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The Department of Transportation is “well-positioned” to complete contract talks to launch slow-moving plans for passenger rail construction projects, and none of the 13 targeted projects are in dange

The nation's former top truck safety watchdog is turning to the law -- not as an enforcer but a practitioner.

The freight sector is getting big pieces of the Department of Transportation's 2010 grant fund it calls "TIGER II."

A Somali national who pleaded guilty to piracy charges still awaits sentencing after postponement of a hearing in New York Tuesday.

Commercial warehousing revenue in the U.S. will total $50 billion this year, exceeding pre-recession levels, according to a new report by Armstrong & Associates.

Retailers that survived the Great Recession by cutting costs now see their supply chains as vehicles for growth as well as savings, according to a survey of 175 supply chain managers.

The lone Republican on the Surface Transportation Board, which regulates most types of economic issues involving railroads and their shippers, said he will not seek reappointment after his term ends D

Home construction, a key source of freight transportation volume, rose slightly last month but remained weak amid high unemployment, tight credit and weak prices.

Steel exports increased 6.8 percent in August from July because of higher sales to Canada and Mexico, the largest buyers of U.S.-made steel, Commerce Department data show.

U.S. industrial production fell in September for the first time since June 2009, the Federal Reserve said in a report that could indicate slowing transportation volume in the months ahead.

The Transportation and Energy departments are embroiled in a dispute over the interpretation of the Cargo Preference Act, the 1954 law that gives U.S.-flag operators priority for transporting governme

Just after the clock strikes midnight on the night of Dec. 31, 2012, almost every ship entering the Port of New York and New Jersey, the St. Lawrence Seaway or transiting U.S.

In its push to restructure rail freight shipping in the United States, Washington’s political engine can’t decide what that structure should be.

Mexico will no longer accept a U.S. pilot program as a way of allowing Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S., a senior Mexican diplomat said Friday.

Inventories at U.S. businesses rose in August for the eighth straight month and grew faster than business sales, the Commerce Department said.

After 14 years of drilling, Swiss engineers Oct.

High demand and rising prices for ultra low-sulfur distillates used in truck diesel fuel are signs of a recovering economy, the American Petroleum Institute said.

Manufacturing activity in New York State accelerated in October as orders and hiring improved while backlogs and inventories shrank, according to a monthly Federal Reserve survey.

Retail sales rose in September for the third straight month as higher sales by auto, electronics and appliance retailers, building material stores and online retailers offset weakness in clothing and

A bill that would eliminate antitrust immunity from ocean carriers is not a “sound proposal” and would cause more volatility in rates and make trading with the U.S.

For-hire transportation carriers in the U.S. domestic market handled 0.6 percent less volume in ton-miles in August than in July, the Transportation Department said.

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Peak-season imports of holiday merchandise showed up in an 8.8 percent increase in the U.S. trade deficit during August, the Commerce Department said.

The Los Angeles City Council approved the nomination of former International Longshore and Warehouse Union President David Arian for the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners.

Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke said he expects sales at U.S.

Customs and Border Protection said 80 percent of importer filings comply with the Importer Security Filing, or 10+2 rule, since enforcement began in January.

Clean-air regulations affecting heavy-duty trucks and 53-foot trailers in California will continue in force no matter what happens in the Nov.

The trade group that represents transportation executives for state governments cheered President Obama's plan to seek $50 billion in new spending for transport infrastructure before the end of this y

Consumer caution, high unemployment and slow growth in household wealth will slow U.S. economic growth through next year, according to a survey by the National Association of Business Economics.

President Obama called Monday for sweeping investment in infrastructure, putting new urgency to his pledge of more funding and jobs through a broad national plan for transportation.

Senior air cargo executives have identified pharmaceuticals, perishables and temperature-controlled cargoes as a niche where they can add value and turn a realistic profit.

Due diligence is a term U.S. regulatory agencies use frequently to describe compliance practices that corporations must have in place when engaging in global trade.

When seeking to attract cargo and carriers to Long Beach, port executives will subtly imply that unlike the neighboring Port of Los Angeles, the Port of Long Beach is relatively free from meddling by

For all the talk about how to pay for infrastructure improvements — and there’s been a lot of it — there’s been little discussion about what potential investors need: a return

In January 2002, then-Customs Commissioner Robert C. Bonner held up a padlock-like device to an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

PRODUCE MARKETING ASSOCIATION: It is an upbeat time. Economies are strengthening, and I think there is a great deal of optimism in the market.

In WTO Rulings, It’s China, 2; US, 0

Already focused on what they might get in the next few months, transportation policy groups and Washington officials are pausing to give the infrastructure stimulus program some heartfelt applause.

Food safety legislation will await lawmakers in November when they return to Capitol Hill for a lame-duck session of Congress after midterm elections.

It’s impossible to read the Obama administration’s latest take on freight transportation policy without seeing its clear aim: to put a bigger share of containers and trailers on trains, ge