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The Senate voted 63-35 Tuesday evening to give the Treasury Department and U.S.

Kuehne + Nagel’s new 32,808-square-foot logistics and distribution center at Colombia’s Port of Cartagena positions the Swiss forwarder for growing trade generated by the

Rear Adm. Philip H. Greene Jr., superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., has stepped down amid accusations of the Maritime Administration micromanaging the school.

The Senate is expected on Tuesday evening to reject President Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan, with $50 billion in transportation grants plus $10 billion to fund an infrastructure bank.

President Obama designated six large transportation construction projects for fast-track permitting and environmental reviews to get them into their building phase faster and spur job creation.

U.S. trade volume is expected to rise 62.3 percent in the next 15 years but the U.S. share of global trade will fall behind China’s, according to a new forecast by HSBC Bank.

Kuehne + Nagel entered into an agreement to acquire Carl Drude, a logistics provider in the center of Germany, for an undisclosed sum.

The transportation piece of the Obama administration’s 2009 stimulus program has paid out more than $7 billion in the first nine months of 2011 to reimburse states for completed projects, accord

While economists and observers of trade flows have been debating contradictory data on the direction of the U.S. economy for several months, one measure has been unwavering.

To U.S. farmers, the free trade agreements negotiated with South Korea, Colombia and Panama several years ago have been something like a bumper crop cruelly out of reach, unable to be harvested.

Just how successful has PierPass been at the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach?

Exports of U.S. pork totaled 169,547 metric tons, valued at $480.1 million in July, an increase of 16 percent in volume and 24 percent in value over July 2010.

After a brief, recession-driven pause in growth in 2009, global perishable refrigerated trade expanded 3 percent in 2010, and is expected to increase at that level for the next few years, according to

Damco, the freight forwarding arm of A.P.

Exports of U.S. beef in July set a new value record of $513.1 million on volume of 120,424 metric tons.

Liner carrier CSAV says its board of directors will inject $1.2 billion into the company, and split the liner shipping business from a subsidiary that is involved in the marine service sector.

The Obama administration in late September filed an unfair trade complaint with the World Trade Organization against China’s anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed on U.S.

Maersk Line has a new direct weekly service from Latin America to the Black Sea. Called Ecumed, the service links Ecuador with Spain, Turkey and the Black Sea, using eight 2,500-TEU vessels.

The Georgia Ports Authority approved a $4.75 million project that will expand the Port of Savannah’s capacity for refrigerated container storage by 45 percent.

Apollo Freight, a specialist in perishables logistics, has begun construction on a 16,000-square-foot refrigerated center adjacent to Los Angeles International Airport.

Weber Logistics has a new contract with German candy maker Storck to distribute more than a million cases of such popular brands as Riesen, Werthers, Mamba, Merci and Toffifay to its customers and con

The U.S. Meat Export Federation has published guidelines for managing and expediting the export of red meat products to Mexico.

During the latest round of negotiations for the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership in Chicago last month, U.S.

The Dublin Airport Authority signed a deal with U.S.-based Lynxs Group to establish a major air freight hub at Ireland’s Shannon Airport.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture in September held its first agricultural trade mission to Vietnam in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Worldwide refrigerated trade is expected to grow at an unexciting but steady 3 percent annually for the next few years, but Ocean World Lines is thinking much bigger: The non-vessel-operating common c

The refrigerated warehouse industry, like the rest of the cold chain, came through the recession without the dramatic drops in business seen in the rest of the global economy, and recovered lost busin

Some in the perishables industry already are talking about lawsuits as the Food and Drug Administration rolls out new fees for inspections of some imported foods.

The Cass Freight Index for U.S.

The Transportation Security Administration will not meet its Dec. 31 deadline to screen all cargo on international passenger flights, the agency told industry stakeholders.

A big shift of manufacturing from China to the U.S. and other parts of North America will create up to 3 million U.S. jobs in coming years, says a study from Boston Consulting Group.

Toyota is telling its parts suppliers in Japan to cut prices or face being replaced by overseas competitors as the yen’s value appreciates,

Port Hueneme, a small port 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles, is scheduled for some changes in its top executives, the number of vessel calls each week and the type of vessels that call the port.

Consumers in every part of the globe must be following the old adage “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

Bananas are the world’s most traded fruit.

The Panama Canal Authority ordered 14 new tugboats in anticipation of more vessel traffic when the canal completes its

Rick Calhoun sees the inland waterways infrastructure crisis from the perspective of both shipper and carrier.

Federal regulators are due to issue a final rule on changes in truck driver hours at the end of this month, but opponents say the Obama administration should let the clock run out.

The Republican-controlled House is speeding toward a conflict with the Department of Transportation that could scuttle changes to trucker hours of service rules.

The National Retail Federation forecasts a 2.8 percent increase in holiday sales, and said