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It has been nine months since a shipper coalition submitted a petition seeking guidance on the matter.

Transporters of outsized cargoes now must obtain permits to cross borders and even to move from region to region within countries.

The reduction slightly jars the confidence of the container shipping industry.

"You just find an export credit agency in another country. When that happens, the supply chain leaves the United States and goes to that other country.”

Codesa runs the ports of Praia Mole and Vitoria.

Global marine terminal operators that have led port privatization in India could unshackle themselves from a long-running and complicated pricing regime.

The European Union is the United Kingdom’s largest trading partner, accounting for almost half of its exports.

The pricing discipline that has worked so effectively in pushing up carrier profits this year is being threatened by a looming rate war.

Chittagong Chamber of Commerce President Mahbubul Alam expressed satisfaction over the government’s moves.

The FMC has maintained that the commission has more pressing priorities than clarifying its position on detention and demurrage fees.

China’s clean-up campaign has shut down tens of thousands of Chinese factories with no end in sight.

Roadside inspectors' group provides a detour around a pre-holiday logistical nightmare by delaying out-of-service enforcement for ELDs.

In terms of exports, the April-to-June index for the food and beverage industry led the pack.

The Brazilian government has established a working group to explore the privatization of dredging operations and set a 90-day deadline.

Electronic logging devices will raise costs and complexity of renting trucks for seasonal business. Companies such as Ryder System want an ELD exemption for rental drivers.

A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit by ILA officials who challenged their subpoenas from the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor after a Jan. 29, 2016 wildcat strike at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Indian dockworker labor unions and the chief labor commissioner reached a tentative last-minute agreement Thursday, averting an Aug. 18 strike.

The dispute focuses on efforts to modernize the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Union representatives and officials from the chief labor commissioner have had several rounds of negotiations.

The growing popularity of the direct port delivery program has put pressure on the earnings of logistics companies.

In technology speak, the collecting of data from ELDs is part of the so-called Internet or Network of Things.

It took the Competition Commission of Hong Kong almost two years to grant liners a block exemption from anti-trust laws, but the exemption order has been greeted with grumbling by shippers and carriers.

It took the Hong Kong regulator almost two years to grant liner shipping a five-year block exemption from complying with the Competition Ordinance, but it starts today.

“The congestion in Chittagong port has gone beyond the tolerable limit.”

The US administration under President Donald Trump may have generated shockwaves elsewhere, but little has changed when it comes to Customs cargo clearance.

The Bangladesh government is welcoming private sector investments in inland container terminals.

Washington State’s two senators asked in August 2011 for a study of potential cargo diversions after hearing their states’ ports might be losing business to Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

Brazil’s container trade grew 5.8 percent year-over-year in the first quarter.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) has combined with other ease-of-doing-business measures to speed the movement of truckers.

It is going to take government support and new business practices to boost US exports, and even then, it is going to be tough haul.

US containerized exports are on the upswing, a boon not just to shippers of goods and commodities such as cotton and poultry, but also to the railroads, marine terminals, and container lines hungry to ship anything but empties to Asia.

Mexican trucking companies are urging lawmakers to stiffen penalties against cargo robberies.

The EU’s executive said it is also assessing tax breaks for other ports in the 28-nation bloc.

The Moscow Arbitration Court found the FAS’ evidence in the case against NCSP unconvincing.

The Manila-listed mid-sized terminal operator was one of two companies competing to win the concession.

The new process follows the cancellation of a previous tender that had only one pre-qualified bidder.

The authority said the Netherlands is the only country whose ports have been ordered by the European Union to pay corporation tax.

Container ships' average time in port for the month of July rose more than three hours in just the last week.

The government of India is stepping up efforts to build an array of multimodal logistics facilities across the nation.