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… read more →
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… read more →
Customs and Border Protection are progressing steadily down the path of transitioning from their thirty-year old Automated Commercial System (ACS) to their modern-day Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). It has been… read more →
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… read more →
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… read more →
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… read more →
It’s now coming up on a year since the expiration of the General System of Preferences (GSP) program on July 31, 2013. GSP offers duty-free treatment upon entry to certain… read more →
On April 30th, a CSX freight train from Chicago with tank cars carrying crude oil derailed and caused a massive explosion in Lynchburg, Virginia, a little under two hundred miles… read more →
Two weeks ago, Customs and Border Protection participated in the NCBFAA’s Annual Conference. They were present and engaged in a variety of panels discussing changes to the regulations that govern… read more →
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… read more →