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Some 26,000 holders of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential may not be able to use their cards at an electronic reader because of an encoding error, the Transportation Security Administ

U.S. domestic ocean shipping has never seen a year like 2011. Two carriers pleaded guilty to price-fixing. One dodged debt default with a stem-to-stern refinancing.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, long the domain of corporate counsels and senior executives, is getting more attention in exporters’ compliance offices as the government gets more aggressive

A new security standard and certification program for trucking could help motor carriers and shippers close one of the biggest remaining gaps in supply chain security — what happens to cargo onc

Members of Congress haven’t looked this close to agreement on the goals for a transportation spending plan in years, but the political reality in Washington is that a common goal may not get law

It’s not easy to secure a truck, and it’s even more difficult to come up with global trucking security requirements.

In a scathing report issued in late November, House Republicans damned the Transportation Security Administration for becoming an ineffective, wasteful bloated bureaucracy that didn’t carry out

The Export-Import Bank of the United States expects an increase in its lending limit through a reauthorization bill making its way through Congress.

A former Peruvian airline executive has pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix surcharges on cargo shipments from the United States and Latin America following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Federal regulators are planning a crack down on “reincarnated” motor carriers after shutting down two closely affiliated trucking operators in one month.

Shippers want governments around the world to adopt uniform standards for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the maritime industry and insist it should come through voluntary use of improvements i

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House Democrats proposed a transportation bill on Thursday that tightens ‘Buy American’ provisions on materials used in infrastructure projects, countering a

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Shipper groups are pressing Congress to step in to avert a potential nationwide strike next week, with one warning the disruption of rail service “during the busy holiday shopping seas

The value of trade using surface transportation between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico rose 13.8 percent in September from a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported.

Thirty-four states and three territories will receive $215 million in federal reimbursement for repairs to roads and bridges damaged by natural disasters, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Mond

Japanese export ship orders grew for the first time in six months in October on a year-on-year basis, rising a strong 26.5 percent to 854,570 gross tons, according to the Japan Ship Exporters’ A

India had a trade deficit of $19.6 billion in October, the highest in four years, as the pace of export growth slackened amid a slowdown in major global markets.

Railroad, trucking and aviation executives generally have a positive view of the Transportation Security Administration’s program for sharing threat information, according to a federal report re

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood decried the failure of the congressional super committee to reach an agreement on budget reductions on Monday, warning the collapse of the effort could lead to majo

Is $5.1 billion enough to get the attention of Congress? The loss the U.S. Postal Service piled up in the fiscal year that ended Sept.

Hundreds of Occupy Washington D.C.

The issue of whether truck drivers nationwide are employees or independent contractors is far from dead despite a recent

The American Trucking Associations is taking its battle against proposed changes to truck driver work hours to the federal Office of Management and Budget, which is reviewing the Department of Transpo

It may be in its early stages, but simplifying Customs’ maze of import regulations is on the way.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Maryland trucker Gunthers Transport to shut down, saying numerous hours of service and other safety violations made the company an "imminen

The House passed a bill on Tuesday that would set a national standard for ballast water regulation of vessels and trump various states’ stricter rules.

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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood threw his support behind the Port of Savannah’s deepening project and pledged to help Georgia find the needed funding.

A French court rejected a bid by Denmark’s DFDS to take over Sea France and gave the ailing state-owned ferry operator until Jan. 28 to find a new buyer.

The world economic climate has worsened in the fourth quarter, underscoring the threat that developed countries, particularly those in the European Union, will slide back into a recession, according t

The $14.1 billion in requested Department of Transportation TIGER grants exceeded supply by a factor of 27, the agency said Tuesday.

The National Industrial Transportation League will keep pressing for changes to railroad switching rules it calls anti-competitive, despite the Surface Transportation Board’s deferral of a NITL

Retail sales rose 0.5 percent in October after a 1.1 percent gain in September, the Commerce Department said in a report that indicated the economy was growing as consumers approached the holiday seas

The Federal Maritime Administration’s cleaning of its ocean carrier tariff files may help prevent shippers from being scammed by an illegal carrier.

If there is, as ocean carriers say, too little demand for freight space and too much capacity on the water, Sheila Hewitt is wondering why her shipping customers in the U.S.

Egypt is hardly alone in its struggle to find a path to political transition and make reforms that are economically sustainable and politically popular.

For transportation interests who believe the U.S. needs a long-term infrastructure strategy, prospects for funding are dimming.