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Jim Ritchie, CEO of YRC Logistics, will leave the company at the end of May.

United States Steel named Thomas Kelly to succeed John C. Pranaitis, the retiring managing director-transportation and president of Transtar, the company's transportation subsidiary.

The massive Southern California international trade economy will decline further in 2009 before registering a modest gain next year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Economic D

High speed rail and a major Interstate highway project in Texas head up a list of the top 100 infrastructure projects in the United States released this week by CG/LA Infrastructure.

Shipping goods may not be a game but the growing business of handheld games should provide strong expansion in shipments this year, according to a new forecast.

The volume of freight transportation services in the United States in March dropped 3.3 percent, as measured by the Freight Transportation Services Index of the U.S.

April retail and food service sales dropped 10.1 percent to $337.7 billion, according to the adjusted advance estimate released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

A still positive Chinese market helped offset the general gloom of the global downturn for logistics provider Dachser in fiscal 2008.

Trade between the United States and India dropped 23.47 percent in value to $8.2 billion during the first quarter of 2009, compared with $10.69 billion during the same period last year.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is canceling a controversial Bush administration plan to reduce congestion at New York-area airports by auctioning slots to airlines.

Warehouses and transportation companies in California are facing the most aggressive environmental regulations this ecology-minded state has ever experienced, and every link in the international suppl

The United States’ largest manufacturing group says the country’s deepening deficit suggests the economic downturn has further to go.

OTTAWA — Canada’s largest customs broker, with 2,500 employees located across Canada and the United States, on Tuesday reported deep losses and stopped distributing dividends, mainly becau

Port intermodal projects should qualify for special federal funding under a grant program in the Recovery Act, said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

China's trade surplus declined to $12.9 billion in April, far below government forecasts of $20.3 billion, and significantly below the $18.56 billion surplus China recorded in March.

U.S. exports and imports both declined in March, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The faster pace of decline among exports raised the U.S.

The White House has targeted more than $250 million in transportation spending that it wants to cut under its budget proposal for the 2010 fiscal year that starts in October.

The departments of Transportation and Commerce have launched a program to draw shippers into the discussion about transportation infrastructure and the role it plays in global competitiveness.

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk called Monday for a new era of cooperation in trade relations as he arrived for his first visit to the headquarters of the World Trade Organization.

Although global economic indicators continue to point downward, there are signs that the rate of decline may be slowing, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Monday in a repo

The attempt to craft a new rail competition bill and perhaps revamp the Surface Transportation Board is on a slow track through Congress.

While much of the world was showing growing alarm over a possible swine flu pandemic and business scrambled to contain the impact, Dan Sanker, CEO of logistics provider CaseStack, pulled out his plans

There’s broad, even unanimous, agreement in Congress that Capt. Richard Phillips, the master of the Maersk Alabama who risked his life saving his ship and crew from pirates last month, is a hero.

Customs and Border Protection is alerting the trade to be watchful of pests in wood packing material, even if it has been stamped as treated under International Standard Phytosanitary Measure 15.

The U.S. trucking industry shed more than 16,000 jobs in April, the Labor Department said, as part of a 38,000 job loss in the transportation and warehousing sector.

Glenn Tilton, chairman and chief executive of United Airlines parent UAL, urged U.S.

Anti-dumping activity is up.

The Obama administration has budgeted $73.3 billion for the U.S. Department of Transportation in 2010.

Supply chain software provider i2 Technologies matched reduced revenue in the first quarter by slashing costs and restructuring.

A 14-mile stretch of High Occupancy Toll lanes will generate billions of dollars in economic activity for the Washington area long before the first toll is collected.

OTTAWA — Canada took the first step Thursday in challenging the United States before the World Trade Organization on its COOL food labeling legislation said to cost Canada hundreds of millions o

European Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton said today she will discuss the long-running Doha round of WTO-sponsored trade talks for the first time with United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk on

Regulator and regulated would take a step closer to partnership if Customs and Border Protection adopts principles endorsed by the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations at its quarterly meeting

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a Web portal that will provide retailers with a central clearinghouse for information regarding environmental sustainability and compliance, the

TransGroup Worldwide Logistics is expanding its North American footprint with the opening of its Nogales, Ariz. logistics center.

National Retail Systems opened a 15-acre distribution center in Compton, Calif., to serve retailers and manufacturers who ship through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Jeffrey A. Rosen, former general counsel and senior policy advisor at the White House Office of Management and Budget, and previously general counsel of the U.S.

Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation hired Todd Hoyt as general manager of its new division, transportation management services.

The global recession and its consequences pushed mobile phone shipments to a sharp decline in the first quarter, according to an industry research firm.