Aboard New Aircraft Carrier, President Trump Calls for ‘Major Expansion’ of Navy Fleet
By Ayesha Rascoe NEWPORT NEWS, Va., March 2 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wants a U.S. military buildup of more ships and planes
By Ayesha Rascoe NEWPORT NEWS, Va., March 2 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wants a U.S. military buildup of more ships and planes
By Andrew Mayeda (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Wilbur Ross was confirmed as U.S. Commerce secretary by the Senate, clearing the way for one of President
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is seeking what he called a “historic” 9 percent increase in military
By David Stringer and Danielle Bochove (Bloomberg) — The head of the world’s biggest mining company intensified his warnings that U.S. trade
By Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina BEIJING, Feb 26 (Reuters) – The PLA Navy is likely to secure significant new funding in China’s upcoming
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of the Navy withdrew from consideration on Sunday, the second time
By Austin Weinstein (Bloomberg) — So far, President Donald Trump has mostly declared policy 140 characters at a time, or through flurries of executive
By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, the owner of the world’s biggest container shipping line, is paying particular attention to
By Enda Curran (Bloomberg) — If Donald Trump slapped China with punishing tariffs, the pain would also be felt by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan,
President Trump’s Executive Order on immigration and travel to the United States has immediate implications for ships calling at U.S. ports, particularly
In a 93 to 6 vote, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Elaine Chao as head of the U.S. Department of Transportation in the Trump Administration. Hours later
By Marc Frank HAVANA, Jan 25 (Reuters) – A Cuban trade delegation arrived in the United States this week to visit four states and six ports, even as the
By Jennifer Jacobs, Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Meenal Vamburkar (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump took steps to advance construction of the Keystone
By Toluse Olorunnipa, Kevin Cirilli and Austin Weinstein (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump abruptly ended the decades-old U.S. tilt toward free
By David Lawder WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico will be the Trump
By Julia M. Palmer (Holland & Knight) – Although the Trump Administration’s plans for significant infrastructure investment, including key
By David Lawder WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Wilbur Ross, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Commerce Secretary, has pledged to sell his
By Chester D. Hooper and Christopher R. Nolan (Holland & Knight) – Much has been theorized in the past two months concerning whether the Trump
The U.S. Navy is looking at an average annual cost of nearly $21 billion to reach its goal of 308 battle force ships, about one-third more than amount of
By J. Michael Cavanaugh and Eric Lee (Holland & Knight) – Once he assumes office on Jan. 20, 2017, President-Elect Donald Trump will be responsible
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