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Fiscal 2007 War Supplementary
Bill Helps U.S. Ports
$110 Million Included For Port
Security Grants
President Bush on
Friday (May 25) signed into law H.R. 2206, a compromise Iraqi war
appropriations supplemental bill that includes $110 million in
additional fiscal 2007 funding for the federal Port Security Grant
program, which the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA)
hailed today as "a giant leap forward" to help U.S. ports secure their
facilities against terrorism.
more...
Discussion of Need to
Implement Long Range Vessel Tracking System to Aid Maritime Security
Maritime
Information Service of North America’s Automated Secure Vessel
Tracking System (ASVTS)
Click for screenshot of ASVTS
The world’s maritime leaders have identified the maritime borders as
the most vulnerable to terrorist attack. President Bush in addressing
this concern stated “the whole purpose is to push out our maritime
borders, giving us more time to identify threats and more time to
respond”. MISNA members have been providing information on vessel
movements to the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Coast Guard
since 9/11 to aid maritime security. MISNA has also developed a
satellite based Automated Secure Vessel Tracking System (ASVTS) to
provide real-time tracking of vessels through the use of the existing
Global Marine Distress Safety System (GMDSS), a satellite
communications safety alert system required by SOLAS (Safety of Life
and Sea Convention) for ocean going cargo vessels since 1999.
more...
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First X-bowed seismic ships
May 31, 2007
Marinelog.com
Newly formed Dubai-based 3-D seismic specialist Eastern Echo has
ordered four seismic vessels at Astillero Barrera, Vigo, Spain.
The
ships will be of Ulstein SX124 design. They will be the first
seismic vessels of Ulstein design and will be built with the
Ulstein X-bow. In total, five shipowners have chosen this new bow
concept.
more...
Middle East leads freight
growth
International freight traffic demand in March continued a 12-month
run of sluggish growth with a 2.3 per cent increase year-on-year.
But it was a different story in the Middle East, according to the
International Air Transport Association (IATA).
more...
Freight gets a vision as
leaders “rally” for future needs
Business has entered the 21st Century. Unfortunately, an aging and
patched-up U.S. freight transportation system has not.
That was the gist of a three-day “Transportation Vision and
Strategy Summit” that attracted 150 industry leaders from all
modes.
more...
USPS Becomes First Shipper to
Get Cradle to Cradle Rating
Consumers now can send a very "green" message across town or
around the world when sending Priority Mail and Express Mail
packages and envelopes.
The
U.S. Postal Service has become the first mailing or shipping
company in the country to achieve "Cradle to Cradle" Certification
at the Silver level from McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry for
human and environmental health.
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Detroit top U.S. truck
port
25 May 2007, CSCB
Trucks carried
$116 billion in trade across Detroit’s U.S.-Canada border in 2006,
making the city the No. 1 truck port in the country.
more...
Electronic Manifest Filing Now
Mandatory in Michigan and New York
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Washington—Beginning
today, all truck carriers are required to electronically submit
manifests detailing cargo and carrier information to U.S. Customs
and Border Protection prior to arrival at Michigan and New York
land border ports.
more...
Port Authority budgets are
available online
Details of the Port Authority's $332.2 million operating budget
and $149.6 million capital budget for the coming fiscal year are
available in the "Features" section of the authority's Web site at
www.portauthority.org. The operating budget projects a $50.8
million deficit without additional state and local funding.
The
budgets cover July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2008. They will be
voted upon at the authority's next regular board meeting on June
22.
Source:
www.post-gazette.com
China-made super large
container
ship undocked
An
8530TEU (standard container) super-large container ship, complete
with independent Chinese intellectual property rights, smoothly
disembarked from the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co.,
Ltd. on May 28, 2007.
This makes
China the fourth country to be able to independently design and
construct the super large container ship, following the ROK, Japan
and Denmark.
This super
large container ship is the first one of five of this type of ship
that is to be constructed for the China Shipping Container Lines
Company Limited (CSCL). The hull is 334 meters long; there are 320
meters between the two columns; it is 42.8 meters wide and 24.8
meters deep; and it can carry 101,000 tons, making speeds up to
twenty-seven knots. The entire ship can be steered by one person.
