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E-commerce giant eBay and consumer products manufacturer Newell Rubbermaid are taking ownership stakes in Shipwire, giving the shippers strong roles in the management of the growing outsourced distrib

Freight carried by for-hire transportation carriers declined 1.8 percent in May from April to its lowest level since November, the Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Ind

The Department of Transportation’s payments to states for infrastructure work funded by the 2009 stimulus law reached $29.6 billion by the end of June, with thousands more road and rail construc

Switzerland-based Kuehne + Nagel was the largest international forwarder in 2010, handling of nearly a 10th of the world’s air and sea freight business by revenue, according to Transport Intelli

Fortune International Transport says its new membership in the INTTRA’s ocean shipping e-commerce network will give the Italian non-vessel operating common carrier better access to the global oc

Prologis, the world’s largest industrial property developer, said Monday it has signed four new lease agreements with third-party logistics providers totaling about 723,000 square feet of distri

President Obama is keeping his message about improving the nation’s transportation infrastructure front-and-center, using debate on the federal budget deficit to say a debt deal with Congress co

Major railroads are warning customers that shipment delays, detours and track outages from the flooding Missouri River could last weeks longer, suggesting the river will have disrupted

Japan’s competition oversight agency rejected an appeal from Yusen Logistics of the freight forwarder’s fine for violating antitrust laws in a global air freight pricing conspiracy, accord

Congressional committees moved three long-stalled free trade agreements closer to ratification as members held a “mock markups” for implementing the bills Thursday.

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Democrats wasted no time Thursday in denouncing House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jo

House Republicans on Thursday unveiled a $210 billion, six-year surface transportation bill they said could be leveraged to $450 billion, setting up a showdown with highway advocates and Democrats who

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The regulator of economic disputes between railroads and their freight shippers has slashed its filing fee structure, meaning rail customers can file a major challenge to freight rates for $350 instea

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Japan’s exports of agricultural, fishery and forestry products fell for the second straight month in May on a year-over-year basis, plunging 16.6 percent to 30.6 billion yen ($382.5 million), ac

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., on Thursday will try again to bridge a partisan gap in a push to develop legislation that would implement critical and controversial free trade a

Third-party logistics provider Echo Global Logistics expanded in the Southwest by acquiring Advantage Transport, a non-asset truck brokerage firm in Phoenix.

A long-awaited transportation bill will make its debut Thursday when the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee releases a "responsible, multimodal" spending plan likely to c

French ocean shipping company CMA CGM announced a series of rate increases and peak-season surcharges that will take effect on U.S. services this month and on other trades in August.

U.S. service industries expanded for the 19th straight month in June but growth slowed from May, the Institute for Supply Management said.

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Factory orders by U.S. businesses grew 0.8 percent in May, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a report that suggests improving confidence in the economy following a slowdown in the spring.

Crowley Maritime is bolstering its logistics capabilities in the Caribbean with the acquisition of Puerto Rico Freight Systems, a company specializing in freight consolidation and less-than-container

Exporting companies are starting to see the fruits of the Obama administration’s effort to streamline and modernize the outdated export control system.

There’s an odd disconnect in Washington these days — even odder than usual — on how, and how much, to invest in transportation infrastructure.

Customs and Border Protection is short-handed.

The industrial commodities sector that fuels factory production is sending worrisome signs to a global shipping business concerned with whether the economy is passing through a proverbial soft patch o

Manufacturing growth in the United States accelerated in June for the first time in five months, according to the Institute of Supply Management’s PMI report, bolstering hopes that a spring slow

Locating close to customers often is more important than tax and financial incentives in choosing distribution facilities, shippers told The Journal of Commerce Inland Ports conference in Chicago this

The Gartner research group raised its projection for global IT spending this year, saying the industry is absorbing the impact of Japan’s natural disasters and now will grow 7.1 percent in 2011.

Ken Kowal is one of a small but growing number of logistics professionals wired into social media.

Freight forwarder Leschaco named Mark Malambri president and CEO of the Germany-based company’s U.S. operations.

The Department of Transportation on Thursday announced a slightly scaled-down version of its popular TIGER transportation infrastructure grant program for 2011.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is adopting a five-year strategic plan that looks beyond truck and bus companies to include shippers and brokers in attempts to improve highway safety.&

Mexico may increase the $2.4 billion in punitive tariffs it places on select U.S. goods if the Obama administration fails to implement a cross-border trucking program.

Japan’s slumping exports to the rest of the world have begun to show clear signs of recovery for the first time since the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit the northeastern part of the cou

The Amtrak passenger system is borrowing $562.9 million in the largest-ever credit issued by a federal rail loan program to buy 70 locomotives for two high-density traffic corridors in the Northeast.<

Business groups rushed to praise new efforts to approve long-stalled free trade agreements with