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The U.S. Census Bureau today published a final rule for mandatory electronic filing of shippers' export declarations. Three years in the waiting after first being proposed, the rules will eliminate the use of paper documentation and require exporters to use the agency's Automated Export System or AES Direct Web portal. Census will maintain its morator...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has set its 2008 agricultural export forecast to $108.5 billion, an increase of $7.5 billion over its February's forecast for the year and up $26.5 billion over final 2007 exports. U.S. producers are on track to export a record 63 million tons of corn, and set new export volume and value records for pork,?said U.S. Ag...
The Freight Transport Association, which represents road, rail, sea and air operators in the United Kingdom, is creating a policy forum to address operational challenges and public policy issues. The FTA said the International Supply Chain Forum (ISCF) will guide its lobbying and campaigning activities as well as providing a forum for U.K. supply cha...
Dutch law firm AKD Prinsen Van Wijmen has named Martijn Lauxtermann as a partner in its shipping, trade and insurance team. Lauxtermann, a specialist in insurance law, liability law and compensation law, was managing partner of Van der Nat Litigation NV, an Amsterdam-based legal company he established in 2000. Source: American Shipper ...
Jeffrey Shane, who resigned three months ago as under secretary for policy at the Department of Transportation, has rejoined Hogan & Hartson as a partner in the Washington office, the law firm announced last week. Shane, who left the firm in late 2001 to return to the DOT, will be a member of the firm's aviation and surface transportation practice gro...
International Paper Co. will open a 252,040-square-foot distribution center at the MidState 99 logistics park in Visalia, Calif., according to park developer The Allen Group. Visalia, located about 200 miles north of Los Angeles, sits adjacent to State Highway 99, a major north/south trucking route in Central California. The Memphis, Tenn.-based g...
Santa Fe Springs, Calif.-based logistics firm Weber Distribution said Tuesday it has signed a three-year warehouse and distribution contract with leather goods maker Buxton. Weber will provide third-party logistics services to Buxton, including storage, distribution, order processing, label generation, inventory control and routing guide compliance, o...
Pacer International Inc. said Wednesday it has completed the initial phase of its company-wide implementation of a SAP information technology system. The blueprint phase, under development since October 2007, provided a framework for the full integration of the Concord, Calif.-based transportation firm's business units under a single IT system, schedu...
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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