Freight shipping in the United States shot up to its highest level in nearly a year-and-a-half in March, signaling a surge in international shipping had reached U.S.

Tideworks Technology launched Intermodal Pro, a comprehensive terminal operating system for intermodal terminals.

GEFCO, a logistics provider for the industrial sector, is expanding on two continents as it doubled capacity at its Sete Lagoas site in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and signed a contract to distribute Renaul

The Obama administration is forming a national freight transportation policy that can be boiled down to one concept: Get more trucks off the roads.

Compliance, cost and control are three reasons customs clearance may soon be the purview of do-it-yourselfers.

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Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., unveiled legislation on March 22 that would reform multi-employer pension plans.

For at least one trade-related industry, these are boom times.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to unsnarl a tangle that leaves carriers and cargo owners questioning who should be liable for damages on cargoes shipped from a foreign port.

More than a year after taking office, the Obama administration is still looking for a chief of transportation security.

Support for broad-based pension reform is growing in Washington as businesses and labor unions seek a federal fix for troubled union and corporate retirement plans.

President Obama and members of his cabinet visited several manufacturers and freight shippers Friday to highlight jobs-producing federal investments amid signs the economic recovery is taking hold.

The federal government is sending out $338.9 million to 18 states and American Samoa to help them repair bridges and roads damaged by a number of storms in recent years.

March brought increases in employment across U.S. surface transportation industries, with mild job gains in trucking, rail and waterborne commerce breaking a long downtrend during the recession.

Economic activity for manufacturers surged in March at the fastest pace since July 2004, according to a survey of supply executives.

A congressional panel set a hearing for May 5 on proposals to allow the economic regulation of harbor trucking, an issue that has sharply divided shippers and trade groups from a handful of ports and

Kerry Logistics opened the first phase of a logistics center in Danang in central Vietnam.