Supply chain

There’s broad, even unanimous, agreement in Congress that Capt. Richard Phillips, the master of the Maersk Alabama who risked his life saving his ship and crew from pirates last month, is a hero.

Customs and Border Protection is alerting the trade to be watchful of pests in wood packing material, even if it has been stamped as treated under International Standard Phytosanitary Measure 15.

The U.S. trucking industry shed more than 16,000 jobs in April, the Labor Department said, as part of a 38,000 job loss in the transportation and warehousing sector.

Glenn Tilton, chairman and chief executive of United Airlines parent UAL, urged U.S.

Anti-dumping activity is up.

The Obama administration has budgeted $73.3 billion for the U.S. Department of Transportation in 2010.

Supply chain software provider i2 Technologies matched reduced revenue in the first quarter by slashing costs and restructuring.

A 14-mile stretch of High Occupancy Toll lanes will generate billions of dollars in economic activity for the Washington area long before the first toll is collected.

OTTAWA — Canada took the first step Thursday in challenging the United States before the World Trade Organization on its COOL food labeling legislation said to cost Canada hundreds of millions o

European Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton said today she will discuss the long-running Doha round of WTO-sponsored trade talks for the first time with United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk on

Regulator and regulated would take a step closer to partnership if Customs and Border Protection adopts principles endorsed by the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations at its quarterly meeting

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a Web portal that will provide retailers with a central clearinghouse for information regarding environmental sustainability and compliance, the

TransGroup Worldwide Logistics is expanding its North American footprint with the opening of its Nogales, Ariz. logistics center.

National Retail Systems opened a 15-acre distribution center in Compton, Calif., to serve retailers and manufacturers who ship through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Jeffrey A. Rosen, former general counsel and senior policy advisor at the White House Office of Management and Budget, and previously general counsel of the U.S.

Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation hired Todd Hoyt as general manager of its new division, transportation management services.

The global recession and its consequences pushed mobile phone shipments to a sharp decline in the first quarter, according to an industry research firm.

Discount retailer Stein Mart this week began overhauling its nationwide distribution system. APL Logistics is helping to lead the transformation.

Ricardo Martinelli soundly defeated the governing center-left party's candidate in Panama's presidential election Sunday, enhancing the chances that the U.S.-Panama free-trade pact signed in 2007 will

Agility, a Kuwait-based provider of logistics services, announced that net profit before non-recurring items rose to $135 million during the first quarter of 2009, or

The closely-watched Cass Freight Index fell a record 25 percent in April compared to the same month a year ago, and freight spending also dropped at a record pace, throwing a new cloud over hopes that

With substantially lower revenue, distribution facility provider ProLogis earned only slightly less profit in the first quarter, compared with a year ago.

ClearOrbit, a provider of supply chain software, is completing its integration with parent company TAKE Solutions by changing its name to TAKE Supply Chain and introducing an expanded set of products.

As the global recession kept up the pressure on express and mail volumes, Dutch logistics giant TNT saw revenue decline 10.2 percent in the first quarter to $3.3 billion.

Is China serious about its promises to open its domestic market to foreign investors? Last week brought mixed signals from Beijing.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, as well as the American Trucking Associations, claim they got what they wanted in last week’s decision by U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

With European ports reeling from the recession and declining cargo volume, the depth of the downturn has shocked even those inured to the industry’s cyclical swings.

When the NYK Line ship Nebula approached the Port of New York and New Jersey on March 8, the ship had a problem. It was riding too high in the water to pass beneath the Bayonne Bridge.

Importers will be able to file 98 percent of their Customs entry summaries using an upgraded electronic data entry system by the beginning of 2010, the agency says.

A dozen countries that trade with the United States need to upgrade protection of intellectual property, according U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.

A closely-watched manufacturing index jumped 3.8 percentage points in April, its highest level in eight months and a new sign the steep decline in the American economy is easing.

Orders, shipments and inventories of manufactured goods all declined in March, lengthening the downturn to the longest stretch of consecutive monthly decreases since the U.S.

Mexico today began a five-day shutdown of all nonessential government services and business as the country tries to halt the spread of the swine flu virus.

The General Council of the World Trade Organization voted unanimously on Thursday to reappoint Pascal Lamy, the WTO's director-general, for a second four-year term beginning this September 1.

GAC Shipping appointed Clarence Chan as its senior marketing manager, shipping services, for greater China, effective immediately.

A majority of the attendees at The Journal of Commerce's 9th annual Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference don't foresee an economic recovery for at least another year, according to live poll questions ask

Customs and Border Protection is looking at alternative ways of calculating the timeliness of security information that importers are obligated to file before their cargo is loaded aboard ship.

The Mexican government will shut down private business, including factories and transportation operations, for five days starting Friday as the country tries to halt the spread of the swine flu virus.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that Russia intends to oppose "protectionist" policies of the European Union.

Federal Maritime Commissioner Harold J. Creel Jr. announced Wednesday that he would leave the commission at the end of his term on June 30.