Supply chain

A year into President Obama’s five-year plan to double exports and create 2 million jobs, Frank Vargo is pleased.

Like everyone else, Cisco Systems was surprised when an Iceland volcano eruption closed European airports for a week last year. Unlike most companies, Cisco was able to avoid a loss of revenue.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is giving Florida lawmakers one week to see if they can salvage a high-speed rail project that

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa will be a primary witness Feb. 23 before a joint House-Senate hearing intended to collect local ideas for comprehensive surface transportation legislation.

A manufacturers group predicts U.S. factory production will grow 5.5 percent this year and 4.6 percent in 2012, outpacing expansion of the overall economy.

An attorney for the coalition that won two court victories over recent hours of service rules for truckers says the most recent proposed rule a step in the “right direction,” but it may no

Ten months after the Army Corps of Engineers Inland Waterways Users Board adopted a strategic plan for infrastructure construction, river operators are trying to get Congress interested in putting it

Dredging of U.S.

U.S. manufacturing exports rose 20 percent last year, with the top 10 markets accounting for more than two-thirds of the increase, the Commerce Department reported.

The National Retail Federation projected retail sales, excluding autos, gas stations and restaurants, will rise 4 percent this year in a strengthening economy.

Congress is taking steps to complete legislation that gives operating authority to the Federal Aviation Administration, after 18 attempts to approve the last reauthorization, which expired in 2007.

Despite the Feb. 16 decision by Florida Gov.

The Federal Maritime Commission is taking the first steps toward making it easier for the public to conduct business there.

The Federal Maritime approved rules Wednesday that would exempt non-vessel-operating common carriers from the legal requirement to use published tariffs as the basis for rate-making.

U.S. poultry exports declined 4.4 percent in volume but increased 0.2 percent in value last year despite trade frictions with Russia and China, the two largest markets for U.S.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will take comments on its proposed truck driver hours of service rules until March 4 and hold what may be the last public "listening session" on its pro

Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said he is "deeply disappointed" at Wednesday's decision by Gov.

Florida Gov.

Plenty of other states will want the passenger rail money that Florida's governor rejected, said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, while the canceled high-speed rail project could have eased conges

U.S. steel exports jumped 29.3 percent to 12 million tons last year despite a 0.1 percent dip in December volume, government data show.

Florida Gov.

U.S. industrial production fell 0.1 percent in January as a weather-related decline in utility output offset a continued upswing in manufacturing, the Federal Reserve said.

DB Schenker is setting up a logistics center in Leipzig, Germany, to supply auto components to BMW car plants in China and South Africa in one of the company's largest ever projects.

President Obama's proposed budget would breathe new life into a cross-border trucking agreement with Mexico, allocating $50.

The president’s proposed 2012 budget on Monday left a manufacturing association and a water resource group dissatisfied with the changes.

President Obama's proposals for a $556 billion, six-year surface transportation bill, and a

The White House is seeking a 10 percent increase in motor carrier safety funding in its 2012 budget proposal as part of a $4

U.S. retail sales rose 0.3 percent last month, the seventh straight monthly increase but the weakest gain since June, the Commerce Department said.

Japan and India will sign a free trade agreement Wednesday to eliminate import tariffs on most products traded between the two giant Asian economies, the Japanese government announced Tuesday.

The Department of Transportation's budget would increase 66 percent to $128 billion under the president's proposed 2012 budget

The Army Corps of Engineers will have nearly $1 billion cut from 2010 expenditures for civil works, and what money remains will be concentrated on waterways and harbors with the greatest levels of com

The president's 2012 budget proposes a modest increase for the Department of Homeland Security, up 0.7 percent to $43.2 bill

The budget plan President Obama sent to Congress would sharply expand the Department of Transportation's discretionary grants program, which covers multi-modal construction projects, and would create

A strong majority of Americans want better roads and bridges, but they want someone else to pay for them, according to a survey released Monday.

President Obama is asking Congress for a six-year surface transportation spending plan that would spend $556 billion, including a $50 billion quick-start investment piece similar to what he proposed i

What do a crushed stone supplier in Texas, automobile producers across the U.S. and the Washington state potato industry have in common?

The last five years produced a high, low and then a rebound in merger and acquisition activity in the transportation and logistics markets.

A year ago, Customs and Border Protection promised to take a new route to completing the Automated Commercial Environment.

Even before regulators consider bringing various “exempt” rail shippers under federal processes that allow them to file rate and service complaints against railroads, the Department of Tra

Janet Napolitano is taking her message about global supply chain security on the road — and across the oceans.