Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Source Holding Delaware, parent of Source Logistics, secured a follow-on investment to allow expansion in the growing Mexican and Latin American food market in the United States.

London - The UK government scrapped controversial plans to partially privatize Royal Mail, the state-owned postal company, citing "market conditions."

A federal court cleared the way Wednesday for the California Air Resources Board to require that ocean vessels use low-sulfur diesel fuel in their main and auxiliary engines within 24 miles of the coa

The Federal Maritime Commission is proposing a change in rules that would require parties in marine terminal operator agreements to wait 45 days before the agreements take effect.

Worldwide RFID sales will increase 5 percent in 2009 to $5.56 billion despite the global economic downturn, according to a forecast by IDTechEx, an international market research and consulting fi

The Obama administration handed Congress its wish list for extending the current transportation program until March 31, 2011.

The surface transportation trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico declined 33.1 percent in April compared to April 2008, according to th

Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., believes another kind of fuel tax could be the cure for the Highway Trust Fund’s ills: a tax on crude oil contracts.

Cuba's trade deficit jumped 65 percent in 2008, propelled by the doubling in the value of its oil imports, higher costs for food imports, three devastating hurricanes, and weakness in its nickel expor

South Korea's trade surplus reached a record-high $7.4 billion in June, reflecting the continued weakness of the country's economy.

A key manufacturing index slowed its decline in June as some signs of growth in production emerged amid slower deliveries and contraction of orders, employment and inventories.

States will receive pro-rated payments for their highway programs as the Highway Trust Fund’s balance dips toward zero, the Department of Transportation announced.

The founder of a phony New Jersey logistics company will spend some real time behind bars for bilking investors, including members of his own family, of $5.8 million.

The heavy users of the transportation system should bear the burden of paying for the infrastructure, according to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

DHL Supply Chain, the logistics unit of Germany’s Deutsche Post, plans to add 10 transportation hubs in China by the end of this year to meet increasing demand for domestic shipping.

UPS will continue to deliver new cars to dealers under an extension of its logistics contract with Ford Motor Company.

Consumer confidence, as measured by the The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index, retreated in June after two months of strong gains. Respondents to a survey of 5,000 U.S.

The owners of a Las Vegas-based import business face possible jail time and federal penalties for distributing tainted pet food ingredients from China.

By a majority of 4 to 2, the U.S.

Japan and the United States signed a pact on Friday to mutually recognize their respective trade security and facilitation programs.

Expanding capacity at the busiest commercial crossing point on the U.S.-Canada border was never going to be simple, given the unusual management situation at the site.

FedEx has been expanding out of its air express industry roots into trucking and other areas, in part to move with its customers up and down the range of shipping decisions.

It’s the economy. That’s what jumps out from the numbers and analysis in the latest edition of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ State of Logistics Report.

Truck traffic across the Canadian border is lighter these days, but the list of security rules that cross-border truckers and their shipper customers must obey has grown longer.

The U.S.

More than 60 percent of shippers, carriers and vendors in the third-party logistics provider business said they believed that the overall health of their businesses would be “better or much better” fr

It’s not part of the stimulus money coursing from federal coffers through state highway budgets, but a Department of Transportation program just sent $5.2 million to 14 states to help pay for innovati

Canadian trade officials would like to discuss with U.S. counterparts an agreement that would enable U.S.

Strong words between the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and a senior Republican Thursday morning brought into sharp relief two legislative strategies for a new six-year

Two of the nation's largest retail trade groups said yesterday that they have closed merger talks.

Most of the world's leading exporting countries fail to fully enforce a ban on foreign bribery, according to a new report prepared by Transparency International.

A.P. Moller-Maersk is selling some of the trucking services provided by its European ferry subsidiary Norfolkline Logistics to DSV, Scandinavia’s largest trucking and logistic group.

Trade ministers of eleven export-oriented World Trade Organization members called for vigilance against protectionism, and said that other WTO members should conclude the long-delayed Doha Round of mu

Getting a new multi-year, federal transportation spending program approved by Congress quickly is a key to the health of the factory sector, says the head of the National Association of Manufacturers.

President Obama plans to nominate aviation safety expert Christopher A. Hart to be a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.

The U.S.

The Department of Transportation said it released another $140 million this week for construction projects, but it was regular grants rather than Recovery Act funds.

U.S. and European trade officials rejected Russian accusations blaming the U.S. and EU for the collapse of Russia’s unilateral bid to join the World Trade Organization.

Clean diesel technologies in engines manufactured beginning in 2007 not only reduced certain emissions by 90 percent compared to 2004 models, but far exceeded expectations in their performance in clea

Descartes Systems Group, a global software-as-a-service logistics solutions provider, will help United Arab Emirates-based Etihad Crystal Cargo comply with Cargo 2000 business processes.