News & Insights

Roanoke Trade is pleased to announce that insurance professional Zoi Fanourgiakis is the new Account Manager in our New York office located in lower Manhattan. We are excited to add Zoi Fanourgiakis to our staff of surety bond, insurance, ATA Carnet and sales professionals. Zoi is a graduate of the City University of New York, […]

April 10, 2018

Roanoke looks forward to exhibiting at the TIA Conference beginning April 9th in Palm Desert, California.  If you’ll be attending, stop by booth 101 or catch the session on insurance definitions and contracts on Wednesday, April 11th at 2pm. Roanoke’s Jason Odgers and his fellow speakers collaboratively examine the pitfalls to avoid in contracts regarding […]

April 06, 2018

By: Matthew L. Zehner – Vice President, Surety Information & Analysis If you are wondering why portions of what we do for a living are being discussed on TV news and on the front page of newspapers, continue reading for a high-level explanation of what is going on. In addition to the HTSUS tariff rates […]

April 02, 2018

The FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rule on Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food is now fully final, with all impacted parties having to comply by April 6. The FSMA is meant to advance the FDA’s efforts to protect foods from farm to table by keeping them safe from contamination during transportation. The […]

March 21, 2018

Recent estimates from Armstrong & Associates, Inc. (A&A), an internationally recognized key information resource for third-party logistics (3PL) market research and consulting, indicate that the total U.S. warehousing market for 2017 was $148.7 billion. Commercial warehousing accounted for $68.6 billion. The Third-Party Logistics Value-Added Warehousing and Distribution (VAWD) market segment was $39.1 billion in 2016, […]

March 19, 2018

On March 22nd, the FTA and Roanoke’s Amanda Barlow will present a timely seminar about ATA Carnets. An ATA Carnet is an international customs document that provides duty-free customs clearance for temporary exports into over 100 countries. ATA Carnets simplify these temporary exports by eliminating the need to post a temporary import bond or pay the import duties and taxes to […]

March 16, 2018