The PortMiami Perishables Committee, which represents the region’s bustling fruits and vegetable import industry, has asked the nation’s top agricultural official to intervene in turning back significant federal treatment fee increases.

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has set up a new page on its website to provide the public with updates on its regulatory reform initiative.

Despite public bluster, technical negotiations surrounding a revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are 60 percent complete, according to Edmundo Elias-Fernandez, a Guadalajara-based trade attorney with the firm Cacheaux, Cavazos & Newton.

With no agreement to diffuse the long-running trade battle between the United States and Canada over softwood lumber, the U.S. Commerce Department said it will proceed with imposing antidumping and countervailing duties on these imports.

According to Liz Schmelzinger, U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) director of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT), it’s on her team to deliver benefits and educate participants about the important trade program.

Given a shift in focus to include growing partner government agency (PGA) controls, perhaps the term “customs broker” has become a misnomer in terms of the realities of the job, according to Megan Montgomery, executive vice president of the NCBFAA.

Under the deal, Jacksonville, Fla.-based ocean carrier Crowley will purchase two tankers with a capacity of 800,000 barrels each and one tanker with a capacity of 342,000 barrels, the company confirmed Wednesday.

In addition to smog reduction measures, the ports’ Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) update aims to help California meet aggressive greenhouse gas reduction goals and achieve zero emissions for trucks and terminal equipment over the next two decades.

The Jacksonville, Fla.-based Class I railway will not be moving forward with a project that would have allowed the tunnel, which connects to the Port of Baltimore, to accommodate double-stacked container trains.

Driven by top line sales growth and a booming e-commerce market, the roll-up trucking and third-party logistics provider reported the highest revenues, net income and cash flow of any quarter in its history, CEO Brad Jacobs tells American Shipper.