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Current Advisories.
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.
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