Spring Brings Notable Changes to Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR)
Bilateral relations between the U.S. and Cuba heated up this month due to increased activity between the two nations. Even before President Castro welcomed President ... Read More
Helping Maine Exporters Receive STEP Grant Funding
In September 2015, the U.S. Small Business Administration State Trade and Export Promotion (STEP) grant initiative awarded the Maine International Trade Center (MITC) $161,000 in ... Read More
Customs and Border Protection Reauthorization Act Increases Trade Benefits for Small and Mid-size Companies
President Barack Obama signed Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act (TFTEA) into law on February 24, 2016. The passage of this act represents one of ... Read More
Evaluating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement
After seven years of negotiations, 12 Pacific Rim countries signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Auckland, New Zealand on February 4, 2016, but its' implementation ... Read More
New Prohibitions for Transporting Lithium Batteries on Passenger Flights
Reuters reported the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) agreed to prohibit shipments of lithium-ion batteries on passenger aircraft, because of concerns that they are a ... Read More
Panama Canal Expansion Update
A dispute between the Panama Canal Authority (PCA) and Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), the consortium responsible for designing and constructing the third set ... Read More
What’s New In Hazmat?
Harvey Waite | Vice President of Compliance and Security, OCEANAIR First, a word of warning about Hazmat shipments going to China — we recently experienced ... Read More
Port of Boston’s Conley Container Terminal posts 11% surge in volumes
BY HAILEY DESORMEAUX The Port of Boston's Conley Container Terminal handled 237,166 TEUs in 2015, an 11 percent increase from 2014, the Massachusetts Port Authority ... Read More
U.S. Coast Guard Makes Announcement on Enforcement of SOLAS Requirements
As the global scramble to implement the new SOLAS requirements continues, the U.S. Coast Guard outlined its enforcement policies in a session to listen to ... Read More
