Exporting a business and life to the other side of the world with one stop: Montenegro is a small, mountainous state in south-west Balkans. It borders Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, and the Adriatic Sea. Over a year ago, our...
Don’t let a misfired “letter of credit” Keep you from delivering the goods A recent client of ours was shipping truck parts and large tractor tires to Djibouti, East Africa. They had a letter of credit (LOC) that they showed to my...
Supplementing your global freight management strategy with letters of credit can be challenging but worthwhile. Whether shipping an import from China, an auto export to Dubai, or machinery somewhere else internationally, a global management approach using a reliable...
Relying on Freight Forwarding, The Right Choice In the world of mass production, poor expertise & lack of personal engagement adds unexpected costs & aggravation. ETC Intl. Freight System, has no aspiration to be the K-Mart of the freight forwarding...
In a recent question & answer session with the Journal of Commerce, newly-appointed Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Mario Cordero discusses how he envisions the FMC possibly overhauling intermediary rules of ocean transportation, promoting shipping exports...
With many of this year’s annual trans-Pacific freight rate contracts yet to be signed for Pacific cargo shipping carriers, U.S. import demand is flat to down year-over-year, and spot rates appear set to resume their downward trek after last week’s increase. “With many...
