Shippers' IT

   When we talk about technology empowering a shipper’s logistics operations, sometimes it’s easy to forget that even in 2013 the evolution from manual processes to those...

UPS cuts deal on...

   UPS has agreed to pay $40 million to avoid prosecution for shipping drugs from illegitimate online pharmacies, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency announced in late March...

Dredging up dollars

   Exasperated by the federal government’s inability to adequately maintain navigable channels and dredge deeper in major container ports, some states have opted to front...
U.S. investors buy stake in König & Cie
"We had to restructure and reorganize and become more like an asset manager, and that is what we did,” Tobias König, CEO of the company, said in a telephone interview with American Shipper.
Crowley adds new containers to fleet
The ocean carrier's liner services group is adding more than 3,000 pieces of cargo handling equipment to its fleet. The new equipment will be used to serve shippers in its Puerto Rico, Caribbean and Latin America services.
Concerns about U.S. Merchant Marine aired at hearing
Auggie Tellez, executive vice president of the Seafarers International Union, said in testimony the U.S.-flag vessel industry already lost a third of food aid cargo last year because of a change in the MAP-21 transportation law.
U.S., Burma start trade dialogue
The United States and Burma have signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) on Tuesday, establishing a platform for ongoing dialogue and cooperation on trade and investment issues between the two governments.
Research
Global Trade Management Landscape: Strategies Beyond Compliance
GTM is about more than just compliance – it’s about integrating the financial, regulatory, and transportation components of a supply chain through enhanced processes and the best people.

The report explores five challenges universal to global trade management practitioners today:
  • Visibility beyond basic track and trace.
  • Leveraging financial tools to create bottom-line benefits from GTM.
  • Recruiting, educating and retaining expert GTM practitioners.
  • Balancing the process management and technology sides of GTM.
  • Ensuring global compliance requirements are met.
Opinion
The long U.S. recovery via exports
By Walter Kemmsies, chief economist, Moffatt & Nichol

   Optimism is not abundant in this fifth year of recovery from the Great Recession. Employment, consumer spending, home sales and starts are past their worst points but have not yet recovered to their 2007 levels. Similarly, container volumes handled at ports, railcar volumes and truck tonnage are below their historic peak levels. Nonetheless, some types of activity like production and transportation of export commodities are at all-time highs...
Mediterranean – Oceania Trade Route Trend
   Over the last 13 months from March 2012 to through March 2013 the trade has moved towards a better balance. The direct capacity in the back haul trade grew 17 per cent while head haul from the Mediterranean sank 2.5 per cent.
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