United States: Transport

On March 18, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that the first wave of what it calls "Conditional Approvals" have been issued to exempt certain foreign-produced uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS)...

There has been a lot of orbital maneuvering in Washington over the past two weeks as the House Science Committee leadership rebuffed a proposed FCC rulemaking focused on space safety and admonished the commission not to drift beyond its spectrum mandate, a Senate bill sought to extend the International Space Station's life an additional two years and NASA announced it was reshuffling its lunar priorities yet again.

Orbital AI systems are already making consequential autonomous decisions (e.g., collision avoidance, data processing, communications routing) without human review and without a clear legal framework governing any of it.

On March 9th, 2026, maritime tracking data showed just one outbound vessel, bearing an Iranian flag, transiting the Strait of Hormuz, with no inbound movements recorded at all.

If you had to summarize Vietnam’s shipbuilding reset in one sentence for a shipping CEO or an investor in 2026, what is it really about?

On March 12, 2026, OFAC issued General License 134 (“GL 134”), creating a narrow authorization for the sale, delivery, and offloading of Russian‑origin crude oil...

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is expected to ramp up enforcement of the amended Airborne Toxic Control Measure for In-Use Diesel-Fueled Transport Refrigeration Units.

The sector continues to undergo huge transformation in the form of its dual, simultaneous revolutions: the EV transition and the digital revolution, in particular, the journey towards connected...

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