seaports

The government’s long-awaited National Multimodal Freight Network has finally kicked off with a two-month request for information to help map out facilities and routes.

The TWIC program provides drivers with government identification cards, like a driver’s license, to access secured maritime facilities and vessels. U.S. citizens and certain immigration categories can apply for the program.

Here’s a look at commercial seaports.

The Agriculture Transportation Coalition, together with TradeLanes, surveys hundreds of American shippers about the cost to their bottom lines of uncommunicated earliest return dates from ocean carriers.

The inability of ocean carriers to timely inform shippers of schedule changes results in costly logistics disruptions and potential for lost international sales.

The Port of Veracruz, one of Mexico’s largest maritime trade ports, has a 100-year concession with an entity called Administración Portuaria Integral de Veracruz.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Nuvocargo raises $5.3 million for cross-border freight operations; Nogales importers donate free produce to the community; cargo at Mexico’s seaports decline during the first quarter; CBP seizes 352 pounds of marijuana at Santa Teresa port of entry.

California port officials and other speakers sounded the alarm about sea level rise and storm surge.

China’s ports have handled just under 4.3 billion tons of cargo between January to April. The country’s main seaports have also handled 82.3 million TEU.