American Shipper articles from October 1993

American Shipper archives from October 1993

A kinder, gentler TAA? (Trans-Atlantic Agreement)(includes related article)
October 1, 1993... Shippers moving two 40-foot containers a week across the Atlantic in 1994 will be able to sign a service contract with the Trans-Atlantic Agreement, something they couldn't do in 1993. As part of an effort to render itself more...

Temporary injunction unlikely for TAA. (Trans-Atlantic Agreement)
October 1, 1993... The European Commission is not likely to impose a temporary injunction against the Trans-Atlantic Agreement. Sources familiar with the case say shippers have failed to convince the Commission that the TAA has created crisis conditions...

Evergreen/Lloyd Triestino venture. (Evergreen Marine Corp. Taiwan Ltd.; Lloyd Triestino di Navigazione S.p.A.)(includes related article)
October 1, 1993... Evergreen Marine Corp. of Taiwan and Italy's Lloyd Triestino di Navigazione Spa say they will launch a joint container service as early as the end of this year. The service, dubbed Medway, will link ports in the Far East, the Indian...

More CGM-SDV cooperation. (Compagnie Generale Maritime; Scac Delmas Vieljeux)
October 1, 1993... Compagnie Generale Maritime and Scac Delmas Vieljeux are taking another step towards what many believe will inevitably become a full merger. The companies announced in September they want to cooperate on ship management and have set up a...

Nedlloyd first-half loss $61 million. (Royal Nedlloyd Group N.V.)
October 1, 1993... The Netherlands' Royal Nedlloyd Group says it will do what it must to reduce its onerous interest-bearing debt by 500 million guilders ($263 million) over the next two years, even if that means selling off some of its holdings. "If...

Friedmann: 'I think Gore goes too far.' (shipper advocate Peter Friedmann criticizes Vice Pres Albert Gore, Jr.'s proposal for total deregulation of the shipping industry)
October 1, 1993... AgOTC doesn't mind subsidies and is willing to keep tariff-filing, if confindential contracting is allowed. |Let's work something out,' he urges carriers. Shipper advocate Peter Friedmann might have been expected to endorse an early...

No common ground for industry. (conference on maritime industry sponsored by the Containerization and Intermodal Institute)
October 1, 1993... U.S. maritime policy is in tatters and there is little possibility of knitting it back together, if a conference held in Washington in September is any indication. The Containerization & Intermodal Institute held a conference titled...

A (White) House divided. (Transportation Sec.'s Federico Pena's opposition to Vice Pres Albert Gore, Jr.'s proposal for the deregulation of the shipping industry)
October 1, 1993... Vice President Al Gore's final report on "re-inventing" government papered over a sharp split in the Clinton Administration over what to do about the U.S. maritime industry On one side are advocates of total deregulation of the industry....

Would you really save $3 billion? (savings to be generated if shipping conferences lose their antitrust immunity)
October 1, 1993... Shipper groups were delighted. The Wall Street Journal endorsed it in a lead editorial. And why not? Who could argue with a plan to save shippers $2 billion to $3 billion a year? The Federal Maritime Commission, for one. When Vice...

Rx for U.S. flag airlines. (the Clinton Administration's proposals for bolstering the US airline industry)
October 1, 1993... Proposals to bolster the American airline industry are moving into the strictly political arena now that President Clinton's nonpartisan aviation commission has finished its report and issued its recommendations. Members of the National...

FMC gave birth to ATFI. vendors have taken over. (the Federal Maritime Commission's Automated Tariff Filing and Information system)
October 1, 1993... A fee for access to the Federal Maritime Commission's electronic tariff database could have the unintended effect of limiting the number of vendors providing access to tariff-based information. To understand why, it's necessary to think...

Mod Act's fate still uncertain. (Customs Modernization and Informed Compliance Act)
October 1, 1993... Customs modernization legislation appears likely to gain congressional passage again this year. But it might face opposition along the way from a sizable part of the customs brokerage industry and there is no guarantee of approval from...

