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U.S manufacturing activity was flat in June, the Federal Reserve said, although utility and mining output pushed overall indust

Semiconductor manufacturers are raising their projections for industry shipments in 2011, forecasting sales will grow 5.4 percent over l

Pilot Freight Services will open an office in Amsterdam as the U.S. freight forwarder looks to build on strong growth in the international arena with its first full office overseas.

Lawmakers will have to cut through a knot of "confusing, contradictory" rules to establish effective regulations co

Damco, the logistics arm of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, will manage Marks & Spencer’s mainland China hub operation, as the British retail giant diverts cargo from its U.K.

European Union competition regulators launched an investigation into public loans to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport

Liberty Property Trust gained first inland port access by buying 1.2 million square feet of warehouse and distribution space adjacent to BNSF Logistics Park-Chicago for $60 million.

Retail sales rose 0.1 percent in June as a rise in spending at automobile dealerships and chain stores offset a drop in gasoline prices, the Commerce Department said.

An index of manufacturing activity grew more slowly during the last three months but indicated expansion for the seventh consecutive quarter.

E-commerce giant eBay and consumer products manufacturer Newell Rubbermaid are taking ownership stakes in Shipwire, giving the shippers strong roles in the management of the growing outsourced distrib

Freight carried by for-hire transportation carriers declined 1.8 percent in May from April to its lowest level since November, the Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Ind

The Department of Transportation’s payments to states for infrastructure work funded by the 2009 stimulus law reached $29.6 billion by the end of June, with thousands more road and rail construc

Switzerland-based Kuehne + Nagel was the largest international forwarder in 2010, handling of nearly a 10th of the world’s air and sea freight business by revenue, according to Transport Intelli

Fortune International Transport says its new membership in the INTTRA’s ocean shipping e-commerce network will give the Italian non-vessel operating common carrier better access to the global oc

Prologis, the world’s largest industrial property developer, said Monday it has signed four new lease agreements with third-party logistics providers totaling about 723,000 square feet of distri

President Obama is keeping his message about improving the nation’s transportation infrastructure front-and-center, using debate on the federal budget deficit to say a debt deal with Congress co

Major railroads are warning customers that shipment delays, detours and track outages from the flooding Missouri River could last weeks longer, suggesting the river will have disrupted

Japan’s competition oversight agency rejected an appeal from Yusen Logistics of the freight forwarder’s fine for violating antitrust laws in a global air freight pricing conspiracy, accord

Congressional committees moved three long-stalled free trade agreements closer to ratification as members held a “mock markups” for implementing the bills Thursday.

U.S.

Democrats wasted no time Thursday in denouncing House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jo

House Republicans on Thursday unveiled a $210 billion, six-year surface transportation bill they said could be leveraged to $450 billion, setting up a showdown with highway advocates and Democrats who

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The regulator of economic disputes between railroads and their freight shippers has slashed its filing fee structure, meaning rail customers can file a major challenge to freight rates for $350 instea

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Japan’s exports of agricultural, fishery and forestry products fell for the second straight month in May on a year-over-year basis, plunging 16.6 percent to 30.6 billion yen ($382.5 million), ac

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., on Thursday will try again to bridge a partisan gap in a push to develop legislation that would implement critical and controversial free trade a

Third-party logistics provider Echo Global Logistics expanded in the Southwest by acquiring Advantage Transport, a non-asset truck brokerage firm in Phoenix.

A long-awaited transportation bill will make its debut Thursday when the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee releases a "responsible, multimodal" spending plan likely to c

French ocean shipping company CMA CGM announced a series of rate increases and peak-season surcharges that will take effect on U.S. services this month and on other trades in August.

U.S. service industries expanded for the 19th straight month in June but growth slowed from May, the Institute for Supply Management said.

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Factory orders by U.S. businesses grew 0.8 percent in May, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a report that suggests improving confidence in the economy following a slowdown in the spring.

Crowley Maritime is bolstering its logistics capabilities in the Caribbean with the acquisition of Puerto Rico Freight Systems, a company specializing in freight consolidation and less-than-container

There’s an odd disconnect in Washington these days — even odder than usual — on how, and how much, to invest in transportation infrastructure.

Customs and Border Protection is short-handed.

The industrial commodities sector that fuels factory production is sending worrisome signs to a global shipping business concerned with whether the economy is passing through a proverbial soft patch o

Exporting companies are starting to see the fruits of the Obama administration’s effort to streamline and modernize the outdated export control system.

Manufacturing growth in the United States accelerated in June for the first time in five months, according to the Institute of Supply Management’s PMI report, bolstering hopes that a spring slow

Locating close to customers often is more important than tax and financial incentives in choosing distribution facilities, shippers told The Journal of Commerce Inland Ports conference in Chicago this