Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Before teaming up with supply chain management software provider Descartes a decade ago, CVS, the nation’s biggest pharmacy chain, relied on historical data and safety inventory to avoid the cos

The most mundane things in the world could be the subject of anti-dumping cases — catfish, honey, plastic bags, mattress innersprings, even coat hangers. In June 2011, U.S.

A top shipment arriving in Detroit by air not long ago drew the interest of the Consumer Product Safety Commission after the agency got a heads up from data collected by Customs and Border Protection.

February’s visit to the U.S.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Celadon Trucking for allegedly requiring prospective employees submit to illegal medical tests.

When news broke that House Republicans were considering scaling back their surface transportation bill to 18 months from five years, it signaled a further eroding of members’ ability to offer an

The U.S. economy expanded at a 3 percent annual rate in the last quarter of 2011, topping the previous estimate of 2.8 percent, as consumer spending and incomes rose.

The American Trucking Associations is siding with regulators in federal court to support voluntary use of electronic onboard recorders by trucking companies.

The White House on Tuesday announced the formation of a trade enforcement center to ensure exporters’ trading rights achieved through international agreements and protect exporters from other co

U.S. surface transportation trade in December with Canada and Mexico totaled $74.2 billion, an 11.6 percent increase from a year earlier, according to the Transportation Department.

Orders for U.S. durable goods fell 4 percent in January, the biggest decline in three years, following the expiration of a tax break on equipment purchases.

South Carolina Gov.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Monday urged state transportation officials to “be bold, don’t be afraid” as they meet with members of Congress in what is likely to be a cruci

Forecasters surveyed by the National Association of Business Economics show growing optimism about the U.S.

One of the smallest victims of Capitol Hill’s battle over transportation funding may be the one most missed by industry and government leaders who need solid data to create effective programs.

After years of turning their backs on distribution centers as grey hulks full of low-paying jobs, more states and cities are knocking on cross-docks with incentives.

Chicago, the hub around which so many of the nation’s transportation assets spin, is home to two non-asset transport operators whose rapid growth underscores a significant shift in how U.S.

Three long-awaited free trade agreements passed Congress last year, and the U.S. is negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership. What next?

Not every truck carrying tanks of liquid or gas should be considered a “tank truck” and regulated in the same way as a bulk tank-trailer, a trucking group says.

Safety groups opposed to longer truck driver hours of service on Friday filed the second court challenge to new federal work rules for truck drivers.

Sophisticated food demands of newly affluent consumers in China and other developing nations are likely to ramp up demand for U.S.

Sales of new homes slipped 0.9 percent in January following four straight months of increases in which home sales rose 10 percent, the Commerce Department said.

House Republicans might scale back a five-year, $260 billion transportation bill, shortening its term, reducing overall spending, but restoring funding for mass transit from the Highway Trust Fund, ac

Small exporters will be among the most to benefit from the charter renewal of the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the most to suffer if Congress fails to act soon, leaders of the National

The state of New York has backed away from plans to impose stringent ballast-water standards that industry officials said threatened vessel commerce to New York-New Jersey container terminals and the

The Federal Maritime Commission underestimated the magnitude of rate volatility in the Europe-Asia trade when it assessed the effects of the European Union’s repeal of carrier antitrust immunity

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday awarded Kansas City Southern a $54.6 million loan to buy 30 new diesel-electric locomotives.

Customs and Border Protection has $140 million to operate and maintain a commercial trade processing system, but there’s no money in the 2012 budget to further develop the program, said Cynthia

Japan suffered a deficit of $18.5 billion in its trade with the rest of the world in January, up 207.7 percent from a year earlier and the biggest amount for any month on record, according to prelimin

The Federal Maritime Commission, in perhaps the most extensive study in its 50-year history, concluded the European Union’s 2008 repeal of antitrust immunity on liner conferences had minimal imp

When project logistics company Agility released its Emerging Markets Logistics Index 2012, 10 of the top-ranked countries hailed from the world’s poorest continent.

President Obama’s recent call to nearly double infrastructure investment over the next six years highlights two conflicting forces in transportation policy: a desire to invest more and an unwill

Logistics provider Performance Team is opening a container transloading facility at the Port of Charleston to transload cargo from ocean shipping containers to trucks for distribution to customers thr

Southwestern less-than-truckload carrier Central Freight Lines will test 15 natural gas-powered Class 8 Peterbilt tractors in Houston and Galveston, Texas.

A quarterly global survey says the world’s economic climate has begun to improve after two quarters of decline but remains significantly below its long-term average.

Requests to Department of Transportation for infrastructure loans in fiscal 2013 outpaced supply nearly 107-to-1, as Congress and President Obama push to increase funding for the agency’s progra

Facing shaky support for his surface transportation bill, House Speaker John Boehner said he will delay the vote on the $260 billion, five-year package until after President’s Day's recess, acco

Retail sales rose less than expected in January largely because of discounting in the auto sector.

The American Trucking Associations will file a petition challenging new final truck driver work rules in federal court, the trucking group said Tuesday.

An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimates the Republican-backed surface transportation plan would cause a $9.4 billion shortfall in Highway Trust Fund expenditures by the end of fiscal