Erdal Kuyumcu, the chief executive officer of Woodside, N.Y.-based Global Metallurgy, was sentenced to nearly five years in prison following his June 14, 2016 guilty plea for conspiracy to illegally export a controlled metallic powder to Iran.
Net orders for North American Class 8 trucks totaled 20,700 units in July 2017, up 14 percent from the previous month and 50 percent from the previous year, according to freight transportation analyst FTR.
President Trump made statements last week calling for the United States to possibly withdraw from its five-year-old free trade agreement with South Korea, but business leaders in both countries say that now is not the time for taking this type of action.
FY17 TIGER Discretionary Grants program The Department of Transportation is soliciting applications for TIGER Discretionary Grants, which will be awarded on a competitive basis. Brexit: Ireland and Northern Ireland The European Commission has set out its principles for the political dialogue on Ireland and Northern Ireland in the Brexit negotiations, including the Good Friday Agreement. […]
Roberto Azevêdo, who started his second four-year term as the director-general of the World Trade Organization on Sept. 1, said there’s “no doubt that this is a testing time for global trade.”
The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, combined with the looming threat of Hurricane Irma, which is likely to reach South Florida this weekend, is causing trucking costs to surge, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
The South Korean ocean carrier’s first blockchain technology adopted pilot voyage involved the transport of reefer containers from Busan, South Korea to Qingdao, China.
The Steel Manufacturers Association, a trade group that represents 30 of the largest steel producers across North America, has asked the U.S. government to help protect the country’s last solar panel manufacturers from a surge of cheap imports.
The Commerce Department has postponed its final determinations for the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations into softwood lumber imports from Canada until Nov. 14.
In a June proposal, UPS suggested that seasonal drivers utilize their personal vehicles for deliveries, a move the Teamsters union staunchly opposed in a letter earlier this month.
The new Qatari seaport will help “circumnavigate Arab sanctions” that previously shunted Qatar’s global trade, according to multiple media sources.
The acquisition of a 90 percent stake in TCP Participações S.A., the operator of the second largest port in Brazil, will cost the China Merchants Port Holdings $920 million as the Chinese company looks to kickstart its expansion into South America.
The U.S. Transportation Department on Wednesday said $500 million is now available in the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery program for state and local infrastructure projects.
The integration gives transportation management system provider Cloud Logistics’ users access to lane- and equipment-specific rate benchmark data to incorporate in spot quote decisions.
A World Trade Organization appellate body panel has rejected the European Union’s claim that a Washington state tax unfairly benefited Boeing’s 777X program, but Europe’s Airbus says the subsidy spat is far from over.
The U.S. Commerce Department has preliminarily found that steel wire rod imports from Italy and Turkey received countervailable subsidy rates of 1.7 to 44.18 percent and 2.27 percent, respectively.
Vietnam will once again start accepting imports of U.S. distillers dried grains (DDGS), after it had suspended these shipments in December 2016 due to a detection of quarantine pests.
Currently, when registering a ship in Denmark, a one-time fee of one per thousandth of the value of a ship is charged, plus a mortgage registration fee, representing one per thousandth of the value of the deposit.
Saddle Creek Logistics Services hires vice president of business development; and FlexiVan appoints president and chief operating officer, and executive vice president and chief commercial officer.
