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Business inventories were unchanged in January, the Commerce Department said Friday.

U.S. consumer confidence declined this month, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Retail sales rose 0.3% in February, the fourth increase in four months, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Oil finished the week over $81 a barrel near a two-month high, as investors speculated that inventories could decline next week, Bloomberg reported.

System Logistics Corp. said it has established a new group within its company dedicated to complex and large scale supply chain projects.

The Information Technology & Logistics Council and National Accounting & Finance Council will hold their annual meetings May 3-5 in Amelia Island, Fla.

Canada has delayed its plan to require carriers with incoming shipments to submit manifest information electronically to the Canada Border Services Agency, the Canadian Trucking Alliance said.

Canada-based transportation firm Trimac Income Fund earned C$1.2 million, or 2.3 cents per unit, in the fourth quarter, compared with C$3 million, or 10.9 cents, a year ago.

Numerous national health and safety organizations have come together to petition and support the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s regulation to ban cell-phone use in commercial vehicles.

The ongoing refusal of the U.S. government to honor the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement is about to claim some new, and as yet unknown, victims.