Transport, Trade and Regulation News

An early indicator of the direction of the general economy gave its first positive sign in seven months as the Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the U.S. increased 1 percent in April.

“As of this week, we’ve made nearly $13 billion available” in Recovery Act funds for infrastructure projects around the country, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said.

The Obama administration does not favor raising the federal tax on motor vehicle fuels as a way to bolster highway spending accounts, said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Texas Governor Rick Perry signed legislation that will permanently allow trucks to transport overweight freight between the Port of Brownsville and Mexico.

June could be a key time for Congress to act on rail antitrust legislation and perhaps on changes in how economic regulations enforce competition among carriers, said a top official for an activist ra

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee voted to send to the full Senate for confirmation the president’s nominees for deputy transportation secretary and head of the Federal A

House members, fed up with Defense Department unwillingness to put military personnel on U.S.

World trade volume during the first quarter of 2009 fell 11.3 percent below the fourth quarter of 2008, according to an independent research institute.

Powerwave Technologies, which provides wireless coverage and capacity for wireless communications networks, awarded a contract for worldwide forwarding services to CEVA Logistics.

A bill to strip railroads of a limited antitrust immunity could move to the Senate floor for a vote soon after Congress returns from its upcoming Memorial Day recess.

New House legislation would more than triple the Harbor Maintenance Tax to create a fund to enhance goods movement within 40 miles of a U.S. port.

Fear is growing that governments around the world will take measures to restrict trade in agricultural products, some farm industry executives and analysts told the World Agricultural Forum in Saint L

The Overseas Shippers Association selected GT Nexus to provide an integrated transportation management system.

The president’s choices for deputy transportation secretary, the second-highest job at the Department of Transportation, and for the top slot at the Federal Aviation Administration, go to their

The Obama Administration today will propose raising mileage and emissions standards for cars and light trucks, speeding the development of smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles and the development of

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is delaying implementation of changes to certain ISF transaction sets until the end of June.

A bipartisan resolution in the Illinois state senate is pivoting off a controversial rail merger outside Chicago, as it asks President Obama to name a community-minded freight specialist to fill a fed

In a visit likely to strengthen commercial ties between two major emerging nations, Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived in Beijing Monday for three days of trade and investment talks

The impact of the economy had a multiplied effect on non-asset based transportation services company AutoInfo in the first quarter.

The crisis in global financial markets has put a damper on merger and acquisition activity in the global transportation and logistics sector, according to a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Inland waterway groups are rallying to oppose an Obama administration proposal to replace fuel taxes with lock user fees as a way to pay for construction and maintenance on the river system.

The two seated members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission by a split vote have turned down an emergency request by the National Association of Manufacturers to postpone a labeling requirement f

Exports of steel mill products declined 34.4 percent in March, compared with March a year ago, said the American Institute for International Steel.

The battle over transportation infrastructure funding is shaping up to be about more than how much to spend on highways, railroads and ports over the next five years.

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The National Industrial Transportation League and the European Shippers Council are waging a war of white papers over the European group’s opposition to a new international cargo liability convention.

When Japan’s once-vibrant economy slid into the years of stagnation that came to be known as the “lost decade,” a broad range of exports built on consumer goods helped the country ride out the storm a

The hazy regulatory skies that have hovered over harbor trucking for 30 years are becoming a bit clearer thanks to recent federal court rulings in California.

When Expeditors International of Washington announced its first-quarter results this month, the company suggested a bleak picture for international trade: Shipping volume was down sharply, ocean reven

The National Infrastructure Bank proposed by President Obama will likely have many twists and turns on its journey toward a new way to fund infrastructure projects.

The first phase of U.S. enforcement of the Lacey Act began on May 1 with few complaints from importers, but they are bracing for the next wave of requirements.

The Columbia River channel deepening project will receive $26.6 million in economic recovery funding to complete its last phase, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., announced May 15.

U.S. industrial output fell 0.5 percent in April from March, leaving it 12.5 percent below April 2008, the Federal Reserve said.

The Department of Transportation took a major step to open up a $1.5 billion grant pool that can cover ports, intermodal, freight rail and other types of freight construction as well as passenger proj

In a meeting that could lead to progress on the long-delayed U.S.-S. Korea free-trade agreement, U.S.

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The Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization confirmed an earlier finding that the United States should stop using "zeroing," a controversial method of calculating antidumping duties o

The Federal Maritime Commission on May 20 will receive recognition as one of the “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government,” Commissioner Joseph E.

Prices paid to producers of finished goods in April shifted up slightly from the previous month after widespread declines.

Democratic leaders on the Senate Commerce Committee are calling for what might be called a shift away from highway freight transportation by 2020.