Surface Transportation Infographic

March 13, 2017

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) of the United States is a federal, bipartisan, independent adjudicatory board. The STB was established in 1996 to assume some of the regulatory functions that had been administered by the Interstate Commerce Commission when the ICC was abolished. Other ICC regulatory functions were either eliminated or transferred to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration or to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics within DOT.

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Shipping your LCL cargo from A to B under well determined conditions and within an agreed time frame is our commitment, as LCL is our baby... We focus on maritime groupage as a 100% business activity, service the forwarding industry with a second to none service and number of owned offices on each continent. The extended network guarantees our Customers that LCL is monitored and handled through the entire transport chain with the same amount of professionalism and attention. ECU-LINE does believe in a World in which integration of software between customers and suppliers will continue to grow. We push IT in our organization on each level of interaction and do support any format of EDI connectivity with our customers and suppliers.

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