WTO 11th Ministerial Conference The Chair of the WTO’s 11th Ministerial Conference, Minister Susana Malcorra, issued a plea to WTO members to engage with their citizens and make the case for the positive benefits trade brings for economic growth and development. USTR on WTO 11th Ministerial Conference USTR Robert Lighthizer spoke on five issues before […]
The world’s largest ocean carrier is looking to negotiate higher prices in client contracts for 2018, but “much depends on how the supply glut pans out,” Steve Felder, Mumbai-based managing director of Maersk’s South Asian unit told Bloomberg.
The Shanghai International Shipping Institute’s third quarter Global Port Development Report illustrated how cargo throughput at major ports across the globe grew by 6.4 percent year-over-year during the third quarter of 2017.
A month after adding truckload visibility, the freight API technology provider is now offering rail shipment status capability to its multimodal platform.
The Federal Aviation Administration proposed a $1.1 million civil penalty against Braille Battery, representing the largest civil penalty the agency has proposed for alleged illegal air transport of lithium batteries.
Bangladesh signed a $150 million financing agreement with the World Bank to modernize trade related infrastructure, systems and procedures in order to boost Bangladesh’s regional connectivity and trade with India, Bhutan and Nepal.
The Finnish logistics provider will utilize Orange Business Services’ Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to increase efficiency in its supply chain.
Omaha, Neb.-based Werner Logistics opened a new office in Laredo, Texas last week and expects the office will create 50-100 new jobs within the next few years.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has found “reasonable suspicion” that an importer of glycine is bringing the product into the United States from China via Cambodia as part of a transshipment scheme to evade U.S. antidumping duties.
French equipment supplier Daher is expanding its third-party logistics services to Paris-based aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation, with the contract between the two calling for the construction of a Daher logistics platform in a Paris business park.
Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) plans to utilize internet and automation technologies in its port complex to create “smart, green, hi-tech and efficient terminals” by 2020, according to local media source South China Morning Post.
The new route is expected to reduce the journey time between Shenzhen and Los Angeles to just over 12 hours, Air China said.
The Athens-based vessel owner and lessor has, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, entered into a time charter contract with Wan Hai Lines for one of its post-Panamax containerships, the 6,494-TEU m/v Hamburg.
The Swiss-based third-party logistics provider’s new integrated logistics control center in Shanghai will focus on automotive, consumer, high-tech, industrial, and pharma and healthcare industries.
The construction of a massive Hindu temple in Robbinsville, N.J., located roughly equidistant from New York City and Philadelphia, is underpinned by a long and winding containerized supply chain.
The Commerce Department will issue countervailing duty orders on imports of biodiesel products from Argentina and Indonesia following an International Trade Commission vote affirming that U.S. biodiesel producers are harmed by imports of these products.
Vietnam, China circumvents duty orders The Department of Commerce preliminarily determines that imports of certain cold-rolled steel flat products, produced in Vietnam using carbon hot-rolled steel manufactured in the People’s Republic of China, are circumventing duty orders. Subsidies provided to producers/exporters of cold-drawn mechanical tubing The Department of Commerce determines that countervailable subsidies are being […]
The pilot program will give participants the option to pay the taxes and fees online upon or prior to vessel arrival at the ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach; New Orleans; Gulfport, Miss.; and Mobile, Ala.
Maersk Line officially sold off Brazilian cabotage specialist Mercosul Line to CMA CGM on Friday.
United Parcel Service struggled to handle increased e-commerce volumes during the cyber week surge, but a UPS spokesperson on Monday told American Shipper its operations have retured to the “peak operating plan” after the initial cyber week surge.
