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Alan Bersin, former head of the Customs and Border Protection, will assume a newly created post in the Department of Homeland Security after the Senate failed to confirm his appointment as Customs com

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Local and state governments seeking a piece of the $500 million in TIGER grants available next year would be wise to pitch projects relating to intermodal rail.

Despite disputes over funding levels and where to find the money, Democrats and Republicans agreed on a broad swath of the safety agenda in several bills the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportatio

Required use of electronic onboard recorders on trucks and buses, a multimodal freight policy and new powers for federal safety agencies are inching closer to becoming part of a broader transportation

If there’s a terrorist cell in America plotting to export weapons of mass destruction, it hasn’t been discovered yet. That’s crazy talk, maybe.

Alan Bersin, the head of Customs and Border Protection, on Thursday said he will leave his post at the end of the month after the Senate failed to confirm his appointment.

Federal safety regulators issued tougher new hours of service regulations for truck driv

Lakshman Achuthan raised eyebrows in September by declaring the U.S. economy was “tipping into a new recession, and there’s nothing policymakers can do to head it off.”

Oakland city officials have rejected a call for city leaders to use strong tactics to prevent Occupy protestors from shutting down the Port of Oakland again.

The Federal Aviation Administration exempted cargo pilots from the tougher limitations it placed on work rules for airline pilots on Wednesday, but Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he would as

Customs and Border Protection may allow exporters to join a voluntary supply chain security program, and Japan, Colombia and Costa Rica are onboard for a test run of the program.

Europe’s highest court on Wednesday upheld the European Union’s right to make international airlines pay for carbon emissions on flights to and from European airports, risking a trade war

The Export-Import Bank of the United States posted its third straight record year in 2011 for financing exports from U.S. companies, the bank announced Tuesday.

Ports spent only 23.6 percent of $1.7 billion in port security grants that the Department of Homeland Security awarded between fiscal 2006 and 2010, according to a

OOCL and Canadian National Railroad this became the first two carriers of their respective industries to share their manifest data directly with the Customs and Border Protection’s Automated Com

Norwegian shipowner Star Reefers has won a U.K.

The new 2012 federal budget awaiting President Obama’s signature contains $26.9 million in funding for the eastward expansion of

Diana Containerships is buying two second-hand Panamax containerships from a KG partnership under an agreement it signed with Reederei Santa Containerschiffe, a charter ship owner.

Japanese export ship orders grew for the second straight month in November on a year-over-year basis, rising 47.4 percent to 773,790 gross tons, according to the Japan Ship Exporters’ Associatio

The cloud of a carbon tax eased away from the global shipping industry at the conclusion of U.N.

Although leading indicators point to a continuing but slow U.S. economic recovery, the U.S. stock market has been roiled by the twin forces of political gridlock in Washington and the eurozone.

If you want to get a rise out of International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett, ask him about the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor.

The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor and the port industry it oversees have had a rocky relationship since Marlon Brando was a young man.

After nearly 100 years, it’s time to change the system the U.S. government uses to collect anti-dumping duties.

A dozen shipper and trucking organizations are planning a one-day blitz on Capitol Hill Feb.

Road and bridge projects received nearly half of the $511 million awarded through the Department of Transportation’s third round of TIGER grants, leaving port and rail-related projects with abou

FedEx Freight, the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carrier, rolled farther into the black in its mos

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Citing a strong Black Friday weekend, the National Retail Federation said it now expects holiday sales to rise 3.8 percent instead of the 2.8 percent year-over-year gain it forecast in October.

The amount of freight carried by for-hire transportation carriers fell 0.2 percent in October, ending a streak of four consecutive month-to-month increases, the Transportation Department reported.

China plans to impose anti-dumping duties on some vehicles imported from the U.S. after failing to block a U.S.-imposed tariff on Chinese tires, according to Bloomberg News.

U.S. retail sales rose 0.2 percent in November, driven by Black Friday bargain-hunting, but the month-to-month increase was the slowest since June, the Commerce Department said.

The Japanese government has revised the nation’s tonnage tax system in response to strong pressure

For federal regulators, the latest directive appears to be the old proverb, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”

Next February, Todd Lush will be among the first customers of a new marine highways venture by the Port of Stockton, Calif., when weekly container-on-barge service begins to the Port of Oakland.

Walk through the baby food aisle of any Canadian grocery store, and you’ll find big cans, not the convenient single-serving size U.S. consumers prefer.

Truck-related fatalities rose 8.7 percent last year, reversing a long-term trend, while overall highway deaths dropped to their lowest level since 1949, the Department of Transportation said.

The Federal Maritime Commission agreed Thursday to move forward with a long-stalled proposal that would allow unrelated non-vessel-operating common carriers to jointly offer contracts to shippers.

President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper signed two far-reaching agreements on Wednesday designed to make it easier and safer to move goods across the border.