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President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper signed two far-reaching agreements on Wednesday designed to make it easier and safer to move goods across the border.

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Some 26,000 holders of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential may not be able to use their cards at an electronic reader because of an encoding error, the Transportation Security Administ

European transport operator Norbert Dentressangle says its acquisition of APC Beijing International positions the company for larger growth in worldwide forwarding.

Technology provider ModusLink Global Solutions named Tom Nightingale, most recently chief marketing officer at Con-way, president for sales and marketing.

U.S. domestic ocean shipping has never seen a year like 2011. Two carriers pleaded guilty to price-fixing. One dodged debt default with a stem-to-stern refinancing.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, long the domain of corporate counsels and senior executives, is getting more attention in exporters’ compliance offices as the government gets more aggressive

Members of Congress haven’t looked this close to agreement on the goals for a transportation spending plan in years, but the political reality in Washington is that a common goal may not get law

A new security standard and certification program for trucking could help motor carriers and shippers close one of the biggest remaining gaps in supply chain security — what happens to cargo onc

It’s not easy to secure a truck, and it’s even more difficult to come up with global trucking security requirements.

In a scathing report issued in late November, House Republicans damned the Transportation Security Administration for becoming an ineffective, wasteful bloated bureaucracy that didn’t carry out

The Export-Import Bank of the United States expects an increase in its lending limit through a reauthorization bill making its way through Congress.

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.

ALK Technologies, creator of the PC Miler software used by truckers and shippers in routing and pricing, is restructuring to tighten its focus and expand its reach.

Federal regulators are planning a crack down on “reincarnated” motor carriers after shutting down two closely affiliated trucking operators in one month.

UTi Worldwide says global economic shifts will cut into earnings in the rest of 2011 after the logistics operator reported an 8 percent gain in net profit in the third quarter.

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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A 12 percent surge in refrigerated food shipments sent spot market reefer rates up almost 2 percent during the Thanksgiving week, countering soft pricing across most of the truckload market, according

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

Aramex is expanding its presence in China by creating a joint venture with Sinotrans Air Transportation Development Co., as th

Lowe’s says its inventory in the third quarter was up 5.2 percent year-over-year and the home improvement retailer is “more aggressively ramping up for winter.”

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.

Hundreds of Occupy Washington D.C.

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 2012 Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference organized by The Journal of Commerce will add a full-day track on refrigerated container transpor

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.