Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The Panama Canal Authority prequalified two consortia and one company from among six groups bidding on a tender for the construction of a bridge over the Atlantic end of the canal.

The Senate has until Friday midnight to decide whether to get on board with the House’s recently passed extension to highway programs, demand changes to the bill or continue to push their two-ye

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index dropped slightly in March, but consumers’ outlook on the economy improved, the research organization said.

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China will continue to expand its economy, but its growth will be based upon technology and innovation rather than low-cost labor, according to a consultant who has lived there for the past 20 years.<

Diesel prices across the U.S. hit a 33-month high in the week ending March 26, climbing half a cent as oil prices rose to nearly $107 per barrel.

Japan and Canada have formally agreed to launch negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) to eliminate import tariffs on most products and strengthen overall economic relations.

Next time you&rsquo;re dining out in Seoul, have a good steak and wash it down with a shot of Jack Daniel&rsquo;s, compliments of U.S. exporters.

While the Senate pats itself on the back for passage of a mere two-year surface transportation bill, a handful of states are pushing what most of their federal brethren decry as infeasible: fuel tax h

In the fashionable neighborhoods of Bogota, the gourmet restaurants, lively nightclubs and luxurious hotels are brimming with foreign executives eager to sign trade and investment deals in South Ameri

When automobile manufacturer Fiat in 2010 announced plans to build a $1.8 billion plant in northeastern Brazil, CEVA, a global non-vessel-operating common carrier and third-party logistics provider, s

Mexico&rsquo;s rail industry is poised for growth, especially in intermodal shipments.

No one is more delighted about the impact of 2004&rsquo;s U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement of 2004 than Tom Tjerandsen, North American managing director of the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association.

An electronics manufacturer in Singapore last year wanted 25,000 wire forms to be used in one of its products, and it needed them fast.

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Japan posted a surplus of $396.39 million in its trade with the rest of the world in February after incurring a record monthly deficit of $17.80 billion in January, according to preliminary figures re

The value of surface transportation trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico increased by 14.3 percent to a record $904 billion in 2011, <

Jaguar Land Rover, a unit of India&rsquo;s Tata Motors, is forming a joint venture with Chery Automobile of China to manufacture the U.K.-based automaker's luxury vehicles in China.

Diesel prices across the U.S. hit the highest point since August 2008, rising 1.9 cents in the week ending March 19 as oil prices rose to more than $107 per barrel.

Founded in 2004, the Millennium Challenge Corp. is funded by the U.S. government, but it&rsquo;s a truly international development assistance agency.

It&rsquo;s been two years since President Obama signed an executive order launching the National Export Initiative, the ambitious program to double exports in two years.

A new Department of Transportation report detailing the need to spend $101 billion annually, plus inflation, over the next 20 years to maintain the U.S.

A slowdown in auto manufacturing growth and natural gas extraction in February left U.S. industrial output unchanged from January, when production rose 0.4 percent, according to the Federal Reserve.

Irish brewer Guinness is tapping a deep thirst in America, with U.S.

The Senate-passed transportation bill gave advocates for more dredging funds good news on Wednesday.

The Panama Canal Authority&rsquo;s Board of Directors appointed Jorge Luis Quijano, the engineer in charge of building the canal&rsquo;s new set of locks, as the new Panama Canal Administrator.

The fuel-based Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index rose 0.7 percent in February after falling 1.7 percent in January from December, pointing to an improvement in trucking but also a fragile economic

Mild winter weather and pent-up demand for autos helped U.S. retail sales rise 1.1 percent from the previous month and 6.5 percent from February 2011, the Commerce Department said.

Diesel prices across the U.S. rose at the slowest pace in three weeks, climbing 2.9 cents in the week ending March 12 as oil prices fell at the end of trading for the first time in four days.

U.S. steel exports rose 19.1 percent year-over-year to 1.262 million tons in January, as shipments to Canada and Mexico offset declines to other regions.

A dozen years after Congress first allocated funding, Customs and Border Protection&rsquo;s Automated Commercial Environment isn&rsquo;t fully delivering on the promises made to importers and brokers.

Things have become so chaotic on Capitol Hill over transportation legislation that even the political experts admit it&rsquo;s hard to keep up.

The Obama administration is once again proposing a new user fee to pay for capital investments in the inland waterway system, a senior Army official said.

The U.S. trade deficit rose to a three-year high of $52.6 billion in January as a 2.1 percent jump in imports outpaced a 1.4 percent rise in exports.

The Senate on Thursday worked through seven of 30 amendments to its two-year $109 billion transportation bill, including two of the most controversial, Transportation Weekly reported.

A Wayne County judge in Detroit on Thursday ordered the Michigan Department of Transportation to take over and complete a project to link two interstate highways with the Ambassador Bridge.

Mayors from throughout the U.S.

With dozens of federal agencies having some degree of involvement in the cargo clearance process, importers are crying out for a single government portal at the border.

The Federal Maritime Commission has agreed to give shippers and carriers more ability to manage rate risk in service contracts through a new rule allowing contracting parties to agree to rates based o

Indonesia will see rapid growth in logistics demand this year but needs huge investment in transport infrastructure to realize its true potential, according to one leading analyst.