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On April 22, 2015, CBP released CSMS #15-000234, reminding the trade that all filers must be fully prepared to use ACE by November 1, 2015. Roanoke Trade encourages all filers to speak with their Automated Broker Interface (ABI) software providers without delay to ensure their systems will be ready…before it’s too late. Don’t leave your company at a competitive disadvantage for not preparing sooner. It would be difficult to overstate the urgency of the need to be fully prepared for this landmark event in the history of the Customs Commercial Process. CBP is unwavering in their determination to fully implement the […]
Hundreds of truckers who haul freight from the California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach voted this past Saturday to launch a strike on Monday against four ground-shipment companies. This move could very well a revive labor tensions at the nation’s busiest cargo hub. The drivers, as reported by American Shippers, have targeted Intermodal Bridge Transport, Pacific 9 Transportation (Pac 9), Pacer Cartage, and Harbor Rail Transport. Area drivers have long claimed they should be classified as employees, not independent contractors, and, as such, are being subjected to “wage theft.” Teamsters spokeswoman Barb Maynard, said that delegations of drivers notified […]
A statement released from Teamster affiliate Justice for Port Truck Drivers stated that truck drivers hauling goods from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will vote on Saturday whether to launch a strike beginning as early as Monday morning, April 27. The results of Saturday’s vote will be released early Monday morning, according to Barb Maynard, spokeswoman for Justice for Port Truck Drivers and the Teamsters. The strike is as a result of truckers fighting over their classification as contractors. They want to be hired as employees complete with benefits by the firms for which they work. “Since […]
Several shipping associations with members operating in the Mediterranean Sea have sent a letter to the European Union regarding the increasing reliance on merchant ships to conduct human rescues of refugees fleeing violence in the Mideast and Africa. The petitioners include global merchant shipping operators and seafarer unions—the European Community Shipowners’ Associations, the European Transport Workers’ Federation, the International Chamber of Shipping, and the International Transport Workers’ Federation. Merchant ships rescued about 40,000 people in 2014, and the number this year is projected to rise substantially. Increasingly, ships are receiving hundreds of refugees, creating health and welfare risks to seafarers, […]
While many shippers, retailers and travel companies are intrigued by the prospects of developing opportunities in Cuba, it’s crucial to remember that the embargo remains in place. A memorandum from law firm Wiggin and Dana to the American Institute of Marine Underwriters summarizes the subject for the shipping industry. The U.S. government broadened exchange with Cuba, but the changes have little to do with cargo shipping at this point, and “[most] transactions between the United States, or persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction, and Cuba continue to be prohibited,” according to the U.S. Treasury. Additionally, the Office of Foreign Assets Control […]
Roanoke Trade is pleased to announce Indonesia as the world’s 75th member nation to join the international ATA Carnet network. This much anticipated trading partner of the U.S. will begin accepting and issuing ATA Carnets on May 15, 2015. As the world’s fourth most populous nation, Indonesia has become an economic leader in Southeast Asia. A secular state with strong political ties to the U.S., Indonesia is a magnet for U.S. industries specifically the energy and aerospace sectors. Heavy investments in aircraft, rail transport equipment, oil and gas have helped lead to double-digit growth in U.S. exports to Indonesia over the past five […]
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