Compliance

The Ocean Shipping Reform Act – effective June 16, 2022. The Ocean Shipping Reform Act – 2022 (OSRA-2022) went into effect on June 16, 2022 and the law (not a regulation) calls for an immediate change in the way Demurrage is invoiced to the customer. The FMC is in charge of regulating and enforcing this new requirement and they have issued a formal notice to the industry that the new law went into effect on …

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Sometimes it’s interesting to reexamine something we do every day and simply take for granted. Could we benefit from doing the same old thing but, by looking at that process from a different perspective, find ways of getting things we’ve wanted for a long time but for which we have not been able to put the technology in place, or get everyone to use it? Let’s take a new look at Security Filings. First of …

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Last week, the US Department of Transportation and the Federal Maritime Commission announced they intend to focus on data flow within the Port Community in an effort to speed up cargo movement through port terminals. We fully support this effort. However, their proposal of a study to develop a new data standard for international container transport is an inefficient use of time and money and will not help make the flow of container traffic faster. …

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A Multi-Tenant Platform needs to provide more than basic functions. It needs to include a host of “luxury amenities”. Entrepreneur Magazine states companies loose 20 to 30% of revenue every year due to inefficiencies. This finding is a key driver behind our focus on adding “amenities” to our multi-tenant platform. The basic concept of the Multi-Tenant Platform has been around since the advent of Software as a Service (SaaS). IBM has written about the concept …

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