Transport, Trade and Regulation News

A day after freight forwarder EGL received a second offer to acquire the company, a shareholder expr

The Senate Appropriations Committee temporarily blocked funding for a pilot program that would allow

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., on Thursday won approval by the Senate Appropriations Comm

On the same day freight forwarder EGL received a second offer to be acquired, a shareholder expresse

OTTAWA -- The St. Lawrence Seaway on Wednesday opened its 49th navigation season to internatio

International Asset Systems and Trinium Technologies said Thursday they have formed a joint venture

Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines has agreed to sell all of its shares in OCWS Logistics to CWT Ltd.,

Oracle and Savi Technology, a division of Lockheed Martin, have completed a pilot project of a syste

Intermodal container traffic declined for the week ending March 17 as imports fell off during the Ch

ProLogis, the Denver-based real estate investment trust, has appointed William Sullivan as the compa

Leading economic indicators, as seen by an independent business research firm, pointed downward slig

UTi Worldwide, the non-asset-based logistics services provider, announced a major management reshuff

WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Tuesday emphasized the need for collab

DSC Logistics cut a sweet deal with Tootsie Roll Industries for a two-year contract to provide wareh

Advancing its enterprise resource planning business deeper into transportation execution, Oracle par

Transportation logistics company Hub Group announced this week that Thomas M. White, the company's s

Air and ocean forwarder UTi Worldwide launched a new five-year plan and overhauled its management st

Apollo Management submitted a new proposal to buy all of the outstanding shares of freight forwarder

Trade and logistics portal GT Nexus on Wednesday announced the launch of GT Nexus Trade, an integrat

GT Nexus launched a new product on the first day of Spring to provide a single, industry-neutral pla

Freight forwarder EGL Inc. has received a $40-per-share acquisition offer from Apollo Management LP,

Health and hygiene company Kimberly-Clark deployed a mobile RFID tagging system to improve the execu

A vote by 2,800 Canadian National Railway conductors and yard workers to accept or reject a new labo

Prices on a wide range of mailing options will go up on May 14, the United States Postal Service sai

Deutsche Post, the German global mail, express and logistics group, said net income in the fourth qu

UPS enhanced three of its technology offerings to streamline services online. Package preparation, t

Edward M. Emmett is back in politics and that means he is back in transportation. The former Interst

Is this what a "freight recession" looks like? The warning signs have been flashing for months - in

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.There''s little in the logistics process as unforgiving a

Is energy independence the real thing? The search for alternative fuels is hitting Coca-Cola, and th

In something of a twist on distribution, Wal-Mart's new Site to Store online merchandising program p

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The rush to grab logistics space in China is reaching the

EGL signed a definitive merger agreement with CEO and Chairman James R. Crane, EGL's largest shareho

There's good fishing at the Port of Gulfport, Miss., so good that local anglers ignore the security

Two less-than-truckload subsidiaries of FedEx will implement a 5.59-percent general rate increase, e

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Two U.S. senators who tried in the past to revoke the rai

Critics of a plan that will allow a select group of Mexican trucks to operate throughout the United

On Monday EGL Eagle Global Logistics announced it has agreed to be acquired by a group led by chairm

Japanese carrier "K" Line on Friday said it is buying three hybrid transfer cranes for use in its co

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads increased modestly for the week ended March 10, but intermodal vol