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A closely watched measure of U.S. domestic shipping grew on a year-over-year basis for the first time in two years in December, inching upward 1.9 percent.

States won a limited reprieve in December in their struggle to preserve the amount of federal funds they can authorize for transportation projects, and they could add $12 billion if the Senate acts qu

Privately owned logistics company Syncreon purchased Illinois-based NAL Worldwide Holdings for an estimated $35 million.

U.S. manufacturers carried their expansion into a fifth consecutive month in December, according to a monthly survey by the Institute for Supply Management.

Two reports on Chinese manufacturing showed production at the country’s factories surged in December, pointing to a full recovery in 2010.

Weak economy and all, FedEx celebrated a record day in its express division on Dec.

If drayage operators had any question that polluting trucks have no future in California, clean-trucks plans implemented at the port and state levels at the start of the new year should dispel a

As a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Stephen E. Flynn was an outspoken critic of U.S. supply chain security policy.

It took all of 2009 to get a landmark rail regulatory overhaul bill through the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

Ongoing battles over proposed cap-and-trade legislation and efforts by ports to gain more control over harbor trucking will carry over into 2010.

The U.S. Commerce Department is sending grant money to port and rail projects in states around the Gulf of Mexico to help the region’s recovery efforts from two hurricanes in 2008.

Customs brokers and importers have been able to use remote location filing for several years, but until now Customs and Border Protection classified the practice as a prototype program under the Natio

President Obama on Monday signed into law a bill that extends the U.S. General System of Preferences and the Andean Trade Preference Act for one year.

Japanese carrier NYK Line opened its own agency office at Hyderabad, a major inland cargo location in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Book sales in the United States surged during the holiday season, but in a dramatic shift for the shipping world, retailer Amazon.com said this week sales of e-books for the first time surpassed sales

The Environmental Protection Agency is adopting a two-prong regulatory strategy to curb emissions from large ships operating in U.S. waters.

In the middle of December, the Department of Transportation sent out reimbursement checks to states that totaled $268 million in the latest week for construction projects under the stimulus law, bring

Fesco Logistics on Dec. 28 delivered a single piece of construction equipment weighing 100 tons to Novorossiysk, Russia.

The Senate on Dec. 24 confirmed the nominations of a Federal Maritime Commission member and a senior Department of Transportation administrator before adjourning for the holidays.

Shipments of manufactured durable goods climbed for the third consecutive month in November, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Dec. 24.

The Federal Highway Administration passed a milestone in December when it approved its 10,000th highway project funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which Congress passed

Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr. will be the new commandant of the Coast Guard, President Obama announced on Tuesday.

The government lowered its estimate of U.S.

Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell said he will nominate Maritime Administrator Sean Connaughton the commonwealth’s seecretary of transportation.

WASHINGTON — Congressional legislation has done little to assure the federal government that U.S.

Softwood lumber markets strengthened in the third quarter in China and northern Africa but remained slow in the U.S. and Japan, according to forest industry analysts Wood Resources International.

Global steel production in November jumped 24 percent over a year earlier to 107.5 million metric tons, but was down 5.2 percent from October, according to the World Steel Association.

States with the two largest seaports ranked in the top five among states with the most-congested urban interstate highways, according to a Reason Foundation report.

A Singapore government agency fined a logistics company executive about $50,000 for safety violations that resulted in a 2007 accident that killed a worker, according to local reports.

TOKYO — Japan’s merchandise trade surplus with the United States expanded in November for the first time in 27 months as the pace of decline in Japanese exports slowed significantly, according to prel

For years, executives of U.S.-based multinationals quietly complained the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act put them at competitive disadvantage by making it illegal for U.S.

Another front is opening in the battle over the classification of workers as independent contractors.

It’s been nine years since Congress approved the down payment for the Automated Commercial Environment, the entry processing system that was to take Customs and Border Protection into the 21st c

Given the secretive way a rail regulatory overhaul was crafted in the Senate over recent months, it seemed inevitable the landmark bill would emerge late in a jammed legislative calendar and req

The Senate gave existing highway funding programs a two-month reprieve today when it approved a Defense Department appropriations bill 88-12.

The Home Depot is hammering together a “rapid deployment center” for its logistics operations in the Southeast, the CoStar Group reports.

DB Schenker launched a program to bolster growth in its contract logistics business unit through additional employees and improved industrial standards.

The Department of Transportation’s reimbursements to states for construction projects under the stimulus law reached $7.164 billion as of Dec. 11, DOT reported.

A Senate panel approved nominations for officials to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and serve on the Federal Maritime Commission, clearing them for confirmation by the full Se