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Five states received nearly $80 million in federal grants for high-speed rail projects today from the Department of Transportation.

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There’s bipartisan support for quick passage of a comprehensive transportation bill, but members of the House Transportation Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday demonstrated there is still a w

Virginia broke ground Wednesday on a control center for high occupancy toll lanes on a stretch of the I-495 Capital Beltway that ranks as one of the worst U.S. congestion bottlenecks.

Japan's trade surplus with the rest of the world ballooned about 15-fold in April from a year earlier to $8.25 billion thanks to a robust growth in exports, according to preliminary figures released b

Lego is expanding its North American distribution center by nearly 50 percent as the toy maker builds on a strategy to sharply expand its market share in the United States.

Orders for big-ticket goods rose 2.9 percent last month, largely because of a jump in demand for commercial aircraft, the Commerce Department reported.

The senior Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said Tuesday he expects Congress will take up a comprehensive surface transportation bill in January, dimming any faint p

Economic activity is growing faster than expected but the sovereign debt crisis and overheating in emerging markets pose increasing risks, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development sai

U.S. third-part logistics providers suffered a 16 percent drop in revenue last year but are bouncing back at double digits this year, according to Armstrong & Associates.

American consumers this month regained more confidence in economic prospects, The Conference Board reported.

Ceva Logistics, the global supply chain management company, reported strong growth in first quarter profit and revenue driven by cost controls and gains in contract logistics.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James L.

Fifteen of 22 industry groups contributed to last year’s 2.4 percent drop in U.S. GDP, the government’s Bureau of Economic Analysis reported.

The global economic crisis reduced greenhouse gas emissions from transportation industry sources worldwide, but that reduction isn’t expected to last long.

The Coast Guard would be authorized to provide technical assistance and lend or lease equipment to ports to help them comply with the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code under terms of

The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy-setting arm last week increased its projections for U.S. GDP growth.

The nation’s largest port complex hopes to benefit from what would be one of the largest loans ever made under a Federal Railroad Administration program for track system improvements.

The battle over who will drive the trucks in clean-air programs being rolled out at ports across the country is now being waged on three fronts — federal court in Los Angeles, a U.S.

In the Obama administration’s vision for a future with free-flowing highways, cleaner air in cities and ports and lower climate-heating carbon emissions, intermodal rail leads the way.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., this month took the Department of Homeland Security to task for slashing port and transit security grants for the city and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The American Trucking Associations supports President Obama’s call for the first national fuel-economy standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

President Obama signed a presidential order today that for the first time would establish fuel economy standards and greenhouse gas emissions limits for heavy-duty and medium trucks, starting in 2014.

Leaders of the House Ways and Means trade subcommittee were upbeat Thursday afternoon about redirecting Customs and Border Protection’s focus to facilitating trade and collecting revenue after a

CEVA Logistics reported increases in first-quarter profit and revenue, saying higher volume offset tighter margins.

A slight decline in the Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the U.S. in April was the first in more than a year.

Net profit for Transport Corp. of India surged 52 percent from a year earlier to $9.3 million in fiscal 2009-10 ended March 31, despite an 11 percent increase in operating expenses.

Exports of U.S. steel mill products jumped 29.2 percent in March from February, according to U.S. Government data.

The May 5 hearing by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure into the Port of Los Angeles' clean-trucks program may spawn yet another investigation of the program, this one dealing wi

CDC Software, a hybrid enterprise software provider of on-premise and cloud deployments, acquired TradeBeam Holdings, a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of on-demand global trade management software.

A balance of supporters and opponents of a proposed rule that could change the way non-vessel-operating common carriers do business will have their say before the Federal Maritime Commission on May 24

Procter & Gamble wants more than 400 of its key suppliers to complete a sustainability report this year on how much power they use and how much waste they generate.

Complaining that port infrastructure received just 8 percent of the stimulus law’s original discretionary grants for transportation, the American Association of Port Authorities says it wants a

A set of stimulus grants to develop industrial infrastructure, including a rail spur, helped trigger a private firm to make a $650 million investment in a steel rolling mill, said President Obama.

Economists are questioning how long U.S. consumers can maintain their current spending pace in the face of high unemployment, stagnant housing prices and reduced access to credit.

The embattled euro is poised to drop further but the economic impact on North American economies appears to be limited, economists from IHS Global Insight said.

APL Logistics, a unit of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, plans to expand its place in the North American intermodal market with a focus on the link between customers’ international and dom

Kuehne + Nagel contracted to provide road logistics services in Middle and Eastern Europe for Rehau, a manufacturer of polymer-based innovations and systems in construction and the automotive industry

Driving while distracted is not just a concern on the nation’s highways, as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood unveiled a proposed regulation to target “improper use of distracting electr

President Obama, trying for a third time to get someone to run the Transportation Security Administration, announced Monday he will nominate Deputy FBI Director John S.