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Only months after the Ocean Shipping Re-form Act took effect in May 1999, House Judiciary Committee

The Maritime Transportation System, or MTS, is an initiative to call attention to -- and hopefully g

Rajiv Uppal didn't see his daughter, born in India, until she was eight months old. The founder of N

What, if anything, will happen in Washington this year that will affect the international logistics

U.S. companies with foreign-flag shipping operations have struggled since the 1986 tax-reform act. P

Phil Saracin's first week as global logistics manager for Kemet Electronics Corp. of Greenville, S.C

In the mid-1990s, Rob Quartel, a Republican and former Federal Maritime Commissioner, tried to repe

Here's a novel solution for importers used to waiting for weeks on end for the Customs Service to is

The Customs Service ach-ieved a milestone in December when it received more than $130 million to beg

'International shipping is a taxless world,' says Philip Loree. Government tax officials don't alway

Ever since the Zebra Mussel arrived in the Great Lakes in the 1980s and caused an estimated $5 billi

U.S. carriers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to install noise-muffling 'hush kits' on pl

APL Logistics prides itself on its technology-driven approach to the third-party logistics business.

Manny Aschemeyer, executive director of the Marine Exchange of Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor, wants

U.S. Customs has taken major steps toward modernizing its operations, and none too soon. The agency

Everyone realizes that the next rail mergers are likely to represent the last round of consolidation

The Justice Department is expected to rule on United Airlines' proposed acquisition of US Airways on

China Shipping Group, the rapidly growing Chinese carrier, startled the shipping industry this month

The notion that seaports are a weak link in the war against terrorism, drug smuggling and illegal im

China Shipping To Add Med Route: China Shipping Group, the rapidly expanding China-based shipping li

Until 1986, the federal government paid for all channel dredging out of the general fund. From then

The Transportation Department says it is only trying to improve highway safety. But when the DOT pro

One of the Clinton administration's proudest achievements in transportation was the negotiation of o

Finding a poster child for the plight of U.S.-controlled, foreign-flag shipping, might sound like a

United Parcel Service accelerated the consolidation process within the logistics industry last week

Attorneys and shipper groups think the prospects for revision of the Carriage of Goods at Sea Act (C

The Clinton administration blocked a provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1995 th

The Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 suspended the requirement that ocean carriers and non-vessel-o

LONDON - British Midland, Britain's second-largest airline, has sold its airport ground-handling ope

HOUSTON - Oceanbulk Line has introduced a new service to South America, beginning a fixed 23-day sch

OTTAWA ----- Salvatore L. Pisani, a year after joining the SaintLawrence Seaway Development Corpora

SEATTLE - The Port of Seattle signed a memorandum of understanding with a subsidiary of PSA Corp. to

Two major airlines and a leading international freight forwarder are rejoining Cargo 2000, a group c

NEW DELHI - Blue Dart Aviation, one of India's largest integrated air express and logistics companie

Mexico's new communications and transportation minister, Pedro Cerisola, promised to decide on the l

LOS ANGELES - Two coal-carrying vessels are idled at a Los Angeles bulk terminal as members of the I

The United Alliance of Cho Yang Shipping, Hanjin Shipping Co. and Senator Lines are expanding servic

NEWARK, N.J. - Myron D. Ronis has been named deputy director of the port commerce department of the

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Robert J. Lewis, a 28-year veteran employee with the U.S. Department of Transportation's Saint Lawre