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The U.S. Postal Service ended its third fiscal quarter June 30 with a net loss of $2.4 billion as cost cutting failed to keep pace with falling revenue.

Motor carriers doing business with the Defense Department through owner-operators must pass on any fuel surcharges under an interim rule that took effect July 29.

New orders for manufactured goods in the United States increased by 0.4 percent to $349 billion in June, the fourth such increase in the last five months, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday.

Agility, the Kuwait-based provider of logistics services, increased net profit by 3 percent during the first half of 2009, compared with the same period last year, to $261.5 million.

Talks to craft legislation that would revamp federal oversight of railroad-shipper disputes “continue to move forward but we’re not there yet,” said Sen. John Thune, S.D.

Panalpina Group, the Switzerland-based logistics and forwarding provider, reported its net profit dropped 77.9 percent during the first half of 2009 compared with the same period last year, to $15.9 m

Sen. Jay Rockefeller said proposed rail reform legislation may not emerge in the few days remaining before the Senate starts a planned month-long recess on Aug.

Non asset-based transportation holding company Circumference America consolidated operations and sold its intermodal division, Radius Rail Logistics.

A swift conclusion to the long-delayed Doha round of negotiations could "act as a stimulus for recovery" from the global recession, World Trade Organization head Pascal Lamy said Tuesday.

Inflation remains well under control in the 30-nations that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Paris-based research organization said Tuesday.

Technology provider INTTRA rolled out an upgraded version of its online ocean shipment booking tool Monday, adding capabilities that enable shippers and forwarders to send more detailed booking inform

A closely watched index of industrial shipping in the United States fell back slightly in July from the month before, Cass Information Systems announced Monday, amid growing signs that the year-long d

The Institute of Supply Management's manufacturing index jumped 4.1 percentage points in July to its highest point in a year and accelerating figures in the closely watched report suggest manufacturer

Logistics provider Agility opened a 139,900-square-foot logistics hub near Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.

DSV, the largest Scandinavian trucking and logistics company, reported a larger-than-expected decline in second-quarter earnings and lowered its full-year forecast to reflect shrinking ocean, air and

The growth rate of the index of industrial prices measured by The Journal of Commerce and the Economic Cycle Research Institute moved into positive territory for the second week in a row in the week e

For all the debate over “green shoots” and “brown shoots,” it is increasingly clear that a global industrial recovery is taking root and is starting to fertilize economic recovery worldwide.

Taxing drivers by the number of miles they travel instead of the amount of fuel they buy has become a popular alternative for lawmakers as they look for ways to pay for the highway infrastructure of t

A significant reform of U.S. export controls long criticized as deeply flawed and counterproductive is in the works, and exporters hope for major changes in the regulations.

As complaints mount about the slow pace of the federal stimulus program, planners of a truck staging ramp for shippers in St. Joseph, Mo., have just the opposite problem.

The House on Thursday passed H.R. 283-142 a bill that tightens safety standards for domestic and imported food products.

A government audit says the financial viability of the U.S. Postal Service is at high risk as the USPS struggles to keep up with declines in mail volume reaching billions of pieces a year.

The Department of Transportation’s stimulus payments jumped by $146 million in the week ending July 24, bringing its total to $919.5 million.

David T. Matsuda was sworn in Thursday as deputy maritime administrator, the agency announced.

Maria Luisa O’Connell, president of the Border Trade Alliance, has been appointed Customs and Border Protection assistant commissioner for public affairs, the trade group announced.

The World Trade Organization decided Friday to create a panel of experts to investigate whether a ban by the United States on imports of Chinese poultry violates WTO regulations.

The decline in gross domestic product slowed dramatically in the second quarter, giving hope the recession may indeed be coming to an end.

The Senate July 30 voted 79-17 to use $7 billion from the general treasury to bolster the Highway Trust Fund, a day after the House of Representatives approved identical legislation.

The Federal Maritime Commission is ending its investigation of the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks program, saying developments since it launched the probe last September have significantly dimini

At least 500 and perhaps more than 1,000 trucking companies shut down by the government for violating safety rules may still be operating under new names, say federal investigators.

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The House of Representatives voted to inject $7 billion into the Highway Trust Fund. The House approved a measure July 29 to keep the fund solvent through Sept.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States, Canada and Mexico dropped 35.4 percent in May, the largest year-over-year decline on record for the North American Free Trade Agreement pa

The European Union approved pre-emptive penalties on its imports of steel pipe from China, accepting an argument from steel producers, including the world's largest, ArcelorMittal, that punitive tarif

Latin American manufacturing production, which plummeted during the first quarter of 2009, will remain weak throughout this year but rebound in 2010, according to a report that analyzes trends in 16 m

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The Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council will find ways to integrate short sea transportation into the national intermodal freight system, Chairman Samuel Crane said Wednesday.

Global sales of information technology and communications goods surged suddenly in May and June, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Wednesday in a report.

CEVA Group, the U.K.-based provider of logistics services, said there have been improvements across all of its markets during the second quarter of 2009, compared with the first quarter, despite the f

U.S. imports of steel in June were only 850,000 tons, down 18 percent from May and down 68.9 percent compared with June 2008, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.