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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.

The U.S.

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

Exporting companies are starting to see the fruits of the Obama administration’s effort to streamline and modernize the outdated export control system.

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

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.

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

The Gartner research group raised its projection for global IT spending this year, saying the industry is absorbing the impact of Japan’s natural disasters and now will grow 7.1 percent in 2011.

Ken Kowal is one of a small but growing number of logistics professionals wired into social media.

Freight forwarder Leschaco named Mark Malambri president and CEO of the Germany-based company’s U.S. operations.

The Department of Transportation on Thursday announced a slightly scaled-down version of its popular TIGER transportation infrastructure grant program for 2011.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is adopting a five-year strategic plan that looks beyond truck and bus companies to include shippers and brokers in attempts to improve highway safety.&

Mexico may increase the $2.4 billion in punitive tariffs it places on select U.S. goods if the Obama administration fails to implement a cross-border trucking program.

Japan’s slumping exports to the rest of the world have begun to show clear signs of recovery for the first time since the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit the northeastern part of the cou

The Amtrak passenger system is borrowing $562.9 million in the largest-ever credit issued by a federal rail loan program to buy 70 locomotives for two high-density traffic corridors in the Northeast.<

Business groups rushed to praise new efforts to approve long-stalled free trade agreements with

Opponents of a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico fear it will draw thousands of Mexican truckers into the U.S., threatening American jobs.

Christopher J. Connor has been named chief commercial officer for the global organization of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, and Raymond F. Fitzgerald has been named president of WWL Americas.

The Maritime Administration and Customs and Border Protection are offering 48-hour expedited processing of Jones Act waivers for parties that purchase oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has made $5 million available to North Dakota in quick-release road repair funds, while President Obama&rsquo;s disaster declarations for several states means they

Two years ago the U.S. adopted international standards for regulating exhaust emissions from ships.

The Coalition for Responsible Transportation, the Environmental Defense Fund, and U.S.

Japanese export ship orders fell in May for the first time in 18 months on a year-on-year basis, sliding 41 percent to 551,270 tons, according the Japan Ship Exporters Association.

Global demand for softwood number jumped 18 percent last year after plunging to a 50-year low in 2009, and lumber prices in North America, Asia and Europe are at 10-month highs, Wood Resource Quarterl

Federal truck safety penalties against motor carriers jumped 23 percent in 2010, according to data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Canada Post ended its 12-day lockout this weekend, sending thousands of Canadian postal service mail sorters back to work Monday to prepare for mail delivery Tuesday.

Consumer spending was flat last month and dropped 0.1 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars, the Commerce Department said in a report indicating high gasoline prices and unemployment levels are slowin

Inventory restocking seems to be on summer vacation.

Japan and Singapore will recognize their respective trade security and facilitation programs, commonly called Authorized Economic Operator programs, under a new agreement.

One group watching international economy drivers says it already sees worrying signs in China&rsquo;s economy.

In any economy, inventory management must strike a balance between costs and cutting into sales.

There have been plenty of words, warnings and venting as freight shippers and railroads vie to win over rail regulators who could overhaul decades of federal policies.

When a major U.S.

On a bright spring day in Taipei, groups of camera-toting foreign tourists are standing atop the long row of steps leading into the massive Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, a white marble structure with

Two months after the September 11 attacks, Customs and Border Protection struck a bargain with the trade community: Companies would secure their supply chains against possible terrorist incursion, and