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New orders for U.S. factory goods fell more than expected in May on weak demand for transportation and electrical equipment, a sign that manufacturing remained mired in a soft patch.

The shipping industry is the most pessimistic in six years about its prospects as a fleet surplus persists, according to a survey by law firm Norton Rose Fulbright.

Growth at U.S. service industries picked up in June from a more than one-year low, signaling steady improvement in the biggest part of the economy.

Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company, has returned to the Port of Baltimore after an absence of two decades, state officials announced.

The Colorado Department of Transportation conducted a three-day evaluation of a helium-filled blimp to monitor traffic.

The twin 33-foot trailer, the first potential nationwide truck-size change in nearly three decades, could generate attractive cost reductions for fleets and broad public benefits in reduced truck traffic, industry experts said.

The starting point for limiting diesel emissions can be traced to a provision in a bill reauthorizing and expanding the Clean Air Act of 1977 that was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.