American Shipper articles from September 1993

American Shipper archives from September 1993

Reflagging put on hold until 1994: APL and Sea-Land give Congress time to act. Hope for new subsidy package seems to rest on Sen. John Breaux's ability to persuade Clinton.
September 1, 1993... Sen. John Breaux, D-La., who has long-standing ties with President Clinton going back to the days of the formation of the Democratic Leadership Council, plans to meet personally with the president on the maritime revitalization issue during...

DOD unveils sealift program.
September 1, 1993... The days of commercial sealift -- the long-standing policy under which the Navy relies heavily on U.S.-flag ships to transport cargo to support military missions -- may be numbered. Some congressional maritime leaders believe a "quiet...

Evergreen, NOL ordering big new ships: Evergreen ordered five with 4,229 TEU capacity, NOL moving into big-ship class with six 4,369-TEU capacity ships.
September 1, 1993... Taiwan-based Evergreen International and Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines have placed separate orders for new containerships with capacities of more than 4,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units. Evergreen has ordered five new R-class...

Firming up westbound Pacific rates: coalition of conference, independent linestargets frozen meat, cotton, hay cubes, wastepaper for Oct. 1 increases.
September 1, 1993... The resolve of a 14-carrier coalition in the westbound transpacific will be tested once again in October, when the group, which includes five non-conference lines, plans to launch a rate-stabilization effort aimed specifically at four...

TMM, Del Monte owners joint forces: new shipping company, Global Reefer Carriers, will offer reefer services to third parties.
September 1, 1993... Transportacion Maritima Mexicana (TMM) and shareholders of Fresh Del Monte Produce N.V. plan a joint venture to provide worldwide transportation of refrigerated products. The new shipping line, Global Reefer Carriers, will be operated and...

Panalpine pushing into new areas: project cargo shipments into difficult thirdworld locations provide the impetus.
September 1, 1993... Panalpina, the Swiss-based multinational freight forwarder, is out to prove there is money to be made in established and developing economies alike. The company, which operates on six continents, doesn't seem to turn down business...

U.S. threatens Chinese airlines: DOT secretary Pena supports Seattle-based aircargo line seeking open competition.
September 1, 1993... Transportation Secretary Federico Pena is threatening to ground two state-owned Chinese airlines serving the U.S. cargo market unless they quit using strong-arm tactics that are said to be hurting a new American competitor. Pena made his...

APC: exports picking up: second-quarter, first-half numbers are mostly down, but the second-half outlook appears bright.
September 1, 1993... American President Cos. reported drops in second-quarter and first-half revenues and per-share profits, but company officials voiced optimism on the outlook for the rest of the year and Wall Street apparently agreed. The key element is...

Philadelphia-area ports may unite: South Jersey Port Corp. backs merger with Philadelphia port agency into Delaware River Port Authority.
September 1, 1993... Philadelphia-area ports on both sides of the Delaware River are moving closer to merger into a regional port authority like the one in New York/New Jersey. The South Jersey Port Corp., which manages maritime terminals in Camden, N.J.,...

Shippers liable for overweight boxes: must certify container weight, list commodities representing 20 percent or more of shipment.
September 1, 1993... New rules making shippers responsible for overweight intermodal containers will require adjustments -- not only by shippers but by others in the transportation chain. The new rules proposed by the Federal Highway Administration would...

PRC asked to honor U.S. tariff system: in address at Beijing, FMC's Ivancie says low-cost carriers should not cut corners.
September 1, 1993... Under Chinese regulations, the government-controlled tariff supersedes conference tariffs. But the U.S. government may use the "tariff recognition" issue as one of its trump cards for renewing a bilateral maritime agreement with the People's...

Sticky realities of cargo preference: debate glosses over the facts.
September 1, 1993... The political grandstanding and bureaucratic infighting over the use of U.S. merchant ships to carry food aid cargoes under government giveaway programs looks to erupt again soon when bids are solicited to carry President Clinton's $700...

Flags for sale: Marshall Islands ship registry: A second U.S. register?. (includes related article)
September 1, 1993... The announcement by Sea-Land Service that it might lower the American flag on some of its ships in favor of the banner of the Marshall Islands is stirring speculation that the tiny Pacific island chain may emerge as the preferred flag of...

Deere & Co. prepares for winter: it loves the Canadian route, but not the ice.TAA stands to benefit.
September 1, 1993... Transportation executives at Deere & Co. say they plan to shift some of their export cargo from Montreal to U.S. ports to avoid weather-related delays like it has encountered during the last three years. Many U.S. shippers have been...

