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The long U.S. recovery via exports
Optimism is not abundant in this fifth year of recovery from the Great Recession. Employment, consumer spending, home sales and starts are past their worst points but have not yet recovered to their 2007 levels. In the housing market this may not happen for many years. Similarly, container volumes handled at ports, railcar volumes and truck tonnage are below their historic peak levels. Nonetheless, some types of activity like production and transportation of export commodities are at all-tim...
Training by organization
On Second Thought... Julie Gibbs director, BPE Global Email Now Training on trade compliance is often not as effective as it should be. We’ve all attended the mandatory trainings where policies and regulations are regurgitated and attendees go away with nothing more than a handout. Occasionally though, a training course will really add value. This article focuses on tricks and tips to create a value added training course ensuring that “trade compliance” gets through to ev...
The other shoe — insufficient transportation funding?
The Strategic View By Pierce Homer As economic activity picks up things that were left undone during the last several years, such as development of a new transportation authorization bill, could become a barrier to recovery in the near term and prosperity in the long term. It is clear that the United States needs to invest in infrastructure, not just to sustain the current level of activity but also to support further growth, particularly if goals such as ...