Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Discount retailer Stein Mart this week began overhauling its nationwide distribution system. APL Logistics is helping to lead the transformation.

Ricardo Martinelli soundly defeated the governing center-left party's candidate in Panama's presidential election Sunday, enhancing the chances that the U.S.-Panama free-trade pact signed in 2007 will

Agility, a Kuwait-based provider of logistics services, announced that net profit before non-recurring items rose to $135 million during the first quarter of 2009, or

The closely-watched Cass Freight Index fell a record 25 percent in April compared to the same month a year ago, and freight spending also dropped at a record pace, throwing a new cloud over hopes that

With substantially lower revenue, distribution facility provider ProLogis earned only slightly less profit in the first quarter, compared with a year ago.

ClearOrbit, a provider of supply chain software, is completing its integration with parent company TAKE Solutions by changing its name to TAKE Supply Chain and introducing an expanded set of products.

As the global recession kept up the pressure on express and mail volumes, Dutch logistics giant TNT saw revenue decline 10.2 percent in the first quarter to $3.3 billion.

Is China serious about its promises to open its domestic market to foreign investors? Last week brought mixed signals from Beijing.

When the NYK Line ship Nebula approached the Port of New York and New Jersey on March 8, the ship had a problem. It was riding too high in the water to pass beneath the Bayonne Bridge.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, as well as the American Trucking Associations, claim they got what they wanted in last week’s decision by U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

With European ports reeling from the recession and declining cargo volume, the depth of the downturn has shocked even those inured to the industry’s cyclical swings.

Importers will be able to file 98 percent of their Customs entry summaries using an upgraded electronic data entry system by the beginning of 2010, the agency says.

A dozen countries that trade with the United States need to upgrade protection of intellectual property, according U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.

A closely-watched manufacturing index jumped 3.8 percentage points in April, its highest level in eight months and a new sign the steep decline in the American economy is easing.

Orders, shipments and inventories of manufactured goods all declined in March, lengthening the downturn to the longest stretch of consecutive monthly decreases since the U.S.

Mexico today began a five-day shutdown of all nonessential government services and business as the country tries to halt the spread of the swine flu virus.

The General Council of the World Trade Organization voted unanimously on Thursday to reappoint Pascal Lamy, the WTO's director-general, for a second four-year term beginning this September 1.

GAC Shipping appointed Clarence Chan as its senior marketing manager, shipping services, for greater China, effective immediately.

A majority of the attendees at The Journal of Commerce's 9th annual Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference don't foresee an economic recovery for at least another year, according to live poll questions ask

Customs and Border Protection is looking at alternative ways of calculating the timeliness of security information that importers are obligated to file before their cargo is loaded aboard ship.

The Mexican government will shut down private business, including factories and transportation operations, for five days starting Friday as the country tries to halt the spread of the swine flu virus.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that Russia intends to oppose "protectionist" policies of the European Union.

Federal Maritime Commissioner Harold J. Creel Jr. announced Wednesday that he would leave the commission at the end of his term on June 30.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico plummeted a record 30.9 percent from February a year ago to $47.9 bi

Consumer confidence improved considerably in April, according to research organization The Conference Board.

The United States imported a total of 1.5 million net tons of steel in March, the American Iron and Steel Institute reported, based on preliminary Census Bureau data.

Reacting to a storm of protest by foreign companies in China, the European Commission said Wednesday that it is investigating whether China's new postal law, effective October 1, breaks World Trade Or

Canada is filing a World Trade Organization complaint against the United States to ease new country-of-origin-labeling requirements on Canadian beef and pork exports.

"K" Line Logistics is contesting a fine levied by the nation's anti-monopoly watchdog for its alleged role in a cartel to raise international air cargo charges.

Legislation that would allow states to withdraw from the federal highway program is raising the specter of another donor-donee standoff like the one that stalled transportation legislation in 2004.

Panalpina, the Swiss global logistics group, reported net earnings crashed 95 percent in the first quarter from a year ago amid a slump in ocean and air freight traffic on trans-Atlantic and trans-Pac

The government said the U.S.

New legislation would set minimum standards for container security and require monitoring of U.S.-bound containers from the point of stuffing, according to the Senate delegations from New York and New

Impairment charges for falling market value of its holdings led to a loss of $122.4 million in the first quarter for owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate, AMB Property Corporation.

Gross Domestic Product grew 1.1 percent in 2008, according to an April 28 advance report from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

China and Peru signed a free trade agreement Tuesday, capping more than a year and a half of negotiations and legal processes.

Dutch logistics giant TNT will acquire Brazilian carrier Expresso Araçatuba Transportes e Logística for a price of $70.4 million, on a cash and debt free basis.

Yusen Air & Sea Service, the core logistics unit of Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line), Japan's biggest shipping firm, reported a big drop in group profit for fiscal 2008, which ended on Mar

Two leaders of the Senate Finance Committee introduced legislation aimed at dismantling some of the Bush administration’s transportation privatization policies.

The European Shippers Council has warned that a new international agreement governing liability for cargo damaged at sea could put small and mid-size shippers at risk.