Our customer is a nonprofit organization which connects companies who have goods with nonprofits in need, and individuals who want to help them.
News / Voltage Creative
Overland Park, KS, April 12, 2016 – MIQ Logistics is pleased to announce its selection by Transport Topics as a Top Freight Brokerage Company, Top Airfreight Forwarder, Top Ocean Freight Forwarder, and Top Warehousing Company for 2015. Transport Topics accurately and objectively documents the size and scope of the largest operators in the North America and provides timely analysis of trends shaping the industry.
Our customer is a business unit within a global corporation that develops and manufacturers healthcare, graphic arts, optical devices, and high-tech products. Another business unit within the corporation requested our customer combine transportation services, and use their carrier as a way to save money through volume rates.
SOLAS
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) amended the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention to require shippers to provide the Verified Gross Mass (“VGM”) of containers carrying cargo before those containers can be loaded aboard a vessel. Without a VGM, the amendments also prohibit the vessel operator from loading a packed container. The SOLAS amendments are effective July 1, 2016; are not expected to be postponed; and, are globally binding – all Countries party to the convention have undertaken to implement amendments. There is no exception to this requirement. If the acceptable VGM documentation is not timely provided by the shipper, that container will not be loaded on board the vessel. As your NVOCC or Freight Forwarder, MIQ will require from your or your supplier the following data:
International Trade & Supply Chain Cost Savings: What’s Here, What’s Not and What’s on the Horizon
Please join MIQ Logistics and Husch Blackwell on July 13 in St. Louis for an afternoon seminar focused on issues in U.S. international trade policy. This seminar will offer practical knowledge and insight into free trade agreements and legislation affecting the import and export of goods for U.S. companies, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, and the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., February 9, 2016 – MIQ Logistics is pleased to announce the opening of a global logistics facility in Kansas City, located at 11501 Outlook St, Overland Park, KS. The new branch will work closely with the company’s offices globally and well-established Chicago logistics center to deliver more personalized attention to customers in Kansas, Missouri and surrounding states.
International Trade & Supply Chain Cost Savings:
What’s Here, What’s Not and What’s on the Horizon
Please join Husch Blackwell and MIQ Logistics for upcoming seminars focused on issues in U.S. international trade policy. This seminars will offer practical knowledge and insight into free trade agreements and legislation affecting the import and export of goods for U.S. companies, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Generalized System of Preferences and the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill.