Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Supply chain and logistics services provider Avram Worldwide opened its headquarters in Greenwood, Ind., where it will invest $885,000 to lease and equip an existing 20,000 square-foot facility in Joh

WIL Lines, a South Florida-based forwarder, increased shipments in the third quarter by exporting products to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

The National Retail Federation on Tuesday forecast holiday retail industry sales will decline 1 percent this year to $437.6 billion.

Japan's Hitachi Transport System agreed to acquire a 51 percent stake in U.S. logistics service provider J.P. Holding Company.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association supports a ban on cell-phone texting while driving, but wants better enforcement of existing laws on inattentive or negligent driving by all motorist

ATC Logistics & Electronics, a subsidiary of ATC Technology Corporation, added Amy Knoth as a business development director.

Momentum Logistics, a subsidiary of international port management company, Gulftainer, signed a contract to provide dedicated warehouse space and other logistics services to United Arab Shipping Compa

As the world economy works toward recovery, prospects for freight transportation in and through Malaysia are improving, according to a report from Business Monitor International.

On Sept. 23, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., introduced legislation to extend the current highway program for three months.

A major overhaul of federal surface transportation programs may be months away, but interest groups and lawmakers are already wrestling over who will pay, and how.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is coming under as much fire in the Senate as the woman nominated as the next FMCSA administrator.

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Even in a survey baring a chasm between shippers and logistics providers over what third-party providers can do in this economic downturn, the comment from one Fortune 500 shipper was especially blunt

The Senate Finance Committee belatedly kicked its miscellaneous tariff bill into gear, and is making up for lost time.

Cargo volume rose across Europe and across transport modes in September, according to the latest monthly poll of more than 150 freight forwarders.

Factory orders declined in August, following four months of increases, and shipments of manufactured goods retreated after two consecutive monthly gains, according to an updated report from the U.S.

Freight-related transportation jobs fell moderately in September, the Labor Department reported, but falling employment levels in key customer groups could signal more trouble ahead for the shipping s

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced that an inspection fee increase will be delayed until Nov. 1. The agency previously announced that the increase would take effect Oct. 1.

Echo Global Logistics, which has grown into a $200 million company in less than five years, launched an initial public offering Friday expected to bring nearly $80 million to the third-party logistics

Thursday was a green day for California's drayage industry, marking the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-truck program, and the start of a statewide clean-air program for truck

A closely watched index of U.S. shipping reached its highest point in 10 months in September in a signal of improving health in the transportation end of the troubled American economy.

California and federal officials are sending millions of dollars in new Recovery Act grants to Southern California cargo operations at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, plus other area faciliti

Third party logistics company OHL recently hired Patrick Moebel as president, Americas for its global freight management and logistics business unit.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is raising its fees on imported agricultural commodities, effective Oct. 1.

A closely-watched measure of manufacturing in the United States slipped in September, retreating for the first time this year after eight months of steady improvement, signaling any prospects for econ

An Environmental Protection Agency stimulus grant of $1.73 million will help the state-owned Alaska Railroad and other transport operations curb diesel emissions.

The Senate late Wednesday passed 62 – 38 a budget resolution that included a one-month extension of existing highway programs.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday kicked off a two-day Distracted Driving Summit in Washington, D.C.

Real gross domestic product decreased at an annual rate of 0.7 percent from the first quarter to the second quarter, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The U.S. Congress is unlikely to ratify the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement in 2009 because it is focusing on health care reform and energy-related legislation, U.S.

Surface trade with Canada and Mexico sank 28 percent in July compared with a year earlier, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Sept. 30.

Highway programs that are due to expire at midnight Wednesday will get a one-month reprieve if the Senate agrees to a continuing resolution on the fiscal 2010 federal budget.

DB Schenker and TransContainer are planning a joint container hub in Riga, the capital of Latvia on the Baltic Sea.

The U.S. Coast Guard will hold six public meetings on its proposed rulemaking for ballast water discharge. USCG plans to offer a live Webcast of each public meeting as well.

Seeking more targeted logistics business in specialized shipping sectors, TNT on Tuesday rolled out an inventory and transportation service aimed at critical spare parts in Southeast Asia.

Kuehne + Nagel, one of the world's largest sea freight logistics providers, committed to using INTTRA eInvoice.

A coalition of shipper and carrier groups, heating up the war of words over the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan, issued a point-by-point rebuttal to claims environmental groups are making as the

G-20 leaders must provide their negotiators more flexibility to ensure that they can conclude an agreement on the long-delayed Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, said Pascal Lamy, director

China launched a formal World Trade Organization inquiry Sunday into imports of chicken feet and wings from the United States, in response to widespread complaints by Chinese poultry producers that U.

An appropriations bill that would send $76.5 billion to the Department of Transportation in fiscal 2010 is nearing the White House, but a House-Senate conference committee must tackle differences in f