Supply chain

In the first two months of 2011, Japanese consumers markedly increased their purchases of U.S. foods, spending 81 percent more on U.S.

When disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan strike, there is an immediate need for food, medicine and shelter to be sent to affected areas.

Drug and health care companies are being told that how you distribute products can be a billion-dollar decision.

Within the last year, Cincinnati-based Chiquita added 4,700 PrimeLINE units equipped with the QUEST power-saving mode to the 1,250 previously acquired for its banana fleet.

Sheila Taylor, who abruptly left as chief financial officer of trucker YRC Worldwide in March, will join CEVA Logistics in the top financial post of the company’s Americas division.

A showdown between Amazon.com and state governments is spreading as the online retailer threatens to shutter more plans for distribution centers in disputes over demands that the company collect taxes

Flood waters on the Ohio River are high enough that barges can navigate over fixed dams, the Army Corps of Engineers reported Friday.

When BNSF Railway decides how to invest its money in infrastructure expansion, it looks to the marketplace for guidance.

The Department of Homeland Security, acting on intelligence seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout, is warning states and other federal agencies al Qaeda has been considering terror plots aga

Farmers in the mid-Mississippi River region report that the floods have causes little disruption to grain shipments, according to the Agriculture Transportation Coalition.

Widespread flooding across the U.S. inland river system is slowing some freight and passenger transportation systems, mainly with road closures but including some rail line outages.

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda asked other Asian countries Thursday to “react calmly, based on scientific facts” to rumors that Japanese products may be contaminated with radioac

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda proposed an “Asia Cargo Highway” as Asia’s long-term goal to create seamless flows of goods in the region.

The Obama administration has been floating draft language for surface transportation legislation that could lead to a tax on vehicle miles traveled, allow states to impose tolls on some existing inter

Growth in freight shipments and payments slowed in April, indicating constrained consumer spending and near-term slowing of the economy, the monthly Cass Freight Index showed.

Labor interests in California are taking the battle over the job classification of drayage truck drivers to the State Assembly with a bill that would define the drivers who serve ports and intermodal

Retailers reported strong April sales that were boosted by pre-Easter sales but tempered by bad weather and signs that rising gasoline

The House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday took testimony the MODERN Security Credentials Act, which proposes that a card applicant only has to go a single background check, or “security

John Mica, R-Fla., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, expressed confidence on Thursday that Congress will complete a bill that authorizes the Federal Aviation Administr

Congressional staff on the House Transportation and Infrastructure is making progress drafting legislative language of what could become the panel’s six-year surface transportation bill, said Ch

Expeditors International of Washington saw net profit soar 49 percent in the first quarter to $91.2 million as the freight forwarder matched strong improvements in air and ocean shipping volume with s

CSX Corp., the parent company of CSX Transportation, announced it will split its stock, raise the dividend and buy back $2 billion in common shares.

The Obama administration said Wednesday that it is ready to work with Congress on the approval of free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama that have long been stalled by concerns ov

Panalpina Group reported double-digit growth in profit during the first quarter and said it expects air and ocean freight markets to rise 5 to 7 percent this year.

A Japanese manufacturer of large-scale power transformers will build a new factory at a Memphis, Tenn., site that will use Canadian National Railway tracks, access to Mississippi River barging and tru

Surface transportation trade between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico was 11.8 percent higher in value in February than a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported.

U.S. factory orders rose for the fifth consecutive month in March, driven by a broad-based increase in orders and rising prices for food and oil, the Commerce Department said.

Amazon.com plans to build its eighth logistics center in China this year, Chinese officials said Tuesday.

Japan's steel exports increased for the second consecutive month in March, topping February’s total by 10.1 percent.

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U.S. steel imports totaled 2.445 million tons in March, up 32.5 percent from February's weak levels and up 19.1 percent from a year earlier, government data show.

U.S. manufacturing expanded for the fourth consecutive month in April, according to a widely watched index that showed robust exports and an uptick in inventories.

The Japanese Diet enacted a supplementary budget of $48.8 billion for fiscal 2011, which started April 1, after only five days of deliberation held in the midst of the holiday-studded "Golden Week" pe

Carriers and ports notched up their security programs Monday morning following the announcement that U.

The maritime shipping world as many in the United States see it can be divided into two parts, one under the jurisdiction of the Jones Act, and everything else.

DSV reported higher first quarter revenue and earnings driven by increased volume at its air, sea and trucking units.

Yusen Logistics said its net profit surged 134.4 percent in fiscal 2010, which ended on March 31, from the previous fiscal year to $44.16 million.

The U.S. Navy and the Maritime Administration’s marine highway program are sailing on intersecting courses, and the result could bring benefits to all parties.

When a federal regulator throws up its hands and admits defeat in trying to pull railroads and key shippers together over a major issue, only one course of action remains: Battle.