Transport, Trade and Regulation News

International semiconductor sales in February fell 7.3 percent year-over-year and 1.3 percent from January, further illustrating the weak demand plaguing the air cargo industry.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the final documents on Wednesday for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project for review by state and federal agencies and the general public.

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The $10.2 billion in requested Department of Transportation TIGER grants exceeded supply by a factor of more than 20, the agency said Thursday.

Standard & Poor’s said the U.S. government’s inability to provide long-term infrastructure and transportation funding could create another credit crisis.

China’s official manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index jumped to its highest level in a year in March.

The Panama Canal’s new locks will probably not be ready for their scheduled opening in October 2014, but will be ready for a trial run by a vessel in December, said Jorge Quijano, the engineer i

The construction of the new third set of locks at the Panama Canal is behind schedule by seven months, but the other seven major components of the canal expansion are ahead of schedule, so the overall

Time appears to be up for the passage of surface transportation bill this year.

Customs broker Livingston International has completed its acquisition of the customs and trade compliance services of JPMorgan Chase’s Global Trade business, which includes the operations and te

U.S. manufacturing expanded in March for the 32nd consecutive month, according to the Institute for Supply Management.

Congress has a knack of making cynics into realists. Fears that the push for a transportation bill would dissolve into a scramble for funding extensions have been realized.

Economic uncertainty, natural disasters and fast-changing consumer markets are forcing third-party logistics providers to rethink their global expansion strategies.

Delivering an annual profit this May is the top priority for FedEx Freight, which lost money in its fiscal third quarter ending Feb. 29, its first quarterly loss in a year.

Shippers challenging high rail rates will likely learn the only thing more enduring than railroads’ pricing power is federal agencies’ embrace of precedent.

As multinational companies pursue global expansion strategies, their key 3PLs are expected to expand with them.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will consolidate all its security functions into a new department as part of several reforms announced Thursday aimed at modernizing the agency and cuttin

The Panama Canal Authority prequalified two consortia and one company from among six groups bidding on a tender for the construction of a bridge over the Atlantic end of the canal.

The Senate has until Friday midnight to decide whether to get on board with the House’s recently passed extension to highway programs, demand changes to the bill or continue to push their two-ye

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index dropped slightly in March, but consumers’ outlook on the economy improved, the research organization said.

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China will continue to expand its economy, but its growth will be based upon technology and innovation rather than low-cost labor, according to a consultant who has lived there for the past 20 years.<

Diesel prices across the U.S. hit a 33-month high in the week ending March 26, climbing half a cent as oil prices rose to nearly $107 per barrel.

Japan and Canada have formally agreed to launch negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) to eliminate import tariffs on most products and strengthen overall economic relations.

While the Senate pats itself on the back for passage of a mere two-year surface transportation bill, a handful of states are pushing what most of their federal brethren decry as infeasible: fuel tax h

Next time you&rsquo;re dining out in Seoul, have a good steak and wash it down with a shot of Jack Daniel&rsquo;s, compliments of U.S. exporters.

An electronics manufacturer in Singapore last year wanted 25,000 wire forms to be used in one of its products, and it needed them fast.

Mexico&rsquo;s rail industry is poised for growth, especially in intermodal shipments.

In the fashionable neighborhoods of Bogota, the gourmet restaurants, lively nightclubs and luxurious hotels are brimming with foreign executives eager to sign trade and investment deals in South Ameri

When automobile manufacturer Fiat in 2010 announced plans to build a $1.8 billion plant in northeastern Brazil, CEVA, a global non-vessel-operating common carrier and third-party logistics provider, s

No one is more delighted about the impact of 2004&rsquo;s U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement of 2004 than Tom Tjerandsen, North American managing director of the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association.

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Japan posted a surplus of $396.39 million in its trade with the rest of the world in February after incurring a record monthly deficit of $17.80 billion in January, according to preliminary figures re

The value of surface transportation trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico increased by 14.3 percent to a record $904 billion in 2011, <

Jaguar Land Rover, a unit of India&rsquo;s Tata Motors, is forming a joint venture with Chery Automobile of China to manufacture the U.K.-based automaker's luxury vehicles in China.

Diesel prices across the U.S. hit the highest point since August 2008, rising 1.9 cents in the week ending March 19 as oil prices rose to more than $107 per barrel.

Founded in 2004, the Millennium Challenge Corp. is funded by the U.S. government, but it&rsquo;s a truly international development assistance agency.

It&rsquo;s been two years since President Obama signed an executive order launching the National Export Initiative, the ambitious program to double exports in two years.