Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Large scale improvements are on the horizon for Port Manatee, as a Florida county last week created a special taxing district to support infrastructure and capital improvement projects to attract new

Exporters and other interested parties have an additional month to tell Customs and Border Protection what they think about a controversial change in drawback regulations.

Members of two Senate committees are still working on details of how much to curb a limited antitrust immunity freight railroads now enjoy.

New orders and shipments of manufactured durable goods declined in October for the second time in three months as machinery and transportation equipment suffered setbacks.

Consumers going mobile snapped up enough low-priced notebook computers this year to push personal computer shipments up 2.8 percent in 2009, the Gartner Group says.

The Russian government unveiled plans this week to sell stakes in Sovcomflot, the nation's biggest shipping line, and partially privatize leading seaports and airports in 2010.

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Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Jayson P. Ahern will retire Jan. 2, 2010, sources within the agency said.

Gross Domestic Product in the third quarter grew 2.8 percent, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis said Tuesday.

Doing business in Africa is not for the risk-averse. Before wading in, smart companies should heed the lessons Panalpina learned after operating for 54 years in Nigeria.

For several years, the Surface Transportation Board has been confronted with issues surrounding merger and acquisition premiums paid in most of the recent major transactions involving railroads.

Even as President Obama unveiled plans to hold a “jobs summit” to help fight the nation’s 10 percent-plus unemployment rate, concern was festering over how his administration has app

An importer of heavy machinery is consistently underbid by a rival importer when they compete for sales contracts.

A U.S. federal grand jury last week indicted Kuwait-based logistics company Agility on charges it defrauded the U.S.

Logistics service providers in the Middle East suffered a slowdown after the global economy plummeted last year, but their pain was not nearly as intense or as long-lasting as what their colleagues el

The good news about Importer Security Filings, says Customs’ Richard DiNucci, is that more importers are filing all the time and the filings are getting more accurate.

In just over three months, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin enforcing the Importer Security Filing, or 10+2 rule, but for many shippers, the deadline may have already passed.

Infrastructure project spending under the stimulus law by the Department of Transportation reached $5.9 billion through Nov. 13, a nearly $2 billion increase since the beginning of October.

The U.S. Postal Service said Friday it is narrowing its list of stations and branches under review for possible closure down to 241, part of an effort to cut millions of dollars in operating costs.

Trade groups representing the nation’s retailers are lending their support to legislation that will extend key trade preference programs that were due to expire on Dec. 31.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Erroll Southers to be the next head of the Transportation Security Administration.

OOCL Logistics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orient Overseas (International) Ltd., launched Payment Audit, the third in a series of supply chain management software packages.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index increased 0.3 percent in October, following a trend of gains in every month since hitting bottom in March.

The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a U.S. district judge in New Orleans ruled on Wednesday.

Ceva Group, the global supply chain management company, reported third quarter earnings fell 33 percent from a year ago on reduced transport volume and a deflated air freight market.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee called off a meeting late Wednesday in which it was to consider the nomination of Earl Southers to be the new head of the Transportation

A bipartisan group of senators is calling for action that would extend the surface transportation bill to create jobs and spur economic recovery.

Werner Enterprises isn’t waiting for a U.S. economic recovery — it’s searching for one in Australia.

A successful trade preference program must be stable and predictable over a long term, the chief supply officer for Levi Strauss & Co. told the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee on Tuesday.

Fish and Wildlife Service agents raided the Nashville factory of famed guitar maker Gibson on Tuesday, in apparent enforcement action under the expanded Lacey Act, the Nashville Tennesean reported.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will expand its “roadability” rule for intermodal chassis, clearing the way for industry efforts to launch a global registry for intermodal

A U.S. federal grand jury indicted Kuwait-based Agility on multiple charges of conspiracy and fraud.

Output from the nation’s manufacturing, mining and utility industries increased only slightly in October after a three-month run of modest recovery.

The freight transportation industry will see a recovery next year, but it will be painfully slow and will generate only modest increases in freight rates, according to Wall Street analysts.

Fatigue “is one of the most insidious issues in the transportation industry,” and more must be done to fight it, said Deborah A.P.

The American Association of Exporters and Importers is complaining that layers of bureaucracy in Customs and Border Protection’s Office of International Trade are causing importers unnecessary d

Truck buyers put the pedal to the metal in October, sending Class 8 truck sales zooming 104 percent from September and 117 percent over October 2008.

Global forwarders are struggling to pass on to their customers the higher ocean and air cargo rates they have paid shipping lines and airlines since late summer.

Eight months after completing one of the largest logistics deals of the year, France’s Geodis Group isn’t letting the worst recession in decades interfere with plans to expand in the Unite

Whatever the outcome of the rail reform bill being drafted in the Senate, it is unlikely to strip railroads of their limited antitrust immunity, according to a key Republican senator.