Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Eleven months after the Transportation Worker Identification Credential became mandatory for all port-related workers, ports still lack the electronic equipment to read the card’s biometric data

The enemy is a voracious, destructive alien species. Government agencies at all levels are girding for a last-stand battle.

Companies that cut back recruiting efforts as the economy slid into recession are beginning to think about hiring again as a recovery begins to take shape.

Call it a lost week for a major slice of the U.S. economy and transportation network.

The new year has brought shades of optimism for the transportation and supply chain industry. While the overall U.S.

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A Senate jobs bill skews a federal highway funding formula to benefit four states, and leaves nothing for 22 others, Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., said Friday.

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals is cosponsoring a broad variety of educational programs in the U.S.

The Federal Maritime Commission voted 3-1 today to take the firs

The closely watched Leading Economic Index increased 0.3 percent in January, following a 1.2 percent gain in December, and a 1.1 percent rise in November, said The Conference Board on Thursday.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will be the keynote speaker on April 7 during the seventh annual Journal of Commerce North American Marine Highways and Logistics Conference.

Industrial production increased 0.9 percent in January following a gain of 0.7 percent in December, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday.

Railroad projects in seven states were the top winners Wednesday when the Department of Transportation announced recipients of $1.5 billion in TIGER grants.

Manufacturers in New York say business conditions improved at a healthy pace in February, according to survey results released Feb. 16 by the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

New York-based courier Choice Logistics will expand its forward stocking location in Dubai to establish a full service regional hub as client needs grow in the Middle East.

Wal-Mart will spend $115 million to build a refrigerated distribution center in Western Canada the retailer says will be outfitted with new energy-saving technology that will put it at the forefront o

More than a month after the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake, relief efforts are shifting gears to meet changing demands, says Tom O’Malley, vice president of cargo for UPS America.

The trucking industry is adding its voice to a coalition demanding tighter federal regulation of trading in commodity derivatives.

Notwithstanding its unassuming home, Air Tractor is an exporter of note. The company manufactures specialized airplanes for crop dusting and fire suppression.

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Due to the heavy snow storms that hit the Eastern United States this week, delivery of the printed Feb. 15 edition of The Journal of Commerce to some subscribers may be delayed.

Senate Democrats late Thursday were touting a second jobs bill that eliminates a number of tax credits and business incentives that were in an earlier bill, but the second measure keeps intact provisi

Ryder System signed a joint venture agreement with export consolidator Cargo Services Far East Limited.

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The growth of imports outpaced that of exports from November to December, pumping the trade deficit up from $36.4 billion to $40.2 billion, according to a report Wednesday from the U.S.

The U.S. economy slowed in January after a significant growth spurt in December, says a new economic index based on diesel fuel consumption by truckers.

Winter storms Wednesday stopped or slowed freight traffic and closed facilities from the Great Lakes to the East Coast.

Senators are expected within the next two weeks to introduce legislation to sustain surface transportation spending, John Horsley, executive director of the American Association of State Highways and

LONDON - Transnet, the South African state-owned freight transport and logistics company, plans to raise $2 billion from foreign bond sales to help finance infrastructure projects.

Miami would be a prime location for a logistics depot that would respond to disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean, a UPS air cargo executive says.

The Federal Maritime Commission postponed its meeting this morning to 10 a.m. on Feb. 18.

The Customs and Border Protection Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations, known as COAC, will hold its quarterly meeting on Feb. 25 in Miami.

Echo Global Logistics should have no problem recruiting during the recovery.

Like most shippers, Wal-Mart Stores is looking for a delivery guarantee from its suppliers. Unlike most others, the world’s largest retailer now is demanding one.

For importers still in denial about the Importer Security Filing rule, Customs and Border Protection has a message: “We’re not delaying enforcement.

Ports, cities and labor unions are sharply at odds not only with each other but within their own ranks over efforts to overhaul regulation of harbor trucking, and the rifts will make it even harder fo

After a harrowing year of cost-cutting and retrenchment, third-party logistics providers are shifting their focus to rebuilding &mdash; on the business front and in their relationships with shippers.<

Combine President Obama&rsquo;s export pronouncements in his State of the Union speech, and his 2011 budget for export promotion, and the trade community has something to celebrate.

It took nearly a year and a stubbornly high unemployment rate before the Obama administration recast its long-awaited $8 billion in rail system grants as part of a jobs strategy.

Like their counterparts in the U.S., third-party logistics providers in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America enter 2010 with lower growth expectations.