Shippers and shipowners continue push for tax breaks.
October 1, 1993... Several U.S. shipowners have mounted a new campaign to get tax breaks from Uncle Sam. Although they failed this summer to get those breaks included in Clinton's new budget package, they are planning to try again later this year. Leading...

False goddess. (effects of point-to-point intermodal service on market share and profits of carriers)
October 1, 1993... Shippers and carriers love point-to-point intermodal service and both believe it increases market share for mega-carriers. It's all an illusion, according to N. Shashikumar, a professor of maritime economics at Maine Maritime Academy in...

Med carriers hold ranks. (Mediterranean shipping conference increases market share)
October 1, 1993... For carriers in the eastbound Mediterranean shipping conference, the good news is that the conference has increased its share of the market. The bad news is that the market has gotten smaller. U.S. exports to Italy, Spain and...

95 percent market share. (formation of new shipping conference called the West Coast of South America Agreement)
October 1, 1993... Carriers between the U.S. East and Gulf coasts and the West coast of South America have united to form a new conference whose members control an estimated 95 percent of the trade. The new group, the West Coast of South America Agreement,...

Mattel's Romper Room. (Mattel Inc.'s efforts to revamp the order management process)
October 1, 1993... Logistics and traffic officials at Mattel, Inc. are so focused on the company's young clientele that they've even created a Romper Room. But it's a far cry from the nursery school-like setting beamed via television into the homes of...

Import ace. (Ace Hardware Corp. import operations manager Linda G. Baxter)
October 1, 1993... When Linda G. Baxter began building Ace Hardware Corp.'s import operations about a decade ago, she had to convince the company's merchandise buyers that importing home improvement goods could be a do-it-yourself project. "Our first real...

Shipper associations branch out. (new services provided by shippers)
October 1, 1993... Ronald N. Cobert perceives an era of growth for the shippers' association industry. for the shippers' association industry. Cobert, a senior partner in the Washington-based law firm of Grove, Jaskiewicz and Cobert, told an industry...

Packed in 'snow.' (use of carbon dioxide snow by Transnow CO2 Inc. in shipping frozen cargo to Puerto Rico)
October 1, 1993... A Jacksonville company is predicting snow for Puerto Rico and other domestic and international trade lanes requiring refrigerated containers for frozen commodities. Transnow [CO.sub.2] Inc. is marketing a patented sprayer unit that, when...

Waterbridge to Mexico becomes crowded. (growing number of shipping companies servicing the US to Mexico trade route across the Gulf of Mexico)
October 1, 1993... Shippers are beginning to discover they can get from the U.S. to Mexico by water as well as by land. As trade between the countries grows, liner services are popping up across the Gulf of Mexico. The overwhelming majority of U.S./Mexico...

Long march toward global automation. (electronic linking of all phases of global trade)
October 1, 1993... Trying to make sense of all the logistics data networks is like ordering from a too-long Chinese menu. It's not just a question of deciding what you want to eat but how spicy you want the food prepared. And figuring out how much spice...

PC-based tariff retrieval. (personal computer)
October 1, 1993... Compared with the uproar that accompanied the Federal Maritime Commission's initial move into tariff automation, the last few months have been deceptively quiet. But don't be fooled by the lack of noise. The FMC's Automated Tariff Filing...

15 cents per kilo Atlantic rate hike. (International Air Transport Association approves Air France's application for increase in air freight fees)
October 1, 1993... Skeptics predict Air France will have trouble maintaining its Oct. I worldwide air freight hike of 15 cents per kilogram amid today's cutthroat pricing atmosphere. The rate change translates into an increase of 8 to 12 percent for most...

Air cargo outlook for year 2010.
October 1, 1993... World air freight traffic will increase by an annual average of 6.9 percent until 2010, according to a new world air cargo forecast released by Boeing Commercial Airplane Group. Unfortunately, the market expansion may not be accompanied...

Boeing: product mix in year 2000 will be unchanged. (report on air freight service by Boeing Co.)
October 1, 1993... The types of products suitable for air shipment will not change in the next seven years -- but the volume of air cargo should increase nonetheless, an analyst says. David F. Pierce, regional director of airline market analysis for Boeing...

