Supply chain

Japan and Canada have formally agreed to launch negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) to eliminate import tariffs on most products and strengthen overall economic relations.

While the Senate pats itself on the back for passage of a mere two-year surface transportation bill, a handful of states are pushing what most of their federal brethren decry as infeasible: fuel tax h

An electronics manufacturer in Singapore last year wanted 25,000 wire forms to be used in one of its products, and it needed them fast.

Next time you’re dining out in Seoul, have a good steak and wash it down with a shot of Jack Daniel’s, compliments of U.S. exporters.

No one is more delighted about the impact of 2004’s U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement of 2004 than Tom Tjerandsen, North American managing director of the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association.

In the fashionable neighborhoods of Bogota, the gourmet restaurants, lively nightclubs and luxurious hotels are brimming with foreign executives eager to sign trade and investment deals in South Ameri

Mexico’s rail industry is poised for growth, especially in intermodal shipments.

When automobile manufacturer Fiat in 2010 announced plans to build a $1.8 billion plant in northeastern Brazil, CEVA, a global non-vessel-operating common carrier and third-party logistics provider, s

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Japan posted a surplus of $396.39 million in its trade with the rest of the world in February after incurring a record monthly deficit of $17.80 billion in January, according to preliminary figures re

The value of surface transportation trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico increased by 14.3 percent to a record $904 billion in 2011, <

Jaguar Land Rover, a unit of India&rsquo;s Tata Motors, is forming a joint venture with Chery Automobile of China to manufacture the U.K.-based automaker's luxury vehicles in China.

China remains undersupplied with international-grade warehouse facilities, but the logistics real estate sector offers long-term growth prospects, according to a new report from Jones Lang LaSalle.

Diesel prices across the U.S. hit the highest point since August 2008, rising 1.9 cents in the week ending March 19 as oil prices rose to more than $107 per barrel.

Founded in 2004, the Millennium Challenge Corp. is funded by the U.S. government, but it&rsquo;s a truly international development assistance agency.

It&rsquo;s been two years since President Obama signed an executive order launching the National Export Initiative, the ambitious program to double exports in two years.

Growing e-commerce is making prom kings and queens out of markets typically seen as wallflowers compared to port regions.

Transactional freight payment data is the mother lode of logistics information, the bedrock on which strategic benchmarking and transportation modeling rests.

A new Department of Transportation report detailing the need to spend $101 billion annually, plus inflation, over the next 20 years to maintain the U.S.

A slowdown in auto manufacturing growth and natural gas extraction in February left U.S. industrial output unchanged from January, when production rose 0.4 percent, according to the Federal Reserve.

Irish brewer Guinness is tapping a deep thirst in America, with U.S.

The Senate-passed transportation bill gave advocates for more dredging funds good news on Wednesday.

The Panama Canal Authority&rsquo;s Board of Directors appointed Jorge Luis Quijano, the engineer in charge of building the canal&rsquo;s new set of locks, as the new Panama Canal Administrator.

The fuel-based Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index rose 0.7 percent in February after falling 1.7 percent in January from December, pointing to an improvement in trucking but also a fragile economic

Mild winter weather and pent-up demand for autos helped U.S. retail sales rise 1.1 percent from the previous month and 6.5 percent from February 2011, the Commerce Department said.

U.S manufacturing technology orders in January rose 8.4 percent year-over-year, highlighting &ldquo;manufacturers&rsquo; increasing confidence in future growth,&rdquo; according to the Association for

Diesel prices across the U.S. rose at the slowest pace in three weeks, climbing 2.9 cents in the week ending March 12 as oil prices fell at the end of trading for the first time in four days.

U.S. steel exports rose 19.1 percent year-over-year to 1.262 million tons in January, as shipments to Canada and Mexico offset declines to other regions.

Intra-Asia container line MCC Transport has introduced a new mobile Web site and a smart phone application to enable customers to better track shipments and sailing schedules.

A dozen years after Congress first allocated funding, Customs and Border Protection&rsquo;s Automated Commercial Environment isn&rsquo;t fully delivering on the promises made to importers and brokers.

Things have become so chaotic on Capitol Hill over transportation legislation that even the political experts admit it&rsquo;s hard to keep up.

The Obama administration is once again proposing a new user fee to pay for capital investments in the inland waterway system, a senior Army official said.

The U.S. trade deficit rose to a three-year high of $52.6 billion in January as a 2.1 percent jump in imports outpaced a 1.4 percent rise in exports.

The Senate on Thursday worked through seven of 30 amendments to its two-year $109 billion transportation bill, including two of the most controversial, Transportation Weekly reported.

A Wayne County judge in Detroit on Thursday ordered the Michigan Department of Transportation to take over and complete a project to link two interstate highways with the Ambassador Bridge.

Germany&rsquo;s Deutsche Post DHL, coming off a year in which net profit fell by half because of a onetime charge related to the sale of its Postbank banking unit, forecast higher revenue and profit f

Retail supply chains are no longer just multimodal, they&rsquo;re multi-channel, and that&rsquo;s adding layers of fulfillment complexity for shippers, a retail industry study finds.

Mayors from throughout the U.S.

Panalpina swung to a profit of $139.7 million in 2011 from a 2010 loss of $28.6 million as the Swiss logistics and forwarding giant enjoyed organic growth across all regions and product divisions.

With dozens of federal agencies having some degree of involvement in the cargo clearance process, importers are crying out for a single government portal at the border.