Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Ghana is targeting the complete elimination of paper in trade transactions at the country’s ports.

Shipment volumes climbed in May, but not enough to pull transport providers out of a deep year-over-year hole.

The U.K.’s transport sector is on tenterhooks as deeply divided Britons prepare to cast an historic vote Thursday on whether to remain in or leave the European Union.

U.S. regulators are taking further steps toward a rulemaking on the detention of truck drivers by shippers and their customers.

U.S. exporters finally achieved the carrier uniformity they were seeking on the SOLAS container weighing requirement.

The shortfall of Customs officers now rivals Transportation Security Administration screener shortages at American airports, lawmakers said.

The potential impact of China’s Belt and Road initiative is starting to emerge.

“Why anyone would add procedures, requirements and costs to doing business is not only puzzling, it raises the specter of anti-competitive behavior and necessitating Commission action,” U.S. Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Mario Cordero said in a statement Thursday.

Maersk Line expects a “bumpy” six months after the SOLAS container weight rule enters force.

At an industry exhibition in Shanghai there was resignation to some disruption from the new SOLAS rule.

The Multi-Rio container terminal in the port of Rio de Janeiro will charge shippers for container weighing services and verified gross mass transmission.

Indian lawmakers have unveiled draft legislation aimed at transforming major public port trusts.

California took another step Friday toward meeting the governor’s goal of a zero-emissions freight transportation environment.

The NFI Industries case is unusual, but not the first such whistleblower action in trucking.

Because the guidance is so variable and prone to change, the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America cannot ensure all the information is timely or accurate.

A U.S. House committee rejected a proposal to exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act

Europe’s top terminal operators and equipment manufacturers are accelerating moves to help shippers comply with a new international regulation.

The U.S. Justice Department has indicted an executive for his role in roll-on, roll-off cargo price-fixing.

Like their U.S. counterparts, Canadian exporters know some but not all of the details of how individual container terminals will cope with a new international container weight rule.

Drayage companies that service the Port of New York and New Jersey are once again squaring off with the Teamsters union.

The global transportation industry will muddle through a new SOLAS container weighing rule taking effect July 1.

A U.K. freight forwarder group urged its members not to be complacent about a new regulation on container weighing.

Too few Russian exporters have applied to the government for the use of Method 2 under SOLAS.

Pressure is building on U.S. maritime regulators to quickly decide whether ports and container lines can hash out details on a strategy that could dramatically simplify exporters’ meeting the SOLAS container weight rule.

The associations representing marine terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach and Oakland made an important announcement regarding their position on SOLAS.

U.S. Great Lakes ports, vessel operators and maritime trade groups have filed a lawsuit against the Coast Guard.

The second filing deadline for U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s new electronic filing system came and went this past weekend.

Uncle Sam is seeking input from shippers, transportation providers and others on how to make U.S. ports more competitive.

The battle over truck driver hours-of-service and the 34-hour restart will likely roll into a House-Senate conference committee this summer.

A group of ports and maritime authorities questioning whether too light a touch will be taken starting July 1.

Even after U.S. Customs said it was able to remedy the glitches that riddled the initial rollout of the Automated Commercial Environment, or ACE, in early April, "outages" and "network issues" have routinely been reported via the agency's Cargo Systems Messaging Service.

Higher U.S. diesel prices and fuel surcharges may threaten transportation savings.

Commodities traditionally dominate U.S. containerized exports in terms of volume, but the stars are rarely aligned for U.S. exporters.

Congress is considering stopping the siphoning of funding meant for ports.

Trucking, shipping interests attack use of data they call flawed in proposed motor carrier ratings.

Shippers, marine terminals and container lines could get some leeway in the first three months of the new SOLAS container weighing rule.

Shippers and freight forwarders are confused over how to comply with an international container weight verification rule that comes into effect on July 1.

The new SOLAS regulation could increase costs in more ways than expected.

D.C. infrastructure backers and policy experts think part of the answer to the woes of the U.S. freight network is a tax on the transportation cost of goods.

Container lines and U.S. ports have asked the U.S. maritime regulator for permission to get together to craft a common strategy for dealing with SOLAS.