Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The New York City Economic Development Corporation is seeking a developer to buy or lease a waterfront site on the Arthur Kill Channel in Staten Island, partly for maritime use.

The Senate narrowly rejected a $60 billion transportation spending bill proposed by President Obama on Thursday, as many Republicans said they supported improving the nation’s infrastructure but

The U.S. agency that regulates economic issues between railroads and shippers says Union Pacific Railroad was the only major carrier that pulled in sufficient revenue in 2010.

Backers of two competing transportation plans are jockeying for support by selling their initiatives as job creators and taking shots at the other side for funding shortfalls.

The Senate confirmed Eric Hirschhorn, a key player in export control reform, as Commerce undersecretary of export administration on Monday.

Senior Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee on Monday criticized the Transportation Security Administration for not meeting a December deadline to screen 100 percent of cargo ar

Disciplined management of capacity and pricing, coupled with falling fuel prices, meant better times for trucking companies in September, FTR Associates said.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica defended his six-year transportation plan from accusations that the bill wouldn’t maintain current funding levels as he claim

The pace of manufacturing growth in the United States slowed in October as the Institute of Supply Management’s PMI fell back 0.8 percentage points to

The House of Representatives last week laid claim to a budget offset the Senate Finance Committee intended to use to pay for Sen.

The overall cost of operating ships is expected to rise by 3.8 percent in 2011 and by 3.7 percent in 2012, according to a new

The devil, as the saying goes, is in the details. That’s the lesson emerging for U.S.

The National Foreign Trade Zone Board soon will publish new rules streamlining government rules for establishing and operating in the zones, the first major overhaul of the regulations governing FTZs

The key to boosting U.S. manufacturing exports is to stop China from manipulating its currency, not striking free trade agreements, according to a former White House economic adviser.

The Port of Los Angeles will enforce all concession requirements in its clean-truck program upheld in a recent ruling by the U.S.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is challenging the feasibility Rep.

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The executive committee of the American Trucking Associations voted unanimously to seek a U.S.

Caterpillar expects sales to increase 10 percent to 20 percent next year, but says sales growth in China will slow from double-digit to single-digit expansion in 2012.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica said he’s not ready to say how Congress will “aggressively oversee any attempts” to cut the hours truck drivers c

Japanese export ship orders fell for the fifth straight month in September on a year-over-year b

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica said he will take “every measure that’s needed” to pass a four-year authorization of the Federal Aviation Adminis

“Share and share alike” is a maxim shippers find hard to follow, especially if it means sharing zealously guarded supply chain resources.

Third-party logistics providers are by nature intermediaries linking shippers with carriers of all types. Now they’re linking shippers with shippers.

One country’s container tax is another country’s trade barrier. A coalition of six major U.S. West Coast ports and two major railroads argues that the U.S.

Ray LaHood has had enough.

The American Society of Civil Engineers likely never intended to be the Cassandra of U.S. infrastructure decline, but Washington hears its prophecies loud and clear.

The Obama administration is moving quickly, by government standards, to reform the regulations that delay outbound shipments or add unnecessary costs to the export process as the White House presses a

Exporters are urging the Obama administration to break down more trade barriers after the president signed free trade pacts with Colombia, Panama and South Korean into law Friday.

Democrats in the Senate plan to schedule a vote soon on President Obama’s proposals for major new infrastructure spending, as the next step to bring up his “jobs plan” in bits and pi

The Senate voted 74-26 Thursday to confirm John Bryson to become President Obama’s next Commerce secretary.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold a voting or “markup” session Nov. 9 on a proposed two-year surface transportation funding plan.

Importers will be hit with a nearly 65 percent increase in merchandise processing fees through a provision embedded in the recently passed

A report pointing to deficient bridges across the country, particularly in Pittsburgh, comes as many say the U.S.

The plan for a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ont., was dealt a severe blow Thursday after the Michigan Senate rejected a bill critical to funding the proposed $5.3 billion project.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wants Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. to drop legislation that would block a new truck driver hours of service rule.

SHENZHEN, CHINA — Zhou Gui Hui has a thriving business at the heart of one of the world’s busiest industrial manufacturing regions, but the chairman and CEO of Eternal Asi

An amendment to the fiscal 2012 transportation appropriations bill introduced in the Senate would block proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules.

A segment of the new access channel to the Panama Canal’s new locks was filled with water on Wednesday.

A jump in apartment construction caused homebuilding to rise at the fastest rate in 17 months, but other data point to continued weakness in a real estate market that’s dragging down containeriz