Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The Federal Maritime Commission on Feb. 16 will take up the thorny question of exempting non-vessel-operating common carriers from maintaining published tariffs.

Rising prices for imported crude oil caused the U.S. trade deficit in December to increase 5.9 percent from the previous month, the Commerce Department said.

Amazon.com says it will close its distribution center in Irving, Texas, because the state is demanding the Internet retailer pay $269 million in sales taxes.

Looking to cut landed costs, ARCOP announced in November 2010 it had selected Transplace as its 3PL to manage shipments throughout the United States.

The global economic downturn halted, at least for a time, the moves by many companies to manage the movements of goods through supply chains under the principles of total landed costs.

GT Nexus defines landed costs as “the sum of all expenses to purchase, transport and import goods from one place to another, within a country or across continents, including border fees, duties,

Congress may tackle an overhaul of the tangled transportation security credentialing system.

The number of people filing for state unemployment benefits dropped to a two-and-a-half-year low last week, the Labor Department said in a report that indicated the U.S.

Italian authorities are looking for a way of disposing of a container containing radioactive material that has been sitting on the dock at the port of Genoa for more than six months.

DP World opened a new inland container terminal in ceremonies Thursday in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., Wednesday introduced legislation to reduce truck pollution at container ports -- and to make it easier for the Teamsters union to organize harbor truck drivers.

What is being billed as a “common sense” bill to reduce regulatory burdens would remove a congressionally-imposed December 2015 deadline for railroads to deploy positive train control technology on ro

The Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Index, which measures shipment volume in ton-miles, rose 1.5 percent in December from its November level.

An advocacy group for energy security is calling for a national transportation policy that emphasizes market-based incentives to reduce energy consumption.

The Federal Maritime Commission's inquiry into the effects of slow steaming on the maritime marketplace is officially under way. The commission announced the study at its meeting Jan.

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday morning announced the Obama administration's plan to continue construction of a national high-speed and intercity passenger

President Obama on Monday carried forward themes of innovation, education and infrastructure construction to turn the U.S. from a consumer economy to one that’s based on selling goods to the world.

If anyone thought President Obama would tuck his embattled intercity passenger rail program into a bureaucratic corner and see it dry up, the president has a far different message.

ProLogis and AMB Property will combine their business, but what they really need is for the logistics market itself to get bigger

For everyone from truckers to railroads to port operators who wondered when Washington might finally decide to craft new long-term surface transportation legislation, President Obama and the new Congr

With three major truck safety initiatives under way, the Department of Transportation is pursuing an ambitious plan to reshape not only how it enforces compliance with its regulations but also how the

It’s been five years since the Florida Department of Transportation first ventured into private financing for public infrastructure, and it now has nearly $4 billion on the books.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States is accelerating its efforts to get small businesses in the export game, but supporters in industry say the bank needs to make changes to extend its reach.

Let the legislative games begin: Even before federal rail regulators start what is likely to be a long, hard slog to tighten oversight of railroads, all sides are maneuvering to control the debate in

The U.S. and Canada agreed Friday to work more closely together to better focus infrastructure investment needed to speed cross-border trade.

The Surface Transportation Board is delaying until June 22 from May 3 a public hearing on "the current state of competition in the railroad industry," acting on

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says there's a "strong possibility" Congress will send a surface transportation bill to President Obama sooner rather than later.

Cross-border trade, security and energy will top the agenda Friday when President Barack Obama meets Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The Department of Transportation could lose some $4 billion in discretionary spending after House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., on Thursday instructed subcommittees to cut $74 b

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 9 percent last month but January snowstorms produced the smallest increase in jobs in four months.

U.S. Steel appointed Malisa J. Sommers managing director of transportation and president of Transtar, the company’s transportation subsidiary, effective Feb. 1.

Major U.S. retailers reported above-expected January sales, despite bad weather in much of the country and continuing concerns about high unemployment and a slow economic recovery.

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Trade between the United States and India jumped 31 percent year-over-year in the first 11 months of 2010, driven largely by increased imports from India.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States is ready with financing and support for U.S.

The Environmental Protection Agency will review whether a waiver applies to rules set by the California Air Resources Board on cargo handling equipment

Jacobson Companies, a global 3PL headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, is expanding into Europe with the help of a strategic partnership with Rhenus Logistics, a $3.7 billion logistics service provider b

The federally subsidized Build America Bonds that states, cities and agencies could issue under the 2009 economic stimulus package, generated sales totaling $181.3 billion before their bond program ex

The value of U.S. trade using surface transportation to and from Canada and Mexico was 15.5 percent higher in November than a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported Tuesday.

Manufacturing activity in January reached its highest level since May 2004 and posted its 18th consecutive year-to-year increase, the Institute of Supply Management reported.