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In a followup to the Department of Transportation’s earlier allocation of $8 billion in stimulus grants for faster and expanded inter-city passenger rail service, the DOT said it has taken 77 ai

Mexico stepped up its pressure on the U.S. in the dispute over cross-border trucking on Monday, expanding the list of American goods that will be hit with punitive tariffs.

Stimulus money is rolling out of the Department of Transportation.

The Brussels-based organization that lobbied the European Union on behalf of liner shipping companies ceased those efforts last month but is staying open as a trade association.

The Army Corps of Engineers is caught in a web of competing political, commercial and environmental interests that impairs its ability to maintain and modernize the nation’s waterway infrastruct

Manufacturing, wholesale and retail inventories rose in June, reinforcing claims that the wave of goods restocking benefiting t

The Pennsylvania Transportation Commission approved a 24 percent cut in the budget for infrastructure improvements through 2022.

Retail and food services sales increased 0.4 percent from June to July, according to a report Friday morning from the U.S. Census Bureau.

CEVA Logistics boosted second quarter revenue 30 percent year-over-year to $2.244 billion on the basis of strong freight volume, particularly in the Americas and Asia Pacific, the global supply chain

Freight shipments as measured in ton-miles rose 0.2 percent in June from May, in the latest step of a gradual increase

The Department of Transportation unveiled eight marine highway project corridors around the country that it will help through $7 million in current grant funding plus future aid, and listed six major

The U.S. trade deficit widened in June to its highest level since October 2008 as exports slipped 1.3 percent while imports hit a record high, the Commerce Department said.

Former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, died Tuesday in a plane crash at Dillingham, Alaska, a fishing village on Bristol Bay in western Alaska. He was 86.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday 85 percent of the country will be connected by a high-speed rail network within 25 years.

China's export volume in July rose 38.1 percent from a year earlier, down from June’s 43.9 percent rate.

A Pakistani clothing manufacturer is accusing two U.S. freight forwarders of defrauding it out of some $207,000 in payments due.

The barge industry and inland waterways users voiced unanimous support for a 20-year capital spending plan for the Army Corps of Engineers to carry out much-needed construction and rehabilitation on t

When the Denver Regional Council of Governments wanted to reduce travel time and vehicle emissions, it came up with an environmentally friendly Traffic Signal System Improvement Program.

Freight shipment activity has signaled for weeks that the slowdown in the economic recovery was not tipping into a feared “double-dip” recession, and now a slew of official reports backs u

Five years after Congress told the Food and Drug Administration it is the agency in charge of regulating the safety of food during transportation, the agency is seeking information on how shipments ar

More than a year-and-a-half after paying $365 million for IBM’s global logistics operation, Paris-based Geodis says it’s ready to use the acquisition as a launch pad for expansion.

There is no shortage of ideas for meeting President Obama’s goal of doubling exports in five years and creating 2 million new jobs.

A weak jobs report Friday from the U.S. Labor Department added to concerns about a slowing economic recovery and lower transportation volume.

A Senate bill filed Thursday would give the Commerce Department and Customs and Border Protection more authority to investigate importers thought to evade antidumping and countervailing duty orders.

The Senate gutted a House bill for Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization, and used the bill number, H.R.

The Obama administration is guaranteeing a $250 million working capital loan to Ford Motor Company to finance the sale of $3.1 billion in cars and light trucks to buyers in Canada and Mexico.

Mandating the use of stability control systems on heavy trucks could help avoid almost 3,500 rollover accidents and save more than 100 lives a year, industry and federal officials told the National Tr

Three House members are giving the Department of Homeland Security an Aug. 17 deadline for a detailed, port-by-port list of the barriers to implementing a 100 percent scanning regime.

New orders for manufactured goods fell in June for the second straight month, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a report that indicated slowing economic growth.

A Department of Transportation discretionary grant pool for 2010 awards drew thousands of pre-applications seeking tens of billions of dollars to aid infrastructure projects, from a “TIGER II&rd

Agility launched operations in Cambodia, opening an office in the capital Phnom Penh.

The Cass Freight Index for industrial shipping fell back 8.6 percent in July, the first decline in six months and a signal that weakness in the broader U.S.

Legislation calling for a national freight transportation policy would short-change the nation’s highways, the American Trucking Associations said.

A bill introduced in the House last week matches Senate legislation calling for a national freight transportation

U.S. manufacturing growth slowed for the third straight month in July as the sector's year-long recovery showed new signs of weakness, the Institute for Supply Management reported.

Expansion of Chinese manufacturing activity slowed in July, according to an independent survey and a Chinese government report.

The harbor drayage community in Southern California is warning there will be a shortage of truck capacity during the peak shipping season.

The Senate isn’t giving up on scanning all maritime containers arriving in the U.S., but lawmakers appear willing to ease the law to make it more palatable to opponents at home and abroad.

The best-laid plans to build a new container port in North Carolina are foundering on the shoals of environmental and community opposition.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg knows congestion, and he wants to do something about it.