JoC Week articles from June 2002

JoC Week archives from June 2002

Countdown to what?(management on West Coast waterfront in negotiations)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 24, 2002... As this issue goes to press, labor and management on the West Coast waterfront are holed up in negotiations to produce a new collective bargaining agreement. In the past, to the extent there was tension and anxiety associated with these...

Radar screen.(Maritime Commission appointment)(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Nothing personal, but the confirmation of Steven R. Blust to the Federal Maritime Commission has become ensnared in Senate politics. Blust breezed through his confirmation hearing a few weeks ago. No one has a complaint with him, but Minority...

Dye nominated to FMC. (The Week).(Rebecca Dye appointed to Federal Maritime Commission)(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Rebecca Dye, majority counsel to the Coast Guard and maritime subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, was nominated to the Federal Maritime Commission. She would succeed John Moran, who resigned in April. Her...

Congressman criticizes flags of convenience. (The Week).(Frank Wolf says Liberia's shipping industry should be closed)(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., says Liberia's shipping registry "should be shut down" if its revenues can't be audited and be shown to benefit the United States. Wolf spoke during a hearing by a House Armed Services Committee merchant marine...

NY-NJ harbor deepening gets Corps approval. (The Week).(New York, New Jersey harbor project to begin in 2004)(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Federal and state officials said harbor-deepening projects in the Port of New York and New Jersey have cleared a major hurdle. New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey said the Army Corps of Engineers has given final approval to the environmental...

Manugistics plans one-week shutdown. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Manugistics Inc., the supply-chain management software vendor, said it will lay off staff and close the week of July 1-5 "to reduce costs and further improve our operational efficiencies." The company announced this month that it would not...

Panalpina postpones IPO. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Panalpina Group, the Swiss forwarding and logistics company, has postponed an initial public offering it announced in May. The company cited the current weakness in the stock markets. The Basel-based company is owned by the Ernst Gohner...

Hanjin to add Portland service. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Hanjin Shipping Co. and its vessel-sharing partner and corporate affiliate, Senator Lines, will add a new container service to Portland, Ore., on Aug. 1. The new service will be part of Hanjin's China America Express. Hanjin suspended direct...

American Airlines fined for cargo security lapses. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... The Federal Aviation Administration fined American Airlines $536,000 in civil penalties for alleged cargo-security violations uncovered in October 2000. FAA special agents discovered the alleged violations during a special nationwide...

British port operators criticize EU plan. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... British port companies warned that billions of dollars in planned investments in new cargo facilities will be jeopardized if the European Union goes through with planned deregulation measures. Britain's privatized ports said the proposed EU...

UPS get Teamsters' wage proposals. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... United Parcel Service and the Teamsters union continue to negotiate following presentation of the union's initial wage proposals. The current contract, covering 230,000 workers, expires July 31. Both sides have said they're optimistic that a...

Fritz joins Integres board. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Lynn C. Fritz, former chairman and chief executive of Fritz Cos., has joined the board of Integres Global Logistics. Fritz led the former family owned customs broker and freight forwarder until May 2001, when it was acquired by United Parcel...

4PL: third-party logistics producers are well-established; now lead logistics providers are springing up to manage them. (Cover Story).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Tom Dorval used to manage third-party logistics providers for Nortel Networks. Now he leaves those details to Kuehne & Nagel Lead Logistics, and spends most of his time developing new business for Nortel in markets such as China and India....

Moving it out: container carriers are shifting documentation and customer-service operations to locations outside the US. (Ocean Transportation).(APL Ltd., Maersk SeaLand)
June 24, 2002... When freight forwarder Stewart Hauser joined his family business more than 40 years ago, mistakes on shipping documents were common, as they are today. But the errors were easier to correct. Hauser just walked around the corner to the...

African niche operator: Torm's West African liner service is growing, but the company's emphasis remains on tankers. (Ocean Transportation).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Compared with the trade lanes between the U.S. and Asia and Europe, Africa is small potatoes. Containerized shipments between the U.S. and Africa last year totaled only 218,374 TEUs, compared with nearly 10 million in the trans-Pacific trade....

