Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The controversial mandate requiring electronic logging devices in U.S. trucks by the end of next year will reappear before a federal court next month, jeopardizing the fate of the rule itself, and the so-called “capacity crunch” it was expected to generate.

A customs change that would have forced shippers to divert cargo away from the port of St. Petersburg has been suspended.

Richard Lidinsky shook up the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission during his charged and often controversial seven-year tenure.

Shippers and government agencies are still experiencing growing pains as they adjust to the new system.

With an abbreviated legislative calendar thanks to the upcoming November election and a full slate of bills to work through, Congress will be in a mad dash to get anything, much less a WRDA bill, passed.

Reports of unjustified surcharges have been on the rise following the introduction of a new mandatory container weight verification rule that took effect last month, according to the Global Shippers Forum.

U.S. freight projects this year received their lowest share ever from the TIGER federal grant program.

Shippers and railroads disagree about the merits of a new proposal from the U.S. Surface Transportation Board over so-called “reciprocal” or “competitive” switching.

The immediate roadblocks, stalemates and impasses the group confronted at the July 15 highlight the deep divisions among the members of the congressional working group and the challenges they’ll face in the months ahead.

A recently re-enacted law will offer some U.S. importers tariff reductions.

Indian exports are rebounding from a slide that lasted more than year.

Representatives of the railroad industry and labor unions — many of whom actively opposed the group’s formation in the first place, but nevertheless landed seats at the table — took little time before questioning and criticizing the very existence of the new Port Performance Freight Statistics Working Group.

Economic indicator shows no sign of inventory destocking in May.

The use of shore power is being studied to supplement the set-up of emission control areas at China's main commercial shipping centers.

The European Shippers Council today claimed container lines' recent commitments to the European Commission over general rate increase announcements “does not solve the price-fixing problem.”

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics reaches settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending an investigation into anti-competitive practices.

U.S. containerized imports should slightly rise over the second half of 2016.

Japanese container trade volume will slip slightly in fiscal 2016 for the third straight year.

Shippers using India’s top port are furious with new fees related to the collection and transmission of verified gross mass data.

Limited resources continue to make life difficult for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The European Commission has begun an investigation into whether tax breaks for French and Belgian ports breach EU state aid rules.

A league of U.S. lawmakers are not content with the roughly 4 percent of import containers screened under the current system.

“The commitments aim to increase price transparency for customers and to reduce the likelihood of coordinating prices,” the European Commission said.

Waste caused by poor infrastructure is thought to cost India around $45 billion per year, or 4.3 percent of GDP, according to McKinsey & Company.

Russian container terminals and exporters didn’t experience any disruption tied to the new SOLAS container weight rule.

APM Terminals joined those in the industry reporting little disruption from the SOLAS rule.

With next month’s summer Olympics a disaster long before the torch is lit, and with political and economic upheaval swirling, South America’s biggest economy is in the midst of one of its deepest recessions.

Shipper frustration over what they see as dubious charges from some terminals, liners and forwarders is intensifying.

It was “business as usual” at container terminals in India's major port complexes on Friday.

“We feel it is very important that we not only have the development of the industrial zones, but we have also been cooperating in the development of the infrastructure that surrounds the SEZ.”

A nervous container business is bracing for the new VGM regulations.

Cargo agents in China are being squeezed from both sides as box weighing charges fall in their laps.

The state of U.S. freight growth in 2016 and perhaps next year hangs on inventories.

U.S. containerized poultry exports are set for a recovery after a miserable 2015.

The impact of the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union is expected to be muted.

India’s Directorate General of Shipping has issued a supplementary decree allowing shippers more time to comply with requirements laid down in its final ordinance issued May 11.

Nigeria has launched technology platforms to tackle widespread corruption and inefficiencies in operations at its major ports.

There is no justification for forwarders to charge a container weight processing fee, complains a shipper group in Hong Kong.

The new rule’s rollout is just days away, but guidance from operating ports, carriers, terminal operators and nation states has been variable and prone to change.

A group of marine terminal operators is openly criticizing suggestions that they should be responsible for providing certified container weights to shippers.