Potholes in the Detroit area are causing headaches for the people who live there, including truck drivers.  Residents in Clinton Township, Michigan just outside of Detroit say that the potholes in the Detroit area are so bad, they’ve been damaging vehicles. The poor roads are also causing safety issues, because drivers are paying more attention ...more

Semi-trucks enter an inspection area at the Otay Mesa port of entry on the US-Mexico border in San Diego. (Ariana Drehsler/Bloomberg) The Department of Transportation recently announced it will proceed with a $150 million grant to build a road and port of entry facility along the San Diego-Baja California border region. Secretary Sean Duffy on ...more

Gantry cranes and shipping containers at the Yantian International Container Terminals in Shenzhen, China, on April 7. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg) The World Trade Organization slashed its forecast for merchandise trade this year as soaring U.S. tariffs and broader uncertainty hammer international commerce. The Geneva-based WTO expects the volume of world merchandise trade to decline by 0.2% ...more

The AI agents can perform numerous tasks like price quoting, processing orders, acquiring trucking capacity, setting delivery appointments and supply chain tracking. (Business Wire) C.H. Robinson has expanded its proprietary fleet of artificial intelligence agents to handle more tasks across the life cycle of a shipment, the company announced April 16. The company launched the ...more

This image provided by South Bow shows a spill from the Keystone oil pipeline that occurred April 8 near Fort Ransom, N.D. (South Bow via AP) The operator of the Keystone oil pipeline brought the conduit back into service, putting an end to a weeklong outage caused by an estimated 3,500-barrel spill in rural North ...more

Worker at the headquarters of Hongkong Post on Jan. 6. (Li Peiyun/VCG/Getty Images) HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s post office will stop shipping small parcels to the United States after Washington announced plans to charge tariffs on small-value parcels from the southern Chinese city, the government said April 16. The U.S. government earlier announced that ...more

Workers stock shelves at a warehouse in Baltimore. (Nathan Howard/Bloomberg) U.S. importers looking to sidestep Trump administration tariffs are desperately seeking space in a type of warehouse that lets them stash merchandise for as long as five years without paying duties. Customs bonded warehouses, which date to the 19th century, have long appealed to importers ...more

Gavin Newsom in 2024. (Jeff Chi/Associated Press) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said April 16 that his state will file a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs that have set off a global trade war. The suit will argue that Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ...more

Japan's top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa on Oct. 1 in Tokyo. (Hiro Komae/AP) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he’s joining some of his top economic advisers on April 16 for negotiations at the White House over tariffs and trade with a top Japanese official who is traveling to Washington for the talks. The Republican ...more

President Donald Trump signing an executive order. (Al Drago/Bloomberg News) President Donald Trump signed a directive April 15 aimed at bolstering the use of technology in the permitting process for infrastructure developments, part of a broader administration effort to cut red tape and speed the approval of new projects. The memorandum directs executive departments and ...more