Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, today urged the U.S. Senate to pass the pending Hurricane Disaster Relief Appropriations Act to help regions affected by...

Hong Kong’s Census and Statistics Department today reported that the volume of goods exports dropped 4.7 percent in October, although the volume of goods imports rose 1.4 percent from October 2011.

At the second India-ASEAN Business Fair in New Delhi, Anand Sharma, Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles; expressed confidence that trade between India and...

At the 30th Customs Cooperation Conference in Seoul, Korea, today, Clement Cheung, commissioner of Hong Kong Customs, and Joo Yung-sup, commissioner of the Korea Customs Service...

India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation has established the Air Cargo Logistic Promotion Board, an inter-ministerial group, to lay down policy framework to govern air cargo operations in the country.

The International Chamber of Shipping has issued a report about the future governance of Arctic waters and shipping, intended for high-level policymakers in environmental and foreign ministries...

The National Association of Manufacturers has applauded President Obama’s signing of the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal Act...

A fatal accident serves as another reminder of the difficulty U.S. regulators face in keeping illicit carriers off the road.

President Obama today signed H.R. 6156, the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Segei Mangitsky Rule of Law and Accountability Act of 2012, which authorizes the establishment of permanent normal trade relations with Russia and Moldova.

Dollar General will open 635 new stores next year, building on the 625 stores the retail giant is on track to open by the end of 2012.

The National Association of Manufacturers’ President and CEO Jay Timmons today said in a released statement that the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Ambient Air Quality Standards for fine particulate matter is a display of the agency’s “shortsightedness.”

Striking port clerical workers had barely raised their picket signs at Los Angeles-Long Beach this month when shippers began clamoring for President Obama to use the Taft-Hartley Act to end the walkout.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered Two Dayes Trucking and Two Dayes Transport, based in Murfreesboro, N.C., to cease all transportation services immediately because of safety violations.

The Import Specialist Enforcement Team at U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Laredo, Texas, port of entry recently seized an $83 million commercial shipment of...

The U.S. Senate today approved H.R. 2838, the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2012, clearing the House-passed bill for the president’s signature.

U.S. pork exports in October increased 9 percent to a record 218,132 metric tons (about 240,449 tons) valued at $607 million, according to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., severely downplayed the prospects of a federal fuel tax hike...

The Defense Department's decision to drop the TWIC card as a trusted key to its online transportation systems doesn’t throw up roadblocks that would stop TWIC-carrying truckers, but it will raise costs for some companies that employ them.

The European Parliament approved a series of free trade pacts with Colombia, Peru and six Central America nations.

Logistics technology company Transplace, PepsiCo, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and multiple carriers recently released a survey of more than 65 transportation carriers to gain insight into...

Denis Lebel, Canada’s Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, and Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, today introduced the Fair Rail Freight Service Act bill...

Retailers project a drop in containerized imports in November because of the eight-day clerical workers strike in Los Angeles-Long Beach, but volumes should be up 3.9 percent in December compared to the same month last year.

The U.S. Department of the Army has issued a notice that the Transportation Worker Identification Credential can no longer be used to authenticate users for access to Electronic Transportation Acquisition, effective Jan. 29, 2013.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently seized 35,712 imported holiday-themed rubber ducks, worth $18,522, at the Port of Los Angeles for containing too much phthalate...

India’s federal government has extended a 2 percent interest subsidy on pre- and post-shipment export credit for labor intensive sectors, including handicrafts, carpets, handlooms...

India’s federal government has taken steps to meet demand for edible oils in the country, according to India's Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.

The Teamsters Union recently argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s pilot program to open the border to Mexican trucks must be shut down...

U.S. shippers could get some holiday cheer if Congress passes legislation by the end of the year that would suspend tariffs on materials and products not available domestically.

The U.S. has asked the World Trade Organization to establish a dispute settlement panel to examine Argentina’s import restrictions on all U.S. goods.

The 2012 U.S. corn crop is high quality and improves upon last year’s good marks across a range of test factors, despite the worst drought in decades this year...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States has approved its fourth supply chain finance transaction and will guarantee up to 90 percent of $450 million in liquidity offered by a JPMorgan Chase loan...

Officials from the Port of Long Beach and the Panama Canal Authority have renewed a memorandum of understanding that promotes trade between Latin America and the U.S.

Chief executive of Apple, Timothy D. Cook, said in interviews with NBC and Bloomberg Businessweek that Apple will manufacture one its existing lines in the U.S., The New York Times reported today.