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International Trade Seminars

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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.

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January 2016 Manufacturing ISM Report on Business

  • Economic News

Institute for Supply Management

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in January for the fourth consecutive month, while the overall economy grew for the 80th consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®.

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MIQ Supply Chain Alert

Business As Usual At Port of NY/NJ

  • Global Logistics, Ocean Market

The Port Authority of NY/NJ has reported that full operations at Port of NY and NJ are restored. Gates opened as scheduled this morning 2/1/16, however a service advisory from the Port Authority website, reflects notifications of potential truck and roadway congestion:  “as a reminder, in order to keep traffic flowing on the roadways and for the safety of everyone, there is no overnight parking and no queing on public roadways before 5:30 a.m. Truckers should plan accordingly and stagger their arrivals in the morning to help limit potential congestion”.

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MIQ Supply Chain Alert

Labor Walk-Off Taking Place at Port of NY/NJ

  • Supply Chain Alerts

The Port Authority of NY/NJ has reported a labor walk-off that took place at 10:53 this morning involving the workers of the International Longshoremen’s Association.

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MIQ Logistics Strengthens Its Latin America Presence

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan., February 1, 2016 – MIQ Logistics announces the purchase of certain assets in Alfa Logistics (Miami, Fla.) and Kronos Logistics (Bogota, Colombia), effective December 2015. The acquisitions enable MIQ Logistics to expand its specialized service offering with complementary capabilities in the Latin America region. Details of the acquisitions are not disclosed.

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Manufacturing And Trade Inventories And Sales

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U.S. Census Bureau News 

Sales. The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for November, adjusted for seasonal and trading-day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,313.5 billion, down 0.2 percent (±0.2%)* from October 2015 and was down 2.8 percent (±0.5%) from November 2014.

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IRANIAN SANCTIONS (UPDATE)

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On 16 January 2016, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that Iran has complied with its obligations under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) conditional to the first phase of sanctions relief. As a result, significant EU and US sanctions relief went into effect as of 16 January 2016.  Certain nuclear-related sanctions remain in place, however, and the sanctions related to the Iranian human rights situation remain entirely unaffected and in full force.

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ATA Truck Tonnage Index Increased 1% in December

  • North America Transportation

American Trucking Associations

American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 1% in December, following a decrease of 0.9% during November. In December, the index equaled 135.6 (2000=100), up from 134.3 in November, and 0.1% below the all-time high of 135.8 reached in January 2015.

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January 2016 Logistics Link

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Read MIQ updates and industry news in the January 2016 Logistics Link. 

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November 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)

  • North America Transportation

Department of Transportation

The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, fell 1.0 percent in November from
October, falling after a one-month rise, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS). The November 2015 index
level (122.3) was 29.1 percent above the April 2009 low during the most recent recession.

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