Bahri Data and DNV GL signed a contract to co-develop and jointly leverage their “big data” capabilities for safety, quality and compliance innovation, Bahri said in a statement.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Un Hag Baeg, a South Korean national living in Southern California, defrauded the U.S. government out of $13 million in excise taxes on 143 million cigarettes.

The United States increased beef export volumes and value in August from 12 months prior, despite the nation experiencing modest declines in pork exports in terms of volumes and value.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Warminster, Pa.-based garment importer Notations “repeatedly ignored warning signs that its business partner, which imported garments from China, was engaged in a scheme to underpay customs duties.”

Union Pacific names vice president and treasurer, vice president-planning and analysis, and vice president-tax; and Crane Worldwide Logistics hires vice president, ocean products.

After making landfall in Louisiana as a category 1 hurricane, Nate weakened to a tropical storm shortly after, resulting in minimal structural damage and allowing U.S. Gulf Coast ports to reopen over the weekend.

Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier called the U.S. Commerce Department’s dumping investigation “an egregious overreach and misapplication of the U.S. trade laws in an apparent attempt to block the C Series aircraft from entering the U.S. market.”

According to the Jacksonville, Fla.-based Class I railroad’s most-recent internal performance report, system-wide train velocity on CSX’s 21,000-mile network has increased by about 16 percent since mid-July.

Regulated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and hired by importers to facilitate the cross-border movement of goods into the United States, U.S. customs brokers play an integral and instrumental role in keeping the national supply chain secure.