Supply chain

U.S. consumer sentiment rose more than expected as the holiday retail season got under way in early November, buoying freight transportation prospects, a widely watched index showed.

DHL announced a major expansion of its Asia-Pacific service logistics business in May, including a doubling of its footprint in India and China, expansions in Singapore and Japan, and a $70 million in

The cold chain may be the weakest link in distribution in China, and specialty U.S. trucker C.R. England sees that as an opportunity.

The Asia-Pacific region is filled with logistics challenges, including infrastructure, regulatory framework, licensing issues and disparate customs rules.

President Obama's deficit cutting panel delivered plans for transportation policy that include a gradual 15-cent increase in federal fuel taxes to shore up the Highway Trust Fund and a proposal that t

CEVA Logistics said its core profit jumped 26 percent in the third quarter over the same period a year ago to $117.9 million as revenue soared 32 percent and business grew sharply from the second quar

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told the governors-elect of Wisconsin and Ohio they cannot redirect federal passenger rail grants to other uses once they take office, so the Department of Transpor

The Maritime Administration awarded two contracts totaling $3.1 million for disposal of two ships in the Suisun Bay reserve fleet.

Chinese officials assured a U.S.

Memphis-based third party logistics provider Mallory Alexander International Logistics expanded into the Charleston, S.C., market with the acquisition of forwarder Tradesource from Atlantic Services G

A company that develops explosive-detection equipment for the military is expanding into the cargo world with technology that can sniff out bombs.

Wholesale inventories increased for a ninth consecutive month in September and grew faster than sales, suggesting that the restocking that has boosted transportation volume may lose steam in the month

India and the United States plan to create a $10 billion infrastructure debt fund as a public-private partnership to expedite investments in India's infrastructure, according to India's commerce minis

Worldwide shipments of personal computers grew 7.6 percent in the third quarter over last year, falling short of earlier projections thanks in part to lackluster growth in the United States, according

With the election over and Republicans set to take control of the House of Representatives with a big majority in January, policy experts expect Congress to do very little for months to sort out trans

The labor concessions approved by 62 percent of YRC Teamsters employees eliminate fears of an imminent shutdown at the nation’s largest trucking operator, both at its nationwide less-than-truckl

Winning a third round of concessions from its Teamsters employees gave YRC Worldwide its best shot yet at survival, extending until 2015 wage and benefit cuts it won last year and sharply reducing its

A pound of pentaerythritol tetranitrate — PETN — isn’t enough to bring down a target the size of the World Trade Center, but it’s plenty to blow a plane out of the sky.

The battle between the Teamsters union and the American Trucking Associations will drag out into next year, but the rules of engagement could change significantly.

The Obama administration isn’t letting a little politics-altering event like midterm elections get in the way of its passenger rail program.

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In 2011, capacity will be king.

Employment rose moderately within key U.S.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico was 25.3 percent higher in August 2010 than in August 2009, reaching

The Federal Reserve's policy panel said Wednesday it will buy $600 billion in long-term U.S.

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The wave of Republicans taking over the House on Tuesday swept out Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., one of the most passionate supporters of the Coast Guard and U.S. merchant marine in Congress.

The Cass Freight Index for U.S. shipments fell 5.2 percent in October from the month before, dipping to its lowest point in three months.

Net profit for Transport Corporation of India surged 38 percent from a year earlier to $3.3 million in the second quarter ending Sept.

Manufacturing growth accelerated in October as new orders and production surged to push the PMI index up 2.5 points to 56.9 percent, according to the nation's supply executives in a report on business

SHENZHEN, China — China’s government is sending a strong message that it wants to redirect the country’s huge export economy inward, focusing on growth in domestic consumption and in

The U.S.

Walter Arsenault doesn’t buy that organized crime has vanished from the Port of New York and New Jersey.

For an office at the heart of the federal government’s effort to harmonize international trade compliance and enforcement, Customs and Border Protection’s Commercial Targeting and Analysis

Retailers that survived the Great Recession through unprecedented, at times desperate, cost-cutting are transitioning from their slash-and-burn mentality to one of growth and prosperity next year and

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin wants to enlist customs brokers as “trusted partners” in securing the nation’s borders against contraband and weapons of mass d

Wanted: 28 candidates experienced in freight transportation, inland distribution and the marine highway system. Where: Washington, D.C. Contact: Maritime Administration.

Trucking operators have long fought calls for new fuel efficiency and emissions standards.

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Implementation of the employee-driver mandate in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan may not begin at the end of 2011 as planned. That appears to be the outcome of a ruling by U.S.