Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Shippers this past year were more receptive to using the services of third-party logistics providers as they sought to reduce supply chain costs including transportation and warehousing.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is removing selected items from a list that requires security plans for their transportation.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Tuesday made final an interim rule to collect inspection fees for ships, trucks, trains and vessels arriving from Canada.

Michelin chose Damco, the logistics arm or A. P. Moller-Maersk, as its logistics and customs clearance provider in Vietnam.

The Panalpina Group recently added 42,000 square feet of warehouse space to its supply chain management portfolio in the Los Angeles area.

Kenco Logistic Services is forming a joint venture with Schnellecke of America to support automotive production in the Southeastern United States.

Jerry Ulm, who capped his longtime logistics career as leader of global carrier relations at Owens Corning, died this month after a long illness. He was 60.

The Obama administration intends to nominate a retired senior Army intelligence officer to be the next head of the Transportation Security Administration, according to several news outlets.

A group representing independent truck drivers responded angrily to reports the White House may be looking to open talks with Congress about a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico, calling th

As a game of chicken over funding formulas helped push federal highway spending into a ditch last week, some lawmakers hoped the wreckage finally might focus Congress on crafting a new multiyear

New York City is many times larger than Stockholm, but the Big Apple could learn some lessons from Sweden’s capital.

When Jim Bunning retired from baseball after the 1971 season, the pitching ace was headed for the Baseball Hall of Fame as a strikeout master and engineer of a perfect game.

Oregon introduced the first state gas tax in the U.S. in 1919, and Rep. Earl Blumenauer hopes the state leads the way in dumping it, too.

Word spread “like wildfire” among customs brokers that they had won a landmark victory in the U.S. Court of International Trade after a Feb.

The 2,000-foot bridge over the Colorado River gorge just below Hoover Dam is far from a bridge to nowhere.

Cities pressing for the legal authority to regulate harbor trucking should find out how far they can go in court in late April.

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Technology that is not just intelligent but “smarter” may offer the best route around a legislative bottleneck that has stalled efforts to advance surface transportation legislation for mo

Despite signs of a slowly improving economy, employment in the transportation modes that include freight operations slid further in February, the Labor Department reported.

Retailer Big Lots says growing sales this year will be partly offset by rising international and domestic freight transportation costs that will put its profit margins under pressure.

The Senate should embark on a new long-term surface transportation bill, said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., but he said Thursday that he doubted it will be finished this year.

A bill that would end the North American Free Trade Agreement was introduced Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday revised last week’s report on durable goods to show a less robust but still growing economy for manufacturers in January.

The House, by a 217-212 margin, approved the $15 billion Senate-drafted Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, which includes provisions to extend existing highway programs until Dec.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Wednesday that the administration wants to move forward with a “comprehensive, robust transportation bill,” but opposes increasing the gas tax whil

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The House is expected to take up the Senate’s version of a jobs bill on Thursday, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Wednesday.

U.S. trade with Canada and Mexico by truck and rail rose 10.5 percent in December, the first year-over-year increase since the global financial crisis struck in September 2008.

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The Coast Guard terminated an application for the Detroit International Bridge Co. to build a new bridge adjacent to its 81-year-old Ambassador Bridge.

CEVA Logistics reported double digit declines in 2009 revenue and profit compared with the previous year, but all business units are now benefiting from the global economic upturn, the international s

Four days after blocking a temporary jobs and transportation measure and forcing a two-day shutdown of Department of Transportation highway programs, Sen.

The Department of Transportation’s highway programs remained shuttered for a second day, as lawmakers again failed to convince Sen.

A proposed 4 percent tax on warehouse services in Pennsylvania would kill local jobs, says International Warehouse Logistics Association President Joel D. Anderson.

State transportation officials warned on Monday that if Congress can’t pass an extension of highway funding in the next few days, they will be forced to put new projects on hold, and delay or ca

All states met a key deadline in last year’s stimulus law to obligate their highway project spending before March 2, said Vice President Joseph Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Manufacturing business increased in January for the sixth consecutive month after 13 months of decline, according to a survey of the nation’s supply executives by the Institute for Supply Manage

Kuehne + Nagel, the global freight forwarder and contract logistics provider, reported 2009 earnings fell more than 20 percent from the previous year on lower world trade, a strong Swiss franc and a p

Charging that “political games” are forcing a partial shutdown of federal operations and support to states, U.S.

Presidential meetings with the Dalai Lama are nothing new. Nor are U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan. However, President Obama’s Feb.