Category Archives: General Information

Importers, exporters, carriers should expect U.S. border delays

Posted on March 7, 2013 by tfli.com

  As U.S. funding cuts are implemented, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the U.S. has indicated that it is taking steps to reduce its work hours by the equivalent of over 5,000 border patrol agents and 2,750 inspectors. It plans to cut overtime immediately, followed by furloughs, which are lengthier to take effect. Furthermore, […]

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Sequestration: How it Will Affect Your Supply Chain

Posted on February 28, 2013 by tfli.com

If our Congress does not act on a budget by close of their business day today, sequestration will be in affect beginning tomorrow, March 1.  Under sequestration, all government agencies will evenly take a budget cut.  Included in those agencies affected are the U.S. Customs and Border Protection; who is the enforcer and facilitator of […]

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PORT OF TACOMA’S FUTURE

Posted on February 21, 2013 by tfli.com

Among the lessons that the recent recession taught the Port of Tacoma was that relying too heavily on a single line of business, no matter how potentially profitable, was an invitation to financial hardship. The port’s nearly single-minded devotion to turning the Tideflats into a vast container terminal from one end to the other put […]

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ILA Releases Master Contract Details

Posted on February 15, 2013 by tfli.com

The International Longshoremen’s Association revealed details of the tentative master contract it has negotiated with the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX), posting them on the ILA Website on Wednesday.   The six-year contract would expire Sept. 30, 2018 and provide ILA members with a $3 increase over three years – a $1 increase on Oct. 1, […]

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ILWU Local 63 OCU Clerks Reject Some Contracts

Posted on February 7, 2013 by tfli.com

  Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s Local 63 Office Clerical Unit (OCU) rejected some of the proposed contracts that were reached with employers last December during ratification voting on Wednesday night, raising questions about a settlement that ended a strike that shut down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for […]

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Taxes on the movement of cargo

Posted on January 24, 2013 by tfli.com

70% of cargo passing through the Port of Tacoma is bound for destinations outside of Washington state. This cargo is discretionary in nature—it does not have to pass through Washington state to get to its destination. Shippers could easily divert the cargo to ports in Canada, California, or the Gulf Coast if costs become too […]

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ILA, USMX to Resume Master Contract Talks

Posted on January 17, 2013 by tfli.com

The International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance plan to meet next Tuesday to resume federally mediated negotiations on a dockworker contract covering East and Gulf Coast ports.  The scheduled three-day session in Galloway, N.J., comes after ILA President Harold Daggett and other union officials walked out a bargaining session Wednesday 1-9-13 with the […]

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ILA Walks Out of NY-NJ Talks

Posted on January 10, 2013 by tfli.com

The International Longshoremen’s Association broke off talks on a local contract covering work rules and staffing at the Port of New York and New Jersey, clouding prospects for a deal before the ILA’s Feb. 6 contract expiration.   The breakdown came in less than two weeks after a contract extension that averted a coast wide […]

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Publication of Final Rule on ISF

Posted on January 10, 2013 by tfli.com

According to a Broker Power article on CBP’s regulatory agenda, the Final Rule on ISF is expected in February of 2013. CBP has indicated that ACE deployment for AMS and publication of the Final Rule needed to be in place before CBP could proceed with full enforcement of ISF and begin assessment of liquidated damages. […]

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Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg Sud Might Be Merging

Posted on January 3, 2013 by tfli.com

Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud are in preliminary negotiations over a merger that would create the world’s fourth-largest ocean carrier and likely trigger a fresh round of consolidation in the fragmented container shipping industry. The German carriers today said they “are investigating if, and under what conditions, a merger of both companies would be of interest.” […]

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