Wider shipment visibility in ports could be the answer to congestion

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Shipment details provided to two of the world’s three largest economies could be the answer to long-running congestion issues across European and North American ports.

Enhanced customs declarations, providing shipment details not later than 24 hours before being loaded onto a US-bound vessel, have been required by the US since 9/11, but this year sees the EU’s final phase of a graduated introduction of a similar system.

Logistics software service provider Trade Tech’s president, Bryn Heimbeck, ...