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The first phase of U.S. enforcement of the Lacey Act began on May 1 with few complaints from importers, but they are bracing for the next wave of requirements.

The National Infrastructure Bank proposed by President Obama will likely have many twists and turns on its journey toward a new way to fund infrastructure projects.

When Expeditors International of Washington announced its first-quarter results this month, the company suggested a bleak picture for international trade: Shipping volume was down sharply, ocean reven

The hazy regulatory skies that have hovered over harbor trucking for 30 years are becoming a bit clearer thanks to recent federal court rulings in California.

The National Industrial Transportation League and the European Shippers Council are waging a war of white papers over the European group’s opposition to a new international cargo liability convention.

When Japan’s once-vibrant economy slid into the years of stagnation that came to be known as the “lost decade,” a broad range of exports built on consumer goods helped the country ride out the storm a

In 1982, then-American Association of Port Authorities President J.

The battle over transportation infrastructure funding is shaping up to be about more than how much to spend on highways, railroads and ports over the next five years.

The Columbia River channel deepening project will receive $26.6 million in economic recovery funding to complete its last phase, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., announced May 15.

U.S. industrial output fell 0.5 percent in April from March, leaving it 12.5 percent below April 2008, the Federal Reserve said.

The Department of Transportation took a major step to open up a $1.5 billion grant pool that can cover ports, intermodal, freight rail and other types of freight construction as well as passenger proj

In a meeting that could lead to progress on the long-delayed U.S.-S. Korea free-trade agreement, U.S.

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The Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization confirmed an earlier finding that the United States should stop using "zeroing," a controversial method of calculating antidumping duties o

The Federal Maritime Commission on May 20 will receive recognition as one of the “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government,” Commissioner Joseph E.

Prices paid to producers of finished goods in April shifted up slightly from the previous month after widespread declines.

Democratic leaders on the Senate Commerce Committee are calling for what might be called a shift away from highway freight transportation by 2020.

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Jim Ritchie, CEO of YRC Logistics, will leave the company at the end of May.

United States Steel named Thomas Kelly to succeed John C. Pranaitis, the retiring managing director-transportation and president of Transtar, the company's transportation subsidiary.

The massive Southern California international trade economy will decline further in 2009 before registering a modest gain next year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Economic D

High speed rail and a major Interstate highway project in Texas head up a list of the top 100 infrastructure projects in the United States released this week by CG/LA Infrastructure.

Shipping goods may not be a game but the growing business of handheld games should provide strong expansion in shipments this year, according to a new forecast.

The volume of freight transportation services in the United States in March dropped 3.3 percent, as measured by the Freight Transportation Services Index of the U.S.

April retail and food service sales dropped 10.1 percent to $337.7 billion, according to the adjusted advance estimate released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

A still positive Chinese market helped offset the general gloom of the global downturn for logistics provider Dachser in fiscal 2008.

Trade between the United States and India dropped 23.47 percent in value to $8.2 billion during the first quarter of 2009, compared with $10.69 billion during the same period last year.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is canceling a controversial Bush administration plan to reduce congestion at New York-area airports by auctioning slots to airlines.

Warehouses and transportation companies in California are facing the most aggressive environmental regulations this ecology-minded state has ever experienced, and every link in the international suppl

The United States’ largest manufacturing group says the country’s deepening deficit suggests the economic downturn has further to go.

OTTAWA — Canada’s largest customs broker, with 2,500 employees located across Canada and the United States, on Tuesday reported deep losses and stopped distributing dividends, mainly becau

Port intermodal projects should qualify for special federal funding under a grant program in the Recovery Act, said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

China's trade surplus declined to $12.9 billion in April, far below government forecasts of $20.3 billion, and significantly below the $18.56 billion surplus China recorded in March.

U.S. exports and imports both declined in March, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The faster pace of decline among exports raised the U.S.

The White House has targeted more than $250 million in transportation spending that it wants to cut under its budget proposal for the 2010 fiscal year that starts in October.

The departments of Transportation and Commerce have launched a program to draw shippers into the discussion about transportation infrastructure and the role it plays in global competitiveness.

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk called Monday for a new era of cooperation in trade relations as he arrived for his first visit to the headquarters of the World Trade Organization.

Although global economic indicators continue to point downward, there are signs that the rate of decline may be slowing, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Monday in a repo

The attempt to craft a new rail competition bill and perhaps revamp the Surface Transportation Board is on a slow track through Congress.

While much of the world was showing growing alarm over a possible swine flu pandemic and business scrambled to contain the impact, Dan Sanker, CEO of logistics provider CaseStack, pulled out his plans