Regulation & Compliance

Ex-Im Bank Signs $1Bn Memorandum of Understanding to Support U.S. Clean Energy Exports to India

November 21, 2014

Fred P. Hochberg, chairman of the U.S. Export-Import Bank signed a memorandum of understanding with Chairman K.S. Popli of the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) to explore options for utilizing up to $1bn to finance the sale of U.S. clean energy exports to India.

What Companies Get Wrong About Cyber Risk

November 21, 2014

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Face it: There's no such thing as a supply-chain information-technology system that's completely invulnerable to cyber attack.

The World of Extreme Supply Chains

November 21, 2014

Steve Geary, President, Supply Chain Visions

Trucking and Transportation 2014 - And Beyond

November 20, 2014

Andy Moses, Senior VP, Global Products, Penske

Colombian Trade, Investment Arm Gets a New Name

November 19, 2014

PROCOLOMBIA

Proexport, the Colombian government agency charged with promoting tourism, trade and investment has been reborn as PROCOLOMBIA, effective immediately.

Barriers to Implementing Supply Chain Innovation

November 18, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

The biggest barrier to innovation in global supply chains is the inability of companies to identify and then quickly react to opportunities, says Corey Rhodes, vice president-Americas at Amber Road. He discusses the reasons behind these shortcomings and steps to remedy them.

New Tenets of Transportation Revealed in Annual Study

November 18, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

Presidents Tommy Barnes and Joel Clum of Con-way Multimodal and Carrier Direct, corporate partners with the University of Tennessee and Georgia Southern in this year's Study of Trends and Issues in Transportation and Logistics, discuss new transportation tenets distilled from survey responses.

Crossing International Borders Easier Than Ever for Many People - But Not for Retail Merchants

November 18, 2014

Entrepreneur

Movement across borders is as simple as getting in a car or on a plane. It's a seamless, simple experience to which most people devote little thought. For both merchants and consumers, however, the path to online and offline purchasing across borders is still a bumpy one.

Robust Manufacturing in U.S. Depends on Improved Transportation

November 18, 2014

Industry Week

The U.S. manufacturing industry is in the midst of a comeback. Manufacturers are gladly shifting from securing demand to meeting demand. However, reworking the U.S. transportation infrastructure is essential to the success of this progress.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact: Expanding E-Commerce Opportunities for SMEs

November 17, 2014

Luisella Basso, Director, International Trade and Customs Compliance, Borderfree

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent a rapidly growing sector of the U.S. economy – creating 30 million new jobs, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Exporters benefit from even faster growth, create more jobs and pay higher wages. Yet SMEs, which account for 99 percent of U.S. businesses, represent a mere 13 percent of the total U.S. export value.