Supply chain

Cargo theft rose 12 percent last year and averaged a record 72 incidents per month, according to FreightWatch International, which provides logistics security services and data.

Slow economic growth and uncertainty about oil prices will hobble U.S. transportation companies recovering from the recession, Standard & Poor’s says.

The U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in six years in the fourth quarter, expanding 5.7 percent as companies scaled back their attempts to cut inventories, the U.S.

Construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar generated revenue of $7.9 billion in the fourth quarter, down 39 percent from the prior year quarter.

President Obama said Wednesday that increasing exports and construction of infrastructure will be among the ways the U.S. economy will recover from the recession.

The Maritime Administration’s marine highways program will provide shippers with alternative services, said David Matsuda Tuesday at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee.

Customs and Border Protection Tuesday began enforcing the Importer Security Filing or 10+2 rule.

China supplanted the United States as Japan's biggest export market in 2009 for the first time since the end of World War II, according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Ministry on Wedne

The Department of Transportation's ban on cell-phone texting by truckers is just the first of several actions expected this year that will tighten federal truck driver regulations.

European Union competition regulators Jan. 26 dropped a probe into government guarantees provided to La Poste, France's postal service.

Customs and Border Protection began enforcing its Importer Security Filing, or 10+2, rule on Tuesday, ushering in a new era of requirements on importers for more detailed information to help security

If anyone doubts a broad-based economic recovery is under way around the globe, take a look at the index of industrial prices compiled by The Journal of Commerce and the Economic Cycle Research

Customs and Border Protection should do a better job of documenting why it inspects or waives the inspection of ocean containers it has identified as having a high risk for terrorist tampering, accord

The Federal Aviation Administration is asking local airport authorities to report by Feb.

Crowley Liner Services’ settlement this month of civil antitrust lawsuits with U.S.

By issuing a final regulation on automated train equipment, or positive train control, the Federal Railroad Administration cleared a path for railroads to spend billions of dollars on what is la

Checks sent out to states for stimulus projects from the Department of Transportation reached $8.26 billion through Jan. 15, a gain of about $162 million from a week earlier.

For the majority of importers, Jan. 26 will pass as any other Tuesday this year.

As of Jan. 19, Russia has effectively banned imports of U.S. poultry, typically exported as palletized breakbulk cargo, because U.S.

Net profit for Transport Corp. of India surged 108 percent from a year earlier to $2.6 million in the third quarter ending Dec. 31, despite a 20-percent increase in operating expenses.

Scott Brown’s election victory in Massachusetts was a clear signal to Washington that Americans want politicians to focus their attention on job creation, Pennsylvania Gov.

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President Obama on Wednesday nominated Earl F. Weener for a seat on the National Transportation Safety Board.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the United States increased 1.1 percent in December, sharply rising at a quicker pace than any time in the previous nine months.

President Obama is nominating Jeffrey R. Moreland, a former senior attorney with BNSF Railway and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, to join Amtrak’s board of directors.

A joint venture investment group said it will spend up to $100 million to buy low-valued freight and industrial equipment, to assemble a broad mix of lease assets that will include ocean ships and riv

Erroll Southers withdrew his nomination as President Obama's choice to head the Transportation Security Administration on Wednesday, blaming "political ideology" for keeping the key security

Cargo interests are gradually shifting from last year's recession mentality to embrace growth strategies, but their investments in supply chain improvements are still constrained.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a petition by the state of Michigan to close locks between the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal and Lake Michigan.

Freight interests in California and the West are petitioning the California Air Resources Board to revise proposed regulations for low-carbon fuel and a cap-and-trade mechanism for the freight transpo

The American Trucking Associations is suing the Department of Transportation in an attempt to force it to declare what supporting documents trucking companies must keep to prove their employees comply

National Retail Systems, the New Jersey-based logistics provider, appointed Patrick Ahern to the new position of vice president, International.

Payments by the Department of Transportation to reimburse states for stimulus projects reached $8.101 billion as of Jan. 8, DOT said, up about $1.3 billion in the past month.

The United Nations’ World Food Program said it will use five routes to overcome logistics obstacles as it steps up delivery of relief supplies to Haiti.

Wal-Mart Stores is pursuing new savings in sourcing in ways that could help it wrest more control over inbound freight from its vendors and lower inventory costs.

Deutsche Post DHL is kick-starting the stalled consolidation of Europe’s standard parcel delivery business by leaving the business in the U.K. and France.

At a time when infrastructure is crumbling and resources are depleted, the Army Corps of Engineers needs fresh thinking about the way it manages the inland rivers system, according to a working group

A Surface Transportation Board case involving a new 80-mile rail line in Alaska suggests a potential fissure between the railroad industry’s three key economic regulators even as Congress debate

When heavy snows and frigid weather hit much of the nation in the first two weeks of the year, several states lifted weight restrictions on trucks, some to help endangered crops to get to market and o