Supply chain

U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, has asked the General Accountability Office to examine the impact of shale oil and gas development on pipelines, rail and other transportation infrastructure and safety.

Ohio’s Gov. John R. Kasich has unveiled a plan to invest $3 billion in infrastructure over the next several years in order to improve the state’s transportation system.

One Network’s cloud-based supply chain network allows trading partners to share and monitor information with each other and their partners and connections, and to synchronize business processes and events from point of sale to raw materials sourcing.

Eleven years after Congress required biometric passes for maritime workers, the Transportation Worker Identification Credential is inching forward. But there’s still no industry consensus on how TWIC should work, where it should be required or even whether it’s needed.

One criticism of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential is that TWIC biometric readers can’t withstand a harsh seaport environment. SSA Marine's "Beast Box," however, is a system that actually works, according to Curt Campbell, director of maritime safety and security at SSA.

The Highway Trust Fund is dangerously close to insolvency, leaving Congress with three options on how to prevent the main driver of federal surface infrastructure funding from reaching a shortfall, a budget analyst told Congress on Tuesday morning.

Blue Horseshoe has entered into a collaboration agreement with Microsoft that includes the acquisition of Blue Horseshoe’s Warehousing for AX and Transportation for AX solutions.

The European Union and Georgia have successfully concluded negotiations for a deep and comprehensive free trade area...

Ryder System today reported its profit in the second quarter of 2013 was $62.2 million, jumping 33.2 percent from $46.7 million in the second quarter of 2012.

UPS today reported its operating profit in the second quarter of 2013 was $1.74 billion, sliding from $1.79 billion in the second quarter of 2012.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide has promoted Gary York to director of sourcing for Europe.

Hong Kong Customs has seized more than 1,148 ivory tusks, valued at HK$17.46 million (about US$2.23 million), that were being smuggled through...

A U.S. seafood company is using new container technology to open a new market niche: live fish imported from South Korea.

Getting people to try new things, especially expensive new things, isn’t easy. For executive chef Nora Ramos, getting Americans of all ethnic backgrounds to try dishes made from live fish is both an art and a science.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has asked Transport Canada to review its rules regarding the securement of equipment and trains left unattended...

Two trends in the global produce market seem to be at odds with each other: Big-box retailers are getting bigger and buying produce directly from producers around the globe. At the other end of the scale is the “buy-local” movement that encourages people to eat produce grown locally, without the need for extensive transport to market.

The Rhenus Group and the Catoni Group have established a joint venture, Rhenus Catoni Logistics...

Air and ocean freight provider Logwin has opened a new office in Kolkata, India, to serve its customers in the country’s eastern region.

The U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means has introduced legislation to renew the Generalized System of Preferences through September 2015...

Members of the Transportation Intermediaries Association, which represents third-party logistics providers in the U.S., outperformed the economy in the first quarter of 2013...

2013 has been a roller-coaster ride for U.S. poultry producers. Exports have increased, but haven’t lived up to early growth prospects as avian flu outbreaks on two continents have wreaked havoc with demand.

DHL Global Forwarding has launched less-than-containerload direct services linking India’s ports of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) and Chennai with Shanghai, as the Deutche Post DHL Group unit taps India’s growing retail and automotive sectors.

Octavio Maese-Cordero, owner of a trucking and shipping company in El Paso, Texas, has been sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud...

Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Relations has announced that the missile systems that Panama seized from a North Korea-flag ship were “obsolete defensive weapons” that Cuba was sending...

The Port of San Diego’s board of port commissioners has adopted a $180 million budget for fiscal year 2013-2014.

Barely three months after being tapped by President Obama, new FMC Chairman Mario Cordero is drawing the ire of many in the industry over his push to overhaul regulations for forwarders and non-vessel-operating common carriers.

A Missouri company has pled guilty in federal court to importing thousands of lamps from China bearing counterfeit certification labels.

The European Union will reopen its market to Myanmar on July 19 under the so-called “Everything But Arms” preferential trade regime...

Menzies Distribution is replacing half of its large goods vehicle delivery fleet with 110 new Iveco trucks in a five-year contract hire deal with Ryder Europe, part of Ryder System.

If California is the U.S. leader when it comes to environmental regulation, then Oregon could be the state to keep an eye on in terms of where transportation infrastructure funding is headed.

Shippers and carriers alike are waiting to see how much new hours of service regulations will affect refrigerated trucking and the timing of food deliveries to restaurants, grocery stores and distribution centers. The new rules apply to all truck drivers, regardless of the type of equipment, but some believe the cold chain might take a bigger hit to productivity than other sectors.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation that would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Transportation to issue a new report on rural transportation issues...

FedEx Express has expanded its facility at Beijing Capital International Airport in order to increase its handling capacity for international shipments...

Australia’s international merchandise imports in June were A$18.4 billion (about $17.0 billion), falling 8 percent from $18.5 billion in May, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The U.S. economic recovery has not brought as much container volume growth as expected, according to an Asian transportation report by Jeffries, a global investment banking firm.

Pilot Flying J has reached a settlement with eight trucking firms that filed federal lawsuits against the truck stop operator.

NFI, a New Jersey-based supply chain company, and Hillwood, a real estate developer, have broken ground on a distribution site in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, which will provide warehousing services on the East Coast.

Marten Transport today reported its net income in the second quarter of 2013 was $7.7 million, inching up 1.1 percent from $7.6 million in the second quarter of 2012.

The Association of Independent Property Brokers & Agents has filed a federal lawsuit against the $75,000 bond provision of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, commonly referred to as MAP-21.