Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The American Society of Civil Engineers likely never intended to be the Cassandra of U.S. infrastructure decline, but Washington hears its prophecies loud and clear.

Exporters are urging the Obama administration to break down more trade barriers after the president signed free trade pacts with Colombia, Panama and South Korean into law Friday.

Democrats in the Senate plan to schedule a vote soon on President Obama’s proposals for major new infrastructure spending, as the next step to bring up his “jobs plan” in bits and pi

The Senate voted 74-26 Thursday to confirm John Bryson to become President Obama’s next Commerce secretary.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold a voting or “markup” session Nov. 9 on a proposed two-year surface transportation funding plan.

Importers will be hit with a nearly 65 percent increase in merchandise processing fees through a provision embedded in the recently passed

A report pointing to deficient bridges across the country, particularly in Pittsburgh, comes as many say the U.S.

The plan for a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ont., was dealt a severe blow Thursday after the Michigan Senate rejected a bill critical to funding the proposed $5.3 billion project.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wants Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. to drop legislation that would block a new truck driver hours of service rule.

SHENZHEN, CHINA — Zhou Gui Hui has a thriving business at the heart of one of the world’s busiest industrial manufacturing regions, but the chairman and CEO of Eternal Asi

An amendment to the fiscal 2012 transportation appropriations bill introduced in the Senate would block proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules.

A segment of the new access channel to the Panama Canal’s new locks was filled with water on Wednesday.

A jump in apartment construction caused homebuilding to rise at the fastest rate in 17 months, but other data point to continued weakness in a real estate market that’s dragging down containeriz

The unsteady state of the economy and proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules top a list of critica

Ten non-vessel-operating common carriers paid a total of $477,500 in penalties to settle cases brought against them by the Federal Maritime Commission.

Japan’s exports of agricultural, fishery and forestry products to the United States grew for the fourth consecutive month in August on a year-on-year basis, rising 4.4 percent to $73.8 million,

Retail sales rose a higher-than-expected 1.1 percent in September, led by a 3.6 percent jump in motor vehicles and parts, the Commerce Department said in a report that buoyed hopes for growth in freig

Kuehne + Nagel’s earnings grew 1.1 percent in the first nine months of 2011 from a year earlier as the Swiss logistics company boosted ocean container and air cargo shipments in a softening mark

The worst monsoon floods to hit Thailand in decades have crippled the country’s international trade as rushing waters prevent workers from reaching their offices, flood warehouses and stall fact

Canada and the United States have maintained a peaceful border for almost 200 years, but the peace is occasionally broken by a war of words. This is one of those times. On Oct.

The congressional ‘super committee’ that is supposed to slice trillions in federal spending has a new suggestion from the top two senators on transportation policy:

U.S. GDP is expected to grow by $12 billion as a result of new free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. So why stop now?

President Obama stepped into a simmering dispute between rail unions and most major railroads Oct.

The Department of Transportation on Friday approved one Mexican trucking company’s request to operate on U.S.

Members of Congress are proposing to require the Maritime Administration to publicize the availability of Jones Act vessels when another agency asks to use non-U.S.-flag vessels.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood ripped into newly elected Republicans Friday for blocking efforts to launch a new infrastructure program, saying they want to keep President Obama from having succe

The Shanghai Shipping Exchange’s announcement to introduce risk management tools to help shippers trade derivatives comes as the Federal Maritime Commission

House Republicans are exploring options to bolster surface transportation funding, perhaps even replacing the current per-gallon gas tax with a new revenue system, said the chairman of the Transportat

Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he won’t stay on the job for another term, nor will he run for public office, according to the

U.S. factory activity continues to grow in an unsettled economy but at a slower pace, the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI said in its quarterly survey of the manufacturing outlook.

Freight carried by for-hire transportation providers posted a month-to-month gain of 0.4 percent in August, reaching its highest level since July 2008, the Transportation Department reported.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he thinks Congress will pass an “infrastructure program” by the end of this calendar year.

Congress on Wednesday passed free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

The CEOs in President Obama’s advisory jobs council are pushing for big federal investments in transportation networks and energy systems, and creation of a national infrastructure bank.

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica said “a national infrastructure bank is dead on arrival in the House,” after some senators proposed pairing the bank portion

CSX Transportation said it has completed nearly a third of federally aided track clearance projects so that doublestack container trains can move between its new intermodal hub in northwest Ohio and a

The Panama Canal Authority completed the third phase of digging the excavation for the new locks on the Pacific side of the canal.

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President Obama’s big push for Congress to pass a jobs plan laden with new transportation funding fell well short Tuesday of the 60 votes needed for Senate passage.

The Senate voted 63-35 Tuesday evening to give the Treasury Department and U.S.