Supply chain

Citigroup and the World Bank have launched a $1.25 billion funding facility that will help banks in emerging markets extend financing to local importers and exporters, the banks announced Monday.

Manufacturers across the state of New York are still struggling but the outlook for the next six months is improving, according to a closely watched monthly survey.

The next time a brilliant idea about how to reduce traffic congestion flashes across your mind, write it down. It could win you $50,000.

A warning to shippers, carriers and manufacturers seeing rays of light in commodity prices and the Baltic Dry Index: Beware the false dawn.

There may be some glimmers of hope on the global economic horizon, but they are too early to affect the bottom line of UTi Worldwide, a major provider of global logistics services.

A bipartisan think tank is calling for sweeping reform of U.S. transportation planning, infrastructure funding and federal oversight — and a highway bill, too.

It took less than 24 hours for Anne S. Ferro’s nomination as the nation’s top truck safety official to become embroiled in the dispute over truck driver hours of service.

Fasten your seat belts, the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler are about to disrupt every aspect of an already-battered North American automotive supply chain.

An unnerving game of “chicken” played out on the lower Mississippi River recently.

There is one thing President Obama has consistently made known since his campaign days — his feelings about the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, a still-unratified accord he called ``badly flawed’’ wi

A bill sent to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee would mandate a shift of freight traffic to rail and intermodal carriers while linking transportation policy directly to national e

Stimulus packages adopted by the U.S. and other countries to combat the global recession could distort trade, said the European Commission in a confidential report disclosed by Reuters.

Venezuela is moving to nationalize the companies that operate some of its main ports, Reuters reported Thursday.

Exports of U.S.-made steel fell 42.7 percent in April, compared with a year earlier. Total steel exports in April were 617 thousand tons.

The solution to freight corridor congestion may be through reducing commuter congestion, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

EU trade commissioner Catherine Ashton and Canadian trade minister Stockwell Day initiated negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement that could provide as much as $28.2 billion in

African businesses can become far more competitive, but African governments and their international partners will need to improve access to finance, resist pressure to erect trade barriers, upgrade in

A non-profit Web site known as Global Trade Alert, www.globaltradealert.org, was launched this week to celebrate World Trade Week in the United Kingdom.

A hopeful sign appeared on the economic horizon Thursday with a small month to month advance in retail sales as reported by the U.S.

Support for a significant reorganization of the Department of Transportation along intermodal or even “mode-neutral” lines is growing in Washington as pressure mounts to produce a surface

Thorsten Neumann, head of security Central Europe, Middle East & Africa for Nokia, has been re-elected as chairman of the Transported Asset Protection Association for the Europe, Middle East and A

OHL appointed three C-level executives, promoting all from within the third party logistics provider.

President Obama picked Deborah Hersman to chair the National Transportation Safety Board, drawing quick praise from labor, and said he will renominate former airline union executive Harry Hoglander to

A key government measure of U.S. freight shipping fell to its lowest level in seven years in April, the government reported.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin surprised the global trade community by announcing Tuesday that Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan would abandon their separate talks to join the World Trade Organiza

Weak imports and even weaker exports increased the U.S. trade gap to $29.2 billion in April, up from $28.5 billion in March, revised, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S.

A cap-and-trade energy program would mean huge costs for the trucking industry and American consumers, the American Trucking Associations told Congress.

World Trade Organization head Pascal Lamy said Tuesday that senior U.S.

Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plans to increase its nuclear divisions’ earnings by 50 percent by 2020 through constructing new nuclear plants and providing after-sales services and nuc

The clock is ticking on the next highway bill, which is scheduled to become law by Sept. 30.

A bipartisan think tank is calling for sweeping reform of U.S. transportation planning, infrastructure funding and federal oversight as part of this year’s highway bill.

Future transportation policy will break down the Department of Transportation’s “Stonehenge” structure — restructuring a group of monoliths — Rep. James L.

Infusing cash to keep the Highway Trust fund afloat at the end of fiscal 2009 is a matter of payback, Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., said Monday.

In an effort to revive the long-delayed Doha Round of global trade negotiations, U.S.

Leaders of the 19-nation Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa said Monday that they are ready to launch a customs union to facilitate the free movement of goods in the region.

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said its composite leading indicator for the OECD area rose in April, reaching 93.2 compared with a revised 92.7 in March.

Companies that prepared for the recession by coordinating their supply chain divisions with departments that manage engineering and marketing are in the best position to emerge stronger than ever.

Canada and the United States agreed in May to make permanent a pilot project called Shiprider that pairs the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and U.S. Coast Guard.

Each year, an estimated 150 million invoice transactions are processed in the ocean shipping sector, with the average cost ranging from $20 to $60 per invoice.

Railroads may have won one battle in their bid to fend off rail regulatory legislation, but shippers believe they’re closer to winning the war in Congress.