Transport, Trade and Regulation News

OTTAWA - Canadians are a weekend away from turning away in large numbers from Prime Minister Paul Ma

WASHINGTON - The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade has authorized budgets of just more than

WASHINGTON - The Senate cleared legislation Wednesday night to extend national highways and surface

The European Union's top agriculture official plans to propose a radical overhaul of the EU's sugar

The Virginia branch of a Massachusetts railroad company plans to develop space at the Hillsborough,

TORONTO - Canada's co-chair of the International Joint Commission, which oversees waterways along t

New York Regional Rail Corp. said that Transit Rail L.L.C. has invested another $250,000 in the tran

LOMBARD, Ill. -- After months of struggling with a crew shortage and congestion, the Union Pacific R

China's railroads handled more than 182 million tons of cargo in May, an increase of 5.4 percent ove

On July 1, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen/Teamsters Rail Conference (BLET) members

LOS ANGELES - Truckers are again calling for a nationwide strike to protest high fuel prices and wor

Canadian Pacific Railway, struggling to handle surging containerized freight at the Port of Vancouve

CSX Intermodal plans to launch an upgrade to its electronic data interchange (EDI) billing system.

WASHINGTON -- The Transportation Security Administration has the "appropriate" funding for its port-

Mexican transport company TMM, which has had a rough time renegotiating its debt, offered creditors

FedEx Corp. raised its earnings forecast for the fiscal year after saying fourth-quarter profit rose

The National Industrial Transportation League and the American Trucking Associations on Tuesday unve

U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans plans to press Chinese officials over a trade complaint against op

The World Trade Organization has upheld a landmark ruling issued in April that found U.S. cotton sub

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Formed in 1999 in the midst of the Internet-based technol

Foreign trade through the ports of Shanghai and Tianjin increased at double-digit rates during the f

WASHINGTON -- A Senate Appropriations subcommittee adopted an amendment that would require the Depar

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.The controversy over so-called "donor-states" - those tha

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.The global logistics market is officially and emphaticall

The Bush administration has proposed new tariffs on wooden bedroom furniture from China as it decide

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.TNT Logistics North America opened a 340,000 square-foot

CSX Corp. announced Monday that James R. Hertwig has been named president of CSX Intermodal Inc.

The 11th UN Conference on Trade and Development ended highlighting the growing gap between rich and

WASHINGTON -- Advance electronic cargo manifest reporting for railroad freight will begin on July 12

A series of deals signed between Hong Kong and adjacent Shenzhen on the mainland are intended to p

WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee introduced

Germany's Deutsche Post said Thursday it is pressing ahead with its initial public offering of share

Frustrated by the pace of current multilateral trade talks, global service industry leaders will mee

Union Pacific Corp., operator of the largest U.S. railroad, intends to hire 5,000 train-crew workers

Amid a boom in containerized imports, The Greenbrier Cos. announced that it has received orders for

WASHINGTON -- A study commissioned by the Teamsters, the American Trucking Associations and two majo

MOL on Friday announced a reorganization to promote growth strategies aimed at expanding its busines

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Troubled logistics technology vendor The Descartes System

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Customers of Symbol Technologies breathed a sigh of relie

WASHINGTON -- Officials with Customs and Border Protection sought to reassure a House trade panel th