Transport, Trade and Regulation News

A maritime labor representative has been nominated to the Federal Maritime Commission for the first time and the existing chairman, Richard A.

President Obama’s 2013 budget calls for nearly $30 billion more on transportation infrastructure annually than the roughly $50 billion sought through the House and Senate’s competing surfa

Among state transportation officials, it’s an inside joke.

Ten of the world’s top-ranked emerging markets are in Africa, according to Agility’s 2012 Emerging Markets Logistics Index.

Third-party logistics providers may approach emerging markets in different ways, but one thing is certain: Doing business in them isn’t an option; it’s a necessity.

The government might give railroads another five years to install costly crash-avoidance technology because the industry is on track to miss its end of 2015 deadline.

The Federal Aviation Administration will finally be able to bring the country’s air traffic control systems into the modern era, but only after fighting through some long-standing conflicts.

The IT capabilities shippers value most are directly related to execution-oriented activities and processes such as transportation, warehouse/DC management, electronic data interchange and visibility.

Bigger, heavier trucks just can’t stay on the road in Congress.

There’s no shortage of challenges for global third-party logistics providers.

Rising labor costs in Asia. Fuel prices at record winter highs. Asian currencies revalued upward.

For what may be the first time, the U.S. has a transportation bill that acknowledges some goods move on the surface of the water.

The past few years have brought radical changes to the supply chain management world.

The trucking and rail lobbies are calling a truce in their battle over truck size and weight limits, hoping a measure of intermodal unity will help push a controversial multi-year surface transportati

The U.S. trade deficit hit a six-month high in December, as growth in consumer demand and business investment caused imports to rise faster than exports.

When Honda, Nissan and Mazda announced last year they would build large new automobile plants in central Mexico to supply cars for Central and South America, they were getting on an increasingly crowd

Negotiations have stalled in The World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round, the latest round of trade negotiations, and the National Foreign Trade Council is proposing that portions of t

A Tennessee air forwarder agreed to pay a $1 million fine to settle charges of violating air cargo security regulations at the Indianapolis airport, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

A Senate committee approved on Tuesday a $9.6 billion package to help plug a $12 billion shortfall in a bipartisan two-year surface transportation bill.

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A federal prosecutor is charging a Pennsylvania trucking company with running a three-year scheme to avoid federal trucking driver hours of service regulations.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration slapped an out-of-service order on U&D Services, shutting down the recently established trucking company.

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The Senate passed and sent to President Obama on Tuesday a bill authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration for four years, ending a five-year battle over the measure that held up modernization of

The Michigan Court of Appeals on Monday said a local judge was in his rights to jail the owner of the Ambassador Bridge, Manuel “Matty” Moroun, and his lieutenant for contempt, but the duo

Pennsylvania plans to begin collecting sales taxes Sept. 1 by Internet retailers, including Amazon.com, that have a physical presence in the state.

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., is expected to propose Tuesday a plan to plug the majority of the $12 billion shortfall in the Senate’s two-year surface transportation bill.

China barred its airlines on Monday from joining the European Union’s new carbon trading scheme that will charge airlines for carbon emissions for flights to and from Europe.

John Mica chose an outdoor location on the sun-splashed U.S. Capitol grounds on an unusually mild January day to unveil his version of a long-awaited, long-term transportation spending bill.

At six pages, the new National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security is a slim document that, although short on details, serves as a strong indication that securing global trade is a matter of nat

About 170 shippers participating in a “fly-in” to deliver a pro-trucking message to Congress Feb. 1 arrived just as House Republicans unveiled a transportation plan.

Transportation and warehousing were among the industries that contributed to the creation of 243,000 jobs in January, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.5 to 8.3 percent, the lowest since February.<

Chinese manufacturing sector expanded in January, allieving some fears that the country is headed for a hard economic landing as Western consumer demand wanes.

Members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted 29-24 to approve the five-year $260 billion American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act.

A Michigan Court of Appeals panel is expected to decide sometime next week whether Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel &ldquo;Matty&rdquo; Moroun should be returned to jail on a contempt citation for faili

After five years and 23 extensions, authorization of Federal Aviation Administration operations could clear Congress as early as this week.

A Louisiana agriculture official urged Congress on Wednesday to direct the Army Corps of Engineers to fully tap the Harbor Maintenance Tax Fund, so the lower Mississippi River could be dredged to hand

The South Carolina Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to rebuke Gov.

A widely watched economic gauge showed U.S. manufacturing activity picked up speed in January, growing to its highest level since last June.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica heralded the introduction of a five-year, $260 billion surface transportation plan as the &ldquo;most important legislation to put Americans