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Bring Your Goods In Duty-Free!Significant Savings for Direct-to-Consumer Products
View this video that explains how recent CBP legislation allows many direct-to-consumer goods to enter the country duty-free. Maybe even yours!
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Transportation Secretary prioritizing trucker pay
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Pete Buttigieg at the keynote address a the Transportation Research Board meeting told the audience that while he acknowledges the shortage of 80,000 drivers, the department estimates that 300,000 people leave the field annually.
Alba’s proprietary system to track containers
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Real-time tracking is required to analyze trend lines and ingest voluminous amounts of data to make predictions for where the next bottleneck could occur. We’ve built and invested to empower our clients to use this information to better forecast and plan.
South Korea fines 23 steamship lines $81m for collusion
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In a move watched by regulators in the US and EU, South Korea imposed the fines for behavior on intra-Asian trade lanes over a fifteen year period. Will the action taken by the Korea Fair Trade Commission will trigger activity from the FMC or the EU’s Competition Committee?
Few interruptions in northern cross-border trucking
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There was a concern that as Canada imposed a vaccination requirement for truckers coming into the country that the available driver pool would be impacted negatively. Fortunately, it appears to not have been the case.
Dalian the next China port to watch with COVID constrictions
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Shippers have had to contend with issues in Tianjin and Shenzhen, and now Dalian is the next major Chinese port that is being monitored for service impacts as the country takes quick and broad-reaching steps to contain community spread.
5G deployment disagreement between airlines, government, carriers bears watching.
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Twice delayed now, two major wireless carriers are not deploying a type of 5G signal that airlines allege will interfere with instrumentation on certain types of aircraft that could jeopardize their final approaches before landing. If all three groups cannot reach agreement, airlines have flat-out said they’ll cancel affected flights altogether.