Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Nearly three-fourths of rail shippers want Congress to pass a regulatory reform bill, according to a Wall Street analyst’s survey, and many shippers say they might consider filing their own chal

Any trucking industry appeal of a ruling for the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan will hinge on whether a court believes the country’s largest port is run not only by a government agency bu

In the first progress report on its ambitious National Export Initiative, the Obama administration rapped a solid base hit, but business leaders are looking for home runs.

The recovery in industrial real estate is like a building only half completed: The framework for improved business is there, but no one is ready to declare the job done.

The Port of Los Angeles’ timetable for implementing the employee-driver concession requirement in its clean-trucks plan starts next year, but the harbor trucking industry in Southern California

That loud buzz you heard from Washington was the shipping community stirring over the prospects of a bill that would all but abolish ocean carriers’ antitrust immunity.

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Canada’s ports and inland road and rail networks operate under a very different regime from those in the United States.

A stimulus-type grant fund of $600 million at the Department of Transportation has drawn nearly 1,000 applications from states totaling $19 billion in aid requests.

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The Department of Transportation’s push to complete infrastructure stimulus projects led it to pay out $6 billion over the summer to reimburse states for completed work, nearly a third of the amount t

A private research group’s index of U.S. leading indicators rose in August more than forecast, suggesting a continued slow expansion of the economy.

DB Schenker Logistics expanded its network in southeastern Europe with the opening of a logistics center in Pardubice, near Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic.

An Indianapolis holding company says it will keep the chairman of OIA Global Logistics in place after buying a majority stake in the company, but LDI named a new CEO to run the business.

The Federal Maritime Commission Bureau of Trade Analysis is preparing a list of questions for shippers, carriers and intermediaries in connection with its study of the effect of removing European carr

Greek lawmakers Wednesday voted to reform the nation's protected trucking industry as striking drivers clashed with police and blocked key highways on the tenth day of a nationwide walkout.

Panalpina hired executives from rivals Kuehne + Nagel and DHL to head up its core ocean and air freight divisions and brought in a former Timex Group supply chain executive to run its logistics arm.

The Retail Industry Leaders Association is remaining neutral “at this point in time” in a congress

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday will introduce what it calls an important new tool to gauge the effectiveness of transportation infrastructure.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Tuesday he will be working on a bill to create a national infrastructure bank that should be ready by the time the 112th Congress convenes in January 2011.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he is initiating a new regulatory process to ban texting and limit use of mobile devices by commercial truck drivers while hauling hazardous materials.

The Greek parliament will vote on controversial plans to deregulate road transport Tuesday as a nationwide truck drivers' protest strike entered its second week.

Home construction jumped 10.5 percent in August from the previous month but the housing market sent more tepid signals to the shipping world since the increase came mainly from apartments and condomin

Customs and Border Protection has not clearly defined the purpose of its Importer Self Assessment, the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General said on Monday.

The National Bureau of Economic Research says the recession that began in December 2007 ended 18 months later in June 2009, making it the longest post-World War II downturn.

A draft bill by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee would severely control ocean carriers' actions in the marketplace. Its limits would abolish nearly all antitrust immunity.

President Obama late Friday nominated Long Beach Harbor Commissioner Mario Cordero to the Federal Maritime Commission.

Rick Blasgen knows logistics.

President Obama’s Labor Day speech was a call to action to build and refurbish transportation infrastructure on “roads, rails and runways.” Water transportation was conspicuous by it

The shipping surge that benefited many truckers in the second quarter also boosted third-party logistics companies and freight brokers, raising the total dollars they billed 13 percent over the same q

One of the most common supply chain inquiries we receive at AMR Research is the request for benchmarking data.

President Obama’s bid to overhaul long-term transportation policy, and jump-start the plan with a $50 billion infusion of funds, already accomplished one goal: It’s quickly driving the pol

The Federal Maritime Commission’s decision this summer to extend to the end of the peak shipping season its high-profile fact-finding investigation of container shipping capacity and equipment s

The transportation and logistics companies that made the Inc. 5000 list this year are mostly young and comparatively small, but they’re growing very, very fast.

This fall’s annual edition of the JOC e-logistics directory includes profiles of 60 providers of logistics and supply chain products and services.

Consumer sentiment slipped in early September to its weakest level in more than a year because of rising financial concerns among higher-income households, a new survey indicates.

The UK Office of Fair Trading raided the offices of a truck manufacturer in Britain Thursday and arrested at least one executive in a price-fixing investigation.

The federal government will step up its efforts to help U.S. exporters sell goods abroad, the White House said Thursday.