Supply chain

A requirement for U.S. flag ocean transport is impairing President Obama’s National Export Initiative, according to an export advocacy group.

CEVA Logistics signed a letter of intent to enter into a five-year contract to manage the principal European distribution center for Janssen Pharmaceutica, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials on Thursday released a report identifying 55 “urgent” capacity projects to improve freight movement.

With the deadline for proposed truck driver hours-of-service rules less than a month away, highway safety groups are calling for a dramatic reduction in the time truckers may spend behind the wheel.

The Federal Maritime Commission may lack the legal authority to order ocean carriers to increase capacity, but it still can be a force in helping U.S.

The Waterways Council and its allies are keeping up the pressure to change the Army Corps of Engineers’ infrastructure investment plans.

The freight surge of 2010 is nearing its end, an economic forecaster says.

Inventories held by U.S. wholesalers rose for a fifth consecutive month in May while sales fell for the first time since March 2009, the Commerce Department reported.

A U.S. appellate court Thursday upheld regulations governing the treatment of wood packing material in international commerce.

Increased financial turbulence and Europe’s debt crisis will cause global economic growth to slow after a faster-than-expected recovery during this year’s first half, the International Mon

President Obama said he will push to renegotiate a pair of stalled free trade agreements with Panama and Colombia and will urge Congress to ratify them.

President Obama on Wednesday named three top executives from the transportation and logistics industry to his revitalized National Export Council.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee last week approved legislation intended to hold oil companies accountable for spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster but could have implicatio

BDP International, a Philadelphia-based global logistics and transport group, completed the phased acquisition of Spanish logistics firm Euromodal.

Weak jobs, housing and consumer spending markets and the fading of government stimulus programs indicate slower U.S. economic growth during the second half of the year, said Nigel Gault, chief U.S.

The idea of abolishing ocean carriers’ antitrust immunity is riding a new wave in Congress as the outcry over tight capacity and equipment shortages in a stronger-than-expected recovery sustains

Shipper complaint cases against railroads are piling up at the Surface Transportation Board, despite the latter’s efforts to head them off through mediation.

Commissioner Alan Bersin is on a mission to get his Customs and Border Protection employees and the private sector to see supply chain security and trade facilitation as parts of a whole.

In a move with potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in impact on U.S. manufacturers, importers and the U.S.

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The closely watched Cass Freight Index for shipments grew 9.1 percent in June over the previous month, accelerating at a pace that contrasted with other slowing economic signals and reaching a new hig

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Orders to U.S. factories declined 1.4 percent in May, the biggest drop since March 2009, after eight straight months of gains, the Commerce Department said.

Transportation and warehousing added 14,600 jobs last month, an increase of 0.35 percent from May and 0.57 percent from June 2009, preliminary Labor Department data show.

U.S. jobs declined by 125,000 in June as a modest rise in hiring by private employers failed to offset layoffs of temporary census workers.

The Transportation Security Administration has made progress toward its goal of scanning all air cargo on domestic passenger flights by Aug.

Publicly traded airlines, railroads, trucking companies and ocean carriers based in North America are showing improved results despite expectations for a sluggish U.S.

The Obama administration is taking the first steps toward streamlining all aspects of export control under “four singularities,” National Security Director James Jones said Wednesday.

The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index slowed in June but was still at a level that suggested U.S. industrial growth.

APL Logistics and Sumitomo Warehouse formed a strategic alliance to jointly market their global supply chain services.

Shipments of smartphones in Western Europe soared 57 percent in the first quarter over last year, marking a dramatic shift in a mobile phone market that has become a foundation of the electronics indu

Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. on Wednesday suggested changes in the Shipping Act to allow the agency to resolve disputes between ocean carriers and shippers.

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The World Customs Organization on Saturday elected senior customs officials from China and South Africa to director positions in the international organization.

The federal government on Tuesday accepted 22 offers from 12 countries to assist in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the State Department announced.

Kuehne + Nagel said it opened a new distribution center near Riga in Latvia.

Truck safety groups are calling for a dramatic reduction in the time truck drivers are allowed to be behind the wheel, saying federal regulators should limit driving time to eight hours and a day and

A widely watched index of consumer confidence dipped sharply in June, weighed down by concerns about jobs.

Truck, train and pipeline shipments between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico totaled $65.8 billion in April, a 32.4 percent increase from a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported.

The nation's largest manufacturers' group called on the Obama administration Monday to enact a broad range of tax, labor and legal reforms it said would make the U.S.