The Dremel is a pretty useful hand-held rotary tool available typically at your local hardware store. It turns out it’s also pretty useful for describing just how ridiculously global supply chains have become. Dremel is a company founded in Racine, Wis., and now part of Germany’s Bosch Tool Corp. Looking at […]
Wheels Group Inc. has announced that Doug Tozer, Phil Tabbiner, Gordon Feeney, J.R. Kingsley Ward, John Stevens, and Greg Cochrane were elected as directors of the company at its annual and special meeting of shareholders held on June 21. Feeney will serve as the group’s lead director. He is a corporate director of the Davis […]
MavenWire, a provider of consulting, hosting, training, and application development in the global trade management (GTM) and Oracle systems space, has made two acqusitions to boost its Oracle-based offerings. The acquisitions include Singapore-based Integration Pte Ltd. and Enterprise Integration Pty Ltd. of Australia, collectively known as EII APAC. MavenWire said the companies will boost its […]
AgTC Executive Director Peter Friedmann said in the letter that additional time is needed to survey his membership. The comment period is due to expire July 8, but the AgTC is requesting a postponement until Aug. 8.
The United States on Wednesday asked the World Trade Organization to establish a dispute settlement panel to decide U.S. claims regarding China’s export restraints on rare earths, tungsten and molybdenum. The European Union and Japan have also requested similar WTO panels. “These materials are key inputs in a multitude of U.S. manufacturing […]
For big importers, customs experts are often the “go-to” staff for international trade answers. By Eric Kulisch Large companies differ in how they structure their trade compliance functions, but the best ones at leveraging regulations to their advantage tend to maintain in-house expertise for customs issues, invest in global trade management systems and have […]
Congressional conferees are close to a deal on a two-year highway transportation bill that maintains current spending levels and institutes policy changes to speed up delivery of construction projects and consolidate transportation programs.
Government officials found no stowaways on a containership docked in Newark, N.J. The search was ordered after a Coast Guard boarding crew thought they heard a knocking sound from within a container during a routine inspection.
Congress passed the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act this week, but did not include a provision aimed at improving supply chain safety. Among other things, the legislation will “for the first time, enable the FDA to: regularly inspect foreign drug manufacturing facilities, which supply 80 percent of the ingredients in […]
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has revised plans for raising tolls following an outcry by shipping companies over the increases. The ACP board of directors said it will defer increases from July 1 to October 2012, with a second increase in October 2013. “At the request of the industry, implementation of the new […]
A broad range of European transport organizations this week urged the European parliament to safeguard a 32 billion euro budget allocated to transport infrastructure between 2014 and 2020. “Achieving a complete and integrated resource-efficient and sustainable transport network, covering and interconnecting all modes, member states and regions must be seen as an essential investment […]
The outlook for most of the deep water U.S. Merchant Marine may not be rosy, but John Thackrah, executive director of the Military Sealift Command, said his organization is “growing.”
“Industrial action of varying lengths and degrees has already affected normal port operations in the majority of Brazil’s major ports including Santos, Paranagua, Salvador, Manaus, Santarem, Santana and Itacoatiara,” Inchcape said in the notice.
The U.S. Department of Commerce will announce in a few weeks the members of a new supply chain advisory committee, Michael Masserman, executive director for export policy, promotion and strategy, said Monday at a seminar in Chicago focused on growing U.S. exports. The federal advisory panel will include people from the public and private […]
President Obama has designated Irving A. Williamson, a Democrat from New York, as chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission for a term June 17, 2012 to June 16, 2014. Williamson was nominated to the ITC by President George W. Bush on Sept. 7, 2006; re-nominated on Jan. 9, 2007; and confirmed by […]
Virginia International Terminals (VIT) said it has implemented new terminal operating software at the Port of Richmond that provides real-time data on cargo to the terminal operator and customer. The software, called Navis SPARCS N4, unites the terminal’s entire operating system in a single format and provides critical data, in real-time, to its […]
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency is focusing on more fully utilizing space in ocean containers through consolidating shipments rather than splitting up shipments for individual customers, according to a report this week by Defense News. The agency had often left containers as much as one-third empty in an attempt to avoid combining shipments […]
The three executives are George Hearn, Ted Fordney, and Earl Agron. Hearn was most recently vice president of APL’s eastern U.S. region, while Fordney was vice president of the U.S. central region. Agron was vice president of security and environment.
Mediterranean Shipping Company says ships on four services out of North Europe to Asia are fully booked with export cargo. MSC said booking acceptance “for cargoes ex NWC and Scandinavia to Far East and Middle East on Silk, Lion, Swan and Condor Services are closed as all vessels are fully booked on weeks […]
