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This Week in Logistics News (August 13-17, 2018)

Talking Logistics

My family and I spent more than a week in Costa Rica, where everyone greets you with “Pura Vida,” which means “Pure Life” in Spanish. During the 12-month trial, Maersk and IBM worked with dozens of ecosystem partners to identify opportunities to prevent delays caused by documentation errors, information delays, and other impediments.

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Can Your Shipment Benefit from Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)?

Shapiro

DR-CAFTA : Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua. Benefits of FTAs are not applied automatically and all programs have specific conditions, detailed rules of origin, and documentation requirements that must be met. NAFTA : Canada & Mexico. Can my shipment benefit from an FTA?