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Canada’s national postal service is shut down today because of a company lockout, as Canada Post abruptly sent home its 50,000 workers in what appears to be an attempt to force back-to-work legi

The UK’s Royal Mail reported operating profit slumped 78 percent to $63.6 million in the 2010-2011 financial year from $293 million in the previous 12 months as mounting losses in letters and pa

Overall retail sales fell in May for the first time in 11 months but the decline was less than expected and due largely to a sharp drop in auto sales, government data show.

The Bank of Japan upgraded its assessment of the domestic economy for the first time in three months, as the country is making progress in efforts to restore supply chains disrupted by the March 11 tw

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Most major economies are showing signs of "a mild loss of growth momentum" in the next few months, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said.

Canada’s 10-day series of rotating postal strikes mushroomed Monday to 10 cities in seven provinces as a potentially more damaging strike at Air Canada loomed for midnight.

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Logistics technology provider Descartes Systems Group is acquiring software specialist Telargo to add new mobile information capabilities to trucking operations systems.

Shippers and carriers are complaining about a Puerto Rico Ports Authority plan to require electronic imaging of every domestic container and trailer arriving from the U.S.

With one of North America’s most dramatic bridges as a backdrop, Michigan Gov.

Proposed changes to export rules that would eliminate post-departure filing on all but a select number of agricultural shipments are raising the ghosts of battles on trade facilitation vs.

In less than 10 years, China will be crisscrossed by a national highway system 53,000 miles long that will cover all the country’s cities with populations of 250,000 or more, all logistics parks

House Republicans introduced a bill to reword the Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act of 2007 with such changes as the measurement of lead content.

The threat level is rising along with the water along the Mississippi River, endangering two-thirds of U.S.

The National Industrial Transportation League is urging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration not to change the truck driver hours-of-service rules.

U.S. wholesalers’ inventories rose 0.8 percent last month, held down by tighter automotive inventories, while sales increased 0.3 percent, the Commerce Department said.

President Obama is keeping open the option of drawing oil out of the U.S.

Two national trucking groups called on the Department of Transportation to begin researching the benefits of crashworthiness standards for heavy trucks.

Record exports fueled by a slumping dollar combined with a drop in automotive and oil imports to shrink the U.S. trade deficit in April by 6.7 percent to $43.7 billion, the lowest since December.

Customs and Border Protection announced a major step toward fulfilling a 10-year-old goal of giving importers a “single window” to government.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce leaders said Wednesday that the U.S. and Mexico should elevate their efforts to promote security and trade facilitation at the border.

Freight volume carried by for-hire transportation companies in April fell 1 percent from the previous month but was up 3.7 percent from April 2010, the Transportation Department reported.

The Baltic Exchange’s new electronic marketplace for dry freight derivatives, Baltex, began trading today.

The board of directors at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce elected Iowa trucking industry executive John Ruan III as chairman for a one-year term.

U.S. shippers moved more freight than normal in the first quarter, as a wave of inventory restocking hit earlier than in 2010, according to a shipper survey.

The Department of Homeland Security, in a move that would be welcomed by long lines of beleaguered travelers, is considering letting most airline passengers go through airport security screening witho

Japan’s trade deficit with the rest of the world soared more than three-fold to a record in the first part of May as the country’s exports withered in the wake of the

The combination of Mississippi River flood water levels dropping and the river’s bottom silting up is creating what some call a navigation emergency in the channel between New Orleans and the Gu

Geodis Wilson strengthened its position in the U.S.

Japan and India will put a free trade agreement into force on Aug.1, ushering in a new era of trade between the two giant economies by eliminating import tariffs on most products moving between the co

A key measure of freight shipping in the United States slipped back 0.2 percent in May from the month before, a new sign that the economy is losing momentum heading into the summer.

The State Assembly will most likely not address a bill that would classify drayage truck drivers at California ports and intermodal rail yards as employees, although it could be taken up next year.

The Department of Transportation’s payouts to states for work done under the 2009 economic stimulus law went above $28.4 billion as of May 20, the government reported, a

Union Pacific Railroad will pay $25 million to settle a longstanding dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency over lead cleanup costs for a Superfund site in Omaha, Neb.

The Federal Maritime Commission is back in business and reopened today after being closed all week because of

Transport Corporation of India, the Asian country’s largest integrated supply chain and logistics service provider, on Thursday posted net profit of $11.4 million for fiscal 2010-11, a 20 percen

The Federal Maritime Commission announced that its offices remain closed on Thursday while the local electric utility attempts to restore power to the building that houses its offices.

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