Supply chain

The Department of Transportation's payouts of stimulus checks to states for work on roads, bridges and other projects reached $17.134 billion as of Aug.

The board of directors at logistics provider OHL elected Scott McWilliams, currently chief executive officer, to the position of executive chairman of the board and selected Bert Irigoyen, current pre

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the U.S. increased 0.1 percent in July to 109.8, following a 0.3 percent decline in June, and a 0.5 percent increase in May.

Retailer Lowe’s will sharply scale back its inventory expansion in the second half of this year after seeing inventories grow ahead of sales in the second quarter, company officials said.

Former BAX Global leader Joey Carnes this week became chairman and CEO of MIQ Logistics, where he'll work with former BAX hand John Carr, president and COO.

Home Depot, gaining benefits from a long-term supply chain improvement program, says it reduced inventory holdings $38 million in the quarter ending Aug.

Industrial production increased 1 percent in July, driven by manufacturing, especially of motor vehicles and parts, according to a report Tuesday from the Federal Reserve.

In a followup to the Department of Transportation’s earlier allocation of $8 billion in stimulus grants for faster and expanded inter-city passenger rail service, the DOT said it has taken 77 ai

Mexico stepped up its pressure on the U.S. in the dispute over cross-border trucking on Monday, expanding the list of American goods that will be hit with punitive tariffs.

Stimulus money is rolling out of the Department of Transportation.

The Army Corps of Engineers is caught in a web of competing political, commercial and environmental interests that impairs its ability to maintain and modernize the nation’s waterway infrastruct

The Brussels-based organization that lobbied the European Union on behalf of liner shipping companies ceased those efforts last month but is staying open as a trade association.

Manufacturing, wholesale and retail inventories rose in June, reinforcing claims that the wave of goods restocking benefiting t

The Pennsylvania Transportation Commission approved a 24 percent cut in the budget for infrastructure improvements through 2022.

Retail and food services sales increased 0.4 percent from June to July, according to a report Friday morning from the U.S. Census Bureau.

CEVA Logistics boosted second quarter revenue 30 percent year-over-year to $2.244 billion on the basis of strong freight volume, particularly in the Americas and Asia Pacific, the global supply chain

Freight shipments as measured in ton-miles rose 0.2 percent in June from May, in the latest step of a gradual increase

The Department of Transportation unveiled eight marine highway project corridors around the country that it will help through $7 million in current grant funding plus future aid, and listed six major

The U.S. trade deficit widened in June to its highest level since October 2008 as exports slipped 1.3 percent while imports hit a record high, the Commerce Department said.

Former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, died Tuesday in a plane crash at Dillingham, Alaska, a fishing village on Bristol Bay in western Alaska. He was 86.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday 85 percent of the country will be connected by a high-speed rail network within 25 years.

China's export volume in July rose 38.1 percent from a year earlier, down from June’s 43.9 percent rate.

A Pakistani clothing manufacturer is accusing two U.S. freight forwarders of defrauding it out of some $207,000 in payments due.

U.S. poultry producers have the green light to export poultry to Russia.

A Chinese warehouse company and a U.S. company specializing in refrigerated cold storage are teaming up to provide a new cold storage option in China.

When the Denver Regional Council of Governments wanted to reduce travel time and vehicle emissions, it came up with an environmentally friendly Traffic Signal System Improvement Program.

The barge industry and inland waterways users voiced unanimous support for a 20-year capital spending plan for the Army Corps of Engineers to carry out much-needed construction and rehabilitation on t

White is the new green for companies in the cold chain that want to improve their environmental rating.

Freight shipment activity has signaled for weeks that the slowdown in the economic recovery was not tipping into a feared “double-dip” recession, and now a slew of official reports backs u

U.S. poultry producers have the green light to export poultry to Russia.

The Port of New Orleans is taking another step toward recovering from the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina by agreeing to build a dockside refrigerated terminal.

More than a year-and-a-half after paying $365 million for IBM’s global logistics operation, Paris-based Geodis says it’s ready to use the acquisition as a launch pad for expansion.

Norway’s Green Reefers this month joined the recently established Hamburg Reefer Pool, adding its fleet of 27 specialized reefer ships with capacities ranging from 263,000 cubic feet to 310,000

Rate increases for reefer trucking companies are not a foregone conclusion, according to a new survey by Transport Capital Partners.

Around 90 percent of customers using powered refrigeration to ship temperature-sensitive air freight are moving high-value pharmaceutical or health care products, according to Envirotainer CEO Thomas

Trucker C.R. England is taking its cold chain expertise to China, where the refrigerated transport specialist plans to buy a trucking company and set up a domestic distribution network.

Despite ongoing rumors that California’s transportation refrigeration unit regulations are on hold, a state agency already has issued $800,000 in fines.

One of the first questions raised after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion was whether shrimp and other seafood from the Gulf of Mexico was safe to eat.

Kuehne + Nagel launched temperature-controlled less-than-containerload services in Japan, tailored to specific requirements of the wine and spirits industry.

Leaders of several U.S. agricultural groups are calling for China to increase its imports of U.S. food products. Economists say it’s not only possible, but also inevitable.