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Agility, the Kuwait-based global logistics company, reported first quarter profit fell 52 percent from a year ago and warned future earnings will be hit by the loss of U.S.

Manufacturers in New York say their business improved for the tenth consecutive month in May, according to The Empire State Manufacturing Survey.

Damco, the combined brand of A.P. Moller-Maersk logistics activities, joined the DASH7 Alliance, an international group promoting the use of an advanced wireless sensor networking technology.

The euro weakened to $1.2234, a four-year low against the dollar, and some economists predict it will fall even lower, a development that would help European exports but hurt U.S. exporters.

A rail customers’ rally, held at the outset of a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill, was one part reunion and one part backslapping celebration as shippers and their advocates reveled in what they

The sound reverberating from Echo Global Logistics is the boom created by its rocketing sales.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach spent almost $80 million combined on incentives to get carriers and owner-operators driving clean diesel trucks.

The Department of Transportation’s policy plans for 2010-2015 would: -- Focus transportation policy on “achieving strategic outcomes” in broader national goals.

The air shipping industry met a May 1 deadline for screening 75 percent of cargo on U.S.

When Congress gave the Consumer Product Safety Commission new authority and responsibility over children’s products in 2008 following widespread reports of tainted imports, the agency seemed to

Although Echo Global Logistics is grounded in trucking, “I’m kind of the only trucker here,” CEO Doug Waggoner said. That’s an advantage for Waggoner and Echo.

February’s Customs Update addressed the growing problems caused by corporate identity theft and its impact on international trade (“Protecting Your Identity,” The Journal of Commerc

The Department of Transportation keeps saying it wants to “get trucks off the road” in reshaping the nation’s freight and passenger infrastructure.

For a few hours this month, Congress trained a spotlight on someone rarely noticed in Washington — the trucker who works the nation’s ports, hauling containers from docks to distribution p

The nation’s top business lobbyist today called on the Obama administration and Congress to adopt a “robust trade expansion program” and create as many as 20 million U.S.

Cross-border trade with Canada isn't just about sales and profit, it's about millions of jobs, U.S. and Canadian business executives told members of Congress this week.

U.S. industrial production rose during April as businesses restocked inventories in response to rising demand, the government said Friday.

Retail sales last month climbed to $366.4 billion, up 0.4 percent from March to April, according to a report Friday from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Department of Homeland Security will issue new security grants for critical infrastructure that total $789 million, covering ports, freight rail and transit systems plus buffer zones around sensit

Members of the Senate Finance Committee took Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin to task during his confirmation hearing Thursday for failing to fill out immigration forms to ver

The United States and Canada need to emulate businesses pursuing a "single market" strategy for trade and security, a top Procter & Gamble executive says.

Alan Bersin, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, is likely to get sharp questioning from the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday over his compliance with regulations to verify the eligibil

Climate and energy legislation proposed May 12 by Sens.

Air cargo workers could have a new path through the credentialing jungle if Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration follow through on recommendations by Customs&rs

Virginia's new Republican governor is seeking a green light for tolling on a portion of I-95 near the North Carolina border.

The Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Index, which measures month-to-month changes in ton-miles shipped, rose 0.9 percent in March from February for the third consecutive monthl

The U.S. trade deficit rose to its highest level since October 2008 as higher oil prices offset continued increases in exports, the Commerce Department said.

Supply chain software company RedPrairie acquired SmartTurn, an inventory and warehouse management software developer.

Inventories held by wholesalers rose for a third straight month in March while sales increased even faster, the Commerce Department reported.

Automotive and hardware retailer Pep Boys will pay $5 million in civil penalties under a settlement in what the Environmental Protection Agency says is its largest case ever involving imported vehicle

Global semiconductor sales, which helped lead a decline in technology shipping in the last two years, are set to rebound strongly with growth of 30.6 percent this year, the iSuppli market research gro

Damco rolled out a new Kewill forwarding system to manage air and ocean shipments, including multimodal, between Asia and Europe.

In a victory for labor attempts to organize transportation workers, the National Mediation Board said it will now determine a majority in a unionization election based on the votes cast and no longer

-- National transport planning should look more at the interlocking network, instead of each mode separately, since farm goods, coal and other rural shipments need a systemwide approach to reach marke

Shipowners or operators who pay ransom to Somali pirates could face U.S. civil penalties or criminal prosecution under a White House “Executive Order concerning Somalia.”

The prospects for changing harbor trucking regulation in the United States rest with Congress, but groups fighting efforts to change federal law say the impact of any changes would hardly end at port

From its inception two years ago, the American Trucking Associations’ challenge to the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program drew sharp rhetoric in Southern California over whether the respon

A new federal report on freight transportation calls on the departments of Agriculture and Transportation to favor a “systems-based approach” to U.S.

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The Federal Maritime Commission will hold a public meeting on May 24 to gather comments about a proposed rule designed to exempt licensed non-vessel-operating common carriers from the legal requiremen