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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will take comments on its proposed truck driver hours of service rules until March 4 and hold what may be the last public "listening session" on its pro

Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said he is "deeply disappointed" at Wednesday's decision by Gov.

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Plenty of other states will want the passenger rail money that Florida's governor rejected, said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, while the canceled high-speed rail project could have eased conges

U.S. steel exports jumped 29.3 percent to 12 million tons last year despite a 0.1 percent dip in December volume, government data show.

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U.S. industrial production fell 0.1 percent in January as a weather-related decline in utility output offset a continued upswing in manufacturing, the Federal Reserve said.

DB Schenker is setting up a logistics center in Leipzig, Germany, to supply auto components to BMW car plants in China and South Africa in one of the company's largest ever projects.

President Obama's proposed budget would breathe new life into a cross-border trucking agreement with Mexico, allocating $50.

The president’s proposed 2012 budget on Monday left a manufacturing association and a water resource group dissatisfied with the changes.

President Obama's proposals for a $556 billion, six-year surface transportation bill, and a

The White House is seeking a 10 percent increase in motor carrier safety funding in its 2012 budget proposal as part of a $4

U.S. retail sales rose 0.3 percent last month, the seventh straight monthly increase but the weakest gain since June, the Commerce Department said.

Japan and India will sign a free trade agreement Wednesday to eliminate import tariffs on most products traded between the two giant Asian economies, the Japanese government announced Tuesday.

The Department of Transportation's budget would increase 66 percent to $128 billion under the president's proposed 2012 budget

The Army Corps of Engineers will have nearly $1 billion cut from 2010 expenditures for civil works, and what money remains will be concentrated on waterways and harbors with the greatest levels of com

The president's 2012 budget proposes a modest increase for the Department of Homeland Security, up 0.7 percent to $43.2 bill

The budget plan President Obama sent to Congress would sharply expand the Department of Transportation's discretionary grants program, which covers multi-modal construction projects, and would create

A strong majority of Americans want better roads and bridges, but they want someone else to pay for them, according to a survey released Monday.

President Obama is asking Congress for a six-year surface transportation spending plan that would spend $556 billion, including a $50 billion quick-start investment piece similar to what he proposed i

What do a crushed stone supplier in Texas, automobile producers across the U.S. and the Washington state potato industry have in common?

A year ago, Customs and Border Protection promised to take a new route to completing the Automated Commercial Environment.

Even before regulators consider bringing various “exempt” rail shippers under federal processes that allow them to file rate and service complaints against railroads, the Department of Tra

Janet Napolitano is taking her message about global supply chain security on the road — and across the oceans.

The last five years produced a high, low and then a rebound in merger and acquisition activity in the transportation and logistics markets.

A former House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee staff member faces up to seven years in prison after

Importers would see a 60 percent increase in transportation taxes if Congress approves a measure aimed at raising revenue for national freight transportation.

The Federal Maritime Commission on Feb. 16 will take up the thorny question of exempting non-vessel-operating common carriers from maintaining published tariffs.

Rising prices for imported crude oil caused the U.S. trade deficit in December to increase 5.9 percent from the previous month, the Commerce Department said.

Amazon.com says it will close its distribution center in Irving, Texas, because the state is demanding the Internet retailer pay $269 million in sales taxes.

Looking to cut landed costs, ARCOP announced in November 2010 it had selected Transplace as its 3PL to manage shipments throughout the United States.

GT Nexus defines landed costs as “the sum of all expenses to purchase, transport and import goods from one place to another, within a country or across continents, including border fees, duties,

The global economic downturn halted, at least for a time, the moves by many companies to manage the movements of goods through supply chains under the principles of total landed costs.

Congress may tackle an overhaul of the tangled transportation security credentialing system.

The number of people filing for state unemployment benefits dropped to a two-and-a-half-year low last week, the Labor Department said in a report that indicated the U.S.

Italian authorities are looking for a way of disposing of a container containing radioactive material that has been sitting on the dock at the port of Genoa for more than six months.

DP World opened a new inland container terminal in ceremonies Thursday in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., Wednesday introduced legislation to reduce truck pollution at container ports -- and to make it easier for the Teamsters union to organize harbor truck drivers.

What is being billed as a “common sense” bill to reduce regulatory burdens would remove a congressionally-imposed December 2015 deadline for railroads to deploy positive train control technology on ro

The Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Index, which measures shipment volume in ton-miles, rose 1.5 percent in December from its November level.