Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The global recession is putting unprecedented pressure on third-party logistics providers, according to an industry survey released Sept.

The New York Times joined labor and highway safety interests opposed to the nomination of state trucking association leader Anne S.

Members of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals elected officers and appointed chairs to the group’s 2009-2010 board of directors during the annual business meeting held Sept.

World Trade Organization (WTO) director-general Pascal Lamy said Tuesday that he was cautious about prospects for concluding the Doha Round of global trade negotiations despite the detailed "work

President Obama said he will nominate Alan D. Bersin as commissioner for the Customs and Border Protection agency.

In the face of insistence by leaders in the House of Representatives to extend soon-to-expire federal highway programs by only three months, some senators are beginning to move away from plans for an

China appealed the Aug.

Total U.S. imports of steel declined 13.8 percent to 854,000 tons in August compared with 991,000 tons in July, based on preliminary reporting.

Kenny Nova joined Aljex Software as vice president, corporate development.

State highway officials warn that unless Congress acts, they will lose $8.7 billion in money allocated for projects ranging from interstate highway maintenance to safe routes for school buses on Oct.

The Coast Guard will hold six public meetings to gather public comment on proposed rules to stop the spread of foreign and nuisance organisms by way of ships’ ballast water.

The House this week will consider two stopgap transportation bills to keep the Federal Aviation Administration and the highway program operating through the end of 2009 with no changes in programs or

Customs and Border Protection is moving to larger quarters for the 2009 edition of its annual trade symposium. The annual Washington, D.C., event will be at the Walter E.

U.S.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue is calling for a short-term extension of the current highway bill, rather than an 18-month extension.

Global crude steel production reached 106.5 million metric tons in August, 5.5 percent lower than August of 2008, according to the Brussels-based World Steel Association.

Oilfield service company Baker Hughes hired CEVA Logistics to manage all inbound and outbound Australasia freight logistics, CEVA announced today.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Monday announced $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding for 43 state and local transit agencies.

The Transportation and Security Administration's candidate technology list for air cargo inspection includes four products made by Torrance, Calif.-based Rapsican Systems.

The European Union should add port services to the list of areas where creating a large single market can boost its long-term economic growth, said the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperatio

The House will consider a three-month extension of the current highway bill rather than the 18-month extension the administration and Senate want.

A senior Wal-Mart executive said Monday a drive to cut packaging on toys saved the retailer some $3.5 million in transportation costs last Christmas, a major gain to the bottom line the company won fr

Exports of steel mill products increased 0.2 percent in July over June according to U.S. government data.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the United States increased 0.6 percent in August.

The worst global economic and financial crisis in a generation slashed the Foreign Direct Investment plans of 85 percent of the world’s multinational corporations, says a U.N. report.

Domestic freight brokers are weathering the economic downturn with their profit margins largely intact, and scale appears to be providing the best insulation of all.

With all its pomp and stiff formality, this week’s gathering of diplomats, maritime law experts and dignitaries for a signing ceremony in Rotterdam may end up looking like something from long ago, and

Transportation industry officials are nervous. Congress again is nearing a deadline to fund industry programs.

Officials of the Obama administration’s Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force released their interim report for a 30-day public review and comment period.

Citi's Global Transaction Services, a business unit of the global financial services company, and GT Nexus, the global trade and logistics portal, announced a strategic partnership that will deliver e

The fiscal 2010 transportation and housing appropriations bill is headed to a House-Senate conference committee after being approved by the Senate in a 73-25 vote Sept. 17.

It was another week, another quarter-billion dollars of Recovery Act payments on transport infrastructure.

The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested eight American Airlines employees and charged them taking part in a drug trafficking ring that used commercial flights over 10 years to smuggle $19 million

Progress in the Doha Round talks is moving ahead too slowly, according to World Trade Organization director-general Pascal Lamy.

Some 1,800 transportation interests have unleashed an army of 2,100 lobbyists and spent more than $45 million in the first half of 2009 to influence surface transportation legislation in Congress, the

The House Judiciary Committee passed an antitrust bill that railroads oppose, as it would put them under the same antitrust provisions faced by other industries, but any similar measure in the Senate

A&B Properties, the real estate subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin, completed the sale of a 126,000 square-foot industrial warehouse in the City of Industry, California.

Industrial production climbed 0.8 percent in August, in the second consecutive month of growth for the sector as the nation’s factories, mines and utilities get back to work after a long decline

A growing number of Washington insiders say the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is close to introducing the first reform of rail economic regulation in 30 years, but indicate all

Hallmark, the $4.3 billion greeting card and gift-supply company, will manage its global inbound logistics with software provided by Descartes Systems Group, the Canadian-based provider of Web-based o