Transport, Trade and Regulation News

WASHINGTON - Faced with a weaker demand for postal services and rising costs, the Postal Service Boa

Pacer International, the North American freight transportation and logistics services provider, repo

BOSTON - State Attorney General Thomas Reilly has opened a criminal investigation to see if official

Neil D. Levin, the superintendent of New York state's Insurance Department and a former investment b

LONDON - SNCF, France's state railway, on Tuesday suspended all freight traffic until Thursday to av

GT Nexus has announced that Itochu Corp., one of Japan's biggest trading companies, will use the sof

In a speech to investors last November, Jim Kelly, chairman and chief executive of United Parcel Ser

The Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) has published its 'Intermodal Infosource,' a dire

Peter J. Pace has been appointed vice president, business development, at Americas Systems, Inc. of

Global Transportation Network and Inttra, the two multi-carrier Internet portals announced last year

GENEVA - Hong Kong has unveiled a proposal for lowering barriers to logistics and related services,

HOUSTON - Eagle Global Logistics has won a $33 million contract to handle selected military freight

For anyone who may be wondering what U.S. companies will gain in return for President Bush's pledge

MEXICO CITY - Mexican trucking group Canacar threatened to blockade the U.S.-Mexican border if Mexic

LONDON - La Poste, France's state mail monopoly, suffered a sharp decline in net profits last year d

Dulles, Va. - Vastera, the cross-border trade management software company, has expanded its arrangem

Six rail unions and the state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday jointly petitioned the Surface Transporta

GORLEBEN, Germany - A shipment of nuclear waste reached a German dump today after a troubled railway

MANILA - MOL is renaming logistics subsidiaries in the Philippines and Malaysia, and creating a new

DANNENBERG, Germany - A train delivering 60 tons of nuclear waste to a German storage site was force

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Governors of nine Mississippi River states have told President Bush they oppos

3PLex has announced a partnership with Guaranteed Overnight Delivery (G.O.D.), a national transporta

DANNENBERG, Germany - Protesters blocked train tracks with bales of straw and dangled from a railway

Connect.com.au, an Australian Internet service provider (ISP) has launched tradeway.com.au, a Web po

Hong Kong's Trade Development Council and the electronic logistics arm of Hutchison International Po

FRANKFURT - Big trucks that fail to meet European emissions standards will have to pay higher fees t

As a court case on customs duties, this one is not likely to send a tremor through the trade commun

SHELTON, Conn. - G-Log, which sells transportation software including platform technology for online

China plans to improve rail links to spur foreign investment in its remote western regions. Recent g

TradeCard uses the Internet to electronically gather purchase orders of hundreds of suppliers, and t

MONTREAL - The St. Lawrence Seaway opened the 2001 shipping season Friday with expectations of lower

Shanghai's Baoshan district has launched a new logistics center, He Jia Wan, to develop sea/rail int

Tradiant, the logistics software company behind the multi-carrier Web project, Global Transportation

GATX Corp has finalized its acquisition of DEC, Poland's national tank car fleet and fuel distributi

London - Germany's Deutsche Post World Net reported record revenues and profits for 2000 Friday and

GoCargo, which championed online transportation auctions long after the other transportation dot-com

Malaysia's liberalized logistics sector continued its reshuffling as the government revealed plans t

LONDON - Germany's Stinnes and Frans Maas of the Netherlands are the latest European road transport

Ocean shipping companies, which currently own 500f the truck chassis hauling cargo around the United

Officials from the Department of Transportation are meeting with counterparts in Mexico's Ministry o