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may
8, 2008
French
dockworkers are set to strike at seven publicly-owned ports Friday,
extending a month-long campaign to protest government plans to privatize
handling of containers.
may
8, 2008
Operations
at the Port of Oakland and the Union Pacific rail ramp at Lathrop,
Calif., continue to be hampered by a shortage of truck capacity
due to protests by independent drivers over the high cost of fuel.
may
2, 2008
LOS
ANGELES -- Ports along the U.S. West Coast, including the country's
busiest port complex in Los Angeles, were shut most of Thursday
as some 10,000 dock workers went on a one-day strike to protest
the war in Iraq, port and union officials said.
may
1, 2008
LONG
BEACH, Calif. -- Cargo handling at West Coast ports ground to a
halt during Thursday's day shift as members of the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union made good on their promise to shut
the ports down in order to protest the war in Iraq.
april
23, 2008
LONDON
-- A 24-hour strike by dockworkers paralyzed France’s seven
biggest ports on Wednesday.
april
19, 2008
On
Thursday, April 17, BDP sponsored a roundtable
discussion which brought together industry leaders to explore
the ocean transport supply /demand gap which U.S. exporters are
experiencing.
april
10, 2008
French
dockworkers will stage 24-hour strikes every week starting Monday
in a major escalation of protests against government plans to privatize
container terminals at seven publicly-owned ports.
april
10, 2008
Many
U.S. companies hoping to profit from surging exports created by
the weak dollar are facing an unexpected hurdle: There aren't enough
of the big, metal shipping containers that help form the backbone
of the global economy.
march
31, 2008
Member
shipping lines in the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement,
reacting to the record rise in marine bunker fuel, have announced
hikes in shipping fuel surcharges that would reach $900 per 40-foot
container by Oct. 1.
march
25, 2008
Shipping
lines that carry U.S. import cargo from Asia said they are experiencing
"early success with cost recovery efforts."
march
21, 2008
Is
the U.S. economy dragging down your bottom line? Is the loss of
the U.S. dollar’s prominence in the global market reducing
your profits? Are your shareholders in an uproar? Well don’t
expect any sympathy from the ocean carriers in 2008.
march
20, 2008
Maersk
Line will further reduce its U.S. footprint in mid-August by withdrawing
from the U.S. East Coast/East Coast of South America trade.
march
10, 2008
The
French dockworker union CGT on Monday suspended a 48-hour strike
planned to start at midnight after the government offered to discuss
its controversial proposals to reform state-owned ports.
march
3, 2008
A
scheduled strike by rail workers in France is expected to seriously
disrupt the movement of ocean containers to and from the country’s
leading container ports of Le Havre and Marseilles.
february
7, 2008
By
now you probably know US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued
its proposed import security filing rule – the 10+2 rule –
on January 2 requiring U.S. importers and carriers to provide cargo
data not found on a ship's manifest.
january
2, 2008
WASHINGTON
-- Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday issued its long-awaited
proposed rule requiring importers and carriers to provide cargo
data not found on a ship's manifest.
december
21, 2007
The
Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles have approved a Clean Trucks
fee to provide $1.6 billion to fund the ports' Clean Trucks Program
(CTP) tariff which progressively bans older, dirtier trucks in order
to reduce port-related truck emissions by 80 percent over the next
five years.
november
16, 2007
Customs
and Border Protection officials will meet with their Chinese counterparts
next month to discuss the details of carrying out joint security
validations under the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism.
october
24, 2007
The
California Dept of Forestry (CDF) temporarily suspended BNSF and
UP train traffic between Verdemont and Cajon, California on Monday
due to wildfires.
october
1, 2007
Container
shipping faces serious disruption in Hamburg and Bremerhaven on
Friday after German train engineers called for nationwide strikes
following the breakdown of wage talks with Deutsche Bahn, the state-owned
railway.
september
18, 2007
A
powerful typhoon targeted China's booming eastern province of Zhejiang
and the nation's financial capital, Shanghai, on Tuesday, prompting
evacuation of over 1.6 million people as ships were recalled to
port.
