Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plans to increase its nuclear divisions’ earnings by 50 percent by 2020 through constructing new nuclear plants and providing after-sales services and nuc

The clock is ticking on the next highway bill, which is scheduled to become law by Sept. 30.

A bipartisan think tank is calling for sweeping reform of U.S. transportation planning, infrastructure funding and federal oversight as part of this year’s highway bill.

Future transportation policy will break down the Department of Transportation’s “Stonehenge” structure — restructuring a group of monoliths — Rep. James L.

Infusing cash to keep the Highway Trust fund afloat at the end of fiscal 2009 is a matter of payback, Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., said Monday.

In an effort to revive the long-delayed Doha Round of global trade negotiations, U.S.

Leaders of the 19-nation Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa said Monday that they are ready to launch a customs union to facilitate the free movement of goods in the region.

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said its composite leading indicator for the OECD area rose in April, reaching 93.2 compared with a revised 92.7 in March.

Companies that prepared for the recession by coordinating their supply chain divisions with departments that manage engineering and marketing are in the best position to emerge stronger than ever.

Given less pressure on capacity and a focus on high-speed rail, goods movement advocates are unlikely to get everything they want out of the upcoming five-year reauthorization of the nation’s highway

Each year, an estimated 150 million invoice transactions are processed in the ocean shipping sector, with the average cost ranging from $20 to $60 per invoice.

Canada and the United States agreed in May to make permanent a pilot project called Shiprider that pairs the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and U.S. Coast Guard.

Railroads may have won one battle in their bid to fend off rail regulatory legislation, but shippers believe they’re closer to winning the war in Congress.

It took less than 24 hours for Anne Ferro’s nomination as the nation’s top truck safety official to become embroiled in the dispute over truck driver hours of service.

Fifty-nine House members have signed a letter urging the authors of a new transportation bill to promote energy security and combat greenhouse gases.

Just Born, maker of Peeps and Peanut Chews, purchased a 600,710 square-foot warehouse in Bethlehem, Pa., to serve as the central storage and distribution point for all its products.

The European economy is not doing as badly as the United States, according to figures from Eurostat.

Moscow's long-delayed bid to join the World Trade Organization "should be completed by the end of the year," the European Union's trade commissioner Catherine Ashton said Thursday.

President Obama named Commissioner Joseph E. Brennan acting chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission.

President Obama tapped Anne Ferro, the head of Maryland's state trucking association and a former Maryland motor vehicle administrator, as the next Federal Motor Carr

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday that a “significant” amount of $1.5 billion in federal stimulus money will go for port infrastructure and related freight transportation p

Members of the House Appropriations subcommittee on transportation and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood agreed that creativity is needed to find a permanent and sustainable way to provide money for

Wincanton profit before tax fell 45.5 percent in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009.

A key member of the House of Representatives is putting pressure on Congress and the Obama administration to speed the next surface transportation bill into law.

For 30 nations active in global trade, consumer prices increased in April by a smaller percentage than in the previous month.

Brown Shoe Company on Thursday opened a 350,000 square foot Famous Footwear Distribution Center, which will be able to accommodate 32 million pairs of shoes a year.

Weak freight and logistics volume, currency fluctuations, and the company's exit from some businesses slashed UTi Worldwide’s revenue 35 percent to $768.4 million in the first fiscal quarter, en

The Census Bureau revised downward its earlier estimate of the decline in durable goods shipments in April.

The Highway Trust Fund will be emptied as soon as August unless it receives as much as $7 billion from Congress, a key senator says.

The Taipei-based American Chamber of Commerce said yesterday that Taiwan should sign the proposed economic cooperation framework agreement with China to ensure the competitiveness of Taiwan's products

Economic recovery will occur when consumer spending turns around, unemployment bottoms out and the business inventory-to-sales ratio improves, but that will take awhile, according to the chief economi

Mexican truckers, frustrated with the pace of efforts to reestablish a cross-border trucking program in Washington, are seeking $6 billion in damages from the United States.

Vietnam will cut import tariffs by an average of roughly 2 percent on many types of goods between now and the end of 2009 in order to comply with the government's commitments to the World Trade Organi

Menlo Worldwide Logistics, the global logistics subsidiary of Con-way, will handle inbound transportation, warehousing and outbound transportation management for U.S.-made products in Europe for Maque

China's Ministry of Commerce began an anti-dumping investigation into grain-oriented flat-rolled electrical steel imported from the United States and Russia.

The Cass index of U.S. domestic shipping edged up 4 percent in May from the month before, providing new evidence the decline in the freight transportation economy is leveling off.

General Motors will close three parts and warehousing centers as the automaker begins to restructure logistics operations as part of its government-led reorganization, the company announced on the hee

On May 28, a group of 55 legislators made up of members from the Populist and Progressive caucuses, the House Trade Working Group, and others sent a letter (

Customs and Border Protection should delay implementation of the Importer Security Filing rule until the World Customs Organization has had time to review its compatibility with the SAFE Framework sec

Key Democratic senators have an agreement on a “robust” package of legislation to remove antitrust exemptions now enjoyed by freight railroads and reform the Surface Transportation Board t