Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Lead the people by laws and regulate them by penalties, and the people will try to keep out of jail, but will have no sense of shame.

The transportation and warehousing industries appear to have added jobs between March and April, while public transportation job losses shrank the total industry employment by 16,600.

The decision by the U.S. and the European Union to recognize each other’s trusted shippers is expected to save those companies money through speedier customs authorization.

The manufacturing numbers tell the story of why China’s economy is undergoing a fundamental restructuring.

California’s low carbon fuel standard will contribute to the increasing price of diesel in the state, as high as $6.69 a gallon by 2020, according to a study conducted for the California Truckin

The American Trucking Associations is urging Congress to require drivers to use electronic on-board recorders, while independent owner-operators argue the technology has no safety or cost benefits.

China's official Purchasing Managers' Index expanded for a fifth month in April, aided by expanding export orders.

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The value of surface-transportation trade between the U.S.

Diesel prices across the U.S. fell for the third week in a row, dropping 1.2 cents in the week ending April 30 as oil prices rose slightly above $4 a barrel.

The WACO-System named Richard Charles as its new executive director, as the nonprofit network of freight forwarders gained five new members.

Between 2004 and 2009, Agility Logistics acquired more than 40 companies.

U.S. poultry companies will be looking beyond their largest export market for growth opportunities after breaking off talks with Mexico in what might be called an elaborate game of chicken.

Satish Jindel estimates the top 40 global third-party logistics providers control 60 to 70 percent of the market.

When the European Union’s highest court in December ruled the EU could force all airlines to pay for carbon emissions from flights to and from airports in its 27 member nations, the reaction was

One could be forgiven for thinking the House’s most recent extension to the surface transportation bill was about the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, rather than highway spending.

Samsung Electronics overtook Nokia in the first quarter to become the world’s largest cell phone brand for the first time, according to research by IHS.

Rising intra-Asian trade will propel the ASEAN bloc of Southeast Asia nations to become China’s largest trading partner by 2015, one think-tank says.

Diesel prices across the U.S. fell the most since mid-December, dropping 4.2 cents in the week ending April 23 as oil prices fell more than $1 a barrel.

When the end came for J&A Transportation, the only surprise was how long it took.

India’s trade deficit soared to $185 billion in fiscal 2011-12 as a 32.1 percent jump in imports outpaced a 21 percent growth in exports.

U.S. ports in fiscal 2013 would get $1 billion for maintenance dredging, the largest annual federal award for navigation work, under the latest energy and water appropriations bill.

Dachser’s 2011 revenue jumped by 13 percent from a year ago to more than $5.6 billion as the German logistics group handled record volumes of air and ocean freight.

Japanese exports to the United States surged 23.9 percent in March from a year earlier, to $12.7 billion, on strong auto and auto parts business, according to preliminary figures released by the Finan

The House’s passage on Wednesday of a 90-day extension to highway funding will allow members to begin conferencing with the Senate, giving Congress a shot at passing a final surface transportati

Behind the scenes negotiations to settle a poultry anti-dumping case filed by Mexican producers against their U.S.

The Federal Maritime Commission is seeking public comment on possible changes to NVOCC service arrangemen

China’s export sector has not turned recessionary and will recover later this year on the back of strong U.S. demand, according to Todd Lee, chief economist for IHS Global Insight China.

Diesel prices across the U.S. fell for the second time in three weeks, slipping 2.1 cents in the week ending April 16 as oil prices inched up.

U.S. exporters and importers will be able to better tap the growing Colombian economy starting May 15 when the free trade agreement between the two countries takes effect.

All it took was the March 25 shutdown of a single North Sea oil platform to boost Brent crude oil prices $1 a barrel.

First came the Facebook posts that got shared and reshared. Within a few days, “pink slime” was a trending topic on Twitter.

Booming natural gas production isn’t just giving the truck industry extra loads to haul.

Bilateral negotiations to end agricultural trade disputes failed with 46 nations, the European Union, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the South African Development Community, according to a new repor

The curtain is nearly drawn on Congress passing a surface transportation bill this year, but a positive House performance could set the stage for a bolder plan in 2013.

A bipartisan group of 16 senators, led by Tom Carper, D-Del., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., have sent a letter to U.S.

When the gavel finally came down on convicted scam artist Kulwant Singh Gill on March 28, it came down hard.

U.S. exports, economic integration and international security will be on President Obama’s agenda at the Summit of the Americas this weekend in Columbia.

South Korea attracted far higher foreign direct investment in the first quarter of 2012 as investors positioned to take advantage of the recent U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA).

For the third time in as many months, federal regulators shut down an unsafe trucking company, ordering J&A Transportation out of service on April 9.