Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Freight costs on shipments from India will go up substantially effective Oct. 1 following a tariff increase decision by state-owned rail operator Container Corporation of India.

A failure to communicate between two Department of Homeland Security agencies on advanced supply chain security technology was a factor in the waste of $2 billion in taxpayers' money, members of the S

The International Chamber of Commerce launched the latest revision of its internationally-recognized trade terms Incoterms 2010.

More than 30 shipper groups pledged their support to Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., if he moves forward with legislation to abolish antitrust immunity for ocean carriers.

U.S. industrial production growth slowed to 0.2 percent in August as automakers cut back on production following an unusually strong July, Federal Reserve data show.

Marc Althen will become president of Penske Logistics, succeeding Vincent Hartnett, who will retire in January after 38 years with the Penske organization.

DB Schenker Logistics is investing $87.5 million on the construction of a multi-modal hub and corporate office near Helsinki airport in Finland.

Supply chain management company CEVA Logistics appointed Dominik Tichelkamp global head of CEVA’s growing ocean freight business.

The Washington State Department of Transportation will be able to launch 21 additional infrastructure projects because of savings the stat

U.S. business inventories rose 1 percent during July, the seventh consecutive monthly increase and the largest in two years, the Commerce Department reported.

The nation's largest retail group said aggressive back-to-school promotions and state tax holidays helped fuel the str

Retail sales rose 0.4 percent in August, the largest month-to-month increase in five months, the Commerce Department said in a report interpreted as a sign the economy is wobbly but regaining momentum

U.S. steel exports fell 14.4 percent in July from June but exceeded the depressed levels of 2009.

As Commodity Forwarders prepared for the final deadline in tough new rules for screening shipments that move on passenger aircraft, the specialist in perishables shipping faced a problem it had not fo

Brazil doesn’t have a good road network.

MIQ Logistics understands the perils of being the biggest player in any particular market.

Wall Street might be bearish on the economy, but truckers are bullish on Wall Street.

President Obama’s new economic initiatives include not only a blueprint for revamping U.S.

With a $50 billion startup infrastructure proposal and a pledge to reform the way Washington sets transportation spending policy, President Obama offered his vision of the next six-year infrastructure

Procter & Gamble started work this week on a China distribution center the consumer products giant said would be the largest in Asia and an anchor of P&G’s goal to expand domestic and international di

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The UK government Friday said it will press ahead with the privatization of Royal Mail after a report said the com

The U.S. goods and services deficit fell 14 percent from $49.8 billion in June, revised, to $42.8 billion, according to a report Thursday from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S.

U.S. freight shipments increased slightly in July for the second consecutive month, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Japan and India reached a bilateral free trade agreement in Tokyo on Thursday. The pact will eliminate import tariffs on most products traded between the two giant Asian economies within 10 years.

Wal-Mart shifted more of its traffic from truckload to intermodal in its just-completed bidding cycle.

General Motors selected Comprehensive Logistics to manage global inbound logistics and value-added subassembly processes for its newest compact car, the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze.

The National Association of Manufacturers, a major industrial lobbying group in Washington, D.C., launched an advertising campaign to head off new energy taxes after

Dutch express and logistics company TNT this week launched the first fully electric delivery vehicle fleet in China.

The World Food Programme, a United Nations agency fighting hunger, deployed a global logistics visibility platform from GT Nexus to manage its constantly changing global network.

President Obama said he wants long-term transportation legislation to include a permanent infrastructure bank that can make investments outside regular state formulas, and to put his passenger rail pr

Industry groups were scrambling for details on how the administration expects to develop the $50 bil

President Obama proposed to spend $50 billion to "jumpstart" construction of roads, railways and airport runways, the White House said, and pair it with "a long-term framework to reform

If there had been no massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, would Congress have given more attention to legislation affecting the transportation and trade communities?

Less than a week after being designated a Department of Transportation marine highways project eligible for a share of Maritime Administration grants, one of the East Coast’s best-established s

The tools for managing inventory may be growing more sophisticated, but retailers and manufacturers may as well be using a Ouija Board to plan out the movement of goods this year.

Home Depot cut inventory holdings $38 million in the quarter ending Aug. 1 compared to a year earlier as it built more efficiency into its supply chain.

The U.S. unemployment rate edged up to 9.6 percent in August from 9.5 percent in July as weak hiring by private employers failed to keep pace with an increase in people looking for work.

Seaport security, freight transportation infrastructure and environmental protection are key issues for the American Association of Port Authorities.

Industry officials pressing Congress and the White House to lock in long-term transportation spending programs say higher new estimates for the Highway Trust Fund may reduce pressure for legislators t