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A former top rail regulatory lawyer is asking the Surface Transportation Board to review its December decision allowing Canadian National Railway to acquire a suburban Chicago short line.

The House was supposed to treat the Surface Transportation Extension Act as noncontroversial, low-key legislation that could pass on a voice vote. When the bill came up on Sept.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke isn’t wasting time in scraping the crust off what many see as antiquated export controls.

Logistics firm Express-1 Expedited Solutions acquired air and ocean freight forwarder LRG International and will run it as part of the company’s Concert Group Logistics unit.

A trade association lobbyist is not going quietly from a seat on a government advisory committee the Obama administration is asking him to leave.

The U.S. goods and services deficit fell from $31.9 billion in July to $30.7 billion in August, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S.

The recovery may be sharper and quicker than expected, but FedEx’s chief economist believes consumer wariness could blunt it within a few quarters.

An investment partnership is acquiring Livingston International, a leading customs broker and transportation and logistics provider in Canada and the United States.

In a sign that the recovery is taking hold among consumers, retailers reported the first gain in sales in 14 months in September.

If you’ve got a big complaint on rail issues to put before the Surface Transportation Board, federal regulators will now want to hear your argument, up close and personal.

The agency that regulates trucking safety plans to offer carriers access to an electronic database of drivers’ inspection and accident records starting in December.

The Department of Transportation is renewing efforts to ensure the safe transport of lithium batteries.

The top Republican on the Senate’s Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee predicted that truckers, manufacturers and other key industry groups will push for a higher federal motor fuels

Supply chain and logistics services provider Avram Worldwide opened its headquarters in Greenwood, Ind., where it will invest $885,000 to lease and equip an existing 20,000 square-foot facility in Joh

WIL Lines, a South Florida-based forwarder, increased shipments in the third quarter by exporting products to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

The National Retail Federation on Tuesday forecast holiday retail industry sales will decline 1 percent this year to $437.6 billion.

Japan's Hitachi Transport System agreed to acquire a 51 percent stake in U.S. logistics service provider J.P. Holding Company.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association supports a ban on cell-phone texting while driving, but wants better enforcement of existing laws on inattentive or negligent driving by all motorist

ATC Logistics & Electronics, a subsidiary of ATC Technology Corporation, added Amy Knoth as a business development director.

Momentum Logistics, a subsidiary of international port management company, Gulftainer, signed a contract to provide dedicated warehouse space and other logistics services to United Arab Shipping Compa

As the world economy works toward recovery, prospects for freight transportation in and through Malaysia are improving, according to a report from Business Monitor International.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is coming under as much fire in the Senate as the woman nominated as the next FMCSA administrator.

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On Sept. 23, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., introduced legislation to extend the current highway program for three months.

A major overhaul of federal surface transportation programs may be months away, but interest groups and lawmakers are already wrestling over who will pay, and how.

Even in a survey baring a chasm between shippers and logistics providers over what third-party providers can do in this economic downturn, the comment from one Fortune 500 shipper was especially blunt

The Senate Finance Committee belatedly kicked its miscellaneous tariff bill into gear, and is making up for lost time.

Cargo volume rose across Europe and across transport modes in September, according to the latest monthly poll of more than 150 freight forwarders.

Factory orders declined in August, following four months of increases, and shipments of manufactured goods retreated after two consecutive monthly gains, according to an updated report from the U.S.

Freight-related transportation jobs fell moderately in September, the Labor Department reported, but falling employment levels in key customer groups could signal more trouble ahead for the shipping s

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced that an inspection fee increase will be delayed until Nov. 1. The agency previously announced that the increase would take effect Oct. 1.

Echo Global Logistics, which has grown into a $200 million company in less than five years, launched an initial public offering Friday expected to bring nearly $80 million to the third-party logistics

Thursday was a green day for California's drayage industry, marking the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-truck program, and the start of a statewide clean-air program for truck

A closely watched index of U.S. shipping reached its highest point in 10 months in September in a signal of improving health in the transportation end of the troubled American economy.

California and federal officials are sending millions of dollars in new Recovery Act grants to Southern California cargo operations at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, plus other area faciliti

Third party logistics company OHL recently hired Patrick Moebel as president, Americas for its global freight management and logistics business unit.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is raising its fees on imported agricultural commodities, effective Oct. 1.

A closely-watched measure of manufacturing in the United States slipped in September, retreating for the first time this year after eight months of steady improvement, signaling any prospects for econ