Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Customs brokers and importers have been able to use remote location filing for several years, but until now Customs and Border Protection classified the practice as a prototype program under the Natio

President Obama on Monday signed into law a bill that extends the U.S. General System of Preferences and the Andean Trade Preference Act for one year.

Japanese carrier NYK Line opened its own agency office at Hyderabad, a major inland cargo location in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Book sales in the United States surged during the holiday season, but in a dramatic shift for the shipping world, retailer Amazon.com said this week sales of e-books for the first time surpassed sales

The Environmental Protection Agency is adopting a two-prong regulatory strategy to curb emissions from large ships operating in U.S. waters.

In the middle of December, the Department of Transportation sent out reimbursement checks to states that totaled $268 million in the latest week for construction projects under the stimulus law, bring

Fesco Logistics on Dec. 28 delivered a single piece of construction equipment weighing 100 tons to Novorossiysk, Russia.

The Senate on Dec. 24 confirmed the nominations of a Federal Maritime Commission member and a senior Department of Transportation administrator before adjourning for the holidays.

Shipments of manufactured durable goods climbed for the third consecutive month in November, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Dec. 24.

The Federal Highway Administration passed a milestone in December when it approved its 10,000th highway project funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which Congress passed

Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr. will be the new commandant of the Coast Guard, President Obama announced on Tuesday.

The government lowered its estimate of U.S.

Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell said he will nominate Maritime Administrator Sean Connaughton the commonwealth’s seecretary of transportation.

WASHINGTON — Congressional legislation has done little to assure the federal government that U.S.

Softwood lumber markets strengthened in the third quarter in China and northern Africa but remained slow in the U.S. and Japan, according to forest industry analysts Wood Resources International.

Global steel production in November jumped 24 percent over a year earlier to 107.5 million metric tons, but was down 5.2 percent from October, according to the World Steel Association.

States with the two largest seaports ranked in the top five among states with the most-congested urban interstate highways, according to a Reason Foundation report.

A Singapore government agency fined a logistics company executive about $50,000 for safety violations that resulted in a 2007 accident that killed a worker, according to local reports.

TOKYO — Japan’s merchandise trade surplus with the United States expanded in November for the first time in 27 months as the pace of decline in Japanese exports slowed significantly, according to prel

For years, executives of U.S.-based multinationals quietly complained the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act put them at competitive disadvantage by making it illegal for U.S.

Another front is opening in the battle over the classification of workers as independent contractors.

It’s been nine years since Congress approved the down payment for the Automated Commercial Environment, the entry processing system that was to take Customs and Border Protection into the 21st c

Given the secretive way a rail regulatory overhaul was crafted in the Senate over recent months, it seemed inevitable the landmark bill would emerge late in a jammed legislative calendar and req

The Senate gave existing highway funding programs a two-month reprieve today when it approved a Defense Department appropriations bill 88-12.

The Home Depot is hammering together a “rapid deployment center” for its logistics operations in the Southeast, the CoStar Group reports.

DB Schenker launched a program to bolster growth in its contract logistics business unit through additional employees and improved industrial standards.

The Department of Transportation’s reimbursements to states for construction projects under the stimulus law reached $7.164 billion as of Dec. 11, DOT reported.

A Senate panel approved nominations for officials to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and serve on the Federal Maritime Commission, clearing them for confirmation by the full Se

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the United States increased 0.9 percent in November, the eighth consecutive month of growth.

The negotiations over the past year that led the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee to overhaul competition rules in the railroad industry were tougher than those still under way fo

Customs and Border Protection wants to pull the plug on a program started in 1995 to curb drug smuggling on the Mexican border.

A landmark revamping of federal rail regulations cleared the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, but some tough issues including whether to strip railroads of some antitrust immunit

The House passed measures on Thursday that could put nearly $49 billion toward Department of Transportation infrastructure projects and increase the flow of money to the Highway Trust Fund.

The House is expected to vote this afternoon on a trio of intertwined measures that will extend the Department of Transportation’s highway program at current budget levels, puts the Highway Trus

Michael Khouri, the president’s latest nominee to the Federal Maritime Commission, told the Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday that he will apply his experience in the inland river transportat

An official of the British International Freight Association says the United States should scrap its 100 percent scanning program and adopt a “risk assessed, commercially practical and technolog

Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., introduced legislation this week that would toughen standards for employers in transportation and other industries that use independent contractors.

Strengthening the transportation system’s resilience may reduce long-term costs from climate change, according to a study by transportation specialists Cambridge Systematics.

Menlo Worldwide Logistics, the global logistics subsidiary of Con-way, launched a warehouse and inventory management system for a customer of freight forwarder Crane Worldwide Logistics.

The Government of India set up a high-profile committee on maritime security to enhance surveillance of the country’s vast coastline.