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The guilty ruling allows shippers impacted by the practices to seek financial compensation from the stevedores via Russian courts.

China announced new security and inspection measures for vessels calling at the southeastern port of Xiamen.

The sometimes heated three-hour hearing came as the port prepares to open the newly raised Bayonne Bridge on June 30, allowing ships up to 18,000 TEU to pass below it.

The move has already resulted in an uptick of cargo booked on the spot market.

The new scheme is part of the Japanese government’s efforts to increase the country’s annual exports of agricultural.

Customs estimates that with quicker clearance, logistics costs per container have been reduced by more than half.

Scrap paper of all types is the largest US containerized export.

Trucking CEO tells ALK summit her company is getting 'aggressive' with shippers over truck parking as ELD mandate deadline draws nearer.

The establishment of centers to process electronic customs declarations filed via Russia’s single window should speed up cargo clearance and reduce corruption.

The sharp difference in what carriers will have to pay for lower sulfur fuel makes it tempting to skirt the new rule.

The Top 5 Importers in 2016 combined to handled 2.2 million TEU while the Top 5 Exporters shipped 921,600 TEU.

Nine port pairs on services between Southeast Asia and the West Coast are experiencing faster transit times than before the new and enhanced alliances launched April 1.

Legislators’ recent interest in rewriting the Shipping Act of 1984 has been sparked by third-party suppliers’ fears of alliances having too much power.

Commissioners at a regular FMC meeting on Wednesday called into question their capacity to fulfill the agency’s role as a voice for its stakeholder community, scrutinizing the so-called “notices of inquiry”, which allow the public to weigh in on pertinent issues.

Julian Thomas, CEO of Hamburg Sud in the East Coast of South America, said the first-quarter figures are “impressive indeed.”

The legislation was sought by resin exporters.

The existence of a border wall wouldn’t impede trade facilitation, except that it would cost a great deal of money that might not be available for hiring new Customs officers.

Such a move already has support on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have been weighing options to strengthen Federal Maritime Commission safeguards against collusion among carriers in the world’s three major VSAs.

The US agency charged with clearing goods at the border lacks sufficient staff to handle the growing flow, and the price of related delays are costing the United States as much as $5.8 billion a year, according to a report by the US Congress Joint Economic Committee.

The deal follows the official adoption earlier this year of an ambitious development plan for the port.

Roughly $4.6 billion is needed at East and Gulf coast ports to remedy pinch points in harbor infrastructure.

The decision will facilitate infrastructure investment.

Spanish dockers have threatened a fresh wave of strikes.

The expansion will enable the terminal to add a fourth berth and boost the total terminal area by nearly 30 percent.

The seven zones have a total combined size double that of China’s four existing FTZs.

US Customs and Border Protection sided with the oil and gas industry over Jones Act supporters in the first major test of how the act’s US-flag shipping requirements will be interpreted under the Trump administration.

If there was any sign of foul play, “we’d investigate,” the Federal Maritime Commission acting chairman Michael Khouri said at a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday.

The move will impact port and supply chain investments under the Belt and Road program.

Indices measuring the health of Japan’s import and export container trade improved in the first quarter.

A new paper says beneficial cargo owners are largely to blame for the poor service levels of today’s liner shipping industry.

Legislators said their interest in the area has been piqued by a broader inquiry into possible collusion among carriers in the world’s three major vessel-sharing agreements.

The US Federal Maritime Commissioners voted 4-0 to reject ‘K’-Line, MOL, and NYK Line’s plan to share information with each other ahead of the merging of their container operations in July

The House of Representatives — and soon the Senate, sources say — will hear the concerns of domestic tugboat operators.

The new law is modeled on the International Maritime Organization’s Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) amendment, which took effect on July 1, 2016.

The bill passed the Senate on a 26-to-5 vote, and has cleared the House Transportation Committee.

Brazilian President Michel Temer is following through on a promise to privatize Brazilian port authorities.

The fight underscores how explosive the petition is becoming.

Transport and logistics services providers in India are disappointed and bewildered at government changes to a controversial tax.

If negotiations fail, it would be the second nationwide stoppage at major ports in two years.

“I’m trying to think of a greenfield project right now that someone is actually building or financing, and I can’t think of one.”