Supply chain

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.

China remains undersupplied with international-grade warehouse facilities, but the logistics real estate sector offers long-term growth prospects, according to a new report from Jones Lang LaSalle.

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.

Growing e-commerce is making prom kings and queens out of markets typically seen as wallflowers compared to port regions.

Transactional freight payment data is the mother lode of logistics information, the bedrock on which strategic benchmarking and transportation modeling rests.

A new Department of Transportation report detailing the need to spend $101 billion annually, plus inflation, over the next 20 years to maintain the U.S.

A slowdown in auto manufacturing growth and natural gas extraction in February left U.S. industrial output unchanged from January, when production rose 0.4 percent, according to the Federal Reserve.

Irish brewer Guinness is tapping a deep thirst in America, with U.S.

The Senate-passed transportation bill gave advocates for more dredging funds good news on Wednesday.

The Panama Canal Authority&rsquo;s Board of Directors appointed Jorge Luis Quijano, the engineer in charge of building the canal&rsquo;s new set of locks, as the new Panama Canal Administrator.

The fuel-based Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index rose 0.7 percent in February after falling 1.7 percent in January from December, pointing to an improvement in trucking but also a fragile economic

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 &ldquo;manufacturers&rsquo; increasing confidence in future growth,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s Automated Commercial Environment isn&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;re multi-channel, and that&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 &mdash; 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&rsquo;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.