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Nippon Express Co. saw profit surge 133.9 percent to $128 million in the first half of fiscal 2011, which started in April, despite flat revenue.

The Senate narrowly rejected a $60 billion transportation spending bill proposed by President Obama on Thursday, as many Republicans said they supported improving the nation’s infrastructure but

The U.S. agency that regulates economic issues between railroads and shippers says Union Pacific Railroad was the only major carrier that pulled in sufficient revenue in 2010.

Expeditors International of Washington improved net profit 11 percent in the third quarter to $106.6 million despite a 4 percent decline in gross revenue in a weakening freight shipping market.

Backers of two competing transportation plans are jockeying for support by selling their initiatives as job creators and taking shots at the other side for funding shortfalls.

Panalpina reported lower third quarter profit as a strong Swiss franc offset record ocean container volume and strong air freight margins across the Swiss forwarder and logistics group’s global

The Senate confirmed Eric Hirschhorn, a key player in export control reform, as Commerce undersecretary of export administration on Monday.

Descartes Systems Group’s $13.8 million cash acquisition of a Dutch company specializing in the transmission of d

Senior Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee on Monday criticized the Transportation Security Administration for not meeting a December deadline to screen 100 percent of cargo ar

Disciplined management of capacity and pricing, coupled with falling fuel prices, meant better times for trucking companies in September, FTR Associates said.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica defended his six-year transportation plan from accusations that the bill wouldn’t maintain current funding levels as he claim

APL pulled some of its refrigerated containers from service and said Wednesday the remaining stock in its reefer fleet is safe

Waterfront employers are working with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to identify and isolate at-risk refrigerated containers arriving at West Coast ports from Vietnam.

The pace of manufacturing growth in the United States slowed in October as the Institute of Supply Management’s PMI fell back 0.8 percentage points to

Yusen Logistics saw its profit fall 16.6 percent year-over-year to $22.91 million in the first half of fiscal 2011, which started on April 1, despite the Japanese forwarder growing revenue 90.6 percen

The House of Representatives last week laid claim to a budget offset the Senate Finance Committee intended to use to pay for Sen.

Longshoremen at the Port of Oakland began refusing to work vessels calling at the TraPac and SSA Marine terminals this week, joining actions that began at the Port of Seattle last week in response to

The overall cost of operating ships is expected to rise by 3.8 percent in 2011 and by 3.7 percent in 2012, according to a new

The devil, as the saying goes, is in the details. That’s the lesson emerging for U.S.

The National Foreign Trade Zone Board soon will publish new rules streamlining government rules for establishing and operating in the zones, the first major overhaul of the regulations governing FTZs

The key to boosting U.S. manufacturing exports is to stop China from manipulating its currency, not striking free trade agreements, according to a former White House economic adviser.

The Port of Los Angeles will enforce all concession requirements in its clean-truck program upheld in a recent ruling by the U.S.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is challenging the feasibility Rep.

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The executive committee of the American Trucking Associations voted unanimously to seek a U.S.

Caterpillar expects sales to increase 10 percent to 20 percent next year, but says sales growth in China will slow from double-digit to single-digit expansion in 2012.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica said he’s not ready to say how Congress will “aggressively oversee any attempts” to cut the hours truck drivers c

Japanese export ship orders fell for the fifth straight month in September on a year-over-year b

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica said he will take “every measure that’s needed” to pass a four-year authorization of the Federal Aviation Adminis

Bob Evans Farms is serving up a portion of its distribution network, selling its Springfield, Ohio, BEF Foods distribution center to Millard Refrigerated Services.

“Share and share alike” is a maxim shippers find hard to follow, especially if it means sharing zealously guarded supply chain resources.

INTTRA, the e-commerce cargo-booking portal, said its electronic bookings reached a record high in the past two months.

One country’s container tax is another country’s trade barrier. A coalition of six major U.S. West Coast ports and two major railroads argues that the U.S.

Third-party logistics providers are by nature intermediaries linking shippers with carriers of all types. Now they’re linking shippers with shippers.

Ray LaHood has had enough.

The Obama administration is moving quickly, by government standards, to reform the regulations that delay outbound shipments or add unnecessary costs to the export process as the White House presses a

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.

Semiconductor giant Intel, projecting caution across the technology sector despite its own record sales in the third

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