The U.S. Department of Agriculture agency looks forward to receiving import documentation through Customs and Border Protection’s International Trade Data System.
The shipping giant has teamed up with JDA to boost warehouse and supply chain visibility
Container ships are setting new records, but for all the wrong reasons, as the vessels become an increasingly popular way to smuggle drugs. As FreightWaves’ Mike King reported, the Maersk Gibraltar, which can carry the equivalent of 5,000 common shipping containers, was the site of the U.K.’s largest drug bust as authorities found about 1.2 […]
Getting to Zero Coalition, which includes Maersk Line, calls for “commercially viable zero-emission vessels” to be deployed on deep sea trade by 2030.
The number of containers is a better bellwether of global trade than the number of container ships.
Team of rivals? The competing ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are looking at additional ways to cooperate for their mutual benefit.
The $42.3 million bust is the latest in a string of global maritime drug seizures at sea and in ports.
Forwarder outlines pathway to carbon neutral future as climate change takes on new urgency.
Customs and Border Protection explores electronic methods to capture data on the estimated 1.8 million package shipments valued at less than $800 arriving in the U.S. each day.
Truck driver Terry Damon will receive a total of A$1.7 million (US$1.15 million) of compensation from his employer, a shipper and a consignee, after they collectively caused him to suffer a severe injury to his back.
Capital-market sentiment is so bad in New York that ship owners may end up raising more money in Oslo this year.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission set the new comment deadline for its notice of proposed interpretive rule to address demurrage and detention practices to Oct. 31.
BIMCO says there are “several indications” that goods are being shipped from the Far East to Europe and then transshipped to the U.S. East Coast to avoid tariffs.
The Treasury Department adds two banks to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List in response to Iran’s alleged involvement in missile attacks against Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities.
Academics look at the trade imbalance between the United States and China and weigh in on possible fixes.
FIATA warns that higher air, ocean and trucking fuels costs will be passed directly on to customers.
Blockchain to be deployed by VAKT to smooth the post-trade process
Through the continued development of automated processes, U.S. Customs and Border Protection foresees the day when paper export manifests will no longer be necessary.
In a wide-ranging speech, the deputy director-general of the WTO, Alan Wolff, sets out the challenges and issues for the body. But he’s generally optimistic on the future of world trade.
