Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Suddenly, infrastructure spending is catching fire as a national political issue.

The proposed two-year $339 billion surface transportation bill received the unanimous support of witnesses of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood repeated his warning that 4,000 Federal Aviation Administration employees will be furloughed Friday night if the U.S.

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The federal government is gearing up for another round of TIGER funding for transportation projects, and the emphasis thi

The Obama administration and Senate Democrats say Republicans’ attempt to cut rural air service subsidies is risking a Federal Aviation Administration shutdown, jeopardizing thousands of public

The start date for testing ocean and rail manifest systems of Automated Commercial Environment is pushed back to Aug. 1 or later, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.

Duisburg, the world’s largest inland port, boosted first half 2011 container traffic by 10 p

Dick Steinke helped to build Long Beach into the nation’s second largest container port during his 14 years as executive director, but one of his proudest moments came in 2003 when he and his st

The U.S. Commerce Department is proposing to make it easier for companies to export military parts with low or no sensitivity to NATO partners and other American allies.

The American Association of Port Authorities will work with the Department of Commerce to help small and medium-sized businesses export goods to overseas markets, part of President Obama’s goal

Former Massachusetts governor and presidential canidate Michael Dukakis said to invest in the future spending on infrastructure is key — even if requires increasing the fuel tax during the

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The second quarter’s slow growth was disappointing, but the U.S.

Debate over a proposal to reduce a U.S. program that subsidizes rural air service is the latest battleground in Capitol Hill’s partisan warfare.

The European Union’s plan to slash ships’ sulfur dioxide emissions will likely result in

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Kuehne + Nagel said economic uncertainty made it impossible to forecast the rest of the year even as the worl

The Teamsters union and environmental groups are taking a new tack in their long, so far unrewarding campaign to organize port container haulers.

John Mica has a plan for surface transportation.

Its wounds still fresh from an earlier-than-expected exit from this month’s women’s World Cup soccer tournament, Brazil faces a quick turnaround when Rio de Janeiro hosts the men’s v

When the first Mexican truck in a new cross-border trucking pilot project rolls into the U.S., it will bring an end to punitive Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods.

In laying a formal petition before federal regulators, heavy freight rail shippers at the National Industrial Transportation League hope to crack open an iron grip major railroads hold on many facilit

U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., said the U.S.

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U.S. consumer sentiment fell this month to its lowest level since March 2009, reflecting depressed income and low employment levels, a widely watched survey reported.

Maersk Line, Ltd., won a multi-year contract valued at up to $126 million to operate and maintain five container and roll-on, roll-off ships for the U.S. Navy.

U.S manufacturing activity was flat in June, the Federal Reserve said, although utility and mining output pushed overall indust

Semiconductor manufacturers are raising their projections for industry shipments in 2011, forecasting sales will grow 5.4 percent over l

Lawmakers will have to cut through a knot of "confusing, contradictory" rules to establish effective regulations co

Damco, the logistics arm of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, will manage Marks & Spencer’s mainland China hub operation, as the British retail giant diverts cargo from its U.K.

European Union competition regulators launched an investigation into public loans to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport

Retail sales rose 0.1 percent in June as a rise in spending at automobile dealerships and chain stores offset a drop in gasoline prices, the Commerce Department said.

An index of manufacturing activity grew more slowly during the last three months but indicated expansion for the seventh consecutive quarter.

E-commerce giant eBay and consumer products manufacturer Newell Rubbermaid are taking ownership stakes in Shipwire, giving the shippers strong roles in the management of the growing outsourced distrib

Freight carried by for-hire transportation carriers declined 1.8 percent in May from April to its lowest level since November, the Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Ind

The Department of Transportation’s payments to states for infrastructure work funded by the 2009 stimulus law reached $29.6 billion by the end of June, with thousands more road and rail construc