Tough choices: transportation-related companies are still dealing with the aftermath of Sept. 11. (Special report: risk management).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... The good times are over for buyers of transportation-related insurance. After several years of overcapacity, insurance and reinsurance markets were hardening even before Sept. 11. Since the terrorist attacks, risk markets have been in flux....

Payback time: marine insurance is climbing steadily after years of declining rates. (Special report: risk management).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... The cost of all sorts of marine insurance--hull, protection and indemnity, and cargo--is on the rise, as is war risk insurance for ships and cargo. Rates for marine insurance had started to increase even before Sept. 11, but marine...

Looking for answers; airlines, governments seek new war-risk insurance programs. (Special report: risk management).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Six days after the Sept. 11 terrorist aviation insurers announced increases of up to 1,500 percent for hull and passenger liability Even more crippling, they that third-party liability rage, applying to persons and on the ground, would be...

Unwelcome exposure: ports and terminal operators face an insurance crisis. (Special report: risk management).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Ports and marine terminal operators have been getting an unaccustomed amount of television news airtime lately. The general news media have picked up on the story that ports and marine terminals are vulnerable to terrorism, and that the...

Alaska Air's split personality: freight is a relatively small but growing part of business for struggling Alaska Airlines. (Air Commerce).(Statistical Data Included)
June 24, 2002... Larry Jacobs was living a perishables shipper's worst nightmare seven days a week. Jacobs, chief executive of a 300-farm cooperative in the Mexican Riviera resort region of Cabo San Lucas, was airfreighting organically grown fresh herbs to...

Delivering the XML message; CSX Lines' Horizon Services unit adopts Microsoft's .NET technology. (Logistics/Technology).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Extensible markup language, or XML, has undeniable advantages--software using the technology permits seamless translation of data between otherwise incompatible computer programs. But XML has been slow to catch on in the logistics field. Few...

Now comes the hard part; Operation Safe Commerce seeks to be a proving ground for cargo-security technology. (Customs/Forwarding).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... First one box, now thousands. Operation Safe Commerce began late last year as an ad hoc partnership between industry and government to test international supply chain security. Now it's an idea that's getting legs. Two weeks ago...

Let the negotiations begin; customs brokers resist proposal for six-digit detail on manifests. (Customs/Forwarding).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Port security legislation has taken another step toward completion, now that the House and Senate have filled the seats on the conference committee that will iron out differences between the Port and Maritime Security Act and the Maritime...

The dollars start flowing; $92.3 million in grants for seaport security will be followed by much more money to come. (Ports/Intermodal).(Department of Transportation)
June 24, 2002... The Department of Transportation announced last week how it was going to award $92.3 million in grants to 77 businesses and government agencies at 51 ports nationwide. If they made it into a television show, it would probably look more...

Ready for trouble: importers have been shipping early to avoid possible ILWU disruptions; contract negotiations continue. (Ports/Intermodal).(International Longshore and Warehouse Union)(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... While the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association talk, importers have been acting. They've hedged their bets by shipping as early as possible in anticipation of the July 1 contract expiration date for...

Rail rates rise; intermodal volume is up, but ILWU negotiations may be a reason. (Ports/Intermodal).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... If rail intermodal rates are a leading indicator, the economic rebound may be for real. Railroads have enjoyed two months of rising intermodal traffic. Now, as the annual peak shipping season approaches, they've announced moderate rate...

Top five commodities in major U.S. trade lanes. (Piers[R] Trade Monitor.(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
June 24, 2002... Top Five Commodities in Major U.S. Trade Lanes IMPORTS TEUs TRANS-ATLANTIC increase decrease Total trade lane percent +6.8% April 2001 April 2002...

Cool under pressure. (Snapshot: William Schubert).(drilling rig accident)(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... March 4, 1985, could have been a day the maritime industry never forgot. The semi-submersible drilling vessel Glomar Arctic I was at work in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland when its blowout preventer failed. The preventer is an...

Should Customs be split up? (Other Voices).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... The president and Congress are looking at enhancing the role of U.S. Customs in the war against terrorism by combining its enforcement functions with other enforcement agencies. This possibility raises the question of where these changes will...

