Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Relief efforts for more than two million people affected by the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami slowed

China invested 51.6 billion yuan ($62 billion) for railway construction in 2004, Minister of Railway

After building locomotives for more than 70 years, General Motors Corp. is exiting the business.

Although Union Pacific Corp. expected to have three of its five weather-damaged routes back in opera

LOS ANGELES -- Heavy rains and flooding in Southern California and in Nevada have washed out key Uni

Mexican transportation concern Grupo TMM said Wednesday that its shareholders approved amended terms

A key Senate figure in the highway bill debate is floating a proposal to make the next highway bill

In a white paper released today, "2005: A Crossroads for U.S. International Trade Policy," Business

Two recent logistics deals illustrate how companies are using acquisitions of complementary assets t

LOS ANGELES -- The intermodal industry will be stretched to its limits again this year, but it shoul

President Bush is trying again with a homeland security secretary nominee.Like the first nom

Logistics provider Exel has won the contract as a dedicated supply chain partner for TKS (U.S.A.) In

The U.S. trade deficit increased to more than $60.3 billion in November, an all-time record, the U.S

Surging exports helped push China's trade surplus to a six-year high of $31.9 billion in 2004, the g

Management Dynamics, Inc., which provides information technology services to transportation companie

President Bush on Tuesday nominated federal appeals court Judge Michael Chertoff to replace Tom Ridg

Canadian National Railway Co. said the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) is determining wheth

BAX Global has opened new subsidiaries in Guangzhou and Shanghai to coordinate the development of it

The U.S. International Trade Commission has cleared the way for tariffs to be imposed on shrimp impo

The Teamsters union by mid-February will sponsor a bill before the California Legislature that will

FedEx Custom Critical Inc., a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., is expanding its Surface Expedite service t

After three years of programs, policies and regulations to direct and regulate supply-chain security

Raleigh, N.C.-based L&M Transportation Services is about to make its carrier customers a little

OneBin.com, a global e-commerce logistics provider in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has acquired Global Fre

OTTAWA -- Canadian National Railway, citing a "deteriorating level of service," on Jan. 18 will intr

Shippers are asking the federal government for more regulation. And, no, that's not a typo.

The earthquake and tsunami that crashed through the Indian Ocean and brought devastation and death a

A tugboat and three barges sank Sunday after being swept over a dam spillway on the Ohio River by cu

FedEx Corp. is spending at least $60 million to expand two of its centers in Greater Sacramento, boo

Crane Worldwide Logistics seems to have emerged suddenly as a fully functioning international freigh

Squeezed by tight margins in its battles with other mega-retailers, Wal-Mart is turning to direct so

Kansas City Southern and Grupo TMM S.A. announced rail subsidiary TFM S.A. de C.V. received a favora

Exel, the global third-party logistics provider, formalized a five-year agreement to provide RedPrai

New York Regional Rail Corp. (NYRR) recently reached a settlement with New York City and resolved th

Columbus, Ohio-based Sterling Commerce will buy distributed order management and supply chain fulfil

Wal-Mart is scanning the results of its ambitious demand to have top suppliers implement new radio f

Active RFID technology developer RF Code, of Mesa, Ariz., won the supply chain project category at t

.Maritime Administrator William G. Schubert is setting sail.Schubert announced Jan. 7 that h

OTTAWA -- The St. Lawrence Seaway is closed for winter maintenance until late March, following a sea

While some shippers are complaining about potential toughening of the C-TPAT program, at least one s