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DHL Offers US Import Consolidated Clearance

DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of DHL Group, has launched DHL Consolidated Clearance Service for U.S. Imports, a new customs solution tailored to e-commerce and retail businesses. As U.S. tariff policies evolve and regulatory demands intensify, importers – particularly in fast-moving consumer sectors – face rising costs, longer clearance times, and increased compliance risks. DHL said its new service is designed to address these challenges head-on by ... [+]

CH Robinson Launches Agentic Supply Chain

C.H. Robinson harkened the arrival of its Agentic Supply Chain: an intelligent ecosystem that continuously thinks, learns, adapts and acts. The Eden Prairie, Minnesota logistics provider said it is the most advanced form of artificial intelligence in logistics. It understands context, makes decisions in real time ... [+]

Boxship Recycling Lags 1.8 million TEUs, BIMCO

Container ship owners and operators are extending a pattern of low recycling activity since 2021, as BIMCO estimates a recycling overhang of at least 500 vessels and 1.8 million twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUS. “So far this year, only 10 container ships have been recycled, said ... [+]

BIMCO Developing Clause for Chinese Port Fees

BIMCO, the Danish shipping association, has begun development of a clause specifically addressing the new fees introduced on Oct. 14 for U.S.-related ships calling at ports in China. The Chinese Ministry of Transport said Oct. 10 that it would impose new “Special Port Fees” on ships ... [+]

ATA Truck Tonnage Index Slipped in September

U.S. trucking activity decreased to its lowest level in three months September, pushing the level down to the lowest in three months, according to the American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index. Truck freight tonnage declined 0.9 percent after gaining 0.9 percent in ... [+]

UNCTAD’s Rebeca Grynspan – Maritime Transport Enters Uncharted Waters

By Rebeca Grynspan Following is the foreword for the Review of Maritime Transport 2025, written by Grynspan, secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Not since the Suez Canal’s closure in 1967 has the industry witnessed such sustained disruption to the arteries ... [+]

U-Freight Sees Growing Medical Logistics

The growing market in medical aesthetic products moving from South Korea to China is proving lucrative to the U-Freight Group. One year after the company signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shanghai Hongyu Supply Chain Management Co (HYSC) to develop logistics services for medical and healthcare ... [+]

CH Robinson’s Chris Ugarte – US Supreme Court to Hear Broker Liability Case

By Chris Ugarte The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case that could settle conflicting court interpretations of who can be held liable in roadway-accident lawsuits against the transportation industry. In Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II LLC, the plaintiff was injured along a highway ... [+]

US Threatens IMO Countries Voting for Net Zero

The U.S. State Department said it plans to penalize countries that approve and participate in the International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s plan to decarbonize shipping through a carbon fee. The IMO assembled on Oct. 14 to discuss and potentially vote on its Net Zero Framework, or NZF, ... [+]

Trump, EU Trade Agree on 15% Rate on Autos

President Donald Trump formally implemented its U.S. trade agreement with the European Union on Sept. 24, confirming that a 15 percent duty rate for EU autos and auto parts began on Aug. 1 and listing tariff exemptions for generic pharmaceuticals, aircraft and aircraft parts. The Commerce ... [+]

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