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FMC monitors unlicensed forwarder, NVO activity to protect shippers. By Chris Gillis For most ocean freight forwarders and non-vessel-operating common carriers, it’s not worth attempting to operate in the U.S. market without a license and bond on file with the Federal Maritime Commission. Yet there are a few ocean transportation intermediaries (OTIs) that will inevitably try, and ...

Tampa ports prepare for canal expansion. By Chris Dupin Two Florida West Coast ports on Tampa Bay believe there will be opportunities from the expansion of the Panama Canal to increase their involvement in the container business. In separate interviews, Richard Wainio, port director and chief executive officer of the Tampa Port Authority, and Steve Tyndal, senior director of trade...

BNSF downplays role of rates in cargo diversion from U.S. West Coast ports. By Eric Kulisch Rail rates are only one part of the equation for West Coast ports to reverse their loss of market share to eastern counterparts, Matt Rose, chairman and chief executive of BNSF Railway, said in a mid-January interview. The new collaboration between the region’s gateway ports and the BNSF an...

India tax regime would promise benefits to business, including changing how companies distribute goods. By Eric Johnson India’s taxman may soon have a huge bearing on how companies in the world’s second most populous country structure their distribution networks. That’s because the country could, as soon as April, implement a new tax regime that will likely prompt companies to red...