Supply chain

LONDON - Transnet, the South African state-owned freight transport and logistics company, plans to raise $2 billion from foreign bond sales to help finance infrastructure projects.

Miami would be a prime location for a logistics depot that would respond to disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean, a UPS air cargo executive says.

The Federal Maritime Commission postponed its meeting this morning to 10 a.m. on Feb. 18.

The Customs and Border Protection Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations, known as COAC, will hold its quarterly meeting on Feb. 25 in Miami.

Echo Global Logistics should have no problem recruiting during the recovery.

Like most shippers, Wal-Mart Stores is looking for a delivery guarantee from its suppliers. Unlike most others, the world’s largest retailer now is demanding one.

After a harrowing year of cost-cutting and retrenchment, third-party logistics providers are shifting their focus to rebuilding &mdash; on the business front and in their relationships with shippers.<

Ports, cities and labor unions are sharply at odds not only with each other but within their own ranks over efforts to overhaul regulation of harbor trucking, and the rifts will make it even harder fo

For importers still in denial about the Importer Security Filing rule, Customs and Border Protection has a message: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not delaying enforcement.

It took nearly a year and a stubbornly high unemployment rate before the Obama administration recast its long-awaited $8 billion in rail system grants as part of a jobs strategy.

Like their counterparts in the U.S., third-party logistics providers in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America enter 2010 with lower growth expectations.

Combine President Obama&rsquo;s export pronouncements in his State of the Union speech, and his 2011 budget for export promotion, and the trade community has something to celebrate.

Non-vessel-operating common carriers may get long-sought relief from mandatory tariff filing requirements if the Federal Maritime Commission grants them an exemption at its public meeting next week.

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China, the largest market for U.S. chicken exports, plans to impose anti-dumping tariffs of up to 105.4 percent on U.S. broiler chicken imports, starting Feb.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today unveiled details of President Obama&rsquo;s plan to double U.S. exports within five years to $3 trillion while creating 2 million U.S. jobs.

New orders and shipments of manufactured goods gained in December, driven by increases in orders for machinery and shipments of petroleum and coal, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday.

An index of U.S. domestic freight demand jumped 5.6 percent in January compared to the same month last year in a rebound from the deepest part of the shipping downturn.

Nearly 7,000 companies that qualify as large, for-profit haulers or shippers of hazardous materials would see their federal annual registration fee triple, to $3,000 under a plan designed to shore up

The nation's largest port group says it is disappointed in Obama administration budget proposals that would leave security and port maintenance programs without needed funding.

The Department of Transportation pushed a hefty $524 million out to states in the week ending Jan.

President Obama&rsquo;s 2011 budget for the Department of Transportation shows an overall 2.3 percent increase compared with 2010 as the administration emphasizes infrastructure projects but hopes to

Industrial real estate owner and developer AMB Property lost $28 million in 2009, as the market bottomed out.

Australia-based logistics provider Toll Group acquired U.S.-based freight forwarder Summit Logistics International.

The Federal Maritime Commission on Monday announced a major management restructuring that could indicate new directions in enforcement policy, and the commission&rsquo;s relationship with the industry

The United States should expand its goods movement infrastructure with a sense of urgency because global trade is poised for a rebound, said a trade and transportation economist who addressed the Geor

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico in November fell 2.9 percent to $58.9 billion, compared with Novembe

Initial figures for fiscal 2011 indicate that the departments of Transportation and Homeland Security will be marking time financially in fiscal 2011, in keeping with President Obama&rsquo;s promise l

U.S. manufacturing expanded rapidly in January, nearly matching the pace of August 2004, according to the Manufacturing ISM Report on Business.

Manufacturing in China is growing at its fastest pace on record, according to data collected for the HSBC China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index.

In years past, an incident such as the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt aboard a Northwest Airlines flight would have resulted in many and loud calls for new inspection procedures for cargo carrie

Negotiators have two basic options on the table for controlling greenhouse gases. One is a tax per ton of bunker fuel that can be invested in a greener environment somewhere else on Earth.

Democratic Party officials are scrambling to bolster the economy and jump-start job creation following a series of losses in midterm elections.

Placing an immediate ban on text messaging by truck drivers last week, the Department of Transportation sent a message easy to read even without a cell phone.

Top railroad executives are throwing down the gauntlet, serving notice to Congress and freight shippers they will push back hard against efforts to tighten rail regulations.

The drumbeat of jobs, jobs, jobs in Washington and debate on financing have become major roadblocks to getting a six-year $500 billion transportation bill into gear and onto a fast-paced road to passa

Trade and manufacturing groups are offering strong support to President Obama&rsquo;s call to double exports in five years to create 2 million jobs, but they also want to see substantive action t

U.S. imports of steel saw their worst year since 1991 in 2009, falling 49.3 percent from the year before, said the American Institute for International Steel.

New orders for manufactured durable goods in December increased $0.5 billion or 0.3 percent to $167.9 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Thursday.

Wal-Mart Stores created a group of global merchandising centers and signed sourcing agreements with Hong Kong buying agent Li & Fung as part of a broad plan to cut supply chain costs by consolidat