Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The Transportation Services Index made its biggest one-month gain since July of 1997. The overall TS

Supply chain management software vendor i2 Technologies began another round of layoffs and a 1-for-2

The board of directors at PBB Global Logistics named Ken Chalmers, a legal advisor to the company wh

Representatives of the U.S. textile and apparel industries today announced that they have filed seve

Canadian National today announced orders for 75 high-horsepower locomotives.Canada's largest

The European Union's choice to head the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy, is a "very strong can

OTTAWA -- Canadian Pacific Railway today signed a new contract that will boost export coal traffic h

Air and ocean freight forwarder, Lynden International, doubled its Seattle warehouse space to 32,000

RFID provider Savi Technology appointed Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Hom

UPS began accepting UPS Ground Authorized Return Service? packages and other ground return services

BNSF Logistics today announced the appointments of Shannon Boyd as director of integration and Mark

Following a preliminary report late Friday that showed an explosive increase in apparel and textiles

Plano, Texas-based 3PL Transplace agreed today to handle all outbound and inbound products in North

BNSF Railway Co.'s Los Angeles Division recently announced an organizational alignment designed to c

Savi Technology, a provider of RFID technology for supply chain management and security, announced t

Norfolk Southern Corp. said it will acquire 50 more new locomotives than initially planned in 2005,

LONDON -- Exel, the United Kingdom's biggest logistics company, has come under renewed takeover spec

Stymied by federal inaction and frustrated by failed industry attempts at compromise, labor and truc

Kalmar, the container-handling equipment maker based in Sweden, has established a new dedicated busi

U.S. railroads' carloads dipped 0.2 percent to 342,187 units compared with the same 2004 period duri

A surge of imports from Asia and a boom in coastal warehouse leasing are rejuvenating the wholesale-

An Oklahoma state legislator withdrew a bill that would have challenged federal jurisdiction by regu

Railroad operator Kansas City Southern said today that it completed the acquisition of Mexican rail

The Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition (CITAC) today renewed its call for Congress to repea

The highway bill may finally break free from congressional gridlock this year, but will it help brea

JPMorgan Chase Bank closed its acquisition of Vastera April 1. The merger was first announced in Jan

Heritage Partners today announced the completed acquisition of the shipping business of R.R. Donnell

DHL said it has appointed John Pearson as executive vice president of commercial in the United State

DHL awarded Siemens Logistics and Assembly Systems part of a $160M contract for the integration and

While some companies are taking advantage of cheap labor and telecommunications technology to outsou

The European Union today said it will impose 15 percent tariffs on U.S. paper, textiles, machinery a

The Descartes Systems Group today said that Hanjin Shipping Co. has signed a multi-year contract ext

Auto parts maker Dana is showing the flip side of the country's upbeat report on durable goods order

President Bush today asked Congress to extend by two years trade-negotiating authority that would pr

The China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) discovered a large gas field in the northeast

The U.S. Trade Representative today released its 2005 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trad

Canadian National on Tuesday announced it has successfully refinanced its US$1 billion revolving cre

UPS launched two "green" power and conservation initiatives at several places around the country, ai

Cities and provinces are building and improving ports, roads, bridges and logistics parks nationwide

China's overheating economy needs strict control said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at an executive mee