Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Industrial production increased 0.8 percent in November, the fifth consecutive month without a negative change, according to a report Tuesday from the Federal Reserve.

The House on Monday voted to extend two widely-supported trade programs, but for only one year.

The head of the American Association of Port Authorities urged leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives to help boost industry jobs by bolstering some ongoing federal programs and tackling a

The U.S. Postal Service cut to 170 the number of stations and branches it is reviewing for possible shutdown as it seeks to cut costs by consolidating offices.

The Environmental Protection Agency is sending $13 million to the Army Corps of Engineers to help prevent the voracious Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes at Chicago through the barge canal syst

Fitch Ratings expects modest volume improvements in 2010 for the U.S.

The United States and Japan have a new tentative agreement on an “open skies” aviation treaty that would give UPS new freedoms to add air service in competition with FedEx.

Federal payouts for construction projects authorized by the Department of Transportation under the stimulus law reached $6.818 billion by Dec. 4, DOT reported.

YRC Worldwide faces a fresh challenge from the federal government, which filed a third lawsuit claiming the company's nationwide less-than-truckload carrier, YRC, discriminated against black employees

Ten years ago, violent protesters almost shut down Seattle when that city played host to the World Trade Organization’s Third Ministerial Conference, training the spotlight on globalization.

President Obama gets it: Federal spending on infrastructure is a good way to stimulate job growth in the still-weak economy.

Descartes Systems Group plans to spend about $43 million in cash to acquire Belgian logistics software company Porthus and gain a bigger foothold in Europe.

One factor spurring fresh consideration of outsourcing private fleets to dedicated fleet operators is the proliferation of environmental regulations on trucks.

While private companies and government researchers look at ways to efficiently scan ocean cargo containers, the National Academy of Sciences is studying whether the Department of Energy, which deploys

There is a serious delay at the container screening line.

Congress on Friday pushed off until next year a measure authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration, giving up for a third year in a row on a plan the aviation industry has been waiiting

Specialty apparel retailer Charming Shoppes renewed and expanded its contract to use the Web-based data platform provided by GT Nexus for import management.

The National Association of Manufacturers would like to see a more transparent licensing process and more frequent reviews of export control lists, among other recommendations for a new export control

Advance seasonally adjusted estimates of U.S.

The United States goods and services deficit shrunk 8 percent to $32.9 billion from September to October, the government reported Friday.

Stephen E. Flynn, an expert on transportation security whose profile has grown dramatically amid expanding anti-terror efforts, will become president of the Center for National Policy Jan.

Kraft Foods took 50 million truck miles out of its global distribution operations through a broad effort to overhaul shipping strategies and make its supply chain more efficient, the food giant said.&

A House-Senate conference committee cleared a massive spending bill that provides $122.1 billion in transportation, housing and development funding in 2010.

Railroads and their customers are getting their first look at a long-awaited bill that would overhaul federal regulations governing shippers’ access to competitive service and how their disputes

Customs and Border Protection is setting up a targeting center for import safety patterned after its facility to monitor cargo security, the agency announced Tuesday.

Freight shipments declined for the second consecutive month in October, as measured by a 1.2 percent drop in the U.S.

SDV, a unit of France’s Bolloré Logistics, acquired Europacific Forwarding, an Australian company that provides freight forwarding, customs management and logistics service, especially in

President Obama’s multi-layered jobs plan includes spending around $50 billion in additional funds on transportation infrastructure programs, with the goal of obligating that money to specific p

Traveling to Geneva to press their case this week, members of the U.S.

Industrial parts manufacturing giant W.W.

President Obama will promote David T. Matsuda to head the Maritime Administration from administrator, where he has filled the top position on an acting basis since July.

A Dec. 7 hearing by the National Mediation Board could help clear the way for that agency to make union election rules at railroads and airlines more labor friendly.

Agents of Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized $260.7 million in bogus goods in fiscal 2009, the agencies announced Friday.

President Obama nominated Senate staff counsel David L. Strickland to be administrator at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation.

The Department of Transportation has paid out $6.515 billion in reimbursements to states for project spending under the stimulus law for roads, bridges, airports and transit needs.

Canada last week achieved a critical milestone toward building the $3 billion Detroit River International Crossing.

Commercial real estate provider ProLogis may not have signed many blockbuster deals for distribution centers in Europe for the fourth quarter, but the company says an array of new agreements add up to

The best news for the industrial real estate industry at the end of a tough year was that the dismal third quarter wasn’t as bad as the grim first and second quarters.

Bankruptcy may be the end of the road for many trucking companies, but it’s becoming a route out of the recession for a few.

A single KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight took off and landed in Amsterdam after only an hour in the air last month, but some hope it carried the airline industry into a new environmental world.