Transport, Trade and Regulation News

House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., was planning to introduce a surface transportation bill Tuesday that would

Cargo interests and customs brokers complained to the Federal Maritime Commission that trucking companies in Los Angeles-Long Beach are still charging a clean-truck fee even though the ports stopped c

The U.S. liquor industry says big developments in international markets will boost shipments abroad this year after projected exports in 2011 reached a new record.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday that security efforts will rely heavily on risk management and information sharing with trade partners to secure the movement of goods and peop

Public support for a new bridge between Canada and the U.S.

Amazon.com is the biggest thing to hit retailing since Wal-Mart went national. Like Wal-Mart, Amazon is leveraging its size and scale to overwhelm weaker competitors.

The World Bank’s forecast for slowing growth in global trade is landing with a thud across most of the world, but it’s barely being heard in the U.S.

It’s long been said the only certainties in life are death and taxes — but not if you buy online.

The growth of U.S.-Mexico trade is doing nothing to clear the gridlock at the border.

Entering the Port of Chicago, one pharmaceuticals importer felt as if it were in the movie “Groundhog Day.” The shipper was caught up in red tape every time it brought goods into the port,

In Cincinnati, logistics is to business what five-way chili is to local cuisine.

Horizon Lines said its operating subsidiary will plead guilty to two counts of providing federal authorities with false vessel oil record-keeping entries on a container ship in the U.S.

The owner and operator of a newly constructed bulk cargo ship were fined $1.75 million Wednesday for illegally dumping oil bilge water, the Justice Department said.

F.J. Spencer, the founder of IMS Worldwide, a leading expert in free trade zone development, died Jan. 13 at the age of 85. He had recently suffered several small strokes.

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From politicians to traders, there is a growing sense in Asia that, after four years of economic upheaval in the West, prosperity will require less dependence on traditional export markets and even mo

The Michigan Department of Transportation said it will build an off-ramp connecting the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest U.S.-Canada crossing, to two interstate highways within the next few months.

Sam LaHood, son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, is being detained in Egypt as part of a crackdown on the pro-democracy non-government organization he works for and similar groups.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Congress doesn’t expect Congress to pass a comprehensive surface transportation bill this year.

Orders for long-lasting goods rose 3 percent in December, a sign the manufacturing sector continues to bolster a slow economic recovery.

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House Republicans on Thursday will introduce a surface transportation bill that calls for highway spending at current levels “for at least five years” to give states financial stability to

European Union trust busters ordered Deutsche Post to pay back up to $1.3 billion in aid from the German government that breached the bloc’s competition rules.

Global economic headwinds aren’t slowing Harley-Davidson. The iconic motorcycle maker bolstered its profits as it increased sales and shipments in 2011.

The International Monetary Fund reduced global economic growth forecasts for the year to 3.25 percent from its 4 percent last fall and warned that the euro zone debt crisis could push the region back

A free trade agreement between Japan and Peru will take effect March 1, eliminating import tariffs on almost all products traded between the two countries within 10 years, the Japanese government said

Congress is closer to finally completing a long-term measure authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration after reaching a compromise on labor provisions that have

Workers on the Panama Canal expansion are returning to work Monday after agreeing to new terms with their contractor, ending a six-day strike.

A new U.S. cabinet department dedicated to trade would give the government a more complete view of trade and the national economy, said a former chairwoman of the International Trade Commission.

Oil prices rose for the first time in four days after the European Union on Monday banned oil imports from Iran, increasing fears that Middle East tensions could raise supply chain costs in the short-

A U.S. district judge in Miami on Friday fined a Miami River management company $1 million for recordkeeping violations related to oil pollution in ballast water.

This could be a battle of big government versus small. At hand is a plan by President Obama to reorganize the federal government to face the challenges of the 21st century.

Shippers are getting a taste of what they can expect from a more aggressive and powerful Food and Drug Administration thanks to an agency move to stop orange juice shipments from overseas to test them

Friends of the Export-Import Bank of the United States are pushing to get the institution a new charter that would extend its operations through fiscal 2014.

A small trucking company is about to get a little bigger with some help from the state of Kentucky.

The name of the game for ports in the Pacific Northwest is competition. They compete with California ports for West Coast market share. They compete with East Coast ports for trade with Asia.

The 19.6 percent year-over-year decrease in Japanese ship export orders in 2011 is raising concerns that an order backlog could disappear or be feeble by 2014.

European Union antitrust regulators are investigating the planned takeover of Tirrenia, the bankrupt state-owned Italian ferry operator, by a consortium of the country’s leading private shipping

The 2.5 percent year-over-year decline in truck traffic on the Ambassador Bridge in 2011 gives the bridge’s owner ammunition in his fight to stop the construction of a publicly owned crossing.

The World Bank on Wednesday said international trade will expand only 4.7 percent this year and 6.8 percent in 2013, as the European recession and a slowdown in developing countries threaten to stall