Heavy freight bookings for Christmas. (1993 Christmas season)
October 1, 1993... The 1993 pre-Christmas shipping season is expected to break records for U.S. air cargo imports. The weeks between early August and November traditionally constitute the peak period for air cargo volumes. This season, several airlines...

TWA cargo business unscathed by bankruptcy. (Trans World Airlines Inc.)
October 1, 1993... No major changes are contemplated for Trans World Airlines' cargo operations as the international carrier struggles to retain its newly won solvency. Bob Uttmark, TWA's vice president of cargo sales, said that during the near term his...

Portland/Vancouver help each other. (Port of Portland; Port of Vancouver)
October 1, 1993... Ports along the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington are finding that sometimes it's better to cooperate than to compete. Although there's been no move toward a bistate port authority on the lines of New York/New Jersey or the one...

Clinton oks Navy land for Oakland. (Bill Clinton; Port of Oakland expansion)
October 1, 1993... Plans for expansion of the Port of Oakland got a boost in August when President Clinton endorsed the transfer of 200 acres of Navy land for use by the port and the speedup of a long-delayed channel-deepening. Oakland, the fourth-largest...

West Coast longshore jobs issue. (Pacific Maritime Assn. and International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union's wage negotiations)
October 1, 1993... Dockside employers on the West Coast will be able to hold the line on base-wage costs over the next three years but will see the expenses of pensions for retired long-shoremen jump by nearly 77 percent, under a new contract that was...

Gulfport betting on casino payoff. (Gulfport, Mississippi; economic development caused by dockside casino)
October 1, 1993... The Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport is gambling that developers' interest in dockside casinos in Mississippi will pay off with new offices and future port expansion. The port authority is negotiating to have Grand Casinos...

Plumley feasts on Japanese business. (automotive parts firm Plumley Companies Inc.)
October 1, 1993... When Plumley Cos. first started selling its automotive parts to the Japanese, the company didn't think that would mean exports. The Paris, Tenn. company first had to sell the Japanese on using Plumley's parts at their transplanted North...

Pensacola may privatize port. (Port of Pensacola)
October 1, 1993... The City of Pensacola will seek offers to privatize the Florida city's seaport and investigate plans to create a regional port authority with taxing abilities over Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. The cost of subsidizing operations of...

Europe shippers shun TAA's advances. (Trans-Atlantic Agreement)
October 1, 1993... The Trans-Atlantic Agreement wants to talk with the European Shippers' Councils about next year's business. But some ESC members want nothing to do with TAA, at least not now. ESC's French, Swiss and British national member councils...

Europe waterways boil over. (dispute over granting of antitrust exemption to a cargo reservation system in Northern Europe)
October 1, 1993... It was a summer of chaos on North Europe's inland waterways. A long-simmering dispute over whether to grant antitrust exemption to a 60-year old cargo reservation system boiled over into violence. In the Netherlands alone, where half...

Le Havre dockers finally sign. (new law on longshore labor work in France)
October 1, 1993... More than a year after France passed a law reforming its 50-year-old longshore labor work-for-life guarantees, the Port of Le Havre finally signed on to the new regime in August. But workers at Marseilles-Fos remained intransigent into...

FIATA members look to restructure. (freight forwarders association)
October 1, 1993... Count FIATA among the numerous longstanding transportation industry trade organizations suffering growing pains. Some members who attended the annual congress of the international freight forwarders' association, held in September in...

Doing business despite the war. (growth of export businesses in Slovenia and Croatia)(includes related article)
October 1, 1993... A war, trade sanctions, chaotic economic conditions and bewildering customs procedures have not hindered some U.S. companies from importing from sections of the former Yugoslavia. Most observers agree that violence- free sections of the...

Chafing over CHIEF. (new UK customs computer system Customs Handling Import Export Freight)
October 1, 1993... British forwarders wish they could have a safety net to catch them in case Customs' newly upgraded computer system crashes when it goes live. But the British government says it can't afford to run the old system and the new system...