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U.S. railroads are riding a tailwind generated by federal stimulus programs but need to beware: That tailwind may turn out to be a gust that can’t be sustained.

Federal stimulus money is flowing into port projects in Baltimore and Houston, is electrifying truck stop parking spaces in Alabama and Tennessee and will revamp roads leading into an industrial park

If Congress decides to restructure harbor trucking this fall and expose the industry to unionization by the Teamsters, it will do so with eyes wide open.

The Justice Department’s “vessel pollution initiative” has gone from an intensive blitz against maritime environmental crime to a long, hard slog with no end in sight.

On a recent Friday, a trucker hauling lumber to be used to manufacture pallets was stopped at the California state line after inspectors found three unidentified insects in his load.

A Senate Republican believes Democratic support for climate-change legislation is wavering after sponsors announced introduction of their cap-and-trade bill will be delayed until later in September.

Senior trade negotiators agreed to "intensify the negotiations" when they re-launch the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral talks on Sept.

The National Industrial Transportation League sharply criticized environmental groups’ claim that trade groups oppose clean-air efforts at ports this week, calling the accusation “a flagra

Federal stimulus disbursements by the Department of Transportation swelled to $2.354 billion by Aug.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development issued forecasts showing a broadly based but fragile return to economic expansion in the third quarter of 2009.

Logistics provider UTi Worldwide saw its net profit dive 67 percent in the three months ending July 31 but said the market for shipping and logistics services is shoring up heading into the fall.&nbsp

Independent Container Line will provide transactional e-commerce services to global customers through the GT Nexus Trade and Logistics Portal.

The new chairman of the Surface Transportation Board opted out of a regulatory ruling this week for what would have been his first controversial case, under a policy of recusal from issues involving h

Global owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate, AMB Property Corporation, leased approximately 65,000 square feet in AMB Port of Rouen, a development in its Paris market, which is now

Federal stimulus funds to states for such needs as highway, bridge and transit repairs were supporting at least 76,000 direct jobs as of July 31, says the House Transportation and Infrastructure Commi

ProLogis will develop a 616,000-square-foot distribution facility in Osaka, Japan on behalf of Senko, an integrated distribution services company with a large national network of office locations, veh

In a further sign of its economic recovery, Brazil’s Ministry of Development, Industry and Trade reported a trade surplus of $3.1 billion for August, up 15 percent from July and up 33.7 percent

New orders for manufactured goods increased $4.6 billion or 1.3 percent to $355.5 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday. Shipments, unfilled orders and inventories were still down.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will host a meeting Wednesday Sept. 2 in Portland, Ore., to discuss the need for regulation of wood packing material in interstate commerce.

A closely watched index of U.S. shipping, signaling gathering strength in the domestic economy, advanced to its highest point in nine months in August.

A key manufacturing index showed activity at the nation's factories showed growth for the first time in 18 months, a strong signal of a budding recovery in the U.S. economy.

Wireless communications distributor and logistics provider Brightpoint named former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge to its board, the company said Tuesday.

Menlo Worldwide Logistics, a subsidiary of Con-way, appointed Anthony Gunn managing director for Europe.

The Department of Transportation will make $20 million in recovery funds available to help small and disadvantaged businesses better compete for work on transportation projects funded by the American

The World Trade Organization ruled Monday that Brazil can impose $295 million in annual sanctions against U.S. goods as a result of the United States' failure to eliminate subsidies to U.S.

BDP Project Logistics, subsidiary of Singapore-based BDP International, opened an office in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

A&B Properties, the real estate subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin, acquired two distribution warehouses in the Northpoint Commerce Center in Fullerton, Calif., near Los Angeles.

The Chinese government revised its tariffs on imported auto parts after losing its appeal against a World Trade Organization ruling.

Japan's trade surplus rose 364.2 percent in July compared with the same month last year, to $4.06 billion, the finance minister said Wednesday, but the news reflected more weakness than strength.

World trade volume rose 2.5 percent in June from the previous month following a revised 1.4 percent decline in May, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis said.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is soliciting comment on how to regulate pallets and other wood packaging material to combat the spread of tree-killing insects such as the emerald ash b

The Department of Transportation pushed its stimulus project payouts to $2.023 billion in the week ending Aug.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis in its second estimate on Thursday confirmed last month’s advance estimate of a 1 percent decrease in gross domestic product.

Illinois will ask Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to award $300 million to a multi-year project to untangle its congested freight and passenger rail lines, under a $1.5 billion discretionary fundi

New York City is scrubbing soot from its skyline by turning to electric vehicles, from heavy trucks to compact cars.

Just before the August congressional recess, a member filed a bill to provide grants for ports to clean up the air. The bill is due to be considered when congress returns Sept. 8.

For the first time, China overtook Germany as the world's biggest exporter during the first half of 2009, the World Trade Organization reported Tuesday.

New orders for manufactured durable goods in July made the largest percent increase in two years, according to a report Aug. 26 from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The state of Illinois is seeking about $550 million in federal passenger rail grants under the Recovery Act, with most of the money aimed at projects that tie into freight rail corridors as well.

Total steel imports to the United States rose 14 percent in July, compared with June, to 893,202 metric tons, according to preliminary data issued Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Commerce.