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Prologis, the world’s largest industrial property developer, said Monday it has signed four new lease agreements with third-party logistics providers totaling about 723,000 square feet of distri

President Obama is keeping his message about improving the nation’s transportation infrastructure front-and-center, using debate on the federal budget deficit to say a debt deal with Congress co

Major railroads are warning customers that shipment delays, detours and track outages from the flooding Missouri River could last weeks longer, suggesting the river will have disrupted

Congressional committees moved three long-stalled free trade agreements closer to ratification as members held a “mock markups” for implementing the bills Thursday.

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Democrats wasted no time Thursday in denouncing House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jo

House Republicans on Thursday unveiled a $210 billion, six-year surface transportation bill they said could be leveraged to $450 billion, setting up a showdown with highway advocates and Democrats who

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The regulator of economic disputes between railroads and their freight shippers has slashed its filing fee structure, meaning rail customers can file a major challenge to freight rates for $350 instea

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Japan’s exports of agricultural, fishery and forestry products fell for the second straight month in May on a year-over-year basis, plunging 16.6 percent to 30.6 billion yen ($382.5 million), ac

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., on Thursday will try again to bridge a partisan gap in a push to develop legislation that would implement critical and controversial free trade a

Third-party logistics provider Echo Global Logistics expanded in the Southwest by acquiring Advantage Transport, a non-asset truck brokerage firm in Phoenix.

A long-awaited transportation bill will make its debut Thursday when the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee releases a "responsible, multimodal" spending plan likely to c

U.S. service industries expanded for the 19th straight month in June but growth slowed from May, the Institute for Supply Management said.

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Factory orders by U.S. businesses grew 0.8 percent in May, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a report that suggests improving confidence in the economy following a slowdown in the spring.

The industrial commodities sector that fuels factory production is sending worrisome signs to a global shipping business concerned with whether the economy is passing through a proverbial soft patch o

Customs and Border Protection is short-handed.

There’s an odd disconnect in Washington these days — even odder than usual — on how, and how much, to invest in transportation infrastructure.

Exporting companies are starting to see the fruits of the Obama administration’s effort to streamline and modernize the outdated export control system.

Manufacturing growth in the United States accelerated in June for the first time in five months, according to the Institute of Supply Management’s PMI report, bolstering hopes that a spring slow

The Gartner research group raised its projection for global IT spending this year, saying the industry is absorbing the impact of Japan’s natural disasters and now will grow 7.1 percent in 2011.

The Department of Transportation on Thursday announced a slightly scaled-down version of its popular TIGER transportation infrastructure grant program for 2011.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is adopting a five-year strategic plan that looks beyond truck and bus companies to include shippers and brokers in attempts to improve highway safety.&

Mexico may increase the $2.4 billion in punitive tariffs it places on select U.S. goods if the Obama administration fails to implement a cross-border trucking program.

Japan’s slumping exports to the rest of the world have begun to show clear signs of recovery for the first time since the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit the northeastern part of the cou

The Amtrak passenger system is borrowing $562.9 million in the largest-ever credit issued by a federal rail loan program to buy 70 locomotives for two high-density traffic corridors in the Northeast.<

Business groups rushed to praise new efforts to approve long-stalled free trade agreements with

Opponents of a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico fear it will draw thousands of Mexican truckers into the U.S., threatening American jobs.

Christopher J. Connor has been named chief commercial officer for the global organization of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, and Raymond F. Fitzgerald has been named president of WWL Americas.

The Maritime Administration and Customs and Border Protection are offering 48-hour expedited processing of Jones Act waivers for parties that purchase oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has made $5 million available to North Dakota in quick-release road repair funds, while President Obama&rsquo;s disaster declarations for several states means they

Two years ago the U.S. adopted international standards for regulating exhaust emissions from ships.

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Japanese export ship orders fell in May for the first time in 18 months on a year-on-year basis, sliding 41 percent to 551,270 tons, according the Japan Ship Exporters Association.

Global demand for softwood number jumped 18 percent last year after plunging to a 50-year low in 2009, and lumber prices in North America, Asia and Europe are at 10-month highs, Wood Resource Quarterl

Federal truck safety penalties against motor carriers jumped 23 percent in 2010, according to data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Canada Post ended its 12-day lockout this weekend, sending thousands of Canadian postal service mail sorters back to work Monday to prepare for mail delivery Tuesday.

Consumer spending was flat last month and dropped 0.1 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars, the Commerce Department said in a report indicating high gasoline prices and unemployment levels are slowin