Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Famed U.S. investor Warren Buffett thinks the economy has “plateaued” along a bottom after a sharp decline, with little sign of recovery.

The jobless rate in the 30 wealthy countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will approach 10 percent in the second half of 2010 before leveling off and recove

Third-party logistics giant C.H. Robinson Worldwide, bulking up its produce distribution business, acquired two jointly-owned agriculture operations, the company announced Tuesday.

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A pilot program for screening all air freight that moves in the holds of passenger aircraft will become a permanent part of supply chain security, the Transportation Security Administration announced

General business conditions are improving in September and likely to improve further, according to a survey of manufacturers in New York.

President Barack Obama extended the 47-year-old U.S. trade embargo of Cuba for another year, noting in a statement that it was in the U.S.

GT Nexus enhanced its global trade and logistics portal to include several additional applications for suppliers and importers.

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P.

Half a million U.S. jobs are at risk because of national trade policy, according to a study by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. U.S.

China's commerce ministry said Tuesday that the U.S. decision to impose additional duties on imports of Chinese tires is "an abuse" of World Trade Organization safeguard measures.

The White House on Monday named Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. as chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, the commission announced.

Consumers pushed retail sales up for the first time in six months with back-to-school purchases in August but held back in some other sectors of the retail market.

Field & Stream Brand, the magazine publisher devoted to the complete outdoor lifestyle, launched its first line of clothing this summer with the help of third-party logistics provider Kenco Logist

Congress must extend a crucial program due to expire in two weeks to fund highway and other transport projects around the nation, a freight stakeholders’ coalition said, but should also approve

The White House last week nominated an expert in the export of dual-use technology and export controls to head the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security.

The global economic recovery could be stymied by protectionist governmental policies around the world, according to a joint report issued Monday by the World Trade Organization, The United Nations Con

China filed a World Trade Organization complaint Monday against a 35 percent U.S. tariff on tire imports.

Boeing and Damco, the Denmark-based logistics company that belongs to the A.P.

The ballast water discharged by ships ideally should be clear, but the path toward that goal is muddy in the U.S.

Trade volumes may be down and financing harder to get, but providers of on-demand global trade and logistics software say they are enjoying a banner year.

With expiration of the multiyear highway bill known as SAFETEA-LU looming, it is growing more likely Congress will extend the law, preventing catastrophic cuts in state highway infrastructure projects

Motor carriers that want trucks out of their yards and off their books are starting to go where America sells practically anything: eBay.

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Highway-led spending pushed total Department of Transportation payments under the Recovery Act to $2.621 billion through Sept. 4, for an increase of $267 million from a week earlier.

Wal-Mart Stores is turning to the transportation industry for leadership in its fast-growing Asia business, naming DHL Express senior executive Scott Price as president and CEO of Walmart Asia.

Corn exports are likely to soar 100 million bushels higher this year than last as U.S. farmers produce a record yield per acre, according to a forecast released Friday by the U.S.

The economic outlook is improving in most of the 30 nations that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Paris-based research organization said Friday.

President Obama, filling a key transport position on the eve of the anniversary of September 11, named Los Angeles airports security chief Erroll Southers to head the Transportation Security Administr

The Freight Transportation Services Index rose 1.6 percent in July from its June level, the first monthly increase since February and the largest increase since January 2008, the U.S.

Descartes Systems Group, which provides global logistics services on demand, announced that its revenue and net income grew during the latest quarter, and over the first six months of 2009.

The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services for July was $32 billion, up from $27.5 billion in June, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced Thursday.

If a recovery is truly under way in the freight sector, it is yet to translate into a steady upturn in the number of transportation jobs.

Descartes Systems Group, which provides logistics software as a service online, has enhanced its Global Freight Exchange to provide tighter, real-time integration with air carriers, the company announ

Kuehne + Nagel, one of the world's largest logistics companies, announced that it will provide integrated logistics services in Russia for the Benetton Group, Italy's largest apparel maker, and one of

Trucking and warehouse executives in California urged the state tax commission to refrain from raising taxes on diesel fuel and gasoline.

The chief economist for the National Retail Federation said in a report released Tuesday that figures suggest “the recession is ending,” and she forecast a growing economy in the second ha