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Ocean Ports & Carriers

South Carolina Port Details Container Weighing Plans

South Carolina Ports Authority

The Port of Charleston will help exporters weigh containers to comply with a regulation that may increase shippers’ costs

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Safety Advocates Slam Plan to Allow Longer Work Hours for Truckers

The Senate may slip language into a transportation spending bill that would set longer work-weeks for truck drivers

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Indonesia Fears Piracy Surge on Shipping Route Could Make It 'New Somalia'

Indonesia fears piracy on shipping route along its sea border with the Philippines and told vessels to avoid danger areas

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Shippers Ask Congress to Weigh in on New Container Rule

Exporters say a rule requiring them to verify the weight of containers will raise transportation costs

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B2BGateway Electronic Data Interchange Celebrates One-Year Anniversary Down Under

Global electronic data interchange and automated supply chain expert celebrates anniversary of opening Sydney offices

Office Depot and Staples CEOs to Testify Before FTC

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

West Coast Dockworkers Endorse Bernie Sanders for President

International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)

International Longshore and Warehouse Union breaks with East Coast ports union in backing Sanders over Clinton

Sen. Sanders stood with hundreds of low-wage workers who have gone on strike for a living wage to fight for a $15 an hour minimum wage.

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Supply Chain Disruption Cost $56 Billion Last Year … and There's More Risk to Come

Europe continues to suffer severe trade disruptions caused by terrorist attacks, as events in Brussels are likely to highlight

This April 18, 2013 file photo shows an aerial view of the remains of a fertilizer plant and an apartment complex to the left, destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas. The government has failed to inspect virtually all of the chemical facilities that it considers to be at high risk for a terror attack, numbering in the thousands, and has underestimated the threat to densely populated cities, congressional investigators say. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Risk/Compliance

New Container Weight Rule Could Raise Shipping Costs, Congestion

The time and complications from verifying the weight of shipping containers may boost costs by 14 percent

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Spot Market Freight and Rates Slip Lower

DAT Freight & Analytics

Spot market rates declined 6.0 percent for vans, 3.5 percent for reefers and 1.2 percent for flatbeds, month over month

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Streamline Processes and Gain Greater Efficiency with Modern Information Management

Documents and other information assets can bottleneck even the most well-oiled supply chain processes

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Nestle Admits Possibility of Slave Labor in its Coffee Supply Chain

Nestle and Jacobs Douwe Egberts often bought beans from middlemen and exporters in a muddled supply chain

Two of the world’s largest coffee companies Nestle and Jacobs Douwe Egberts say beans bought from Brazilian plantations may have been grown using slave labor because they do not know the names of all the plantations that supply them.

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