Last week, the Obama Administration released its first ever National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security. As stated, the main goals of the strategy are to promote the efficient and secure ...

Editor’s Note: This piece was coauthored by Vincent H. Smith, Stephanie Mercier, Erin Lentz , and Christopher B. Barrett. Because of existing policy, only two names were listed when the piece was ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) should improve its guidance and identify additional actions its personnel could take to reduce crated cargo risks, a new report from the Government ...

Against the backdrop of encouraging global economic growth and an improved outlook for the shipping industry, the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) gives expert opinion on the current ...

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) will present Cargo in Question: Two Films about Labor, Shipping, and Globalization in the 21 st Century, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 20 at 113 Harbor Way, Ste. 190.

Three years after legislators in Baton Rouge approved a tax credit for Louisiana shippers that use in-state ports to move cargo, many people in the local maritime industry are working to revive the ...

AAL Shipping (AAL), a project cargo carrier, released its 2024 Sustainability Report, revealing the company has met 95% of its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) objectives across global ...

Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

As the Port of Monroe sails into the next shipping season, recent data highlighting last year’s trends shows a significant increase of inter-lake trade. In 2021, the local port handled nearly 2.8 ...

Peace has broken out between the ports of Tacoma and Seattle, and their commissioners are expected to vote one last time Tuesday to finalize their plan to stay competitive by joining forces. The ...

On the 8th, the tariff office announced that it would strengthen maritime smuggling enforcement through selective and concentrated inspections of vessels from high-risk countries. The day before, the ...

In a recent column in The Hill, the authors contend that preserving and bolstering cargo preference requirements — the law requiring U.S. shippers to use U.S. flagged vessels to transport ...