Country Commercial Guides: Exporting - A Starting Point Are you - Looking for foreign market intelligence you can trust? Want to know the best-sector prospects to target today? Know the trade barriers to watch out for and the regulations you need to follow? How about culture and business customs for that next trip? From Export.gov: Look no further than the … [Read more...]
Panama Canal Expansion To Be Completed in 2016
Panama Canal Expansion To Be Completed in 2016 The Panama Canal expansion project, also called the 'Third Set of Locks Project', is intended to double the capacity of the Panama Canal by 2016 by creating a new lane of traffic doubling the waterway capacity and allowing more and larger ships, the size, which are about one and a half times the current maximum width and length … [Read more...]
Tianjin Port Blasts – Thunderstorms complicate recovery
Tianjin Port Blasts - Thunderstorms complicate recovery From AP (via ABC News): Thunderstorms Tuesday complicated recovery efforts from last week's massive explosions at a warehouse in China's Tianjin port that killed at least 114 people, left 57 missing and exposed dangerous chemicals — including some that could become flammable on contact with … [Read more...]
West Coast Port News
West Coast Port News From JOC: LA-Long Beach looking beyond peak season to greater challenges ahead All seem to be confident that LA-Long Beach will be able to handle the spike in container volume this peak season. However, there are longer-term challenges: mega ships, carrier alliances, truck turn times, and rail performances. West Coast ports have lost 5% market … [Read more...]
West Coast Ports: Contract is Ratified
West Coast Ports: Contract is Ratified U.S. West Coast ports ILWU ratified a five-year contract with terminal operators and shipping companies, the union announced Friday. The new five-year labor pact, which runs through June 2019 is retroactive to July 2014. This formally ends the labor conflict that slowed the movement of goods at the country’s largest gateways to an … [Read more...]