U.S. Customs and Border Protection is inviting technology, equipment, and services vendors to its headquarters next week for a briefing on the changing operational environment and strategy of an agency that is moving beyond its tra...

   The International Maritime Organization said a working group in its Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) will develop interim guidance for private guards working on ships to protect them from pirate attacks.    The working gro...

   The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has condensed its recommendations for securing the federal IT supply chain, deciding to focus on core elements around secure and reliable information and the communication system...

   The U.S. Commerce Department on Thursday announced an affirmative preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation of solar panel imports, whether or not assembled into modules or solar cells, from China.    Dum...

   The U.S. House Agriculture Committee’s general farm commodities and risk management subcommittee finished two days of Farm Bill hearings Thursday with no mention of the U.S. sugar trade program.    The National Confectioners As...

   In 2015, global e-commerce is projected to reach $1.4 trillion and as much as $380 billion of that will be generated in China, said Tompkins International in a recently published a podcast.    &nbs...

   Gary S. Taylor, who is credited with bringing the liner carrier perspective to U.S. Customs’ development of the Automated Manifest System, died of cancer on May 12 in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 62.    Taylor started his career...

   The liner company Medterranean Shipping Co. has ended its dedicated service from North Europe to Central America.    The service operated with six vessels averaging 2,886 TEUS. It had a rotation of Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Antw...

   APS Stevedoring LLC, an auto and general/breakbulk cargo stevedoring company based in Long Beach, Calif., recently added to its operations with Hyundai Motor's Portland, Ore., Terminal 6 - Berth 601 auto terminal.    ...

   The global supply chain management (SCM) software market increased by 12.3 percent to reach $7.7 billion in 2011, according to new numbers from technology research firm Gartner.    According to the firm, this marks th...

   Source Consulting, which cut its teeth on in-house transportation cost management services, is now offering cloud-based transportation management systems, called Intelliship and HALO.    Both will be deployed as software-as-a-...

   PrestaShop, an open-source e-commerce solution, has partnered with Shipwire, a company that helps online businesses expand into new markets through shipping and storage services, on a new inventory management service.    S...