Transport, Trade and Regulation News

A key manufacturing index showed activity at the nation's factories showed growth for the first time in 18 months, a strong signal of a budding recovery in the U.S. economy.

Wireless communications distributor and logistics provider Brightpoint named former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge to its board, the company said Tuesday.

Menlo Worldwide Logistics, a subsidiary of Con-way, appointed Anthony Gunn managing director for Europe.

The Department of Transportation will make $20 million in recovery funds available to help small and disadvantaged businesses better compete for work on transportation projects funded by the American

The World Trade Organization ruled Monday that Brazil can impose $295 million in annual sanctions against U.S. goods as a result of the United States' failure to eliminate subsidies to U.S.

BDP Project Logistics, subsidiary of Singapore-based BDP International, opened an office in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

A&B Properties, the real estate subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin, acquired two distribution warehouses in the Northpoint Commerce Center in Fullerton, Calif., near Los Angeles.

The Chinese government revised its tariffs on imported auto parts after losing its appeal against a World Trade Organization ruling.

Japan's trade surplus rose 364.2 percent in July compared with the same month last year, to $4.06 billion, the finance minister said Wednesday, but the news reflected more weakness than strength.

World trade volume rose 2.5 percent in June from the previous month following a revised 1.4 percent decline in May, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis said.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is soliciting comment on how to regulate pallets and other wood packaging material to combat the spread of tree-killing insects such as the emerald ash b

The Department of Transportation pushed its stimulus project payouts to $2.023 billion in the week ending Aug.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis in its second estimate on Thursday confirmed last month’s advance estimate of a 1 percent decrease in gross domestic product.

Illinois will ask Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to award $300 million to a multi-year project to untangle its congested freight and passenger rail lines, under a $1.5 billion discretionary fundi

New York City is scrubbing soot from its skyline by turning to electric vehicles, from heavy trucks to compact cars.

Just before the August congressional recess, a member filed a bill to provide grants for ports to clean up the air. The bill is due to be considered when congress returns Sept. 8.

For the first time, China overtook Germany as the world's biggest exporter during the first half of 2009, the World Trade Organization reported Tuesday.

New orders for manufactured durable goods in July made the largest percent increase in two years, according to a report Aug. 26 from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The state of Illinois is seeking about $550 million in federal passenger rail grants under the Recovery Act, with most of the money aimed at projects that tie into freight rail corridors as well.

Total steel imports to the United States rose 14 percent in July, compared with June, to 893,202 metric tons, according to preliminary data issued Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Global logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel opened a facility in Sochi, Russia, the city on the northeast coast of the Black Sea that will host the Olympic Winter Games in 2014.

Stimulus grants from the Environmental Protection Agency are putting millions of dollars into revamping truck stops so they can offer piped-in air and electronic services to parked rigs, allowing truc

Despite the growing importance of supply chain operations in Europe, over 40 percent of European retailers and manufacturers still fail to include any supply chain professional on their managerial boa

AMB Property and Panalpina signed a lease agreement for 59,000 square feet in a development immediately adjacent to Madrid's Barajas International Airport.

ProLogis expanded its lease of distribution space to SpeedFC.

APL Logistics on Aug. 24 opened a distribution center within Dubai Logistics City’s international free trade zone.

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded the Port of Baltimore $3.5 million in stimulus funds to revamp or replace cargo equipment, under a program aimed at curbing diesel emissions.

The man running the nation’s rail safety and financing agency is a fifth-generation rail worker, onetime mayor of a Chicago suburb, longtime union official and someone who brings to his job a personal

Delays with Customs and Border Protection’s Automated Commercial Environment are having a cascade effect on information technology at 45 other federal agencies that will connect with ACE through the I

The Federal Railroad Administration is gearing up for big changes in the nation’s freight rail system, including direct government spending on track projects, as it implements President Obama’s plan t

In a ruling that deals still another blow to the U.S. anti-dumping process known as "zeroing," the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization rejected Tuesday the U.S.

China and the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations signed a bilateral investment agreement Thursday, signaling that the China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement the two sides signed earlier to cov

In a sign of thawing trade relations between China and Taiwan, a visiting official from China's Ministry of Commerce said that the two countries will likely conclude their ongoing negotiations on an E

The Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition (CITAC) called on the Obama Administration and Congress Thursday to comply immediately with World Trade Organization decisions condemning the use of &qu

The Department of Transportation paid out another $243 million for stimulus projects bills in the week ending Aug. 14, bringing the total it has spent so far to $1.737 billion.

Gross Domestic Product in the 30 member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development stabilized during the second quarter of 2009, dropping by a mere 0.002 percent, followin

In a clear indication that the recession is bottoming out, the Leading Economic Index rose for the fourth consecutive month in July, according to a report Aug. 20 from The Conference Board.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is pushing back against the idea that federal stimulus money spending by his department is not helping the economy, saying the funds are creating thousands of jobs.