july
26, 2007
The
union for clerks who handle all the paperwork for ships coming to
and leaving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach reached a tentative
agreement today on a new contract with 17 of the world's shipping
lines and terminal operators, sources close to the talks said.
july
25, 2007
Contract
negotiations between unionized office clerical workers and shipping
lines in Los Angeles-Long Beach have reached an impasse.
july
17, 2007
LONG
BEACH, Calif. -- There were some small signs of compromise Monday
in contract negotiations between shipping lines and unionized office
clerical workers in Los Angeles-Long Beach, but a settlement was
not yet in hand.
july
9, 2007
China
has scrapped a set of rules that provided incentives for exporters
to repatriate foreign currency. The rules, introduced in response
to the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, encourage exports
and inflows of foreign exchange.
july
2, 2007
LONG
BEACH -- International Longshore and Warehouse Union office workers
were on the job Monday in Los Angeles-Long Beach even though their
contract expired at midnight Saturday.
june
21, 2007
The
United States and Vietnam on Thursday signed a trade and investment
framework agreement which will create a platform on which to further
expand growing bilateral trade and investment ties between the two
countries.
june
18, 2007
A
strike by truck drivers that began Sunday at India's southern Port
of Chennai has halted container movements to and from the private
terminal operated by DP World.
june
1, 2007
Effective
May 30, 2007, United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
implemented updated enhancements to their internal data system that
may cause an increase in the number of intensive examinations of
identified “high risk” shipments.
march
16, 2007
PHILADELPHIA
-- As you may know, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration
(TSA) mandated new safety requirements for the forwarding and transport
of air freight beginning on March 12.
november
8, 2006
THE
HAGUE -- Movement of containers at one of Europe's largest stevedoring
companies, European Container Terminals, nearly ground to a half
Tuesday on the second day of a wildcat strike over proposed new
working rosters.
august
23, 2006
Please
note that the Port of Buenaventura, Colombia is currently extremely
congested, resulting in major delays in service.
august
22, 2006
LOS
ANGELES -- Longshoremen at the Port of Los Angeles returned to work
Tuesday after a waterfront arbitrator determined that members of
the International Longshore and Warehouse Union could not honor
picket lines erected by striking port architects and engineers.
july
13, 2006
LONG
BEACH -- U.S. container ports should avoid serious congestion problems
this summer and fall even though cargo volumes are building rapidly
toward a record peak season, according to the July Port Tracker
published by Global Insight and the National Retail Federation.
june
7, 2006
The
U.S. Bureau of Customs & Border Protection (CBP) has implemented
a statutory change made to the entry laws by the Tariff Suspension
and Trade Act of 2000.
april
14, 2006
In
a speech recently, at a Washington conference on the future of international
trade, the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas gave
his views on pending trade issues, including the future of the Doha
round of talks on international trade liberalization and renewal
of the GSP (Generalized System of Preferences) program.
MARCH
16, 2006
The
delay of a European Union rule that would ban wood packing material
with tree bark still attached will give nations more time to study
its scientific validity, a U.S. Commerce Department official said.
february
8, 2006
OAKLAND
-- Shipping lines that carry U.S. exports to Asia intend to increase
their rates on cargoes not specified in tariffs in the westbound
Pacific. They also plan to increase their rates on consolidated
container loads, as well as exports of chemicals, resins and plastic
scrap.
february
2, 2006
Containerized
trade is projected to grow 7.6 percent in 2006, more than double
the projections for worldwide GDP growth of 3.4 percent, said Paul
Bingham, an economist with economic consulting firm Global Insight.
january
30, 2006
A
reminder of the impending implementation date for enforcement of
the ISPM 15 requirements for shipments being imported into the U.S.
as well as for U.S. exports to Mexico and Canada.
January
16, 2006
Police
in Strasbourg Monday used tear gas and water cannons to disperse
thousands of dockers who marched to the European Parliament to protest
against plans to liberalize port services, the BBC reported.
January
13, 2006
BRUSSELS
-- Belgian dock workers will join their European counterparts in
picketing the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Monday (January
16), against planned European Union rules aimed at opening up cargo
handling.