Bad luck for truckers: motor carriers are paying more for less insurance, and are passing along some of the cost. (Special report: risk management).(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... When John Waldock, president of Ohio Eastern Express, renewed his trucking company's liability insurance in February, his rates climbed 14 percent. He considers himself lucky. Ronald Chipman, executive vice president of risk management at...

Beginnings of clarity.(President Bush's proposal to create a Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security)
June 17, 2002... Ever since Sept. 11, the sense of insecurity felt within the trade community wasn't derived just from the newfound knowledge that there are people in the world who want to kill us. If terrifying evidence of that fact wasn't enough, added to...

Radar screen.(multiple brief abstracts about cargo industry)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Sept 11 changed border transit times between Mexico, the U.S. and Canada, but not in ways you might expect, according to William D. Zollars, chairman and president of Yellow Corp. Before the terrorist attacks, it took about eight hours to...

Shippers uneasy as ILWU deadline nears. (The Week).(International Longshore and Warehouse Union's contract negotiations with Pacific Maritime Association)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Major importers and exporters who ship through West Coast ports say they don't expect waterfront management and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to sign a new contract before the current one expires July 1. The West Coast...

ILA pledges support for ILWU. (The Week).(International Longshoremen's Association supports International Longshore and Warehouse Union's contract negotiations)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... The International Longshoremen's Association, representing unionized East Coast dockworkers, said it supports the ILA's West Coast counterpart in its current contract negotiations. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is...

HMM to get loans. (The Week).(Hyundai Merchant Marine)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Hyundai Merchant Marine, South Korea's largest container shipping group, will receive $82.6 million in new loans after its former chairman personally guaranteed payment. Chung Mong-hun, a director of the firm, agreed to the deal to help...

Asia-to-U.S. air freight surges. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Hongkong Air Cargo Terminals, which handles more than 80 percent of Southeast Asia's air cargo, said its exports to the U.S. during May increased 53 percent from a year earlier as total volume jumped 25 percent to 152,177 tons. Overall...

EU trade sanctions to take effect. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... The European Union has selected U.S. exports it will hit with 100 percent duties in retaliation for U.S. steel import tariffs. The sanctions, scheduled to take effect in August, will cover textiles, fruit juice, steel and manufactured goods,...

Brown, Crowley to get AOTOS. (The Week).(2002 Admiral of the Ocean Sea Award will be presented to Masters, Mates and Pilots Union President Timothy A. Brown and to Crowley Maritime Corp. CEO Thomas Crowley Jr.)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... The 2002 Admiral of the Ocean Sea Award will be presented Nov. 8 to Capt. Timothy A. Brown, president of the Masters, Mates and Pilots union, and to Thomas Crowley Jr., chief executive of Crowley Maritime Corp. The AOTOS award is presented...

GAO criticizes Delaware River dredging. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... The General Accounting Office said a cost-benefit analysis of a $311 million project to deepen the Delaware River grossly overstated its expected economic benefits. The GAO investigation was requested by New Jersey's congressional delegation,...

St. Lawrence Seaway offers web services. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... The U.S. and Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway authorities have introduced four Internet-based services. The services provide calculation of shipping costs, cargo load-matching, vessel transit information and online transactions and account...

Indian port eyes private investment. (The Week).(Haldia)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... India's eastern port of Haldia, near Calcutta, plans to build five berths using private investment. Haldia signed an agreement with India Pvt. Ltd. for construction of one of the berths. Earlier this year, Haldia signed an agreement with an...

On the waterfront: war on terror, mob indictments put spotlight on agency's unique role. (Cover Story).(New York Shipping Association)
June 17, 2002... Frank McDonough, president of the New York Shipping Association, recently fielded an irate complaint from an NYSA member. He was upset because the previous day, his company hadn't been able to hire enough workers to unload import automobiles....

`It's not going away': opponents of ocean carrier antitrust immunity say they're in it for the long haul. (Ocean Transportation).(Free Market Antitrust Immunity Reform Act repeal the antitrust immunity of ocean carriers)
June 17, 2002... The House Judiciary Committee's recent hearing on ocean carrier antitrust immunity kept the fire burning on the issue, but it created more smoke than flame. The issue was the 107th Congress' version of the Free Market Antitrust Immunity...

