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Retailer Big Lots says growing sales this year will be partly offset by rising international and domestic freight transportation costs that will put its profit margins under pressure.

The Senate should embark on a new long-term surface transportation bill, said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., but he said Thursday that he doubted it will be finished this year.

A bill that would end the North American Free Trade Agreement was introduced Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday revised last week’s report on durable goods to show a less robust but still growing economy for manufacturers in January.

The House, by a 217-212 margin, approved the $15 billion Senate-drafted Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, which includes provisions to extend existing highway programs until Dec.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Wednesday that the administration wants to move forward with a “comprehensive, robust transportation bill,” but opposes increasing the gas tax whil

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The House is expected to take up the Senate’s version of a jobs bill on Thursday, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Wednesday.

U.S. trade with Canada and Mexico by truck and rail rose 10.5 percent in December, the first year-over-year increase since the global financial crisis struck in September 2008.

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The Coast Guard terminated an application for the Detroit International Bridge Co. to build a new bridge adjacent to its 81-year-old Ambassador Bridge.

CEVA Logistics reported double digit declines in 2009 revenue and profit compared with the previous year, but all business units are now benefiting from the global economic upturn, the international s

Four days after blocking a temporary jobs and transportation measure and forcing a two-day shutdown of Department of Transportation highway programs, Sen.

The Department of Transportation’s highway programs remained shuttered for a second day, as lawmakers again failed to convince Sen.

A proposed 4 percent tax on warehouse services in Pennsylvania would kill local jobs, says International Warehouse Logistics Association President Joel D. Anderson.

State transportation officials warned on Monday that if Congress can’t pass an extension of highway funding in the next few days, they will be forced to put new projects on hold, and delay or ca

All states met a key deadline in last year’s stimulus law to obligate their highway project spending before March 2, said Vice President Joseph Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Manufacturing business increased in January for the sixth consecutive month after 13 months of decline, according to a survey of the nation’s supply executives by the Institute for Supply Manage

Kuehne + Nagel, the global freight forwarder and contract logistics provider, reported 2009 earnings fell more than 20 percent from the previous year on lower world trade, a strong Swiss franc and a p

Charging that “political games” are forcing a partial shutdown of federal operations and support to states, U.S.

Presidential meetings with the Dalai Lama are nothing new. Nor are U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan. However, President Obama’s Feb.

It’s not often that a federal agency proposes an order so thoroughly popular that it has to put out a reminder that the rule isn’t actually in effect yet.

Tension is intensifying between the U.S. and China as the two economic powerhouses trade barbs over trade, from sanctions and countersanctions to U.S.

In his State of the Union address a month ago, President Obama pointed out the bank bailout was as “popular as a root canal.” With both political parties criticizing the federal government

The Obama administration is making big down payments on a wide range of major freight projects around the country with its latest $1.5 billion in transportation grants.

After last year’s massive layoffs, tens of thousands of truck drivers are unemployed, and more trucking bankruptcies are expected as the nascent recovery takes root.

Rail freight shippers and the largest U.S. railroads are increasingly on a collision course over rules that could govern their market for decades to come.

Even though it’s 75 miles from the Pacific Ocean, the Port of Stockton, Calif., boasts a healthy cargo mix, according to Mark Tollini, deputy port director.

Despite stronger opposition on several fronts, members of Congress are sticking with the idea that scanning all containers at foreign ports is good supply chain security policy.

Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., sharply criticized the senator whose actions threaten to shut down major U.S.

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IBM is launching an initiative to break traffic congestion bottlenecks.

Major surface transportation programs at the Department of Transportation were in danger of shutting down starting Monday after a senator raised objections to final passage of a short-term extens

Wal-Mart announced an “aggressive” new environmental initiative across its supply chain Thursday, saying it will call on suppliers of its products to eliminate a total of 20 million metric

Failure by the Senate to act on the latest extension of the highway bill leaves federal spending programs about to expire at the end of Sunday, Feb. 28.

The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 5.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Friday, revising its earlier estimate upward from 5.7 percent.

A test of a vehicle mileage tax in Oregon should be extended nationwide in the next surface transportation bill, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., said today.

Congress and the administration squared off in the latest round of a two-year-old sparring match over100 percent cargo scanning, when Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday testified before the House

Flanked by Democrats in a show of transportation bipartisanship, Sen.