Supply chain

Mild winter weather and pent-up demand for autos helped U.S. retail sales rise 1.1 percent from the previous month and 6.5 percent from February 2011, the Commerce Department said.

U.S manufacturing technology orders in January rose 8.4 percent year-over-year, highlighting “manufacturers’ increasing confidence in future growth,” according to the Association for

Diesel prices across the U.S. rose at the slowest pace in three weeks, climbing 2.9 cents in the week ending March 12 as oil prices fell at the end of trading for the first time in four days.

U.S. steel exports rose 19.1 percent year-over-year to 1.262 million tons in January, as shipments to Canada and Mexico offset declines to other regions.

Intra-Asia container line MCC Transport has introduced a new mobile Web site and a smart phone application to enable customers to better track shipments and sailing schedules.

A dozen years after Congress first allocated funding, Customs and Border Protection’s Automated Commercial Environment isn’t fully delivering on the promises made to importers and brokers.

Things have become so chaotic on Capitol Hill over transportation legislation that even the political experts admit it’s hard to keep up.

The Obama administration is once again proposing a new user fee to pay for capital investments in the inland waterway system, a senior Army official said.

The U.S. trade deficit rose to a three-year high of $52.6 billion in January as a 2.1 percent jump in imports outpaced a 1.4 percent rise in exports.

The Senate on Thursday worked through seven of 30 amendments to its two-year $109 billion transportation bill, including two of the most controversial, Transportation Weekly reported.

A Wayne County judge in Detroit on Thursday ordered the Michigan Department of Transportation to take over and complete a project to link two interstate highways with the Ambassador Bridge.

Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL, coming off a year in which net profit fell by half because of a onetime charge related to the sale of its Postbank banking unit, forecast higher revenue and profit f

Retail supply chains are no longer just multimodal, they’re multi-channel, and that’s adding layers of fulfillment complexity for shippers, a retail industry study finds.

Mayors from throughout the U.S.

Panalpina swung to a profit of $139.7 million in 2011 from a 2010 loss of $28.6 million as the Swiss logistics and forwarding giant enjoyed organic growth across all regions and product divisions.

With dozens of federal agencies having some degree of involvement in the cargo clearance process, importers are crying out for a single government portal at the border.

The Federal Maritime Commission has agreed to give shippers and carriers more ability to manage rate risk in service contracts through a new rule allowing contracting parties to agree to rates based o

Non-asset freight transportation interests in the U.S. and China formed an alliance last week to promote trans-Pacific cooperation in third-party logistics.

Switzerland’s Kuehne+Nagel forecast above market average growth in an uncertain global economy for 2012 as net earnings grew only marginally to a record $661 million in 2011.

Indonesia will see rapid growth in logistics demand this year but needs huge investment in transport infrastructure to realize its true potential, according to one leading analyst.

A top shipment arriving in Detroit by air not long ago drew the interest of the Consumer Product Safety Commission after the agency got a heads up from data collected by Customs and Border Protection.

Before teaming up with supply chain management software provider Descartes a decade ago, CVS, the nation’s biggest pharmacy chain, relied on historical data and safety inventory to avoid the cos

The most mundane things in the world could be the subject of anti-dumping cases — catfish, honey, plastic bags, mattress innersprings, even coat hangers. In June 2011, U.S.

Pantos Logistics recently opened a roughly 31,000-square-foot logistics center near the Port of Rotterdam to distribute vehicle parts across Europe.

February’s visit to the U.S.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Celadon Trucking for allegedly requiring prospective employees submit to illegal medical tests.

When news broke that House Republicans were considering scaling back their surface transportation bill to 18 months from five years, it signaled a further eroding of members’ ability to offer an

Damco, the logistics and forwarding unit of A.P. Moller-Maersk, posted a 29 percent increase in profit last year as revenue and margins rose.

The U.S. economy expanded at a 3 percent annual rate in the last quarter of 2011, topping the previous estimate of 2.8 percent, as consumer spending and incomes rose.

The American Trucking Associations is siding with regulators in federal court to support voluntary use of electronic onboard recorders by trucking companies.

The White House on Tuesday announced the formation of a trade enforcement center to ensure exporters’ trading rights achieved through international agreements and protect exporters from other co

U.S. surface transportation trade in December with Canada and Mexico totaled $74.2 billion, an 11.6 percent increase from a year earlier, according to the Transportation Department.

Orders for U.S. durable goods fell 4 percent in January, the biggest decline in three years, following the expiration of a tax break on equipment purchases.

South Carolina Gov.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Monday urged state transportation officials to “be bold, don’t be afraid” as they meet with members of Congress in what is likely to be a cruci

Forecasters surveyed by the National Association of Business Economics show growing optimism about the U.S.

Electronic container cargo booking in 2011 outpaced overall industry volume growth by nearly four-fold, according to figures released Monday by INTTRA, an electronic booking portal for the container s

After years of turning their backs on distribution centers as grey hulks full of low-paying jobs, more states and cities are knocking on cross-docks with incentives.

Chicago, the hub around which so many of the nation’s transportation assets spin, is home to two non-asset transport operators whose rapid growth underscores a significant shift in how U.S.

One of the smallest victims of Capitol Hill’s battle over transportation funding may be the one most missed by industry and government leaders who need solid data to create effective programs.