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The $5.9-billion deal includes KTR’s real estate assets and operating platform.

Trade Trends with Taneli Ruda    Never in history has trade expanded at the rate it is today. People are doing business with each other from every corner of the globe. Trade is on an exponential upward curve, growing as it has for decades at 6 to 7 percent per annum.    The reasons for this are multifold: enlightened and […]

Strategic View with Walter Kemmsies    Problems with aging and potentially failing U.S. infrastructure are being increasingly publicized and debated. The debates have been prolonged partly because estimates of expenditures needed to bring infrastructure back to a state of good repair are in the neighborhood of 10 percent to 33 percent of GDP. As the debate continues, the infrastructure continues to crumble and […]

A shipper that treats cargo transit risks proactively is one that benefits from low cargo insurance premiums, and more importantly, benefits from less disruption to their supply chain, and that of their trading partners.

XVELA, a unit of Navis, aims to help carriers and port terminals work together.

Long Beach port official calls for more flexible testing of antipollution technology in maritime market to speed innovation.

   Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement are entering the homestretch, although whether a deal gets completed by the end of the year remains an open question. These types of multilateral talks are complex, take years to put together and frequently seem to encounter some sort of last-minute stumbling block. And Congress still […]

   Channel Construction chartered a barge on three occasions to Northland Services between 2010 and 2012. Northland used it as a platform to generate electricity and refrigeration of fish products.    In the summer of 2011, the barge began developing a starboard list, which William Tonsgard Jr., Channel’s president, was concerned might be caused by […]

   The full-size Transit cargo van posed a logistics challenge for Ford Motor Co. when production began last summer at the company’s plant in Kansas City. The van has a high roof that allows delivery drivers to stand upright in the vehicle, but that prevented the vehicle from being loaded in traditional, two-story auto railcars.  […]

Company calculates full domestic production outweighs benefits of tariff engineering.

Breaching a monitoring system provides a bloodless means to attack a system. Especially if the attack is supported by false data being introduced into the system to make those monitoring it believe everything is absolutely normal.

East Coast ports found it difficult to distinguish between ad hoc and normal rotations.

   When the World Customs Organization set out to establish the SAFE Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, it handpicked a group of shippers and trade association representatives to provide industry input on supply chain security measures.    That group, the Private Sector Consultative Group, […]

Customs organization ready to assist members with implementing WTO agreement.

Air Transport with Jon Ross    In mid-March, the Federal Aviation Administration finally caught up to the times and issued the OK for Amazon to move forward with testing its Prime Air drone delivery program in the great outdoors.     From the moments after the 60 Minutes unveiling of Jeff Bezos’ drone delivery program in […]

Inland port, logistics park, highway and freight rail to be co-located outside Muscat.

Container Analytics with Ben Meyer    Much has been written in recent months about the congestion issues at U.S. West Coast ports. Contentious labor negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and its employers, represented by the Pacific Maritime Association, exacerbated those issues, costing shippers millions of dollars in merchandise delays and lost sales. […]

CBP Commissioner Kerlikowske pushes Hinojosa to lead key WCO directorate.

Some cargo diverted from West Coast ports during recent congestion crisis will stay.

Marine terminals sees congestion as precursor to challenges from Panama Canal.