Yinka at IAL Nigeria has advised that household goods shipments to Nigeria are now subjected to more intensive customs examinations due to an incident two weeks ago where a lot of guns and ammunition was found in an import shipment that arrived through the Apapa ports. Consequently, we have noticed an increased number of officers […]
Hellen Concha, Traffic Manager from Unipack in Santiago, Chile, has advised that the fiscal employees in the country have called a 72-hour strike in support of their wage demands. Services such as customs offices, NSA, health department, and others government institutions will be affected. This means that the processing of consignments arriving at the […]
Momentous Relocation in London has announced that on Friday 14th October 2016, the company merged with Abels Moving Services and Gerson Relocation under common ownership led by Paul Evans. Phil Pertoldi, the current chairman of both Abels and Gerson, will remain with the new company as chairman of Abels Moving Services. The merger […]
Xeneta’s global community of shippers is reeling from the impact of the demise of Hanjin Shipping, the world’s seventh largest containership operator. Xeneta crowd-sources shipping rate data from more than 600 major international businesses, many of whom have now been hit by stranded inventory, rising prices and – in a shock development for a […]
Strike of Employees in Chile OMNI would like to thank Ward Van Lines for informing us that …”members of the Union, who demand better job benefits, have today called for a strike in San Antonio Port in Chile.Shipments arriving and departing from this Port, will have to be transferred to other local Ports.However this means, […]
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) in the UK says the European Commission’s adoption of new pricing rules for shipping lines will modernise the industry and bring it into the 21st Century. The new legislation follows a three-year EU investigation into price signalling – the announcement of general rate increases – which was […]
The European Commission has found that MAN, Volvo/Renault, Daimler, Iveco, and DAF broke EU antitrust rules. These truck makers colluded for 14 years on truck pricing and on passing on the costs of compliance with stricter emission rules. The Commission has imposed a record fine of €2,926,499,000 (€2.9 billion). MAN was not fined […]
Leo Ots has advised that he has now left Ziegler in Switzerland. He said that he has had a wonderful 40 months with a group of professional people. “I enjoyed working with them and everybody under my general management level, steering the company in the right direction with positive growth results,” he said. […]
OMNI would like to thanks G-Inter in Brazil for providing the following information…. “Please be aware that Brazilian customs officers started a national strike today, July 14th. This will impact port and airport operations all over Brazil for inbound and outbound household good shipments. Officers are claiming for salary adjustments. The customs officer’s Union confirmed […]
On 1st July 2016 the amendments to the SOLAS (International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea) regulations, came into force requiring all shippers to provide a Verified Gross Mass (VGM) for each container. To help shippers, a collaboration of authoritative organisations – the World Shipping Council (WSC), the TT Club, the International Cargo […]