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The Federal Maritime Commission will discuss four disputes among shippers and carriers during its meeting April 8, the commission announced.

The Obama administration is moving quickly to head off a trade war with Mexico over allowing Mexican truckers access to the United States.

The Surface Transportation Board may be on a path toward big changes in the way it oversees railroad rates and service.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association wants a federal court to rule on the legality of the Bush administration’s crossborder trucking project with Mexico.

The United States is committed to concluding the long-delayed Doha Round of world trade talks, said Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization.

The National Association of Manufacturers this week joined a rally on Capitol Hill to urge Congress to make changes in the Consumer Product Safety Commission Improvement Act.

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Revenue for third-party logistics providers dropped by 6.7 percent during the first quarter of 2009 compared with the first quarter of last year, according to a survey by Armstrong & Associates.

Stimulus spending by the Canadian federal government is hurrying along the upgrading of the Canadian half of the second busiest Canada-United States commercial border crossing.

Discussions among congressional staff, rail customers and railroads to craft new competition rules for that industry “are moving along nicely,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.

Victor M. Mendez, who directed the Arizona Department of Transportation under two governors, is President Obama’s choice to head the Federal Highway Administration.

Global freight forwarder MOL Logistics selected Descartes' Global Logistics Network to help it comply with the United States Customs and Border Protection's new Importer Security Filing "10+2&quo

Meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 economic crisis in London, President Barack Obama told South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Thursday that he wants to make progress in completing the long-delay

The Southern Shrimp Alliance gave a mixed review to the decision of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, effective April 1, to terminate its enhanced bonding requirement on all shrimp imports.

Oil prices lower than $75 a barrel discourage producers from investing in the large-scale projects that ensure an adequate future supply, said OPEC members and industry executives attending a Paris co

A key measure of industrial shipping in the United States showed shipments declined 22 percent in March from the same month a year ago, suggesting retailers and manufacturers were retrenching still mo

European Union transport ministers backed an "open skies" aviation pact with Canada that will deregulate cargo and passenger services across the Atlantic.

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Manhattan Associates said its licensing revenue from supply chain management software tumbled an estimated 75 percent in the first quarter.

New orders for manufactured durable goods increased in February for the first time in six months, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau on April 2.

The union representing train engineers is flatly opposing a proposed law to strip the big freight rail lines of their limited antitrust immunity, and urging key lawmakers to meet with shippers and car

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is expected to sign a bill April 1 that would raise the state speed limit for trucks on state highways from 55 mph to 65 mph.

Oklahoma State University is taking alternative fuels back to school.

Workers in Alabama — including transportation workers — may soon be able to bring guns to work, as long as they store them in locked vehicles.

Representatives of large trucking companies and small independent operators are shifting into high gear in the battle over truck size and weight limits on Capitol Hill.

London -- The International Chamber of Commerce urged the leaders of the G-20 countries to take steps to restore trade finance to normal levels following a collapse amid the deepening global financial

The Superior Court of Washington for King County ruled FedEx Ground pick up and delivery drivers are independent contractors and not legally full-time employees.

Scores of airport runway projects estimated at nearly $1 billion have received initial clearance by the Federal Aviation Administration so local officials can put their construction plans out to bid.<

Schenker Deutschland appointed Dr. Michael Kluger member of the management board for contract logistics.

Canada has paid the United States $37 million after an international tribunal found it had breached the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement between them.

In the fourth quarter of 2008, 41 of the 50 U.S. states experienced declines in personal income, largely as a result of falling wage disbursements, said a report by U.S.

Cargotec won its first commercial contract for a Cargotec Port Security spreader-mounted radiation detection system.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the appointment of disaster recovery veteran Janet L.

Responding to a proposal to designate specific coastal water areas as an Emission Control Areas, the American Association of Port Authorities on Monday praised the U.S.

The Transportation Security Administration needs to dig deeper to find out how protected the nation&rsquo;s trucks are against a terrorist attack, according to the U.S.

Germany, Europe's largest economy, needs to accelerate its fiscal stimulus measures because of the severity of the recession facing Europe, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development s

Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, proposed the creation of a $50 billion global trade liquidity program on Tuesday, March 31, to be considered by the World Bank board this week.

Evergreen Group founder Chang Yung-fa said Tuesday that Evergreen Marine, his group's container shipping line, will reregister a number of its ships back under the Singapore flag after having pulled t

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico took its steepest dive ever in January to the lowest monthly dollar