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UPDATE 8/3 – The ports have announced another delay on the congestion dwell fee. This news comes as the ports have continued to see a decrease in stagnant containers. The ports will [...]

Trans-Border wishes to alert the community that the ground staff at Deutsche Lufthansa went on strike early this morning, prompting the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights. The strike is [...]

German dockers confirmed a second-round strike that will occur in the key container hubs of Hamburg, Bremerhaven, and Wilhelmshaven as wage negotiations with employers failed to reach an [...]

Several states across India have announced and implemented new lockdown procedures in response to rising cases of COVID-19 across the subcontinent. The hardest hit areas are Maharashtra, Tamil [...]

Longshore workers at the Port of Montreal have launched a partial strike this week, the next development in an on-going labor dispute at the port. The Canadian Union of Public Employees 375 [...]

Six days after getting stuck sideways in the Suez Canal, the MV Ever Given is reported to be refloated and back on the move. Salvage crews dredged approximately 30,000 cubic meters of sand, while [...]

Following up on our earlier reporting, the container ship lodged in the Suez Canal has not yet been freed. We have received conflicting reports since it first became lodged Wednesday, but can [...]

Shipping traffic through the Suez Canal has been shut down due to a container ship turned sideways. The Ever Given is an ultra large container ship with a carrying capacity of 20,000 TEU. The [...]

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is temporarily suspending additional duties on products of the United Kingdom (UK) subject to the Section 301 Airbus-Boeing dispute. [...]

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) extended Section 301 product exclusions on certain medical products up through September 30, 2021. In December, USTR announced [...]