Supply chain

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

An Environmental Protection Agency stimulus grant of $1.73 million will help the state-owned Alaska Railroad and other transport operations curb diesel emissions.

The Senate late Wednesday passed 62 – 38 a budget resolution that included a one-month extension of existing highway programs.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday kicked off a two-day Distracted Driving Summit in Washington, D.C.

Real gross domestic product decreased at an annual rate of 0.7 percent from the first quarter to the second quarter, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The U.S. Congress is unlikely to ratify the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement in 2009 because it is focusing on health care reform and energy-related legislation, U.S.

Surface trade with Canada and Mexico sank 28 percent in July compared with a year earlier, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Sept. 30.

Highway programs that are due to expire at midnight Wednesday will get a one-month reprieve if the Senate agrees to a continuing resolution on the fiscal 2010 federal budget.

DB Schenker and TransContainer are planning a joint container hub in Riga, the capital of Latvia on the Baltic Sea.

The U.S. Coast Guard will hold six public meetings on its proposed rulemaking for ballast water discharge. USCG plans to offer a live Webcast of each public meeting as well.

Seeking more targeted logistics business in specialized shipping sectors, TNT on Tuesday rolled out an inventory and transportation service aimed at critical spare parts in Southeast Asia.

Kuehne + Nagel, one of the world's largest sea freight logistics providers, committed to using INTTRA eInvoice.

A coalition of shipper and carrier groups, heating up the war of words over the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan, issued a point-by-point rebuttal to claims environmental groups are making as the

G-20 leaders must provide their negotiators more flexibility to ensure that they can conclude an agreement on the long-delayed Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, said Pascal Lamy, director

China launched a formal World Trade Organization inquiry Sunday into imports of chicken feet and wings from the United States, in response to widespread complaints by Chinese poultry producers that U.

An appropriations bill that would send $76.5 billion to the Department of Transportation in fiscal 2010 is nearing the White House, but a House-Senate conference committee must tackle differences in f

A rail regulatory reform bill is still stuck in shadowy Senate-industry negotiations.

When the United States imposed Section 421 safeguard duties of up to 35 percent on tire imports from China this month, much of the trade world reacted like fight fans eager for an all-out brawl.

Advocates for reforming the country’s antiquated export control regime have been voices in the wilderness for years. Now it seems someone is listening.

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The Group of 20, or G-20 nations, will permanently replace the G-8 as the main forum for international economic cooperation, giving more influence to developing nations, officials said at the G-20 Sum

Federal transportation construction programs spent $3.145 billion through Sept. 18 on highways, bridges and other repairs ranging from transit systems to airports to inland ports and railroads.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s $1.5 billion discretionary grant pool won’t come anywhere close to meeting its requests, as states and other transport groups sent in applications for

New orders and shipments of manufactured durable goods fell in August after increases in July, giving the recovery a choppiness many economists predicted.

In two separate cases announced Thursday, the European Union said that it is slapping antidumping duties against Chinese and other suppliers of aluminum foil and seamless steel pipes and tubes.

Congress will not pass a new transportation authorization bill until after the 2010 elections, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Thursday morning.

Three U.S. paper companies joined with the union that represents 6,000 of their employees in a complaint to the World Trade Organization accusing China and Indonesia of improper subsidies.

A three-month extension of current federal highway spending programs cleared the House of Representatives Sept.

Japanese trade with the world market slid deeper in August as exports tumbled 36 percent and imports plunged 41 percent, compared with August of last year.

7-Eleven named 32-year logistics and transportation veteran Bill Merrigan vice president of logistics for its network of convenience stores in North America.