Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Even though it’s 75 miles from the Pacific Ocean, the Port of Stockton, Calif., boasts a healthy cargo mix, according to Mark Tollini, deputy port director.

Despite stronger opposition on several fronts, members of Congress are sticking with the idea that scanning all containers at foreign ports is good supply chain security policy.

After last year’s massive layoffs, tens of thousands of truck drivers are unemployed, and more trucking bankruptcies are expected as the nascent recovery takes root.

The Obama administration is making big down payments on a wide range of major freight projects around the country with its latest $1.5 billion in transportation grants.

Rail freight shippers and the largest U.S. railroads are increasingly on a collision course over rules that could govern their market for decades to come.

Tension is intensifying between the U.S. and China as the two economic powerhouses trade barbs over trade, from sanctions and countersanctions to U.S.

It’s not often that a federal agency proposes an order so thoroughly popular that it has to put out a reminder that the rule isn’t actually in effect yet.

In his State of the Union address a month ago, President Obama pointed out the bank bailout was as “popular as a root canal.” With both political parties criticizing the federal government

Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., sharply criticized the senator whose actions threaten to shut down major U.S.

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IBM is launching an initiative to break traffic congestion bottlenecks.

Major surface transportation programs at the Department of Transportation were in danger of shutting down starting Monday after a senator raised objections to final passage of a short-term extens

Wal-Mart announced an “aggressive” new environmental initiative across its supply chain Thursday, saying it will call on suppliers of its products to eliminate a total of 20 million metric

Failure by the Senate to act on the latest extension of the highway bill leaves federal spending programs about to expire at the end of Sunday, Feb. 28.

The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 5.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Friday, revising its earlier estimate upward from 5.7 percent.

A test of a vehicle mileage tax in Oregon should be extended nationwide in the next surface transportation bill, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., said today.

Congress and the administration squared off in the latest round of a two-year-old sparring match over100 percent cargo scanning, when Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday testified before the House

Flanked by Democrats in a show of transportation bipartisanship, Sen.

While touring Brazil, Sen. Charles Grassley saw a threat to farmers back home.

Increases in new orders and -- for the first time in more than a year -- in unfilled orders in January signaled an upward trend for manufacturers of durable goods.

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The Missouri Department of Transportation on Feb. 19 announced that unless Congress approved money for highway programs, it would postpone or cancel a scheduled bid letting on Feb. 25.

Senate Democrats got support from eight additional Republicans Wednesday to pass a jobs bill by a 70-28 margin. Five Republicans supported the majority to block a filibuster on the bill on Monday.

There is no slowdown in sight for Chinese steel output, according to a prediction from the Chinese Iron and Steel Association.

Steel imports increased by 15.9 percent in January compared to December, but the effects of the recession left business down 31 percent from January 2009.

Kuwait-based global logistics provider Agility is donating transportation and logistics services to International Medical Corps, delivering supplies, doctors and healing to earthquake survivors in Hai

Japan's exports to the rest of the world rose for the second consecutive month in January, surging 40.9 percent from a year earlier to $54.5 billion, according to preliminary figures released by the F

A group representing independent truck drivers accused Mexico of “economic bullying” while arguing against allowing Mexican truckers to operate in the U.S.

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The Descartes Systems Group launched a conditional voluntary cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of trade management provider Zemblaz, formerly known as Porthus.

Stimulus funds for transportation infrastructure have so far paid to complete more than 3,000 construction projects around the United States and are now supporting three times that many under construc

A Senate jobs bill that cleared a filibuster hurdle on Monday won praise from trade groups for extending surface transportation programs, but the legislation did not continue business tax exemptions.<

Damco, the combined logistics subsidiary of A.P.

A fund affiliated with private equity firm New Mountain Capital agreed to acquire RedPrairie Holding, a provider of inventory, transportation and workforce productivity solutions.

Total U.S. steel exports fell 31.1 percent for the year in 2009, sliding to 9.3 million tons.

Logistics provider National Retail Systems has launched its Vendor Direct Logistics service for China-based retail suppliers.

Exporters signing up for the Automated Export System or AESDirect will no longer be able to use their Social Security number as identification, according to the Census Bureau.

World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association in Brussels climbed to 109 million metric tons in January, an increase of 25.5 percent from January 2009, the

ProLogis signed lease agreements for three of its sites as it announced new investment in European logistics.