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The Florida Ports Caucus met Tuesday to discuss the priorities and needs of the state’s ports.

Corporate compliance programs must protect against costly violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Task force agents conducted a weeklong enforcement blitz and found counterfeit Xanax pills, botox, transceiver network modules, e-cigarettes, Rolex watches and iPhones.

The Government Accountability Office said the Small Business Administration can take steps to improve oversight of its State Trade Expansion Program grants to states.

France’s Maritime Prefect of the Atlantic reportedly said Wednesday the sunken Grimaldi Group-owned ConRo ship was carrying 365 containers and more than 2,000 vehicles.

Lower labor costs make other countries alluring, but China’s transport infrastructure and container services make it hard to beat.

Appointments also announced by ClassNK, OmniTRAX, Transflo, Symphony RetailAI, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Solutions and Grote Industries.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer testified before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday during a hearing on World Trade Organization reform.

The legislation introduced Tuesday by a bipartisan group would reauthorize the act through 2024 at current funding levels.

Half a million dollars in fines assessed to importers for more than 10,000 engine imports that failed to meet federal emissions standards.

The oil, developed by GoodFuels and derived from used cooking oil and forest residues, does not contain sulfur oxide or require engine modifications.

Virginia-based flooring supplier haunted by 2015 missteps from investigation of defective, formaldehyde-tainted flooring imports from China.

All 27 people on the ConRo vessel owned and operated by the Italian Grimaldi Group abandoned ship early Monday morning and were rescued by the Royal Navy frigate HMS Argyll.

The Kaimana Hila, the sister ship to the Daniel K. Inouye, is expected to enter service in late April.

The Agriculture Transportation Coalition says replacing marine terminal with ballpark would be a step backward and limit potential export growth.

The cocaine shipment from Colombia is the second largest seized at the Port of New York and New Jersey in 25 years.

The executive committee of the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department set an agenda Monday that also eyed rail safety and combating commercial driver fatigue.

BP Marine says it conducted comprehensive testing of the new fuel that will comply with the IMO regulation that goes into effect next year.

The Bureau of Industry and Security is looking at export controls of technologies expected to facilitate development of the country’s future space policy.

The agency has extended the comment period for its “21st Century Customs Framework” initiative through April 11.