Transport, Trade and Regulation News

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The Cass Freight Index for U.S.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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