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It has been a crazy couple of weeks for the global economy. First, the world was astounded by a sudden devaluation of China’s yuan against the U.S. dollar on August 11th. Then came [...]

Last week, on August 17th, a BNSF Railway intermodal storage policy change went into effect that is making shippers unhappy. The displeasure with the new policy couldn’t be missed in a [...]

Whose GSP is Automated and Whose is Not We recently blogged about President Obama signing a bill that retroactively extended the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) so importers can get their [...]

Merger from Rumors to Reality To be clear, a merger has not happened yet. But first there were rumors. Then there were confirmed merger talks.  It seems all but inevitable that the rankings of [...]

Here’s another story for our “international shipping fought the law and the law won” annals (always be careful to include both n’s when using that word). The Federal [...]

This international shipping story is just plain sad. It starts innocuously enough: “The first container ship to call on the Port of Portland in three months arrived last Tuesday and stayed [...]