Transport, Trade and Regulation News

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

Trade volumes may be down and financing harder to get, but providers of on-demand global trade and logistics software say they are enjoying a banner year.

With expiration of the multiyear highway bill known as SAFETEA-LU looming, it is growing more likely Congress will extend the law, preventing catastrophic cuts in state highway infrastructure projects

Motor carriers that want trucks out of their yards and off their books are starting to go where America sells practically anything: eBay.

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Highway-led spending pushed total Department of Transportation payments under the Recovery Act to $2.621 billion through Sept. 4, for an increase of $267 million from a week earlier.

Wal-Mart Stores is turning to the transportation industry for leadership in its fast-growing Asia business, naming DHL Express senior executive Scott Price as president and CEO of Walmart Asia.

Corn exports are likely to soar 100 million bushels higher this year than last as U.S. farmers produce a record yield per acre, according to a forecast released Friday by the U.S.

The economic outlook is improving in most of the 30 nations that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Paris-based research organization said Friday.

President Obama, filling a key transport position on the eve of the anniversary of September 11, named Los Angeles airports security chief Erroll Southers to head the Transportation Security Administr

The Freight Transportation Services Index rose 1.6 percent in July from its June level, the first monthly increase since February and the largest increase since January 2008, the U.S.

Descartes Systems Group, which provides global logistics services on demand, announced that its revenue and net income grew during the latest quarter, and over the first six months of 2009.

The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services for July was $32 billion, up from $27.5 billion in June, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced Thursday.

If a recovery is truly under way in the freight sector, it is yet to translate into a steady upturn in the number of transportation jobs.

Descartes Systems Group, which provides logistics software as a service online, has enhanced its Global Freight Exchange to provide tighter, real-time integration with air carriers, the company announ

Kuehne + Nagel, one of the world's largest logistics companies, announced that it will provide integrated logistics services in Russia for the Benetton Group, Italy's largest apparel maker, and one of

Trucking and warehouse executives in California urged the state tax commission to refrain from raising taxes on diesel fuel and gasoline.

The chief economist for the National Retail Federation said in a report released Tuesday that figures suggest “the recession is ending,” and she forecast a growing economy in the second ha

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Agility, the Kuwait-based provider of logistics services, has been awarded a four-year contract to provide local and global forwarding, transportation and customs clearance services for RasGas, the la

The Chinese economy is expected to grow 7.8 percent this year while the global economy is likely to drop more than 2.5 percent, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said in its Trade

For a region often marked by volatile swings of economic fortune, South America has shown unusual stability in trade in recent years, and PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions forecasts relatively stead

The Justice Department’s “vessel pollution initiative” has gone from an intensive blitz against maritime environmental crime to a long, hard slog with no end in sight.

On a recent Friday, a trucker hauling lumber to be used to manufacture pallets was stopped at the California state line after inspectors found three unidentified insects in his load.

Federal stimulus money is flowing into port projects in Baltimore and Houston, is electrifying truck stop parking spaces in Alabama and Tennessee and will revamp roads leading into an industrial park

If Congress decides to restructure harbor trucking this fall and expose the industry to unionization by the Teamsters, it will do so with eyes wide open.

U.S. railroads are riding a tailwind generated by federal stimulus programs but need to beware: That tailwind may turn out to be a gust that can’t be sustained.

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A Senate Republican believes Democratic support for climate-change legislation is wavering after sponsors announced introduction of their cap-and-trade bill will be delayed until later in September.

Senior trade negotiators agreed to "intensify the negotiations" when they re-launch the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral talks on Sept.

The National Industrial Transportation League sharply criticized environmental groups’ claim that trade groups oppose clean-air efforts at ports this week, calling the accusation “a flagra

Federal stimulus disbursements by the Department of Transportation swelled to $2.354 billion by Aug.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development issued forecasts showing a broadly based but fragile return to economic expansion in the third quarter of 2009.

Logistics provider UTi Worldwide saw its net profit dive 67 percent in the three months ending July 31 but said the market for shipping and logistics services is shoring up heading into the fall.&nbsp

Independent Container Line will provide transactional e-commerce services to global customers through the GT Nexus Trade and Logistics Portal.

The new chairman of the Surface Transportation Board opted out of a regulatory ruling this week for what would have been his first controversial case, under a policy of recusal from issues involving h

Global owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate, AMB Property Corporation, leased approximately 65,000 square feet in AMB Port of Rouen, a development in its Paris market, which is now

Federal stimulus funds to states for such needs as highway, bridge and transit repairs were supporting at least 76,000 direct jobs as of July 31, says the House Transportation and Infrastructure Commi