A year of highs and lows: some container ship lines gained in a flat market. (Special report: top container lines).(Top 50 Container Lines in the U.S. import-export trades )(Statistical Data Included)
June 17, 2002... The weak economy was reflected in the JoC's rankings of the Top 50 Container Lines in the U.S. import-export trades last year. Overall volume in the U.S. trades declined 0.4 percent to 17.6 million TEUs, according to statistics of the Port...

Hasbro bolts to S. California; move underscores long-term shift in handling of Asian imports. (Special Report: top container lines).
June 17, 2002... When it came to distributing its imports from Asia to its customers throughout the U.S., Hasbro Toys couldn't have asked for a better deal than it was getting at the Port of Seattle. In 1969, Hasbro, a pioneer in sourcing from Asia, moved...

Who's responsible? States act while industry seeks to change intermodal equipment interchange agreement. (Special report: top container lines).
June 17, 2002... Since the dawn of containerization, ship lines and truckers have been arguing over who's responsible for maintenance and repair of intermodal chassis. During the last several years, the debate has spilled over from Washington, D.C., to state...

For KAL, China is the prize: Korean Air says it's in prime position to capitalize on US-China trade that is poised to surge. (Air Commerce).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... The expansion of China's foreign trade is expected to play a key role in the growth of Korean Air. The carrier, the world's third-largest air cargo carrier behind FedEx and Lufthansa, operates 41 trans-Pacific freighter flights a week....

Latin leap; alliance of Atlas, Air Global will provide efficiencies but is unlikely to raise rates. (Air Commerce).(Air Global International, Arrow Air)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Two of the largest freighter airlines operating between the U.S. and Latin America are creating an alliance covering flights and ground handling. The deal involves Air Global International, which concentrates on South America, and Arrow Air,...

More than transportation: Delaney says rise in finished-goods inventories may reflect increased role of marketing in logistics. (Logistics/Technology).(Robert V. Delaney)
June 17, 2002... Reducing logistics costs used to be easy. Transportation costs plunged in the 1980s, mainly because of trucking deregulation. In those heady days, even the dumbest corporate logistics manager could look like a hero. Now transportation...

Sorry, you failed: only 3.2 percent who sat for recent customs broker exam passed; some believe testing procedures need to be reviewed. (Customs/Forwarding).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Renata Pearson, a licensed customs broker in San Francisco, teaches a course that helps people prepare for the brokerage licensing exam that U.S. Customs gives twice a year. Pearson was devastated when she saw the results of the April exam....

Trade facilitation in peril? Some wonder if Customs trade role will be diminished or lost within proposed Department of Homeland Security. (Ports/Intermodal).
June 17, 2002... Nine months after Sept. 11, the White House showed the kind of leadership that members of the international trade logistics sector have been hoping for. President Bush announced the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, to bring...

Meanwhile, back on the Hill ...: House, Senate anti-terrorism bills go to conference committee. (Ports/Intermodal).(Port and Maritime Security Act of 2001, Maritime Transportation Antiterrorism Act of 2002)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... While the president's announces a new homeland security department, conferees representing the House and Senate are preparing to meet to settle differences in port and maritime legislation. The Senate passed the Port and Maritime Security...

Top five ports in major U.S. trade lanes. (PIERS[R] Trade Monitor).(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
June 17, 2002... Top Five Ports in Major U.S. Trade Lanes IMPORTS Total trade lane percent increase +0.0%/decrease -0.0% increase TRANS-ATLANTIC +6.8% NEW YORK ...

Peacemaker. (Snapshot: Tom Sheets).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... As if Tom Sheets didn't have enough on his plate. He is corporate security services director for CNF Inc., the $6 billion less-than-truckload and supply-chain management company. He supervises a global 17person staff that watchdogs customer...

The waterways alternative. (Other Voices).(using inland waterways)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... While its importance is frequently overlooked by the public, few things are as important to U.S. commerce as transportation. Factories must receive an adequate, timely and reliable supply of the materials of production to operate. Success for...

