A report issued Friday by the International Chamber of Shipping has indicated industry concerns of ballast water management between international and U.S. standards that could be costly or impossible to follow. Read More »

U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) served as chairwoman on Tuesday of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security during the third hearing in a series titled “Surface Transportation Reauthorization: The Importance of a Long Term Reauthorization.” Read More »

Increasing federal debt or delaying funding solutions not the answer Read More »

APICS and the American Society of Transportation and Logistics (AST&L) recently announced a merger, effective once the ratification has been approved by an AST&L member vote. Read More »

The need for transportation improvements far surpasses the amount of federal and state funding available, according to TRIP, a national transportation research group. Read More »

The National Council on Disability (NCD), an independent federal agency that advises the president, Congress and other federal agencies on disability policy, released an assessment Monday of surface transportation for people with disabilities. Read More »

The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) marked the 25th anniversary of its Adopt-A-Highway program on Tuesday. Read More »

Michigan’s Proposal 1, which would have raised the gas tax to 42 cents per gallon to pay for repairs to the state’s roads, failed by a landslide on Tuesday. More than three-fourths of voters in Michigan voted against the proposal to raise money for roads, as few as 17 percent of which were found to be in “good” condition by the Michigan Transportation Asset Management Council. The question of what to do now lingers. Read More »

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed a bill to improve transportation funding mechanisms into law Monday. Read More »

The Department of Transpotation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported this week that net profits for scheduled passenger airlines dropped to $7.5 billion in 2014 - down from $12.2 billion in 2013. Read More »

New Jersey Assembly Budget Officer Declan O’Scanlon (R-Monmouth) said Monday it is time put politics aside and find an acceptable solution for maintaining the state’s transportation infrastructure. Read More »

Civil and building construction company Tutor Perini Corp. announced today it has been awarded a $56.3 million contract by Amtrak to build the 11th Avenue extension to the concrete casing recently completed beneath the eastern rail yard of Hudson Yards in New York City. Read More »

Investing in the nation’s infrastructure on a long-term basis makes economic sense, officials said. Read More »

Both senators from Virginia and four representatives from Virginia and Washington, D.C. stressed the importance of keeping flight levels stable at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Tuesday. Read More »

New projects for the Maritime Administration’s Marine Highway Program seek to prepare for the transportation future of the United States. Read More »

U.S. transportation leaders are beginning to take more active steps to strengthen truck and bus traffic enforcement in order to make safety a higher priority. Law enforcement trainers recently gathered at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s ( FMCSA) national Training Center for the initial offering of the Large Truck and Bus Traffic Enforcement Train-the-Trainer course. Read More »

Diageo, a global producer of alcoholic beverages, has awarded NFI the Johnnie Walker Service Award for On-time Delivery, the company announced Wednesday. Read More »

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced Tuesday his approval of an investigation into the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) handling of an accident investigation from January 2014. Read More »

Carolinian service celebrates 25 years and Piedmont service marks 20 years Read More »

The Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office announced Monday that its updated Architecture and Turbo Architecture software are available for free download at the National ITS Architecture website. Read More »