Supply chain

Employers across the U.S. are struggling with a paradox: Despite high unemployment, they’re having a tough time hiring the right person for the right job.

The so-called Millennial Generation, with its native fluency in digital technology and natural aptitude for multitasking, could have been made for logistics.

Logistics provider Performance Team is opening a container transloading facility at the Port of Charleston to transload cargo from ocean shipping containers to trucks for distribution to customers thr

Southwestern less-than-truckload carrier Central Freight Lines will test 15 natural gas-powered Class 8 Peterbilt tractors in Houston and Galveston, Texas.

A quarterly global survey says the world’s economic climate has begun to improve after two quarters of decline but remains significantly below its long-term average.

Requests to Department of Transportation for infrastructure loans in fiscal 2013 outpaced supply nearly 107-to-1, as Congress and President Obama push to increase funding for the agency’s progra

Facing shaky support for his surface transportation bill, House Speaker John Boehner said he will delay the vote on the $260 billion, five-year package until after President’s Day's recess, acco

CMA CGM Group and IBM formed a partnership to develop a information technology unit to support the French carrier’s operations and reduce its costs.

Retail sales rose less than expected in January largely because of discounting in the auto sector.

The American Trucking Associations will file a petition challenging new final truck driver work rules in federal court, the trucking group said Tuesday.

Pantos Logistics recently opened a 32,808-square-foot logistics center near the port of Laem Cabang, Thailand, as the third-party logistics provider aims to tap the growth of nearby auto and electroni

An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimates the Republican-backed surface transportation plan would cause a $9.4 billion shortfall in Highway Trust Fund expenditures by the end of fiscal

A maritime labor representative has been nominated to the Federal Maritime Commission for the first time and the existing chairman, Richard A.

President Obama’s 2013 budget calls for nearly $30 billion more on transportation infrastructure annually than the roughly $50 billion sought through the House and Senate’s competing surfa

Among state transportation officials, it’s an inside joke.

The Federal Aviation Administration will finally be able to bring the country’s air traffic control systems into the modern era, but only after fighting through some long-standing conflicts.

There’s no shortage of challenges for global third-party logistics providers.

Ten of the world’s top-ranked emerging markets are in Africa, according to Agility’s 2012 Emerging Markets Logistics Index.

The past few years have brought radical changes to the supply chain management world.

For what may be the first time, the U.S. has a transportation bill that acknowledges some goods move on the surface of the water.

Rising labor costs in Asia. Fuel prices at record winter highs. Asian currencies revalued upward.

The government might give railroads another five years to install costly crash-avoidance technology because the industry is on track to miss its end of 2015 deadline.

Third-party logistics providers may approach emerging markets in different ways, but one thing is certain: Doing business in them isn’t an option; it’s a necessity.

The IT capabilities shippers value most are directly related to execution-oriented activities and processes such as transportation, warehouse/DC management, electronic data interchange and visibility.

Bigger, heavier trucks just can’t stay on the road in Congress.

Federal regulators found an illegal fungicide in three additional shipments of imported orange juice, bringing the total number ofshipments stopped at the U.S.

The trucking and rail lobbies are calling a truce in their battle over truck size and weight limits, hoping a measure of intermodal unity will help push a controversial multi-year surface transportati

The U.S. trade deficit hit a six-month high in December, as growth in consumer demand and business investment caused imports to rise faster than exports.

ProLogis says its sale of 13 industrial properties in the UK totaling 3.5 million square feet will allow the logistics real estate developer to better deploy its capital.

When Honda, Nissan and Mazda announced last year they would build large new automobile plants in central Mexico to supply cars for Central and South America, they were getting on an increasingly crowd

Negotiations have stalled in The World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round, the latest round of trade negotiations, and the National Foreign Trade Council is proposing that portions of t

A Tennessee air forwarder agreed to pay a $1 million fine to settle charges of violating air cargo security regulations at the Indianapolis airport, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

Hong Kong-based Kerry Logistics, in the midst of a broad expansion of its Asia network, says it expects to com

Hong Kong-based Kerry Logistics, in the midst of a broad expansion of its Asia network, says it expects to com

A Senate committee approved on Tuesday a $9.6 billion package to help plug a $12 billion shortfall in a bipartisan two-year surface transportation bill.

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A federal prosecutor is charging a Pennsylvania trucking company with running a three-year scheme to avoid federal trucking driver hours of service regulations.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration slapped an out-of-service order on U&D Services, shutting down the recently established trucking company.

The Cass Freight Index for U.S.

The Senate passed and sent to President Obama on Tuesday a bill authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration for four years, ending a five-year battle over the measure that held up modernization of