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NEW YORK — Canadian Pacific has upped its offer for Kansas City Southern to approximately $31 billion, potentially reigniting a bidding war with rival railroad Canadian National.

Virginia's Commonwealth Transportation Board recently approved a $450,000 grant for Norfolk Terminal LP that will be used to improve goods movement at the facility.

The U.S. and Mexico failed to resolve a dispute over trade rules for cars during a meeting this week, threatening the goal of boosting regional manufacturing under their new trade pact.

To promote efficiency across the country’s supply chain, Commerce Committee Chairwoman Maria Cantwell recently pressed colleagues to advance legislation meant to enhance the flow of freight.

The Oakland City Council on July 20 approved a non-binding term sheet for a proposed waterfront ballpark at the Port of Oakland, yet neither trucking interests nor the Athletics baseball club was happy with the outcome.

Surging e-commerce is generating more package deliveries than giant couriers can handle, clogging retailers’ logistical pipelines and frustrating consumers. But the logjam is spawning startups with new ways of speeding deliveries.

In order to facilitate freight movement, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced $500,000 in grants to support critical repair and equipment replacement efforts at five river ports.

A group of federal transportation representatives held a roundtable discussion with local leaders and supply chain executives July 15 to discuss congestion at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

What if the solution to Pennsylvania’s transportation funding quagmire was all the brown boxes and padded envelopes left at people’s front doors?

Global vaccinations of seafarers are going too slowly to prevent outbreaks on ships from causing more trade disruptions, endangering maritime workers and potentially slowing economies trying to pull out of pandemic slowdowns.