Licensed Motor Carriers (LMCs) must submit their Port of Los Angeles Clean Truck Program concession applications by Wednesday, September 24, 2008 to be approved as trucking concessionaires by the October 1, 2008 start date of the Port's Clean Truck Program. The Port will continue receiving and processing applications on an ongoing basis, but based on the overwhelming response by the trucking community, the Port cannot ensure that applications received after September 24 will be processed by October 1. (Port of Los Angeles news release, dated 09/19/08, available at http://www.portoflosangeles.org/newsroom/2008_releases/news_091908ctpapp.pdf.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that beginning on or about October 24, 20081, CBP will use a new system, the Decal and Transponder Online Procurement System (DTOPS), for user fee decal and transponder transactions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the agenda, presentations, and materials used during the September 8 - 11, 2008 meeting of the Trade Support Network (TSN) held in Tyson's Corner, VA.
A possible entrant into the U.S. behavioral targeting market made a veiled pitch to regulators at a Pike & Fischer conference on Web 2.0 legal issues Wednesday in Washington. U.K.-based Phorm’s behavioral-targeting tests with British Telecom created a stir with the European Commission before targeting provider NebuAd’s work with U.S. ISPs came to light (WID April 8 p4). Phorm Chief Privacy Officer Brooks Dobbs said its targeting trials have been more consumer-friendly than NebuAd’s. The Senate Commerce Committee’s Sept. 25 hearing on ISP targeting, formally announced late in the day, was already on everyone’s lips at the conference.
CBP has posted to its Unified Business Resumption Messaging Web site messages providing a port status update in the wake of Hurricane Ike. The most recent message was issued at 5:30 p.m. EST on September 15, 2008. In addition, CBP issued an alert on Hurricane Ike port closures (as of 9:00 a.m. EST on September 16, 2008). According to the alert, the following ports are closed: Presidio, Houston Field Office, Area Port of Houston/Galveston Seaport, Service Port of Houston, Port Arthur, Beaumont, Point Comfort, and Freeport.
Senators Snowe and Collins announced that CBP has agreed to their requests to replace the existing Port of Entry in Van Buren that was damaged during severe flooding in early May 2008. CBP will work with the U.S. General Services Administration to develop a plan to build a new permanent facility that will meet the economic needs of the region as well as the security needs of CBP. (Press release, dated 09/12/08, available at http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=8cec5872-7156-4db8-9b57-d47083ecaa70&Month=9&Year=2008&Affiliation=R)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Ports of Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles have each issued notices announcing that beginning on September 24, 2008, CBP will use a new system in the issuance of user fee decals and transponders.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a general notice, effective September 8, 2008, announcing its decision to formally terminate the test of the semi-monthly filing and statement processing prototype program that was initiated in April 1998, as part of the National Customs Automation Program (NCAP).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing its deployment of Phase 2 of "ad hoc" capabilities as an enhancement to the Automated Commercial Environment reports.
The Port of Long Beach will host a workshop on the Clean Trucks Program for beneficial cargo owners (BCOs), ocean carriers, customs brokers and freight forwarders and other logistics industry professionals at 1 p.m. September 11, 2008 at the Port Administration Building, 925 Harbor Plaza. The workshop will be webcast live. (POLB press release available at http://www.polb.com/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=436&targetid=1.)