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The U.S. Congress has sent President Bush a bill to renew the ban on imports from Burma because of the military regime's human rights violations. The government denied much needed foreign aid to enter the country following a devastating cyclone earlier this year. On Thursday, the Senate passed the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act following a voice vo...
Citigroup said last week that transportation constraints in Australia will cap the amount of coal the country is able to export until at least 2014, Bloomberg reported. An analyst from Citigroup said that prices of coking coal may reach a record in April due to insufficient rail capacity to deliver the material to Australian ports. Ports themselves ar...
The European Union last week decided to end preferential tariffs for Vietnamese-made footwear and other products starting Jan. 1, news agencies reported. At a European Commission meeting to renew the EU's system of general preferences for products from developing countries from January 2009 to the end of 2011, the body withdrew Vietnam's preferential ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to delay by at least six months deployment of a new cargo manifest processing system expected to help improve cargo flows, according to Louis Samenfink, executive director of the cargo systems program office. The agency was scheduled to roll out in mid-to-late October the electronic manifest function for ocean ...
Kuehne + Nagel A.E. At the annual general meeting of the Kuehne + Nagel group of companies in Greece on July 21, 2008, the decision was taken to establish Kuehne + Nagel A.E. to provide the full range of logistics services under one brand. The new company will be headquartered in Athens and operate branches in Thessaloniki and the Attica region. Manag...
The increasing importance of Central Asia in the world oil and gas business has prompted the establishment of the GAC’s latest new company, in Kazakhstan. GAC Kazakhstan LLP was officially registered in June this year in Almaty, the country’s old capital and commercial centre. Its initial goal was to secure logistics business conducted with GAC China ...
Delegates to the 88th Convention of the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District, International Longshoremen's Association unanimously passed a resolution calling on the union to support members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in their negotiations with the Pacific Maritime Association. The ILA represents dockworkers on the Eas...
An oil spill that resulted when a barge collided with a chemical tanker has closed a long stretch of the Lower Mississippi River. The U.S. Coast Guard said it has been told "there were no properly licensed individuals" on the tug that was pushing the barge at the time the accident occurred. Lt. Cmdr. Cheri' Ben-Iesau said traffic has been halted o...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
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