October 8, 2015/
This week our great sister state, South Carolina, was hit hard with flooding from historic amounts of rainfall. Our thoughts and well wishes are with them and we’d like to take a moment to discuss ways our clients can...
This week our great sister state, South Carolina, was hit hard with flooding from historic amounts of rainfall. Our thoughts and well wishes are with them and we’d like to take a moment to discuss ways our clients can...
If you remember, our previous discussion focused on Norfolk’s banner year and the expansions of Southeastern inland ports from the explosion of cargo being handled there. We come back again, just a few weeks later with another great announcement;...
The Port of Virginia handled 226,000 TEUs in July which is 9% higher than any other July in the history of the port, Virginia Port Authority Chief Executive Officer John F. Reinhart confirmed. This also includes a marked increase...
With the labor issues on the West Coast, the East Coast of the United States saw growth in the first quarter of this year. In fact, the East Coast actually outpaced the West Coast in containerized cargo 48-44 percent,...
A decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to not hear the case of an importer held personally responsible for false entries means that a lower court ruling stands. A whole class of individuals can now be...
We wouldn’t know it by the days of shut down, but the Port of Virginia is running 7.3% ahead of FY 2014. Back-to-back snow storms brought closings and the bitter cold of February froze productivity at the port. While...
The situation between the PMA and the ILWU has reached, what many consider, to be the breaking point. After working more than nine months without a contract, the PMA this week announced that they do not plan to order...
In February, President Obama issued an Executive Order that required all federal agencies who participate in the import and export process to be on the same platform by December, 2016. The program’s full name is the International Trade Data...
With congestion on the West Coast showing no signs of abating, carriers have attempted to recover their costs for this congestion through a series of on-again, off-again surcharges. They are of the mindset that the combination of a surge...
While we wish that there was more news that we could focus on, things have gotten so utterly ugly along the West Coast that we feel it best to provide our clients, agents and business partners with the best...
