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Refrigerated containers are to be deployed in South America market.

Employers “hopeful that this will allow us to move toward conclusion of an agreement in the near term.”

BlueWater Reporting shows 15 of 25 services have some sort of schedule disruption to Oakland, reflecting how delays in Los Angeles and Long Beach have impacted carrier schedules.

Centralized industry offices will be able to uniformly process import documents better than ports.

Bureau of Industry and Security said its amended rules reflect the ongoing export control progress made between the United States and India.

Delivery of the letter is the final step that the United States must take toward the entry into force of this agreement.

Proposed rule would require carriers to obtain buyer/seller info for submission to EU customs authorities.

National Waterways Foundation study shows economic impacts and benefits of modernizing the aging U.S. inland waterways freight transportation network.

Liner carrier ZIM’s new service aims at monitoring temperature and security of sensitive containerized cargo, with the package particularly suited the pharmaceutical industry.

Ports using contingency anchorages as number of ships waiting for berths grow.

New Ti report finds online retailers see the strategic advantage of investing in e-commerce logistics, but have their profits weighed down by the costs of those investments.

Maersk Line’s newest regional ocean liner division hosted Governor Rick Scott and members of the press at its new office in Miramar.

The International Trade Commission determined that U.S. manufacturers of solar panels are being harmed by unfairly priced imports from China and Taiwan.

The International Trade Commission will re-examine the agreements suspending antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of Mexican sugar imports.

Schedule reliability indexes becoming important parameter in ocean carrier selection.

Annual conference expected to cover congestion, omni-channel and analytics.

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