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The Port of Virginia is extremely happy at the increase in volume over last year; their most recent report had them with an 8.6% gain over this same time last year. We are able to feel this increase, too....
The Port of Virginia is extremely happy at the increase in volume over last year; their most recent report had them with an 8.6% gain over this same time last year. We are able to feel this increase, too....
Depending upon who you listen to, there are multiple explanations for what is happening at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach right now. Regardless of the explanation, the fact is that congestion is at critical levels and...
The situation in Ukraine and continued escalating financial sanctions imposed by the West have led Russia to take measures of its own, and that includes closing Russia’s borders to a large number of American and European agricultural products, effective...
The Commonwealth of Virginia and the Port of Hampton Roads have received funding in FY 2014 from the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) collectively in excess of fifteen million dollars. These grants, which cover homeland security, port...
While those of us on the East Coast had our own excitement last year with the ILA contract negotiations, shippers are watching with a close eye what is happening in San Francisco right now, and those are the negotiations...
Whenever the largest players in a market come together to share capacity, there is always a cause for concern. Such was the case with the announcement last year of the intention of Maersk, CMA-CGM and MSC to come together...
Photo credit: PN Tour 26Apr10 021 by Missy Schmidt, CC BY 2.0 In what is seen as a a major shift for container shipping handling processes, an International Maritime Organization (IMO) committee has voted to require that ocean containers be weighed...
As we wrote about here a few weeks ago, Hampton Roads is looking into ways to better handle truck congestion and terminal activity in a bid to improve productivity and the relations between longshore labor and the truckers who...
President Obama signed an Executive Order mandating the use of the International Trade Data System (ITDS) by December 31, 2016. The ITDS creates capabilities that will allow businesses to transmit, through an electronic “single-window,” the data required by the...
