Transport, Trade and Regulation News

There are so many bogeymen out there that it's enough to scare an economist into using just one arm.

Standard & Poor's on Thursday said the outlook for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.'s debt ratings

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Radio frequency identification devices are all the rage today in supply chain

Kansas City Southern plans to upgrade its tools for Web-based transactions.The railroad plan

China is introducing a new automatic system to identify ships plying the Yangtze in an attempt to pr

WASHINGTON - A group of Senate Democrats are urging the Bush administration to work on labor, enviro

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Ocean carriers have invested millions of dollars to develop information techno

The United States has successfully concluded negotiations for a free trade agreement with Bahrain, w

The European Union explored ways to move forward in free-trade talks with Argentina, Brazil, Paragua

A leading Canadian farming and food alliance urged the federal government Wednesday to take a bigger

NEWARK, N.J. -- A truck driver who claimed to have suffered permanent facial injuries in a forklift

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate has approved the remaining nominees for the Surface Transportation Boa

Kazakhstan's national railway has announced plans to build a high speed rail line that will link Chi

Canadian National on Tuesday rolled out an ambitious five-year plan designed to keep the railroad on

Truckload carrier Swift Transportation Co. said it sees better-than-expected earnings in the second

Tibbett & Britten Group, the British international logistics service provider, has appointed Michael

WASHINGTON -- U.S. exports to Australia of coal, oil, gas and other energy products are expected to

Dutch mail, express and logistics group TPG expects its TNT Express unit to invest 94 million euros

During the week ending May 15, U.S. railroads increased carloads and intermodal loads 5 percent and

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva proposed a free-trade agreement with China to lessen d

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Republican and Democrat leaders in Congress have an agree

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Simmons Foods is using Total Logistics Control, a subsidi

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Shippers that aren''t responding to the new hours of serv

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.A growing number of grocery chains pressing a one-stop sh

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Escalating violence in Iraq is slowing but not stopping t

WASHINGTON -- Former Deputy Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection Douglas M. Browning, has j

The supply chain technology firm Concentrek released a document scanning, indexing and retrieval ser

Trucker and logistics provider USF Corp. said on Sunday that it is shutting down its USF Red Star op

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Air cargo shippers could see costs drop within the next f

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Ed Hamberger didn''t hesitate when asked at a recent publ

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.The rapid growth in the country''s intermodal business is

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Wal-Mart says its far-reaching project to have its major

Trucker U.S. Xpress Enterprises said that its board of directors has authorized a repurchase of up t

Click Commerce on Friday said it has agreed to acquire bTrade in a stock deal that would enable Clic

China's foreign trade will continue to grow rapidly in 2004, according to a report released by the M

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.IBM, the world''s largest technology company, is expandin

How do you really know? A carrier receives a manifest with a shipper's name and address. Does the ca

CHENNAI - FedEx Corp. has made India its largest testing ground for handheld pocket computers that w

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Several members of the House and Senate members are tryin

FedEx Corp. on Monday said it will put in place a general rate increase of 5.9 percent at its FedEx