Stroh's forwarder: small Milwaukee forwarder an unlikely yet able, choice for Detroit brewer.
September 1, 1993... When searching for a freight forwarder to handle exports throughout the globe, Milwaukee probably wouldn't be the first place you'd look. And when you're one of the world's leading brewers, you might opt for a multi-service, multi-office...

Dealing with third parties. (Quaker Oats sees business shift to intermodal)
September 1, 1993... The Quaker Oats Co. cut back its intermodal usage by about a third last year because of the lack of clean, food-grade intermodal equipment, its transportation director said. And Jay Galligan hopes that equipment guarantees from an...

An exporter that doesn't ship: Dreyer's sends its ice cream FOB, and limits its foreign penetration - it wants to be No. 1 here first.
September 1, 1993... Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream spends little time and expense to ship its product across the Pacific. The company has no corporate traffic department and does not employ outside help for logistics or even freight forwarding. By now, you...

Standard EDI packages: implementation guides are due soon. Carrier group hopes to test new PC software in early 1994.
September 1, 1993... An ocean carriers' coalition developing personal-computer-based software for electronic data interchange hopes to begin testing a prototype package with a handful of customers early in 1994. The group, called the Information Systems...

10 story module: final leg of 8,000-mile trip from Louisiana to North Slop oil fields is trickiest. Just ask ARCO and Crowley.
September 1, 1993... Sometimes, bigger is better. Just ask ARCO, British Petroleum and Crowley Marine Services. When Crowley sea-lifted a trio of mammoth oil- and gas-production modules from New Iberia, La., to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska recently, the winds...

Roberts Bank deltaport: new terminal just north of U.S.-Canada boarder will nearly double container-throughput capacity and will have an on-dock rail year.
September 1, 1993... Construction is slated to start this fall or early 1994 on a container terminal that Vancouver, B.C., port officials hope to have in operation by spring 1996. Officials said the facility, dubbed Deltaport, will nearly double the port's...

An 'odd couple' combination: Air France/Continental interline faces more problems with cargo than passengers.
September 1, 1993... Air France and Continental Airlines will seek ways to combine their differing styles of freight services as part of the two carriers' new transatlantic partnership. The airlines agreed in late July to coordinate their schedules to create...

Southwest's niche cargo service: regional air carrier makes money on cargo as well as passengers.
September 1, 1993... Southwest Airlines, the only U.S. commercial airline to consistently make money on passenger traffic in recent years, also has a modestly profitable air cargo department specializing in rapid delivery of bulk-loaded freight. Last year...

Lifting off with bigger payloads: smarter positioning of jets with large cargo decks leads to higher revenues.
September 1, 1993... Effective positioning of its fleet and a strong push into the South American market allowed American Airlines' cargo division to realize a 15.5 percent revenue hike in the first six months of 1993. The rise, from $142 million in the year...

U-Freight goes global: Hong Kong forwarder, longtime Pacific Rim specialist, ventures into Europe, Americas.
September 1, 1993... U-Freight Inc., the Hong Kong-based freight forwarding giant, is marking its 25th year in business this month by expanding its European and South American shipping networks. These latest ventures are designed to transform the company from...

WESCCON programs feature new look: 'Crossover' issue affect both brokers and forwarders. Gathering planned Sept. 29-Oct. 3 in Scottsdale, Ariz.
September 1, 1993... The program portion of this year's Western Cargo Conference will have a new look, with some sessions geared to both customs brokers and freight forwarders rather than to one group or the other. "We've tried to mingle the two programs as...

Deals can be made: EC competition report offers clues.
September 1, 1993... A statement of objections isn't always an antitrust death sentence, and competition policy isn't set in stone. So says a six-month competition report published by the Commission of the European Communities shortly before its summer...

Ground delays: white paper lists improvements needed before air carriers can take a bigger slice of the cargo pie.
September 1, 1993... Shippers would use air freight more often if air freight were easier to use. So claims a white paper published recently by the Conseil National des Usagers des Transports (CNUT), the French Shippers' Council. "Although limited in its...

Swissair splits it business.
September 1, 1993... Swissair is trying something different, different, at least for Swissair. For the first time in its history, Swissair has a separate management organization to run its air cargo business. "Swissair has realized there is considerable...

Global tracking. (global tracking and routing systems for land and sea)
September 1, 1993... It's not here yet, but a global system for tracking and routing transportation equipment is not far away. The common denominator could be radio-frequency identification (RFID), a technology that uses radio signals to monitor equipment...