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Researchers are trying to figure out how to keep so many containers from
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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.
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