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The government wants to develop a high capacity, low unit cost shipping network.

If the ban takes effect, US exporters of these commodities will lose access to the destination where they shipped 77.8 percent of their products last year.

McCain first introduced a Jones Act repeal bill in 2010.

Trade disputes are driving US exporters of dried distillers grains (DDGs) to overhaul their supply chains.

A key House committee wants the Department of Transportation to consider delaying its electronic logging mandate, adding more uncertainty to the debate about the regulation, which takes effect in December.

“The coastal shipping deal will reduce cost as well as time. To us, time is also money.”

The project is capable of handling cargo, passenger ferries, and fishing vessels.

A leaked government report supported by the International Monetary Fund lies at the heart of the matter.

The pace of growth in fiscal year 2017 will accelerate from fiscal 2016.

“As a single qualified applicant was left, the present RFQ [request for qualification] had to be scrapped.”

The EU court was expected to impose a penalty of around 24 million euros.

The first consignment of US beef to be imported by China in 14 years is just days away from arriving in the country.

China’s cold chain is growing at a phenomenal rate.

“What information is available today? What information do you need to act?”

Project shippers and carriers hope the Export-Import Bank of the United States, a political football for years, can get off the sidelines soon.

Steel accounts for 9.5 percent of US breakbulk volumes by dollar value, and is a primary commodity at ports including Houston; New Orleans; Mobile; Brownsville, Texas; and on the Delaware River.

India’s controversial decision to tax imports is increasing the financial pressure on transport services providers.

By design, blockchain resists regulatory oversight.

Marine terminals are reluctant to jump aboard until they get guarantees on data safety.

This week’s mess was the latest pain point for users exasperated with the transition to the Automated Commercial Environment.

Black Sea shippers are turning to Ukrainian gateways.

A congressionally mandated study recommends a remake of the controversial Compliance, Safety, Accountability program, with a new methodology for determining whether trucking companies are safe or not.

Canada is in the early stages of reworking its system of cargo clearance to allow containerized goods that don’t present a security, safety, or health threat to move through ports.

It has been a year since the International Maritime Organization rolled out new rules for container weight verification across the globe.

The decision comes just days before the new joint venture Ocean Network Express was expected to be formed.

Inefficient operations at Tanjung Priok and regular traffic around the port adds significant costs to supply chains.

Canadian shippers and the head of Canada’s largest port have argued monetizing the country’s 18 port authorities could increase port user fees, limit public oversight, and threaten investment in waterside infrastructure.

Port sector consolidation in China is expected to accelerate this year.

India’s container trade is expected to grow at a faster pace in the coming months.

At a time when the Southern California Ports' hold on discretionary cargo is tenuous, the state's all-out commitment to mitigating climate change is taking priority over port competitiveness.

"There is other business pending that must be addressed before the commission can turn its attention to this matter,” an FMC spokesman told JOC.com

Shippers fear that the overturning of a guilty verdict for the Primorsk seaport for price fixing could set a bad precedent.

A year after the implementation of the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) requirement, the once hot-button fears about the regulation have disappeared, but doubts on the accuracy of declarations linger.

Trucking outfits and shippers that delayed preparing for electronic logging will have to accelerate plans as Supreme Court rejects appeal of ELD rule.

US lawmakers have introduced legislation that would expand the powers and the purse strings of the FMC to “oversee and intervene” on behalf of port service providers.

US retailers are expecting US import volumes to hit record levels in the coming months.

The largest and most ambitious global infrastructure project is China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and the United States is falling behind.

Sihanoukville is Cambodia’s largest and only deep-sea port.

The lack of equipment needed to screen cargo at the country’s busiest port of Chittagong is likely to compound already extensive congestion there.

While port operations are largely normal, cross-border trucking is still heavily impacted.