Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Logistics provider Damco and a local barge operator are using the River Madeira to connect importers and exporters with major ports via the Port of Manaus on the Amazon River.

Rail industry officials are generating plenty of heat over potential proposals in Congress to reshape railroad regulation as they wait for a key Senate panel to offer the legislation.

Asking for changes to the controversial approval of a key rail merger, Chicago suburbs and the Illinois Department of Transportation managed to get a split decision out of the Surface Transportation B

If there’s a distinguishing factor about the freight brokers and logistics companies of the Transportation Intermediaries Association, it’s their size.

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Freight transportation employment fell again in October, the Labor Department said, and many of their major customer groups shed jobs as well.

The Department of Homeland Security completed deployment of non-intrusive scanning equipment to detect radiation emanating from materials used in nuclear devices at all Northern border land ports of e

JDA Software Group signed a definitive agreement to acquire i2 Technologies for an enterprise value of approximately $396 million.

Profit for supply chain software provider i2 Technologies surged from $1.4 million a year ago to $10 million in the third quarter.

Virginia ranks last in the nation for using up its stimulus funds for highway and bridge construction projects, says a congressional report.

A broad group of retailers and other shippers called on the mayors of New York and Newark, N.J., to withdraw their support for changes in federal law that would allow local regulators to bar independe

The National Mediation Board proposed an amendment to its Railway Labor Act rules to provide that, in representation disputes, a majority of valid ballots cast will determine the craft or class repres

New orders and shipments of manufactured goods are growing, but unfilled orders and inventories are still shrinking, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The prices of the kinds of commodities that manufacturers around the world use to make industrial products hit a record high in the week at the end of October, according to the Industrial price Index

Panalpina launched an online transportation rate management hub on the GT Nexus Trade and Logistics Portal, supporting all ocean trade lanes across all carriers that Panalpina works with.

The manufacturing sector expanded solidly in October as the PMI index of business activity surged 3.1 percentage points to 55.7 percent, the highest rate of growth since April 2006.

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TNT, Europe's second largest mail and express company, reported its fifth consecutive quarter of declining earnings, but said its express operations are showing early signs of growth.

DSV, Scandinavia’s biggest trucking and logistics company, reported a steep decline in third quarter earnings but said it gained market share in its key ocean, air and land transport sectors.

The universal language governing international and U.S. domestic commerce is due for a revision that could come as early as January 2011.

Sometimes when you want to save, you have to spend.

Two Senate adversaries on health-care reform are standing shoulder-to-shoulder in their determination to steer Customs and Border Protection back on a course of trade facilitation.

Rules that govern how many hours a day truck drivers may spend behind the wheel may change again, perhaps before August 2011, as the federal agency that regulates motor carriers reconsiders whether tr

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Taiwan’s decision last month to remove virtually all restrictions on its imports of U.S. beef could be the best recipe for growth in global U.S. exports of meat.

Sometime over the next few weeks, the White House Council on Environmental Quality will update its “principles and guidelines” to steer federal agencies making policy decisions on water resources.

The country may be crawling out of the worst recession in decades, and transportation companies along with their customers may be reeling from slack demand and “unsustainable rates,” but you wouldn’t

Food import regulation in the U.S. is lacking, with large gaps that endanger public health, according to a new report from the congressional Government Accountability Office.

Stronger international lift and a pickup in next-day shipments took some of the sting out of the recession for UPS in the third quarter.

Congress on Thursday gave a six-week lease on life to a transportation spending law that expired Sept. 30.

The chairman of the Surface Transportation Board is filling his remaining top staff job with a lawyer who has represented industrial firms before regulatory agencies, giving him a pair of senior aides

Surface trade with Canada and Mexico in August fell 24.9 percent from August 2008 to $54.3 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The U.S. economy grew 3.5 percent in the third quarter, the government announced Monday, a long-awaited signal that the worst recession in decades is over.

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Steel imports to the United States increased in September by 23.4 percent over August, to 1.2 million tons from 975,000 tons. However, they are down nearly 60 percent when compared to September 2008.

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee approved President Obama’s nominees to head key agencies overseeing transport security, trucking safety and hazardous material shipment

Changing the type of bonds the federal government uses could improve infrastructure financing, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation.

A supply chain official at a major sporting goods shipper says a “war council” after the global financial meltdown last year led the company to cancel its new orders and scale back invento

Federal truck driver hours of service rules will be revised and a new rule proposed within nine months under an agreement between the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Teamsters union a

The federal appeals court in New York has brought to an end a legal gold rush of its own making.