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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is making available $2.4 billion in passenger rail grant money rejected by Florida Gov. Rick Scott so that other states can submit applications for new projects.

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced a strategy to plug one of the biggest breaches in maritime security: terrorist attacks by small boats.

European Union trustbusters raided the offices of transport firms in the Baltic region amid suspicions they are involved in a cartel in the rail freight sector.

U.S. retail and food sales posted a month-to-month gain of 1 percent in February, driven by strong auto sales, the Commerce Department said.

President Obama said the U.S.

The Transportation Security Administration is satisfied with its security screening program for goods shipped on domestic passenger airline flights, but TSA said Wednesday challenges remain in meeting

Ann Begeman, President Obama's choice to join the Surface Transportation Board, told senators at her nomination hearing she will work toward making sure shippers as well as railroads can approach the

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood took the Obama administration's "bold vision" for a new transportation bill to the Senate this week, but lawmakers were not ready to buy in.

India’s exports jumped nearly 50 percent year-over-year to $23.6 billion in February, buoyed by increased demand from major markets such as North America, Asia and Africa.

Higher prices pushed the U.S. trade deficit in January to its highest level in six months despite a 2.7 percent increase in exports.

President Obama named Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to be the next U.S.

Freight transportation movements in the U.S. increased for the second consecutive month in January, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Oil prices eased slightly Tuesday, falling 56 cents to $104.88 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, as assurances of production increases from Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries made up

The Government Accountability Office is raising concerns about the security of goods with civilian and military applications through "deemed exports" to foreign nationals.

The Department of Transportation on March 14 will hold a public meeting to gather ideas and suggestions for updating the federal regulations that the department and subsidiaries administer.

Mainfreight, New Zealand's biggest trucking company, is buying Wim Bosman Group, a large Dutch transport and logistics firm, in a $154 million deal that establishes a bridgehead in Europe.

Ceva Logistics reported revenue and profit increased 25 percent in 2010 from the previous year and expressed confidence both would continue growing in 2011.

The debate over truck driver hours-of-service is bumping up against shipper docks, as some truckers and an influential member of Congress are calling for limits on the time shippers and receivers can

Kansas City Southern, operator of the smallest of North America’s Class I railroads, is redesigning a federal loan request with an eye to the Obama administration’s focus on making rail lo

The Obama administration’s proposed budget for 2012 includes an ambitious plan to collapse a diverse menu of Department of Transportation highway programs into five broad categories and a nation

The murder of four Americans last month on a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates was an especially ugly reminder of the risks to vessels operating anywhere near East Africa.

Regulators at the Surface Transportation Board insist they are not about to make sudden moves to dramatically toughen federal oversight.

Nine years after first making loans, the federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing program is stumbling.

During his first speech as the new chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. says he noticed a member of the audience who kept looking through the printed program.

Even as Florida was finally shedding $2.4 billion in federal grants for a high-speed passenger rail project the governor killed,

Participation in the Customs-Trade Partnership grew at an average rate of 7.5 percent per year for the past three years, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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After Florida's Supreme Court upheld Gov.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin is making a high-level shuffle of executives to give the agency’s trade facilitation and enforcement divisions a better understanding of each oth

Transportation costs could rise as much as 20 percent if the Department of Transportation cuts the time truck drivers may spend behind the wheel, the National Retail Federation says.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 14-1 to approve the Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act, the latest effort by Sen.

Business interests hailed a U.S.-Mexico agreement on cross-border trucking that is sure to be

The U.S. and Mexico reached a preliminary agreement on resolving a cross-border trucking dispute that led to $2.4 billion in Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods.

Large retailers reported higher-than-expected sales increases in February, a sign that consumers remain optimistic despite rising gas prices and continued high unemployment.

AMB Property, the U.S.-based industrial real estate group, and Germany's Allianz Real Estate formed a $648 million joint venture to invest in trade related logistics properties in the eurozone.

The House voted, 421 to four, to extend federal surface transportation spending programs at current levels through the 2011 budget year that ends in September.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will begin late this month to write its next six-year surface transportation legislation, said Chairman John Mica, R-Fla.

Americans took to the road in increasing numbers last year, taking advantage of relatively low fuel prices as increased confidence in the economic recovery.

Nearly 150 members of Congress urged the Obama administration to drop its proposed hours-of-service rule and keep the current work rules for truck drivers.

India plans to spend an estimated $47 billion on infrastructure development during fiscal 2011-12 to accelerate economic growth and expand global trade.