Supply chain

McLeod Software, a software provider for the trucking industry, joined Descartes' United by Design program.

CEVA Ground, the domestic road transport services division of CEVA Logistics in China, achieved the Transported Asset Protection Association TSR-2008 validation.

Freight forwarder Echo Global Logistics will open an office in Dallas, Texas, on April 5.

Industrial real estate owner and developer AMB Property extended its development portfolio in Asia in the first quarter with 11 new leases in six properties in China, Japan and South Korea.

Freight shipping in the United States shot up to its highest level in nearly a year-and-a-half in March, signaling a surge in international shipping had reached U.S.

Tideworks Technology launched Intermodal Pro, a comprehensive terminal operating system for intermodal terminals.

GEFCO, a logistics provider for the industrial sector, is expanding on two continents as it doubled capacity at its Sete Lagoas site in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and signed a contract to distribute Renaul

What a difference a year makes.

Compliance, cost and control are three reasons customs clearance may soon be the purview of do-it-yourselfers.

When it comes to realigning U.S.

More than a year after taking office, the Obama administration is still looking for a chief of transportation security.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to unsnarl a tangle that leaves carriers and cargo owners questioning who should be liable for damages on cargoes shipped from a foreign port.

The Obama administration is forming a national freight transportation policy that can be boiled down to one concept: Get more trucks off the roads.

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., unveiled legislation on March 22 that would reform multi-employer pension plans.

For at least one trade-related industry, these are boom times.

Support for broad-based pension reform is growing in Washington as businesses and labor unions seek a federal fix for troubled union and corporate retirement plans.

U.S.

President Obama and members of his cabinet visited several manufacturers and freight shippers Friday to highlight jobs-producing federal investments amid signs the economic recovery is taking hold.

The federal government is sending out $338.9 million to 18 states and American Samoa to help them repair bridges and roads damaged by a number of storms in recent years.

March brought increases in employment across U.S. surface transportation industries, with mild job gains in trucking, rail and waterborne commerce breaking a long downtrend during the recession.

Economic activity for manufacturers surged in March at the fastest pace since July 2004, according to a survey of supply executives.

A congressional panel set a hearing for May 5 on proposals to allow the economic regulation of harbor trucking, an issue that has sharply divided shippers and trade groups from a handful of ports and

Kerry Logistics opened the first phase of a logistics center in Danang in central Vietnam.

New orders in the nation's factories in February increased $2.1 billion or 0.6 percent to $383.5 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday.

The Department of Transportation has paid out $10 billion to states for highway repairs and other transport project work completed under last year’s stimulus package to shore up the economy.

The Department of Transportation proposed a rule Wednesday that would make permanent a two-month-old ban on cell-phone texting by truck and bus drivers.

Patty Senecal, a former trucking industry executive and spokeswoman for the warehousing and goods movement industry in California, was hired as manager of Southern California operations for the Wester

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood tapped 10 leading analysts representing the freight industry, state highway agencies and academia to advise his Department on data it gathers.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico soared 19.5 percent from January 2009 to January 2010 in the largest

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Teamsters General President James P.

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is preparing to launch e-commerce operations in China and Japan as part of a global effort to increase its online presence, the Financial Times reports.

Criminal elements are becoming increasingly creative in using the internet to pull off cargo thefts throughout the supply chain, law enforcement detectives told a meeting of Harbor Truckers for a Sust

President Obama named Alan D. Bersin to be U.S.

U.S.

A Maine railroad’s plans to shut down 233 miles of track has state and federal officials scrambling to find ways to keep it operating for 22 freight shippers.

It may not be clear when the Senate might vote on a committee bill to tighten competition rules for freight railroads, but a key lawmaker says disgruntled rail executives know the legislation is

Four years ago, transportation spending at enterprise communications systems company Avaya was a relatively unmanaged process.

Leadership takes many shapes and forms. It can be controversial and unpopular. It can be innovative and revolutionary. It can be understated or in-your-face aggressive.

Customs administrations around the world are beginning to spin a web of mutual recognition agreements aimed at harmonizing supply chain security efforts and making goods flow more smoothly across bord