FASA

The U.S. Commerce Department will begin assessing countervailing duties on imports of ripe olives from Spain, the department announced Tuesday.

The Commerce Department will begin assessing antidumping duties on imports of carbon and alloy steel wire rod from Belarus, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates, Commerce said in a statement Tuesday.

The Belgian port authority is gaining ownership and control of 720 kilometers of pipelines through its acquisition of Nationale Maatschappij der Pijpleidingen.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has placed North Korea’s government agencies in charge of maritime transport, as well as half a dozen North Korean shipping companies, on the department’s sanctions list.

An annual report from the National Retail Federation (NRF) found that 67 percent of retailers reported an increase in retail crime along with 40 percent who were victims of cargo theft at some point in the supply chain.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a 90-day waiver from the electronic logging device mandate for agricultural commodity transporters after hearing concerns from the agricultural industry, especially with regard to livestock transport.

In an annual report on pressing management challenges, the U.S. Department of Transportation said that safety remains the agency’s top priority.

The ship insurer North P&I Club is setting up a new European Union subsidiary in Dublin due to the increasing possibility that it and other companies will lose access to the EU single market after Brexit.

The arrival of the block train in France saw the transit time for the 10,815-kilometer journey slashed by 20 days, according to Maersk freight forwarding subsidiary Damco.