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Postal Service, Zonos seek to improve cross-border transactions

The U.S. Postal Service is enlisting technology company Zonos to improve cross-border transactions

After taking heat from U.S. lawmakers during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on Tuesday, the country’s preeminent delivery agency is looking abroad.

A day after being grilled by Democrats for an electric delivery truck agreement it made with Oshkosh Defense, the U.S. Postal Service has tapped Utah-based Zonos, a technology company focused on cross-border commerce, as its latest contracted partner.

The Postal Service will leverage application programming interfaces from Zonos to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/postal-service-zonos-seek-to-improve-cross-border-transactions

Why aren’t North American freight rail crews staging cross-border protests?

The truckers’ protests at the U.S.-Canadian border began over COVID-19 vaccine mandates: Canadian workers needed to be vaccinated crossing into the United States and vice versa. 

North American freight rail operations also cross the border, but there hasn’t been the same level of dissent among rail workers. The rail unions and some of the Class I railroads did go to court over rail companies’ implementation of the vaccine mandate for federal contractors — a mandate that has since been stalled by...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-arent-north-american-freight-rail-crews-staging-cross-border-protests

Kansas City Southern to utilize Commtrex’s transloading platform

Kansas City Southern will be using freight data supplier Commtrex’s platform to increase visibility and connectivity within KCS’ transload facility in the U.S. and Mexico.

The more than 100 transload facilities in 19 U.S. and Mexican states handle food and agricultural commodities, as well as bulk materials, chemicals, paper and forest products, and steel and other metals.

KCS (NYSE: KSU) says the arrangement will help it manage supply chain constraints as well as prepare for growing trade among...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/kansas-city-southern-to-utilize-commtrexs-transloading-platform

Reliance Partners ‘bullish’ on Laredo, Texas-Mexico corridor

There’s much to gain from the nearly $2 billion in trade flows across the U.S.-Mexico border every day. Pacific trade lanes remain stifled by west coast port congestion, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the trade war between the United States and China. These past-year developments have led many American companies with outsourced operations to set up shop much closer to home. Nearshoring manufacturing operations in Mexico are becoming an attractive opportunity for supply chains across North...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/reliance-partners-bullish-on-laredo-texas-mexico-corridor

Brokers and carriers pursue higher margins on domestic and cross-border freight

Today’s risk-averse transportation landscape inhibits profit maximization for many companies eager to gain an advantage. It only makes sense that shipping a high-value commodity would bring in more revenue, but the risks involved often scare away carriers and brokers from hauling these loads in places around the Mexican border, creating problems for all stakeholders in these regions.

Trucks overwhelmingly transport the majority of high-value commodities such as electronics, motorized vehicles,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/brokers-and-carriers-pursue-higher-margins-on-domestic-and-cross-border-freight

Cross-border consulting helps navigate USMCA ups and downs

This July marks the first anniversary of the adoption and implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The agreement has brought about new opportunities for cross-border trade; is your organization taking advantage of these changes?

With close to $2 billion in trade flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border daily, it’s imperative that logistics service providers know what’s at stake.

Reliance Partners’ Borderless Coverage offers USMCA and international trade consulting to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cross-border-consulting-helps-navigate-usmca-ups-and-downs

US extends COVID-19 travel restrictions with Mexico and Canada

Land and ferry border crossings between the United States, Canada and Mexico will remain closed to nonessential travel until at least July 21.

U.S. Homeland Security (DHS) announced the border closure extension Monday. Commercial trucks will continue to move freely across the borders, as the movement of essential goods remains exempt from the restrictions.

“To reduce the spread of #COVID19, the United States is extending restrictions on nonessential travel at our land and ferry crossings with...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-extends-covid-19-travel-restrictions

Behind-the-scenes video: Checking Mother’s Day flowers at the border

LAREDO, Texas — With Mother’s Day just around the corner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have been busy making sure commercial shipments of imported flowers are pest-free.

CBP agriculture specialists at the Laredo, Texas, port of entry have examined more than 7.3 million stems of flowers over a three-week period leading up to Mother’s Day on Sunday.

Imported flowers could have hitchhiking pests and diseases that...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/behind-the-scenes-video-checking-mothers-day-flowers-at-the-border

Borderlands: Odyssey Logistics expands into Laredo

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Odyssey Logistics opens facility in Laredo; CBP beefs up border security; Rockport Terminals acquired by Jones Capital; and train collides with tractor-trailer in Houston.

Odyssey Logistics expands into Laredo

Danbury, Connecticut-based Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. recently opened a trucking and logistics facility in Laredo, Texas.

Odyssey Logistics said the...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/odyssey-logistics-expands-into-laredo

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