Transport, Trade and Regulation News

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.

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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.

Nine months after angry crowds brought down the administration of long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak, political and economic uncertainty hang heavily over the future of Egypt.

If container lines really start parking ships in significant numbers, it may have more to do with 2012 than with their dismal financial results this year.

Short- and medium-term economic forecasts for all of the major countries in the Mideast have been revised downward months after the Arab Spring erupted.

The effect of the capacity glut on most U.S. trade lanes is clearly visible in the decline in load factors in both directions this year.

Any broker, importer or other U.S. business that agreed eight years ago to be the agent of a foreign food processor may be in for a costly surprise from the Food and Drug Administration.

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

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

Japan’s decision to participate in negotiations on the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement has angered the country’s farmers and raising manufacturers’ hopes of r

Construction has begun on a $208 million rail crossing project that will reduce train and vehicle congestion in Colton, Calif., where the convergence of east-west and north-south rail lines creates on

Complex and changing fee structures in freight transportation are prompting parties to collaborate and forcing freight payment firms to adapt and expand their services.

Boskalis, the Dutch dredging and marine services group, and Chilean ocean carrier CSAV are working to establish a joint towage operation in Central and South America.