At the 11th hour, the industry is somewhat closer to a resolution to Convention of Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) requirement. The regulation sets forth how to determine the […]
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted new mandatory rules, effective from July 1, 2016, concerning the requirement for shippers to verify the gross mass of a container carrying cargo. […]
Just when you thought it would never happen, it did. Tomorrow (Dec. 3), Congress will take the final vote on a five-year plan to fund repairs to U.S. infrastructure. The […]
In January, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced a policy transition to an Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), or a paperless cargo-release processing system. The CBP is requiring all […]
The chairmen and ranking member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), introduced a six-year highway reauthorization bill titled the Developing […]
It is true that we are one global supply chain; but only after you experience a conference in another country do you start to see the real picture. In early […]
IWLA Washington Representative Pat O’Connor met with the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee staff to review S. 1298, a bill to provide nationally consistent measures of performance in the nation’s ports. This bill is […]
Deny, deny, deny. That was the stance of David Arian, vice president of the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners (and former long-time member of the International Longshore & Warehouse […]
The Freight Stakeholders Coalition represents nearly every segment of the economy – shippers, transportation providers, as well as public and private owners and operators of infrastructure assets that move goods […]
According to the FTR North American Intermodal Outlook, U.S. imports are up 2.5 percent and are expected to increase by 3.5 percent by 2015. Intermodal loads have increased by 6.5 […]
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