World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara

01/31/2024

What a tremendous honor to have been nominated by a fellow World Trade Centers Association member for a 2024 Champions Award for Innovation. We work hard to find new ways to achieve our mission of growing trade opportunity for our members in our bi-national region, and to tell the story of Buffalo Niagara's strength in the global economy. We appreciate the nomination and hope we win!!!! (Though, the other five WTCs in our category - World Trade Center Institute, World Trade Center Bengaluru, World Trade Center Metz Saarbrücken (the ONLY other bi-national WTC), World Trade Center Taipei and World Trade Center Trieste are really awesome!!!).

Congratulations to the nominees of our 3rd Biennial WTCA Champions Awards! Winners will be announced during the upcoming WTCA Global Business Forum (GBF) in Bengaluru, India. Leave a comment below to congratulate our nominees. WTC Abuja, World Trade Centre Accra, World Trade Center Algiers, World Trade Center Almeda Park, World Trade Center Institute ( ), World Trade Center Bengaluru, World Trade Center Bhubaneswar, World Trade Center Binh Duong New City, World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara, World Trade Center Curitiba, World Trade Center Cyprus Ltd, World Trade Center Delaware, World Trade Center Lisboa, World Trade Center Metz-Saarbrücken, World Trade Center Monterrey - UANL, World Trade Center of New Orleans, World Trade Center Pune, World Trade Center Savannah, TAITRA Global , , WTC The Hague - World Trade Center The Hague, WTC Rotterdam - World Trade Center Rotterdam, , World Trade Center Utah

11/07/2023

Join us next week on November 15 for Taste of the World! 2023 World Trade Celebration. Try food from area restaurants representing different regions & learn about our international connections through the World Trade Centers Association. See who will be joining us - https://cvent.me/9LNqWn

10/19/2023

Join us next week on 10/25 for the The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Virtual "Road Show" for an overview of current and upcoming efforts underway to ensure your cargo is moving smoothly and efficiently.

10/10/2023

🚢 Exciting News! 🚢 Join us for the PANYNJ Virtual "Road Show" on 10/25 from our 2023-24 Experts Series. Stay updated on the latest trade developments with industry experts. Register today!

09/25/2023

Last chance to register for our 9/27 webinar “Your Competitors Are Using Data”: The Importance of Data-Driven Decision Making. Learn About Data Resources For Your International Business Endeavors from our panel of speakers Bob Lytle, Jack Ampuja and Rosanna Masucci.

09/18/2023

Join us for our first webinar in our 2023-24 World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara Experts Series, on Tuesday, September 27... https://web.cvent.com/event/2933539d-0e1f-42a0-9128-1f51f6dc2e9d/summary

Informed decision-making through data and data analytics is now the path forward for growth in international markets. Understanding and using information to plot your company’s growth strategy offers both revenue generating and cost saving advantages that you may not have identified otherwise. Join WTCBN and our expert panelists for a deep dive into why, if you want to succeed in growing internationally, data must be a part of your strategy.

Featuring our speakers:

Jack Ampuja - Niagara University
Bob Lytle - Rel8ed Analytics
Rosanna Masucci - Buffalo Export Assistance Center, USDOC

03/13/2023

Friday's 2023 WTCBN International Case Competition was an amazing time. Teams from Niagara University, University at Buffalo School of Management and Goodman School of Business - Brock University put their critical thinking and presentation skills on display, and all crushed it to the point where our judging panel lamented having to choose a winner! The competition is always such a treat.

In the end, it was the team from Brock University winning the day, carrying on their winning tradition with their 5th straight victory. Congratulations to the Brock students!

Thanks to John DeLuca and Liberty Pumps Inc for offering their storytelling to help us put together the case, which was a challenging one, focused on FTZs in China. John and his team did a great job preparing for the competition and, importantly, helping us keep the secret that Liberty Pumps was our sponsoring organization (we know that some of the teams like to try to guess who the company is ahead of time - we try to keep them on their toes!!!). Liberty Pumps generously offered as the first-place prize the chance to tour their facility in Bergen, and meet with their executive team... Looking forward to that!!!

Special thanks to our panel of judges - John DeLuca, N'ora Kalb, Kevin Jacobi, Rosanna Masucci, Damon Piatek and Linda Soltis - for taking on the unenviable task of figuring out which team was tops. We literally had to wrest them away from deliberations to make the call - that's how close it was this year.

Thanks to Bob Lytle, from Rel8ed Analytics, for serving as our keynote speaker. Bob captivated the students, and their robust Q&A with him kept the program going while our judges deliberated - exactly what we love in a keynote!

Special thanks to our sponsors for the 2023 Case Competition - Rich Products Corporation, Dynabrade, SPEED Global Services, Calamar and Niagara University. Thanks, also to Niagara for hosting, and putting out a pretty incredible spread for the reception!

This was our first Case Competition back in person since we pretty much closed up the world's events at the end of March 2020 with our 2nd annual event. While our virtual competitions were certainly competitive and enjoyable, the big piece missing was the reception... The ability for the students to interact face-to-face with not only the judges, but each other. That is incredibly rewarding for all of us, and we're already looking forward to our 6th WTCBN International Case Competition in 2024!

02/03/2023

We were happy to join World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara this morning to discuss the state of Niagara's economy and our work to continue to advance its prosperity.

01/13/2023

ATTN WTCA Members: Join the upcoming webinar "Member Benefit Program - Diligence Leads" to learn more about the platform that provides access to “Big Data” solutions for companies of any size. The webinar will be led by Bob Lytle, CEO, rel8ed.to Analytics & Craig Turner, President, Momentum - The Business Growth Agency and World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara on Wednesday, January 18 at 12:00-13:00 EST. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3IItBuZ.

04/08/2022

Alongside Dr. Jim Kling, associate professor of management, 4 students competed for Niagara University in the International Case Competition. The competition is hosted by World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara, invited teams from colleges and universities in both WNY & Southern Ontario to compete virtually.

Learn More: https://bit.ly/3LLjgwv

01/13/2022

Canadian truckers will stay exempt from COVID-19 vaccine requirements at the border. Hopefully, both countries will continue to take a hard look at these requirements together to keep an already fragile cross-border trade ecosystem free-flowing.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadian-truckers-stay-exempt-covid-19-vaccine-requirements-2022-01-13/

Canada will allow unvaccinated Canadian truckers to cross in from the United States, reversing a decision requiring all truckers to be inoculated against the coronavirus, Canada's border agency said on Wednesday.

11/07/2021

WTCBN President Craig Turner joins trucking industry leaders to offer warnings about significant challenges that are expected to result from the impending vaccine requirements for Canadian truckers.

The Canadian Trucking Alliance is predicting that 20% of Canadian truck drivers who do cross-border freight in the U.S. will stop crossing the border if a vaccine is mandated. It's about 22,000 drivers.