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The Miami office will be closed Thursday, October 6th with a possible re-opening on Friday, October 7th depending on the weather and road conditions. Brauner International New Jersey can be reached for shipment status or ISF filing if needed. Tel. 201-333-5400 or import (at) braunerintl (dot) com. Monday Oct. 10th is Columbus Day and a …

Beginning July 1, 2016, shippers will be required to certify to the ocean carrier the gross weight of the container. This is for both safety and yield management reasons. The safety component is the most important. First, when planning manifests, they must know that they are loading the proper weight of cargo into the different …

As of today, there has been no agreement reached between the PMA and the ILWU in this year’s round of contract negotiations. The PMA are the employers who own terminals at all West Coast ports, the ILWU are the longshore labor who load and unload the ships. In the past, many of the disagreements have …

When the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Program expired on July 31, 2013, last year, members of the trade believed that the legislation would be renewed with retroactive benefits, weeks or months later, as it had in past years. Fast forward to today, and GSP has still not been renewed.  This is posing a problem …