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10 Responsibilities of a Public Port Authority
What the public should reasonably expect from port authorities, which have made huge investments to accommodate the fast-growing container trade.

Customs Update: Checklist to avoid export penalties
Washington is offering to mitigate penalties by as much as 25% for export control violations. Here are nine indispensable components for an effective export compliance program to help meet the standard warranting great weight in mitigation.

"The most significant decision in 2007 was the approval...to increase the size of the Panama Canal. Those of us with port and terminal operations on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts have been given a seven-year window to be ready for the new canal and the “New Panamax” vessels that will use it."
-- Stephen Edwards, Ports America Inc.

Get your copy of "The Box That Changed The World", published by The Journal of Commerce, an illustrated history of containerization since its beginnings in the 1950s and how it has transformed world trade.
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