Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The prospect of a new publicly-owned bridge linking Canada and the U.S. across the Detroit River is brighter this week with an endorsement from Michigan’s new governor.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, signaling new Obama administration resolve to get a national transportation spending plan, says he expects a long-delayed bill to be approved this year.

Wal-Mart Stores will use its global transportation and logistics leverage to cut fruit and vegetable prices by $1 billion, the nation's largest grocer said Thursday.

The House Republican Study Committee wants to zero out President Obama's grants program that gives states seed money to develop inter-city passenger rail service and to wipe out annual subsidies as we

President Obama should take an “active and aggressive” leadership role to push Congress toward passing a comprehensive transportation spending plan, the American Association of Road and Tr

RedPrairie, a productivity software provider, completed the acquisition of Shippers Commonwealth, a software-as-a-service TMS and collaborative transportation software provider.

The Eno Transportation Foundation appointed Joshua L. Schank president and chief executive officer and promoted Barbara Gannon to executive vice president.

Mark McCallister, former director of strategic planning and engineering with Starbucks Coffee, joined Tompkins Associates, a

The roster of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for the 112th Congress is now complete as Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., on Thursday named subcommittee chairs, and Rep.

Several current and former International Longshoremen's Association officials were among 18 waterfront figures charged as part of a federal crackdown that U.S.

Transport Corporation of India boosted overall revenue 16.5 percent year-over-year in the third quarter ending Dec. 31, but net income remained flat as operating expenses surged.

U.S. steel exports posted a month-to-month increase of 2.2 percent in November despite a decline in shipments to the largest U.S. export markets, Canada and Mexico.

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials is tapping into social media to build support for more funding of transport projects, by urging Facebook and YouTube users to tel

President Obama and President Hu Jintao of China, opening a state visit in Washington amid growing complaints from U.S.

Recent deals with China linked to this week's Washington visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao wi

President Obama ordered federal agencies to come up with plans in the next four months to review regulations already on the books and to develop science-based rules that promote "economic growth, inno

The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority is slashing its request for a federal rail program loan to $83.7 million from an earlier $553 million, in a bid to lock in the federal credit to help rest

Michigan is trashing one type of cross-border trucking — the hauling of waste from Toronto and other Canadian cities to the Great Lake State.

The theft of cargo while in transit rose by 4.1 percent to record levels in 2010, according to the 2010 Annual Cargo Theft report released Tuesday by logistics security firm FreightWatch Internationa

Trade groups are launching a new effort to get Congress to repeal ocean carriers’ immunity to antitrust laws.

Swiss logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel acquired three South American companies, expanding its perishables transportation and logistics network.

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, moved a step closer to entering Africa as a 51 percent shareholder of a large South African chain.

As the new chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., wants to get more bang from limited bucks in surface transportation programs.

Few events signaled a logistics recovery as loudly as last year’s $512.6 million acquisition of ATC Technology by GENCO Supply Chain Solutions.

This could be a breakthrough year for trade liberalization in the Asia-Pacific region. The first step is the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, which would boost U.S.

The greening of the freight transportation industry will take another big step this year, but years of preparation will limit disruption as carriers transition to cleaner ships, trucks and locomotives

House Republicans are wasting no time asserting their new majority on transportation programs.

The penchant of environmental regulators to set goals calling for the use of technology not fully developed is raising alarms for the transportation industry.

It may be months before truckers know how many hours they’ll be allowed to drive under new federal work rules, but they almost certainly will have less time to accomplish the work they now do an

Rising gasoline prices and high unemployment caused a widely watched index of U.S. consumer confidence to weaken in January.

Output at U.S. factories, mines and utilities rose a faster-than-expected 0.8 percent in December, the sharpest increase in five months, the Federal Reserve said.

U.S. retail sales rose for the sixth consecutive month in December, capping a year in which sales grew at the fastest rate since 1999, the Commerce Department said.

The presidential commission that investigated the Deepwater Horizon disaster said the Jones Act did not prevent

ProLogis plans $800 million to $1 billion in new development this year in Asia, Europe and North America, the industrial real estate giant said Tuesday.

The new chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, signaling domestic transport goals similar to those of the Obama administration, says he wants to advance several initiatives

The U.S. manufacturing outlook remains healthy despite indications of slowing expansion, a quarterly survey of 62 manufacturers said.

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Borders will close its Nashville, Tenn., distribution center and scale back its supply chain as the bookstore chain struggles with declining sales in a market buffeted by digital book sales and e-comm

The nation’s economy steadily improved in December, and business contacts expressed a modestly optimistic outlook for 2011 in a survey released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve.

The Transportation Department's Freight Transportation Services Index, which measures monthly change in ton-miles, fell 0.3 percent in November from October to 98.5, the lowest level of any November s