Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Sales of new homes slipped 0.9 percent in January following four straight months of increases in which home sales rose 10 percent, the Commerce Department said.

House Republicans might scale back a five-year, $260 billion transportation bill, shortening its term, reducing overall spending, but restoring funding for mass transit from the Highway Trust Fund, ac

Small exporters will be among the most to benefit from the charter renewal of the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the most to suffer if Congress fails to act soon, leaders of the National

The state of New York has backed away from plans to impose stringent ballast-water standards that industry officials said threatened vessel commerce to New York-New Jersey container terminals and the

The Federal Maritime Commission underestimated the magnitude of rate volatility in the Europe-Asia trade when it assessed the effects of the European Union’s repeal of carrier antitrust immunity

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday awarded Kansas City Southern a $54.6 million loan to buy 30 new diesel-electric locomotives.

Customs and Border Protection has $140 million to operate and maintain a commercial trade processing system, but there’s no money in the 2012 budget to further develop the program, said Cynthia

Japan suffered a deficit of $18.5 billion in its trade with the rest of the world in January, up 207.7 percent from a year earlier and the biggest amount for any month on record, according to prelimin

The Federal Maritime Commission, in perhaps the most extensive study in its 50-year history, concluded the European Union’s 2008 repeal of antitrust immunity on liner conferences had minimal imp

When project logistics company Agility released its Emerging Markets Logistics Index 2012, 10 of the top-ranked countries hailed from the world’s poorest continent.

President Obama’s recent call to nearly double infrastructure investment over the next six years highlights two conflicting forces in transportation policy: a desire to invest more and an unwill

Logistics provider Performance Team is opening a container transloading facility at the Port of Charleston to transload cargo from ocean shipping containers to trucks for distribution to customers thr

Southwestern less-than-truckload carrier Central Freight Lines will test 15 natural gas-powered Class 8 Peterbilt tractors in Houston and Galveston, Texas.

A quarterly global survey says the world’s economic climate has begun to improve after two quarters of decline but remains significantly below its long-term average.

Requests to Department of Transportation for infrastructure loans in fiscal 2013 outpaced supply nearly 107-to-1, as Congress and President Obama push to increase funding for the agency’s progra

Facing shaky support for his surface transportation bill, House Speaker John Boehner said he will delay the vote on the $260 billion, five-year package until after President’s Day's recess, acco

Retail sales rose less than expected in January largely because of discounting in the auto sector.

The American Trucking Associations will file a petition challenging new final truck driver work rules in federal court, the trucking group said Tuesday.

An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimates the Republican-backed surface transportation plan would cause a $9.4 billion shortfall in Highway Trust Fund expenditures by the end of fiscal

A maritime labor representative has been nominated to the Federal Maritime Commission for the first time and the existing chairman, Richard A.

President Obama’s 2013 budget calls for nearly $30 billion more on transportation infrastructure annually than the roughly $50 billion sought through the House and Senate’s competing surfa

Among state transportation officials, it’s an inside joke.

There’s no shortage of challenges for global third-party logistics providers.

The Federal Aviation Administration will finally be able to bring the country’s air traffic control systems into the modern era, but only after fighting through some long-standing conflicts.

Ten of the world’s top-ranked emerging markets are in Africa, according to Agility’s 2012 Emerging Markets Logistics Index.

For what may be the first time, the U.S. has a transportation bill that acknowledges some goods move on the surface of the water.

The past few years have brought radical changes to the supply chain management world.

Bigger, heavier trucks just can’t stay on the road in Congress.

The IT capabilities shippers value most are directly related to execution-oriented activities and processes such as transportation, warehouse/DC management, electronic data interchange and visibility.

Rising labor costs in Asia. Fuel prices at record winter highs. Asian currencies revalued upward.

Third-party logistics providers may approach emerging markets in different ways, but one thing is certain: Doing business in them isn’t an option; it’s a necessity.

The government might give railroads another five years to install costly crash-avoidance technology because the industry is on track to miss its end of 2015 deadline.

The trucking and rail lobbies are calling a truce in their battle over truck size and weight limits, hoping a measure of intermodal unity will help push a controversial multi-year surface transportati

The U.S. trade deficit hit a six-month high in December, as growth in consumer demand and business investment caused imports to rise faster than exports.

When Honda, Nissan and Mazda announced last year they would build large new automobile plants in central Mexico to supply cars for Central and South America, they were getting on an increasingly crowd

Negotiations have stalled in The World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round, the latest round of trade negotiations, and the National Foreign Trade Council is proposing that portions of t

A Tennessee air forwarder agreed to pay a $1 million fine to settle charges of violating air cargo security regulations at the Indianapolis airport, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

A Senate committee approved on Tuesday a $9.6 billion package to help plug a $12 billion shortfall in a bipartisan two-year surface transportation bill.

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A federal prosecutor is charging a Pennsylvania trucking company with running a three-year scheme to avoid federal trucking driver hours of service regulations.