Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Containerized volumes of grains and soybeans from the U.S. will see double-digit declines in the coming months.

Federal regulators ordered a truck driver involved in a fatal crash off the road after discovering he had a medical condition that disqualifies him from driving.

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the UK government’s regulatory department, recently clarified at a conference its policy on authorized economic operators for imports and exports...

The U.S. transportation construction infrastructure market is expected to increase 3 percent from $126.5 billion to $130.3 billion in 2013...

The Federal Highway Administration today selected Caitlin Hughes Rayman, Maryland Department of Transportation’s Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy and Freight...

The House chose Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., to head the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, starting in January, after the current chair, Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., dropped his waiver bid to hold onto the gavel.

The trucking and railroad industries face little risk of regulatory surprises in the next few years, as the pipeline of rules laid out in President Obama’s first term will continue to flow through his second.

Customs and Border Protection will open six Centers of Excellence and Expertise nationally in 2013, as the agency works to bring uniformity to the handling of major product imports.

A customs maneuver called Operation HOPE, organized by the World Customs Organization, recently led to more than 70 major seizures of endangered flora and fauna, including live tortoises, rhino horns, ivory tusks and more...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, law enforcement agencies from five European countries, and the European Police Office...

Like favorable winds for a ship sailing out of harbor, bipartisan optimism billows behind Congress’s drafting of a long-delayed port and inland waterways bill.

India’s economic growth slowed to 5.3 percent in the second quarter, its lowest level in nine years, Coface recently reported in its assessment of the country’s fiscal performance.

The European Union said it plans to finalize a free trade agreement with Canada in the “coming weeks” that could boost annual two-way trade by more than $33 billion.

Europe’s imports and exports are expected to decline in the next six months amid concerns that the region’s economy will contract further, according to Global Port Tracker’s North Europe Trade Outlook.

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ board of directors recently voted to elect Michael Lewis, Rhode Island’s transportation director, as president for 2013.

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials board of directors today voted to approve Frederick G. “Bud” Wright as executive director.

Commercial trucks crossing the U.S. border into Canada have been given a reprieve: The Canada Border Services Agency won’t begin assessing fines or refusing entries to trucks and drivers not meeting eManifest requirements until May.

The Food and Drug Administration has a daunting task ahead: inspecting food imports to keep the U.S. food supply safe, according to a new report by the congressional General Accountability Office.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Coast Guard and representatives from the barge and shipping industries held a press conference in St. Louis on Nov. 16 to discuss government-industry cooperation in managing the Mississippi River...

The World Trade Organization on Nov. 16 adopted panel and appellate body reports in the United States' dispute with China about the imposition of duties on U.S. exports of grain oriented flat-rolled electrical steel, according to Ron Kirk, U.S. Trade Representative.

Changes in European Union trade rules could cause Caribbean countries to lose up to 10 million euros by the end of the decade from falling rum revenues, reported the Overseas Development Institute, a UK think tank on international development issues.

Nicaragua was recently approved for a $39.2 million loan by the Inter-American Development Bank to improve the efficiency and safety of its transportation system.

The IEC System of Conformity Assessment Schemes for Electrotechnical Equipment and Components, which provides conformity testing and certification for the safety and performance of electronic products...

Growth in Asia will drive the world economy and prompt an acceleration of global trade growth in the decade ahead, according to a new report from HSBC.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The competition among ports in the U.S., Canada and Mexico for Asian cargo is not a zero-sum game, but rather a matter of each port capturing market share based on what it does best.

Eighty percent of logistics providers and freight forwarders reported slight business expansion in the last two years, and more than 75 percent expect that growth to continue into 2013...

With the U.S. and Europe struggling to escape recession, and China’s stellar economy displaying signs of exhaustion, it’s tough to find a region of the world that’s thriving on the logistics front. But here’s a hint: Follow the money — the oil money, that is.

U.S. poultry exports in the first three quarters of 2012 were valued at $4 billion, increasing 14 percent from the same period in 2011 and setting a new year-on-year record, according to data from the Foreign Agricultural Service...

The U.S. House of Representatives recently approved legislation to ensure the U.S. will not participate in a European Union plan to tax aircraft operators and air carriers for emissions when flying into or out of the EU.