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China Shipping Container Lines, the world’s 6th largest ocean container shipping company, selected GT Nexus as its preferred industry portal for e-commerce services.

The Government Accountability Office took the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration to task for failing to coordinate efforts

The Government Accountability Office is recommending that the Department of Transportation should modify the way it analyzes the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund to avoid the kind of shortfall that

The cities of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and Memphis, Tenn., signed an agreement to pursue ways to build stringer cargo connections.

Congress passed a huge $409.6 billion omnibus appropriations bill March 10 with a final vote in the Senate of 62-35.

Revenue for Descartes Systems Group in its fourth quarter was not only lower than in the previous year but also lower than the amount of tax credit, which kept the on-demand software-as-a-service prov

The Consumer Product Safety Commission published a final rule outlining the steps importers and manufacturers must take to exempt materials from the lead-content portions of the Consumer Product Safet

Freight transportation services declined in January for the third consecutive month, pulling the Department of Transportation’s index to its lowest level in more than five years.

Federal regulators cleared the way for Norfolk Southern Railway and northeastern short lines operator Pan Am Railways to launch a New England joint venture railroad.

Brian Lutt, president APL Logistics, resigned to pursue an opportunity outside the company, its parent, Neptune Orient Lines announced today.

The National Association of Manufacturers and the Precision Metalforming Association both called on Congress Tuesday to oppose the Employee Free Choice

Legislation that would exempt domestic maritime shipments from the Harbor Maintenance Tax is now on file in both houses of Congress.

Retail giant Costco Wholesale sent a signal of confidence in Japan’s slumping economy this week with the announcement that it will lease a 300,000-square-foot distribution center near Tokyo from

The global outsourced logistics industry will reach an estimated $648.57 billion by 2014, according to a report from Frost & Sullivan.

Ron Kirk, President Obama's nominee for U.S.

The Transportation Security Administration has passed the 1 million milestone in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program.

Exports of construction equipment from the United States increased 20 percent in 2008 for a total of more than $20.7 billion, according to an industry report.

Railroads felt left out of the massive stimulus bill that Congress and the Obama administration negotiated.

London -- The head of Royal Mail accused rival TNT Express, front runner to buy a stake in the UK mail company, of trying to poach its logistics customers ahead of a planned privatization.

The global economy will shrink this year for the first time since World War II, the World Bank said Sunday, making it harder for poor and developing nations to access needed financing.

A Chinese subsidiary of Japan's Yusen Air & Sea Service opened a bonded warehouse at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China to improve local logistics services, the company said.

RedPrairie, a company that provides supply chain optimization technology, enjoyed the twentieth consecutive year of growth in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 2008.

There’s another stimulus plan under way in Louisiana and Mississippi, where two new federal efforts are trying to help New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast recover from the powerful 200

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Kuehne + Nagel said Monday it will take over J. Martens Holding, a Norwegian logistics provider to the oil and gas industry.

A leading freight transportation analyst warned March 9 he is cutting his volume and earnings estimates under a “deep recession, no recovery” U.S. forecast for all of 2009.

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Railroads felt left out of the massive stimulus bill that Congress and the Obama administration negotiated.

Change is coming to the Department of Homeland Security, and it doesn’t necessarily begin with security.

Customs and Border Protection will begin the second phase of testing for the entry summary, accounts and revenue (ESAR) of the Automated Commercial Environment.

Customs and Border Protection is not able to measure the effectiveness of efforts to increase revenue collection because it lacks information from two key programs, according to a report by the Depart

In still another gloomy economic report, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said Friday that its composite leading indicators for January 2009 point to a weakening outlook for

Canada, the U.S.' largest trading partner, could be headed for a free-trade agreement with the European Union.

Parcel carrying giant FedEx is bitterly complaining after the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a bill March 5 that could make it easier for unions to organize its drivers.

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The recession dragged shipments and new orders for manufactured goods down for a record sixth consecutive month in January, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill March 5 to repeal limited antitrust exemptions for U.S.

Suppliers of major global companies need to increase their awareness of the regulatory, physical and general risks that climate change poses to their business, according to the 2008 CDP Supply Chain R

Senator Charles Grassley, R.-Iowa, said March 5 that he has written a letter to President Barack Obama in an effort to clarify the president's intentions regarding the North American Free Trade Agreem