An ongoing labor dispute at the Port of Montreal between the Montreal Port Authority and the Maritime Employers Association has been halted for at least seven months after the two parties reached a truce on August 21. Operations at the... Read more >
Beginning on Monday, August 10 at 7: 00 a.m. ET, members of the Longshoremen Union will begin an indefinite strike at the Port of Montreal. The Port has issued a notice outlining which services will be impacted, and which will... Read more >
Montreal Gateway Terminals (MGT) has announced that, effective Tuesday February 25th, 2020, a Force Majeure will be declared due to the blockades that have brought services across most of CN Rail’s network to a halt. To avoid further gridlocks resulting... Read more >
February 18, 2020 – Over the two weeks, the Canadian National Railway Co. (CN Rail) and the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) have been experiencing considerable backlogs due to a number of rail blockades on their network. As a result, Canadian... Read more >
February 12, 2020 – The Canadian National Railway Co. (CN Rail) has released an update on the status of blockades that have been set up in British Columbia and Ontario in solidarity with opponents of the Coastal GasLink pipeline project... Read more >
February 12, 2020 – Every year, a number of Canadian provinces implement a “Spring Thaw” policy, which specifies reduced trailer load restrictions in order to protect roads from significant damage at a time of year when roads are most vulnerable... Read more >
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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency’s enforcement date for the new in-bond process is going into effect on Monday, July 29, 2019. Download FAQ Last summer, CBP implemented several amendments to the in-bond process, effective August 6th, 2018.... Read more >
This article on alternative sourcing to China was originally published in the Journal of Commerce on May 29, 2019. By Mike Meierkort, President, International Freight & Transportation Solutions & Cora Di Pietro, Vice President, Global Trade Consulting The recent escalation in the trade... Read more >
This article originally appeared in Supply Chain World Magazine on Sept. 18, 2018 By Jim Harris, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media Companies involved in international trade have come to expect the unexpected in recent months. The renegotiation of the North American... Read more >