Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The world trade outlook is improving significantly for 2010 and 2011, according to the International Monetary Fund.

The Maritime Administration this week hired consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers to gather for the first time critical data to provide the government and the industry a better picture of the cost differe

Nonfarm payroll employment edged down a net 95,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

Container terminal operators spend millions of dollars on sophisticated cargo-handling equipment, but at the end of the day, it’s the capture and transmission of data that moves the cargo.

The Department of Homeland Security inspector general's office completed an audit of air cargo screening at selected airports, but it said in a report Thursday the results and recommendations are clas

Retailers say back-to-school purchases contributed to higher September sales, a positive sign for freight transportation and for retailers approaching the holiday selling season.

DB Schenker completed the integration of the recently acquired Masped units with Hungarocargo and Romtrans Hungaria into Schenker Kft.

Customs and Border Protection may not revoke a broker's entry filer code without providing some form of due process, the U.S.

Retailers expect holiday sales to increase a modest 2.3 percent this year, down from the 10-year average of 2.5 percent but well above last year's tepid 0.4 percent, the National Retail Federation sai

Reimbursements to states for stimulus work authorized by the Department of Transportation reached $20.08 billion as of Sept.

U.S.

DB Schenker, the German global logistics and forwarding group, merged its rail and logistics automotive units into a single company to offer one stop integrated transport of components and finished ve

Factory orders rose 0.9 percent in August, excluding the volatile transportation category for aircraft and autos, the Commerce Department said in a report that indicates manufacturing continues to exp

The American Trucking Associations endorsed legislation for a Goods Movement Trust Fund financed by a 12-cent-a-gallon increase in diesel fuel taxes and is encouraging Congress to pass a similar gasol

Contracts to purchase existing homes rose in August for the second straight month, the National Association of Realtors said in a report that showed gradual improvement in a sector crucial to freight

A new index developed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce confirms what the freight transportation community has been railing at for years: U.S.

Ports, ocean carriers and railroads compete fiercely for market share, but most shippers base their decisions on how to build distribution networks and route freight on one very basic number: the one

When nearly a dozen multinational corporations, mainland Chinese companies and Taiwanese firms operating in China, met last month in Taiwan, it wasn’t a typical business gathering.

President Obama’s push for more and faster intercity passenger rail service has come up hard against the needs of freight railroads that control most of the tracks.

Few new industries have attracted as much attention in recent years as wind energy, a business that could bring big shipping business through Gulf Coast ports.

Domenic Veneziano wants to change the way the Food and Drug Administration inspects products and enforces importer compliance. All he needs is a law to give him the authority to do so.

The National Industrial Transportation League on Friday threw its support to the Shipping Act of 20

A $20.2 million federal stimulus grant will allow construction on a final piece of a six-lane highway interchange near the Otay Mesa port of entry close to San Diego, California’s largest freight bord

The Cass Freight Index for U.S. shipping reached its highest point in more than two years in September, growing 1.9 percent over the month before, Cass Information Systems announced Friday.

A freight transportation bill filed Thursday calls for a Goods Movement Trust Fund financed by a hike in diesel fuel taxes, but leaves open the possibility of other forms of revenue.

The Department of Transportation served notice this week that it will increasingly tie a low-interest loan account for railroad track improvements to a broad array of Obama administration policy goals

The Department of Transportation in a new report underlined the importance of enhancing and guarding freight rail while developing a national passenger rail system, but the agency left out any mention

U.S. manufacturing grew at the slowest pace in 10 months in September as inventories rose, signaling slower growth in production and freight shipments.

U.S.

The Department of Transportation unveiled a group of stimulus grants to spur states to develop inter-city passenger rail corridors, as federal officials try to get a high-priority program moving.

John M. Cullather, one of the most respected maritime experts on Capitol Hill, will retire at the end of the 111th Congress, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James L.

The value of trade moving by surface transportation between the U.S.

First-claims for unemployment benefits edged downward last week, the government said in a report with positive implications for freight transportation, while the estimate of second quarter economic gr

The Department of Transportation is using the last of its transit grants under the economic stimulus law to build wind turbines to power three bus buildings in Lafayette, Ind., and linking several adm

Customs and Border Protection announced Wednesday it was formally ending its effort to reinterpret the “first sale” rule for placing value on imported products.

Small U.S.

Slowing orders from shippers this fall, particularly for Asia-to-Europe goods, are signaling a “very, very weak” peak shipping season, according to global supply chain operator CEVA Logistics.

Customs brokers will play a key role in getting small and medium sized businesses into a Customs and Border Protection account management system, Commissioner Alan Bersin told members of the National

Japan's trade surplus with the rest of the world narrowed for the first time in 15 months in August as imports grew faster than exports, according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Minist