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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agricultural specialists working at the Ysleta cargo facility near El Paso, Texas, on June 9 demonstrated their sharpened eye for wood packing violations by locating two untreated wood pallets in a shipment of 500. The agency said the importer was notified and the entire shipment was returned to Mexico for proper trea...
The International Chamber of Commerce has elected Hong Kong businessman Victor Fung to chairman, effective July 1. Fung is chairman of the Li & Fung Group of companies and is the first ICC chairman from Hong Kong. Li & Fung has major subsidiaries in trading, distribution and retailing, including publicly listed Li & Fung Ltd., Integrated Distribution S...
Exports might be booming, but agriculture shippers say finding timely carrier capacity for their now-hot export commodities is far and away their sector's foremost issue. Ag shippers suffer the frustrating dichotomy that just as the falling U.S. dollar has made their products extremely attractive to overseas markets, fewer cargo ships calling and short...
Hapag-Lloyd, China Shipping and Maruba Lines are launching a service between Asia and Africa. The WSX service will begin in July to serve the growing market between Asia, South and West Africa, said an announcement from Hapag-Lloyd, which is supplying one of the five 2,000 to 2,500-TEU ships that will be used in the service. Operating fortnightly, t...
A former U.S. trade negotiator, who served with both Reagan and current Bush administrations, recommended to lawmakers that in the future any trade preference programs should help tie exporters in least developed countries into the global supply chain. What that means in practice is that trade is increasingly dominated by competition between supply ...
Perkins Logistics of Noblesville, Ind., which provides specialized transportation services for the office furniture, store fixture, home cabinet and trade show exhibit industries, has purchased the assets and ongoing customer relations of Vogel Specialized Hauling, Inc. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Vogel Specialized Hauling provides time-sensit...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection needs to conduct limited, real-world testing of data exchanges to prevent costly glitches before it mandates importers across the board to file advance trade data designed to help the agency assess the security risk of cargo shipments, a major U.S. trade association said Thursday. The border security agency plans ...
The U.S. economy is besieged by too many negative factors and is poised for negative growth in the second quarter, the National Association of Manufacturers forecast on Thursday. The trade association said productivity would decline 1 percent in the second quarter, the first quarterly decline since the last recession seven years ago, due to ongoing ...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi
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