Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Diesel prices across the U.S. fell for the second time in three weeks, slipping 2.1 cents in the week ending April 16 as oil prices inched up.

U.S. exporters and importers will be able to better tap the growing Colombian economy starting May 15 when the free trade agreement between the two countries takes effect.

All it took was the March 25 shutdown of a single North Sea oil platform to boost Brent crude oil prices $1 a barrel.

First came the Facebook posts that got shared and reshared. Within a few days, “pink slime” was a trending topic on Twitter.

Booming natural gas production isn’t just giving the truck industry extra loads to haul.

When the gavel finally came down on convicted scam artist Kulwant Singh Gill on March 28, it came down hard.

The curtain is nearly drawn on Congress passing a surface transportation bill this year, but a positive House performance could set the stage for a bolder plan in 2013.

Bilateral negotiations to end agricultural trade disputes failed with 46 nations, the European Union, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the South African Development Community, according to a new repor

A bipartisan group of 16 senators, led by Tom Carper, D-Del., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., have sent a letter to U.S.

U.S. exports, economic integration and international security will be on President Obama’s agenda at the Summit of the Americas this weekend in Columbia.

South Korea attracted far higher foreign direct investment in the first quarter of 2012 as investors positioned to take advantage of the recent U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA).

For the third time in as many months, federal regulators shut down an unsafe trucking company, ordering J&A Transportation out of service on April 9.

International semiconductor sales in February fell 7.3 percent year-over-year and 1.3 percent from January, further illustrating the weak demand plaguing the air cargo industry.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the final documents on Wednesday for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project for review by state and federal agencies and the general public.

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The $10.2 billion in requested Department of Transportation TIGER grants exceeded supply by a factor of more than 20, the agency said Thursday.

Standard & Poor’s said the U.S. government’s inability to provide long-term infrastructure and transportation funding could create another credit crisis.

China’s official manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index jumped to its highest level in a year in March.

The Panama Canal’s new locks will probably not be ready for their scheduled opening in October 2014, but will be ready for a trial run by a vessel in December, said Jorge Quijano, the engineer i

The construction of the new third set of locks at the Panama Canal is behind schedule by seven months, but the other seven major components of the canal expansion are ahead of schedule, so the overall

Time appears to be up for the passage of surface transportation bill this year.

Customs broker Livingston International has completed its acquisition of the customs and trade compliance services of JPMorgan Chase’s Global Trade business, which includes the operations and te

U.S. manufacturing expanded in March for the 32nd consecutive month, according to the Institute for Supply Management.

Shippers challenging high rail rates will likely learn the only thing more enduring than railroads’ pricing power is federal agencies’ embrace of precedent.

Delivering an annual profit this May is the top priority for FedEx Freight, which lost money in its fiscal third quarter ending Feb. 29, its first quarterly loss in a year.

As multinational companies pursue global expansion strategies, their key 3PLs are expected to expand with them.

Congress has a knack of making cynics into realists. Fears that the push for a transportation bill would dissolve into a scramble for funding extensions have been realized.

Economic uncertainty, natural disasters and fast-changing consumer markets are forcing third-party logistics providers to rethink their global expansion strategies.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will consolidate all its security functions into a new department as part of several reforms announced Thursday aimed at modernizing the agency and cuttin

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.

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

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