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Governor Doyle Announces Export Achievement Award Winners
May 15, 2007
MILWAUKEE -
Governor Jim Doyle congratulated six recipients of the Governor's
Export Achievement Awards, recognizing firms and organizations
achieving extraordinary results in international sales and helping
move Wisconsin forward in the global marketplace. Governor Doyle
recognized the companies at the 42nd annual Wisconsin
International Trade Conference in Milwaukee.
"Wisconsin's
economy is on the move," Governor Doyle said. "In the last four
years, we've established promising new trade partners, reached new
markets, and increased our exports by more than 60 percent. As
Governor, I'm proud to stand with these dedicated companies and
organizations that are helping our state compete and win in the
global economy."
more...
 M.E.
Dey & Co. wishes to congratulate the 2007 Export Achievement Award
winners.
Click the link above
to see the complete list.
Thanks to everyone who
attended the 43rd Annual Wisconsin
International Trade Conference and visited our booth.
The winner of our iPod drawing is Curtis Ninmann of Marchant
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U.S., China Customs Agree
to Combat Global Trade in Counterfeit Goods
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Washington
– U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner W. Ralph Basham
and Mu Xinsheng, Minister of Customs for the General
Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China,
signed an agreement yesterday to strengthen enforcement of
intellectual property rights laws.
The
agreement provides for exchanges of seizure information on
counterfeit goods between Customs staff of the two nations
designed to improve intellectual property rights enforcement. CBP
and China Customs have pledged to increase visits to each other’s
offices and ports by both policy and operational staff engaged in
intellectual property rights enforcement.
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WTO considers RTAs
under new transparency mechanism
The Committee on Regional Trade
Agreements, on 14-15 May 2007, considered the following regional
trade agreements (RTAs) under the new Transparency Mechanism.
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Free Trade Agreement
between Thailand and Australia, goods and services
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Closer Economic Partnership
Agreement between Thailand and New Zealand
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Protocol on Trade in the
Southern African Development Community, goods
Free Trade Agreement
between Armenia and Moldova
Under the
Transparency Mechanism, RTAs
notified to the WTO under Article XXIV of the GATT, 1947 and
Article V of the GATS are considered by the CRTA; RTAs notified
under the Enabling Clause are considered by the CTD meeting in
dedicated session. The consideration is based on a Factual
Presentation of each notified RTA, prepared by the Secretariat on
its own responsibility and in consultation with the relevant
parties.
Video: WTO Director General Pascal
Lamy discusses World Trade figures
for 2006
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Prior Bond approvals required
because of FDA detention of Chinese vegetable protein products
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
issued an alert on April 27, 2007, announcing the detention, without
physical examination, of all vegetable protein products imported from
China for animal or human food use. The detention is because of the
presence of melamine and melamine-related compounds in the vegetable
protein, said to cause thousands of deaths in cats and dogs during the
past few weeks.
Products affected by the detention are listed as:
wheat gluten, wheat flour gluten, rice
gluten, rice protein, rice protein concentrate, corn gluten, corn
gluten meal, corn by-products, soy protein, soy bean meal, powder,
protein isolate, or protein powder, soy gluten, proteins (including
amino acids and protein hydrosylates), mung bean protein and milled
rice products.
Because the vegetable protein products
from China are subject to detention, these are now considered FDA
restricted items requiring prior bond approval.
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Next Meeting: July 19,
2007
"OOPS, POOPS & DOOPS" at
The Abbey Resort, Delavan WI"
"(OOPS), my
customer didn't pay!" "How do I deal with a difficult market
(POOP)?" & finally..."Especially today, how do I prevent & deal
with fraud (DOOPS or DUPES)?"
www.icewi.org
PROGRAM
DETAILS AVAILABLE SOON!
You've got
just one week to reserve your space on the
State of Wisconsin
Trade Mission to Japan and China
contact our Trade
Mission Coordinators:
Jennifer Winner, tel: (608) 266-0413, jennifer.winner@wisconsin.gov
Christine Stamm, tel: (608) 264-7824, christine.stamm@wisconsin.gov |
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