West Coast Marine Terminal Operators Association (WCMTOA), the 12 marine terminal operators at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, announced the implementation of an updated, unified set of business rules targeted at reducing port congestion and improve overall efficiency. Nicknamed “PierPass 2.0,” the revised OffPeak program by PierPass [...]
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) International Roadcheck initiative, founded in 1988, is the largest targeted enforcement program for commercial vehicles in world and conducted annually across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. This year, International Roadcheck is scheduled for June 5-7 with a specific focus on driver hours-of-service (HOS) [...]
On April 30th, the United States issued extensions and exemptions to preferred trading partners from the Section 232 steel and aluminum import duties. 30-day exemptions for steel imports have been issued to: Canada Mexico Australia Argentina South Korea Brazil European Union Post-June 1, full exemptions on steel imports will continue for: Argentine Australia [...]
International shippers are growing increasingly desperate as on-going strike activity causes innumerable backlogs to Port of Santos import operations. Brazil’s Receita Federal, represented by Sindifisco, the Customs officers’ union, have been staging all-day protests since October 2017. In February, the union received a four-month, full-pay extension from Brazil’s High Court [...]
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After a devastating winter that left rail lines and supply chains disrupted, shippers are about to take another setback as 3,400 rail engineers and conductors from Canadian Pacific (CP) walk out on strike this Saturday, April 21st, at 12:01am. Frustration mounted as labor unions went into negotiations after disspointing first [...]
After two weeks of heavy fog covering Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta area, visibility is finally clearing up. Operations at both WaiGao Qioa & Yangshan terminals in Shanghai are gradually resuming after almost 1,550 barges and ships have been delayed due to the weather. The Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration [...]
As the first quarter comes to a close, airfreight capacity is becoming strained in some fast-growing, region-specific markets. Similar to the issues shippers are experiencing at U.S. ports, air carriers are struggling to position equipment on imbalanced trade lanes to meet increasing demands of ecommerce and industries such as pharmaceuticals. [...]
It’s a trucker’s market in the U.S. as shippers levy tenured relationships and throw around their freight weight to push for containers to be picked up at congested ports, amidst a driver shortage and under new legislative time restrictions. Chassis availability and equipment positioning issues have further strained the domestic [...]
Economies hang in the balance as China and the United States begin a tit-for-tat dance on the international stage over technology and international property rights. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) published the list of approximately 1,300 proposed products imported from China that may be subject to additional [...]
