Transport, Trade and Regulation News

A University of California business professor predicted that the U.S.

April 14 is the deadline for Transportation Worker Identification Credential compliance at the ports of Freeport, Galveston, Texas City, Houston, Port Arthur, Beaumont and Orange, Texas and Lake Charl

Freight transportation picked up in February in the largest one-month rise since a year ago, marking a recovery from the lowest level in more than five years in January.

Wholesale inventories dropped 1.5 percent in February, the sharpest fall since the U.S. Commerce Department started keeping records on the current basis in 1992.

International express carrier TNT said steep declines in volume for its premium transport business stabilized during the first quarter and improved somewhat at the end of March.

An ad hoc coalition of 140 manufacturing, food and agricultural organizations sent a letter to President Obama urging him to quickly resolve the cross-border trucking dispute with Mexico.

The World Bank, the European Commission, Britain, and the African Development Bank pledged $1.2 billion to upgrade infrastructure and improve trade in eastern and southern Africa at a conference on th

OTTAWA — Canada is disputing the 10 percent duty slapped on some United States imports of Canadian lumber, said Trade Minister Stockwell Day only hours after the decision April 7.

OTTAWA — Canada gave the automobile companies General Motors and Chrysler, and suppliers to them, some further financial assistance April 7, and said the country must face the possible bankruptc

As he settles in as the new head of the Surface Transportation Board, the changes that Francis P. Mulvey brings may be more of emphasis than direction.

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services renewed and expanded upon its agreement with GT Nexus.

The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations could be concluded within eight months after concluding preliminary agreements on industrial tariffs and agriculture subsidies, World Trade Organizati

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J.

London -- Germany's Deutsche Post emerged as a potential bidder for a stake in Royal Mail, boosting the UK government's attempt to partially privatize the state-owned postal company.

Deutsche Bank and INTTRA announced April 6 that they have launched a partnership to drive new efficiencies and cost savings in the $260 billion ocean container shipping industry.

Enterprise software giant Oracle, looking for more business from shippers and logistics providers, released the latest version of its Transportation Management software, known as version 6.0.

A Detroit congresswoman has proposed cutting off federal funding for a bi-national group that wants to build a new bridge across the Detroit River.

When the Environmental Protection Agency last week declared an offshore zone to control air pollution from ocean shipping, it was one of those rare occasions when everyone from the American Lung Assoc

The U.S. and Canada will take another look at stationing customs officers in each other’s country to clear goods before they arrive at the border.

Canada’s West Coast made the country’s first bow to the United States’ new Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.

Illinois is paving a road to economic recovery, one pothole, street and bridge at a time.

Led by British Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, representatives from 23 British companies made a one-day trip to Baghdad and Basra, Iraq on Monday.

The 27-nation European Union should further liberalize its service sector and further deregulate trade in agriculture to contribute to achieving a robust recovery and sustained growth, the World Trade

The Federal Maritime Commission will discuss four disputes among shippers and carriers during its meeting April 8, the commission announced.

The Obama administration is moving quickly to head off a trade war with Mexico over allowing Mexican truckers access to the United States.

The Surface Transportation Board may be on a path toward big changes in the way it oversees railroad rates and service.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association wants a federal court to rule on the legality of the Bush administration’s crossborder trucking project with Mexico.

The United States is committed to concluding the long-delayed Doha Round of world trade talks, said Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization.

The National Association of Manufacturers this week joined a rally on Capitol Hill to urge Congress to make changes in the Consumer Product Safety Commission Improvement Act.

Rep. James L.

Revenue for third-party logistics providers dropped by 6.7 percent during the first quarter of 2009 compared with the first quarter of last year, according to a survey by Armstrong & Associates.

Stimulus spending by the Canadian federal government is hurrying along the upgrading of the Canadian half of the second busiest Canada-United States commercial border crossing.

Discussions among congressional staff, rail customers and railroads to craft new competition rules for that industry “are moving along nicely,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.

Victor M. Mendez, who directed the Arizona Department of Transportation under two governors, is President Obama’s choice to head the Federal Highway Administration.

Global freight forwarder MOL Logistics selected Descartes' Global Logistics Network to help it comply with the United States Customs and Border Protection's new Importer Security Filing "10+2&quo

Meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 economic crisis in London, President Barack Obama told South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Thursday that he wants to make progress in completing the long-delay

The Southern Shrimp Alliance gave a mixed review to the decision of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, effective April 1, to terminate its enhanced bonding requirement on all shrimp imports.

Oil prices lower than $75 a barrel discourage producers from investing in the large-scale projects that ensure an adequate future supply, said OPEC members and industry executives attending a Paris co

A key measure of industrial shipping in the United States showed shipments declined 22 percent in March from the same month a year ago, suggesting retailers and manufacturers were retrenching still mo

European Union transport ministers backed an "open skies" aviation pact with Canada that will deregulate cargo and passenger services across the Atlantic.