Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The unsteady state of the economy and proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules top a list of critica

Ten non-vessel-operating common carriers paid a total of $477,500 in penalties to settle cases brought against them by the Federal Maritime Commission.

Japan’s exports of agricultural, fishery and forestry products to the United States grew for the fourth consecutive month in August on a year-on-year basis, rising 4.4 percent to $73.8 million,

Retail sales rose a higher-than-expected 1.1 percent in September, led by a 3.6 percent jump in motor vehicles and parts, the Commerce Department said in a report that buoyed hopes for growth in freig

Kuehne + Nagel’s earnings grew 1.1 percent in the first nine months of 2011 from a year earlier as the Swiss logistics company boosted ocean container and air cargo shipments in a softening mark

The worst monsoon floods to hit Thailand in decades have crippled the country’s international trade as rushing waters prevent workers from reaching their offices, flood warehouses and stall fact

Canada and the United States have maintained a peaceful border for almost 200 years, but the peace is occasionally broken by a war of words. This is one of those times. On Oct.

U.S. GDP is expected to grow by $12 billion as a result of new free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. So why stop now?

President Obama stepped into a simmering dispute between rail unions and most major railroads Oct.

The congressional ‘super committee’ that is supposed to slice trillions in federal spending has a new suggestion from the top two senators on transportation policy:

The Department of Transportation on Friday approved one Mexican trucking company’s request to operate on U.S.

Members of Congress are proposing to require the Maritime Administration to publicize the availability of Jones Act vessels when another agency asks to use non-U.S.-flag vessels.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood ripped into newly elected Republicans Friday for blocking efforts to launch a new infrastructure program, saying they want to keep President Obama from having succe

The Shanghai Shipping Exchange’s announcement to introduce risk management tools to help shippers trade derivatives comes as the Federal Maritime Commission

House Republicans are exploring options to bolster surface transportation funding, perhaps even replacing the current per-gallon gas tax with a new revenue system, said the chairman of the Transportat

Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he won’t stay on the job for another term, nor will he run for public office, according to the

U.S. factory activity continues to grow in an unsettled economy but at a slower pace, the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI said in its quarterly survey of the manufacturing outlook.

Freight carried by for-hire transportation providers posted a month-to-month gain of 0.4 percent in August, reaching its highest level since July 2008, the Transportation Department reported.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he thinks Congress will pass an “infrastructure program” by the end of this calendar year.

Congress on Wednesday passed free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

The CEOs in President Obama’s advisory jobs council are pushing for big federal investments in transportation networks and energy systems, and creation of a national infrastructure bank.

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica said “a national infrastructure bank is dead on arrival in the House,” after some senators proposed pairing the bank portion

CSX Transportation said it has completed nearly a third of federally aided track clearance projects so that doublestack container trains can move between its new intermodal hub in northwest Ohio and a

The Panama Canal Authority completed the third phase of digging the excavation for the new locks on the Pacific side of the canal.

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President Obama’s big push for Congress to pass a jobs plan laden with new transportation funding fell well short Tuesday of the 60 votes needed for Senate passage.

The Senate voted 63-35 Tuesday evening to give the Treasury Department and U.S.

Rear Adm. Philip H. Greene Jr., superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., has stepped down amid accusations of the Maritime Administration micromanaging the school.

The Senate is expected on Tuesday evening to reject President Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan, with $50 billion in transportation grants plus $10 billion to fund an infrastructure bank.

President Obama designated six large transportation construction projects for fast-track permitting and environmental reviews to get them into their building phase faster and spur job creation.

U.S. trade volume is expected to rise 62.3 percent in the next 15 years but the U.S. share of global trade will fall behind China’s, according to a new forecast by HSBC Bank.

The transportation piece of the Obama administration’s 2009 stimulus program has paid out more than $7 billion in the first nine months of 2011 to reimburse states for completed projects, accord

While economists and observers of trade flows have been debating contradictory data on the direction of the U.S. economy for several months, one measure has been unwavering.

To U.S. farmers, the free trade agreements negotiated with South Korea, Colombia and Panama several years ago have been something like a bumper crop cruelly out of reach, unable to be harvested.

Some in the perishables industry already are talking about lawsuits as the Food and Drug Administration rolls out new fees for inspections of some imported foods.

Just how successful has PierPass been at the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach?

The Cass Freight Index for U.S.

The Transportation Security Administration will not meet its Dec. 31 deadline to screen all cargo on international passenger flights, the agency told industry stakeholders.

A big shift of manufacturing from China to the U.S. and other parts of North America will create up to 3 million U.S. jobs in coming years, says a study from Boston Consulting Group.

Toyota is telling its parts suppliers in Japan to cut prices or face being replaced by overseas competitors as the yen’s value appreciates,