Predicting the unpredictable.(ocean container imports)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
June 10, 2002... There have been few years in recent memory when the economic outlook heading into the peak holiday importing season was as murky as it is today. Those who believe that an economic recovery has commenced, and others who argue that it's a...

Radar screen.
June 10, 2002... Last week's federal indictments of 17 alleged members and associates of New York's Gambino crime family were the most extensive criminal charges involving the International Longshoremen's Association in two decades. The indictments charge...

Customs to screen boxes in Singapore. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Singapore has agreed to permit U.S. Customs inspectors to screen U.S.-bound containers before they're shipped. Customs has been working toward agreements with other countries on its Container Security Initiative, part of an effort to improve...

IATA seeks insurance program. (The Week).(International Air Transport Association)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... The International Air Transport Association, representing more than 200 international airlines, has endorsed creation of a non-profit insurance company for airlines. Since Sept. 11, insurance has emerged as a top issue for all transportation...

Loy joins Transportation Security Administration. (The Week).(James M. Loy)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Retired Coast Guard Commandant Adm. James M. Loy will join the Transportation Security Administration as deputy undersecretary and chief operating officer. Loy has been succeeded at the Coast Guard by Adm. Thomas H. Collins, who was vice...

China delays plan to register express carriers. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... China's State Postal Bureau has again delayed implementation of plans to regulate international express carriers and forwarders. The agency said the June 15 deadline for express carriers and forwarders to apply for "entrustment certificates"...

GETA offers solution to customs-advice issue. (The Week).(Global Electronic Trade Alliance)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... The Global Electronic Trade Alliance has proposed a regulatory solution to the issue of what type of customs advice a parent company may provide its subsidiaries. The Customs Service has said that to provide advice to its subsidiaries on...

New Hong Kong terminal behind schedule. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Construction of the first berth at Hong Kong's Container Terminal 9, which will add capacity equivalent to 2.6 million TEUs a year, will enter service about eight months behind schedule. CT9 will have six berths. Under the contract between...

Hyundai car-carrier unit is sold. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... The car-shipping operation of Hyundai Merchant Marine will be sold to Hyundai Motor Co. of South Korea, Wilh. Wilhelmsen of Norway and Wallenius Lines of Sweden. The price was reportedly to be about $1.5 billion, pending a final agreement....

Alabama Port Authority OKs terminal contracts. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... The Alabama State Port Authority board has approved $1.8 billion in engineering and consulting contracts for a proposed container and intermodal distribution terminal. The Choctaw Point terminal would be built south of Mobile, near the port's...

UPS, Teamsters continue negotiations. (The Week).(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... United Parcel Service and the Teamsters union continue to negotiate on a contract to replace the one that expires July 31. The company and union said they had reached agreement on the issue of UPS supervisors performing union work, but no...

Changing course: NOL Group sees gold in contract logistics, but getting there is a long haul.(Neptune Orient Lines Ltd.)(Statistical Data Included)(Cover Story)
June 10, 2002... Flemming Jacobs, chief executive of Neptune Orient Lines, says, "Anybody who knows me inside or outside the company would say that he's pretty impatient--he never seems to be satisfied." Certainly not with NOL's performance in 2001 when...

On the acquisition trail, again: CP Ships' chief executive says acquisition of Italia Line shows market may be ripe for more deals. (Ocean Transportation).
June 10, 2002... CP Ships, the London-based container carrier that was spun off from the Canadian Pacific Ltd. railroad holding company last year, is back on the acquisition trail. Late last month, Chief Executive Ray Miles announced that CP had reached...

Italia line--its story. (Ocean Transportation).(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Italia, which can trace its roots to the first half of the 19th Century, was founded in 1932 when Mussolini merged three Italian shipping lines--Navigazione Generale Italiana, Cosulich and Lloyd Sabaudo--to reduce competition and costs. ...

