SPRINGFIELD — CRRC-MA will lay off employees for two months starting March 16 because needed subway-car shells from China are still held up at ports by American customs. CRRC’s news release says 161 ...

Facing months of customs delays on critical car shells and parts, the Chinese-owned railcar maker China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation announced Thursday that it will furlough 161 Springfield ...

The Trump administration’s trade war with China and across-the-board tariff policies will have a negative impact on the production of Orange and Red Line MBTA train cars, according to the ...

SARAH ERIKA AND BEN, AN OWNER OF A NORTH ATTLEBORO BUSINESS HERE, IS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE TARIFFS, NOT JUST FOR WHAT THEY MIGHT MEAN FOR HIS BUSINESS TODAY, BUT ALSO FOR THE FUTURE. IS LINING UP ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The manufacturer under contract to build the MBTA’s new Red Line fleet will furlough nearly half its workforce in Massachusetts this spring as subway car shells from China remain ...

SPRINGFIELD – U.S. Customs and Border Protection will release imported subway car shells that have been impounded for months, leading to furloughs at a Springfield factory. That company, CRRC MA, ...

A shipment of rail car shells are headed to Springfield, after being released from holding by the federal government late last month. The shells, shipped from China, are used at CRRC’s Springfield ...