Supply chain

The U.S. Maritime Administration’s plan to construct marine highways won’t just take pressure off roads.

Short-sea shipping advocates may have the Department of Transportation’s ear, but they still need to convince shippers their concept will float.

The global economy is expected to grow 3 percent this year, with emerging nations growing fastest, the U.S.

Oil refiners’ deliveries of distillates, which include diesel fuel and are closely correlated with overall U.S.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the construction work under way to expand the Panama Canal “will have a profound impact on the way goods move around the world.”

Consumers are buying again and business inventories are creeping back up but retailers say they don’t plan to abandon the lean inventory practices they adopted during the recession.

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An increase of 0.1 percent in U.S.

The Bunning blockade of March is finally being overturned for about 2,000 Department of Transportation workers who lost 20 percent of their pay for the first two weeks of that month.

The Department of Transportation’s chief financial officer became the latest administration official to speak out against raising motor fuel taxes to bolster federal revenue and infrastructure s

SAN ANTONIO — A senior Commerce Department official on Wednesday outlined one of the tactics the government will use to meet the president's goal of doubling exports and creating 1 million jobs in fiv

The Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Index, which measures month-to-month changes in freight shipments in ton-miles, rose for the second straight month in February.

Disbursements by the Department of Transportation under the economic stimulus law reached $10.437 billion as of March 31, an increase of about $1 billion from February to pay for projects dominated by

Retail spending posted its fourth consecutive month of gains in March, the Commerce Department reported.

Supply chain software vendor JDA Software today released a "product roadmap" reflecting the integration of its products with those of recently acquired i2 Technologies.

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Jeffrey Coppersmith, the new president of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America, is taking charge at a time when things are looking up for the organization.

GT Nexus appointed Léo Apotheker to its board of directors.

The U.S. trade deficit widened in February as rising imports of consumer and industrial goods offset a small increase in exports, the Commerce Department said.

The United States and Mexico moved closer to a new cross-border trucking agreement with plans for a "working group" to consider "next steps" toward reviving cross-border trucking.<

Customs and Border Protection will continue its layered strategy for supply chain security while continuing to look for ways to carry out Congress' mandate to scan all inbound containers, Deputy Commi

U.S. companies will spend more than anticipated on information technology this year, as demand for communications equipment spurs purchasing, a Forrester analyst said.

Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, watched U.S. and Spanish customs officials screen U.S.-bound containers as she toured the port of Barcelona on April 10.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Department of Transportation&rsquo;s inspector general are targeting &ldquo;significant weaknesses&rdquo; in the explosives shipments over

In the latest sign of the Obama administration&rsquo;s commitment to inland waterways, the Department of Transportation is launching a formal marine highway program to be funded through dedicated gran

The U.S. Postal Service is in the midst of what may be its deepest restructuring since the most familiar delivery operation in the United States first put its letters on airplanes.

In what may be an initial step toward changing how the federal government invests in freight infrastructure, the Department of Transportation is convening a large board of industry and academic econom

From one end of the country to the other, shippers of the largest grain crops &mdash; soybeans, wheat and especially corn &mdash; are gearing up to fill the supply chain needs of late 2010 and 2011.

Rhode Island is still drying out from late-March floods that swamped the state and shut down a part of Interstate 95 between New York and Boston, but the Department of Transportation is already sendin

The Department of Transportation&rsquo;s payments to states for work done under economic stimulus projects reached $10.264 billion by March 26, up $286 million from a week earlier.

The Maritime Administration&rsquo;s final regulation to implement its Marine Highway Program took effect with publication in the April 9 Federal Register.

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Concern is building that coming climate change legislation in the Senate could propose a tax on motor fuels that would divert some future fees from the Highway Trust Fund.

The global economy is expected to grow 3 percent this year, with emerging nations expanding more rapidly than the United States and Europe, the Paris-based trade credit insurer Coface said in a report

Deutsche Post DHL signed a five-year contract with Volkswagen to handle in-plant logistics at the German car manufacturer's assembly plant in Slovakia.

Arrow Electronics, a global distributor of electronic components and computing products, agreed to acquire Converge, a leading provider of reverse logistics services for electronics manufacturers and

McLeod Software, a software provider for the trucking industry, joined Descartes' United by Design program.

CEVA Ground, the domestic road transport services division of CEVA Logistics in China, achieved the Transported Asset Protection Association TSR-2008 validation.

Freight forwarder Echo Global Logistics will open an office in Dallas, Texas, on April 5.

Industrial real estate owner and developer AMB Property extended its development portfolio in Asia in the first quarter with 11 new leases in six properties in China, Japan and South Korea.