`It all comes down to cost': transshipment through Canadian ports continues to grow. (Special report: the Canadian gateway).(Statistical Data Included)
June 10, 2002... Until about 25 years ago, no one paid much attention to the movement of U.S. cargo through Canadian ports. In an era of regulated inland transportation, most ports served discrete hinterlands. There wasn't enough cross-border cargo diversion...

Paper trail: document procedures for transshipments moving through Canada haven't changed much since Sept. 11. (Special report: the Canadian gateway).(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... When a container arrives at Montreal, Halifax or Vancouver, there's a good chance its ultimate destination is the U.S. The growth in transshipment via Canada has attracted increased attention since Sept. 11, as authorities seek to tighten...

The party's over: trans-Pacific low rates are quickly disappearing. (Air Commerce).(Statistical Data Included)
June 10, 2002... Shippers using air cargo to move imports from Asia have enjoyed a prolonged period of low rates. But the good times are ending. Many carriers, including Cathay Pacific and Korean Air, have raised rates in recent months, and additional...

Down to the wire: cooling-off period expires June 28 for Atlas Air flight crews. (Air Commerce).(Atlas Air Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Frank Visconti is taking no chances. The president and chief executive of Air Global International, a Miami-based cargo airline, says he has lined up alternative capacity in case Atlas Air goes on strike. "We've got another carrier ready to...

Their customers' creations: more logistics software providers are allowing shippers to help develop the technology that serves them. (Logistics/Technology).(example of Optum Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... When Optum Inc. wanted to improve its warehouse management software, it turned to the people who know best what shipper customers want: the customers themselves. It's an increasing trend among transportation technology companies, and one of...

The view from TSA: transportation security official sees new agency's mission in broad terms. (Customs/Forwarding).(Stephen J. McHale, Transportation Security Administration)(Interview)
June 10, 2002... The conference room at the Transportation Security Administration has two photographs. At one end, an aerial photo of the Pentagon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. At the other, a more intimate view: a New York fireman surveys the...

Risky business: ports and terminal operators want government action to provide terrorism insurance. (Ports/Intermodal).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 10, 2002... When the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey renewed its public liability insurance for the first time since Sept. 11, it got a rude shock: Available coverage was sharply reduced while premiums quadrupled to $16 million a year. ...

Closing a door: Supreme Court's sovereign-immunity ruling restricts complaints to FMC about state port authorities. (Ports/Intermodal).(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Ship lines, stevedores and terminal operators that contract with port authorities have known for years that if they didn't get what they want in negotiations, they might be able to complain to the Federal Maritime Commission. Now that avenue...

Welcome mat goes out to Mexican trucks; US highways expected to be open to Mexican truckers this summer. (Ports/Intermodal).
June 10, 2002... The government bureaucrats responsible for nuts-and-bolts truck safety say the United States is just about ready for next month's expected border opening for Mexico-based trucks. "It's a brave new era," said Bonnie Bass, chief of...

Growth trends in major U.S. ocean trade lanes. (PIERS[R] Trade Monitor).
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Shipping is his passion. (Snapshot: Christopher Rankin).(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 10, 2002... Christopher Rankin has reputation as a gruff and tough person to talk to, and it s true that he doesn't waste any time telling you what he thinks. "I'm impatient," he admits. Everything about him is unapologetic--his craggy, weather-beaten...

The silence of Maritime Day. (Other Voices).(lack of public or government support for merchant marine industry)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)(Column)
June 10, 2002... If a tree falls in the forest and there's nobody there to hear it, does it make a noise? Is National Maritime Day like that tree? When it came and went again on May 22, it should have been a day of reflection and, in this post 9-11 world we...

The big yawn.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... It's amazing to think that anybody could still get exercised over liner shipping companies' antitrust immunity. It's been more than two years since the Ocean Shipping Reform Act stripped carriers of their ability to meaningfully influence...

Radar screen.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Shipping executives in the trans-Pacific now admit they probably should not have rushed to lock their major accounts into service contracts this winter. Containerized imports dropped off in late 2001 following Sept. 11 and remained weak into...

Delay is inexcusable. (Letters).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Every day we read and hear of new threats to our security. We've just learned that if the various governmental agencies whose duty it is to protect our country had been talking to one another and sharing information, possibly--just...