The Virginia Port Authority plans to enter an agreement to become a sister port with the Port of Mariel, Cuba to enhance trade between the two. Virginia Governor, Terry McAuliffe spearheads the idea of linking the ports, working tirelessly...
On December 26th, the largest containership, the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, called on Los Angeles, CA. With a capacity of 18,000 TEUs the Benjamin Franklin is the first megaship to call on a US port. Up to this point,...
Starting January 1st, the Port of Virginia’s chassis pool will roll out a new system that allows BCOs (beneficial cargo owners) direct billing thereby removing truckers and ship lines out of the billing process. The Port of Virginia will...
The Port of Virginia is ending one of the best years it has ever had in 2015 and they’re ready to make sure the next one is even better. When the Virginia State General Assembly reconvenes, the port will...
In a record setting October, the Port of Virginia handled 233,466 TEU containers, making it the single busiest month ever and the eighth straight month with volumes over 200,000 TEU’s. The previous record for a single month at the...
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...
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...
