Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The House will consider a three-month extension of the current highway bill rather than the 18-month extension the administration and Senate want.

A senior Wal-Mart executive said Monday a drive to cut packaging on toys saved the retailer some $3.5 million in transportation costs last Christmas, a major gain to the bottom line the company won fr

Exports of steel mill products increased 0.2 percent in July over June according to U.S. government data.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the United States increased 0.6 percent in August.

The worst global economic and financial crisis in a generation slashed the Foreign Direct Investment plans of 85 percent of the world’s multinational corporations, says a U.N. report.

Domestic freight brokers are weathering the economic downturn with their profit margins largely intact, and scale appears to be providing the best insulation of all.

With all its pomp and stiff formality, this week’s gathering of diplomats, maritime law experts and dignitaries for a signing ceremony in Rotterdam may end up looking like something from long ago, and

Transportation industry officials are nervous. Congress again is nearing a deadline to fund industry programs.

Officials of the Obama administration’s Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force released their interim report for a 30-day public review and comment period.

Citi's Global Transaction Services, a business unit of the global financial services company, and GT Nexus, the global trade and logistics portal, announced a strategic partnership that will deliver e

The fiscal 2010 transportation and housing appropriations bill is headed to a House-Senate conference committee after being approved by the Senate in a 73-25 vote Sept. 17.

It was another week, another quarter-billion dollars of Recovery Act payments on transport infrastructure.

The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested eight American Airlines employees and charged them taking part in a drug trafficking ring that used commercial flights over 10 years to smuggle $19 million

Progress in the Doha Round talks is moving ahead too slowly, according to World Trade Organization director-general Pascal Lamy.

Some 1,800 transportation interests have unleashed an army of 2,100 lobbyists and spent more than $45 million in the first half of 2009 to influence surface transportation legislation in Congress, the

The House Judiciary Committee passed an antitrust bill that railroads oppose, as it would put them under the same antitrust provisions faced by other industries, but any similar measure in the Senate

A&B Properties, the real estate subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin, completed the sale of a 126,000 square-foot industrial warehouse in the City of Industry, California.

Industrial production climbed 0.8 percent in August, in the second consecutive month of growth for the sector as the nation’s factories, mines and utilities get back to work after a long decline

A growing number of Washington insiders say the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is close to introducing the first reform of rail economic regulation in 30 years, but indicate all

Hallmark, the $4.3 billion greeting card and gift-supply company, will manage its global inbound logistics with software provided by Descartes Systems Group, the Canadian-based provider of Web-based o

Famed U.S. investor Warren Buffett thinks the economy has “plateaued” along a bottom after a sharp decline, with little sign of recovery.

The jobless rate in the 30 wealthy countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will approach 10 percent in the second half of 2010 before leveling off and recove

Third-party logistics giant C.H. Robinson Worldwide, bulking up its produce distribution business, acquired two jointly-owned agriculture operations, the company announced Tuesday.

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A pilot program for screening all air freight that moves in the holds of passenger aircraft will become a permanent part of supply chain security, the Transportation Security Administration announced

General business conditions are improving in September and likely to improve further, according to a survey of manufacturers in New York.

President Barack Obama extended the 47-year-old U.S. trade embargo of Cuba for another year, noting in a statement that it was in the U.S.

GT Nexus enhanced its global trade and logistics portal to include several additional applications for suppliers and importers.

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P.

Half a million U.S. jobs are at risk because of national trade policy, according to a study by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. U.S.

China's commerce ministry said Tuesday that the U.S. decision to impose additional duties on imports of Chinese tires is "an abuse" of World Trade Organization safeguard measures.

The White House on Monday named Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. as chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, the commission announced.

Consumers pushed retail sales up for the first time in six months with back-to-school purchases in August but held back in some other sectors of the retail market.

Field & Stream Brand, the magazine publisher devoted to the complete outdoor lifestyle, launched its first line of clothing this summer with the help of third-party logistics provider Kenco Logist

Congress must extend a crucial program due to expire in two weeks to fund highway and other transport projects around the nation, a freight stakeholders’ coalition said, but should also approve

The White House last week nominated an expert in the export of dual-use technology and export controls to head the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security.

The global economic recovery could be stymied by protectionist governmental policies around the world, according to a joint report issued Monday by the World Trade Organization, The United Nations Con

China filed a World Trade Organization complaint Monday against a 35 percent U.S. tariff on tire imports.

Boeing and Damco, the Denmark-based logistics company that belongs to the A.P.

The ballast water discharged by ships ideally should be clear, but the path toward that goal is muddy in the U.S.