Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.When Mike Erickson quit his job at Airborne Express to be

Major Japanese transportation firm Sankyu Inc. said that its subsidiary, Sankyu Logistics Vietnam, h

Major railroads began re-routing freight traffic bound for New Orleans and alerting customers that f

Yusen Air & Sea Service Co., Ltd., a core logistics arm of the NYK group, announced that its sub

Estee Lauder named former Unilever supply chain leader Gregory Polcer as executive vice president fo

C.H. Robinson Worldwide named Brian Harms director of global forwarding business development. Harms

Trade between the United States and Russia suffered a major blow Friday when Moscow, the biggest mar

BNSF Railway has asked the Surface Transportation Board to approve an "abandonment exemption" coveri

The Food Safety and Inspection Service is seeking comments on bringing country-of-origin marking reg

Exports of construction equipment surged 24 percent in the first half of 2008, according to a mid-ye

Americans for a Strong National Highway Network, a coalition of truckers and other highway users, ur

The United States Export-Import Bank announced its backing for major projects in Ghana, India and Me

A truck driver frustrated by the loss of manufacturing jobs in Michigan was among the speakers at th

Surface Transportation Board Commissioner W. Douglas Buttrey will leave government service s

Revised government figures released Aug. 28 beat all estimates for second quarter growth. Real gross

Virginia's Montgomery County board of supervisors says it will fight the state's plan to help Norfol

India and the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations today concluded six years of negotiat

Strong exports carried by rail and truck boosted surface trade with Canada and Mexico in June. Impor

Brazil and Australia today supported the urgent resumption of the World Trade Organization's Doha Ro

New orders for manufactured durable goods improved for the third month in a row in July, the U.S. Ce

Customs and Border Protection announced plans to conduct a National Customs Automation Program (NCAP

Freight auditor CMG Logistics will incorporate Blink Logic into their Transportation Data Management

The Coast Guard has announced that it will begin to check for the Transportation Worker Identificati

The U.S. Department of Transportation presented awards Wednesday to fourteen states, three counties

RedPrairie Corp., a logistics technology firm, today announced that it has upgraded its warehouse an

The U.S. Department of Transportation will not block DHL in its attempt to hire UPS to handle its do

Brazil has asked the World Trade Organization to impose sanctions on the United States worth up to $

German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp plans to sell off its maintenance business unit, including logistics,

RedPrairie Corp., a logistics technology firm, today announced that it has upgraded its warehouse an

Customs and Border Protection will convene its annual trade symposium, "Global Trade: Continuity Thr

A European Commission spokesman today said that the European Union still believes it will be possibl

Consumer confidence lacks power in the latest survey conducted by a national research firm.

Agility Defense & Government Services announced that its Taos Industries subsidiary has won a co

Raleigh, N.C.-based Tompkins Associates reached across the Atlantic Ocean to forge a cooperation agr

A key index of shipments from U.S. manufacturers fell 13 percent in July, reaching its lowest point

Johnson Trading & Engineering Co., Ltd. of Taiwan has agreed to a $90,000 civil penalty to settl

Canada and Jordan have concluded negotiations on a free-trade agreement, the third for Canada this y

The parent of logistics provider Schenker is investigating possible accounting fraud at its Belgium

Agility Defense & Government Services announced that its Taos Industries subsidiary has won a co

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Computer maker Dell beat its deadline for running its wor