JoC Week articles from November 2008

JoC Week archives from November 2008

THE WEEK.(briefs)(MoodyOs Investors Service )
November 10, 2008... China, Taiwan Expand Direct Links: China and Taiwan signed a historic agreement that will allow cargo vessels to cross the Taiwan Strait and offer direct services for the first time since Taiwan split from the mainland in 1949. The deal also...

Wastepaper woes.
November 10, 2008... BYLINE: BY BILL MONGELLUZZO As Chinese manufacturers raced to fill their orders before the government shut factories to clear the air for the Beijing Olympics, their appetite for wastepaper knew no bounds. This scrap commodity helped...

No credit, no sales.
November 10, 2008... BYLINE: BY PETER T. LEACH The credit crunch is starting to hit U.S. exporters, especially smaller ones. Already squeezed by their bankersO reluctance to provide trade finance for shipments overseas, theyOre being hurt by the inability of...

DollarOs gain is exportersO loss.
November 10, 2008... BYLINE: BY ALAN M. FIELD For months, the U.S. economic slowdown has had a silver lining. Largely as a result of the weak dollar, U.S. exporters gained market share from their overseas competitors, expanding their foreign sales more...

Missing link?(Canadian National Railway)
November 10, 2008... BYLINE: BY BILL DIBENEDETTO What once was a small piece of Canadian National RailwayOs ambitious plan to penetrate the U.S. heartland through Chicago and Memphis out of a new intermodal rail facility in Prince Rupert, British Columbia,...

FMC swings its big stick.(United States. Federal Maritime Commission)
November 10, 2008... BYLINE: BY BILL MONGELLUZZO For 24 years, the Federal Maritime Commission has had the power to seek court injunctions against what it sees as anti-competitive practices in the port and shipping industry. This potent weapon has gone...

Get in line.
November 10, 2008... BYLINE: BY ARI NATTER For months, Democratic leaders in Congress have been calling for infrastructure projects to be a major part of an economic stimulus package. Now comes the hard part O divvying up what could be hundreds of billions...

Mobile gets ready.
November 10, 2008... BYLINE: BY PETER T. LEACH The Port of Mobile is not singing the blues these days, even though container volumes are slowing or dropping at other ports. Quite the opposite at Mobile: Volumes are growing as the port adds terminal capacity....

Intermodal Agonistes.
November 10, 2008... BYLINE: BY TED PRINCE The word OAgonistesO following a personOs name commonly signals a struggler or combatant. Its origin is believed to be John MiltonOs OSamson Agonistes,O a 1671 poetic tragedy about the end of SamsonOs life. The...

Buyer beware.
November 10, 2008... BYLINE: BY R.G. EDMONSON One of attorney Robert PisaniOs clients told him that the company had decided to ignore new Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations that require Ogeneral conformity certificatesO that vouch for the safety...

Banking on Ogreen exportsO.
November 10, 2008... BYLINE: BY LINDA MYSLIWY CONLIN GreenO technologies represent a growing segment of the global economy. According to Environmental Business International Inc., the global environmental market was valued at $728.7 billion in 2007. The...

Looking ahead.
November 10, 2008... BYLINE: BY PETER TIRSCHWELL Few U.S. port directors have politics embedded in their DNA like Bill Wyatt of the Port of Portland. He was a student body president at the University of Oregon whose father represented the state in Congress...

Trade talk.
November 10, 2008... BYLINE: BY JOSEPH BONNEY Regardless of political persuasion, anyone with the slightest sense of history had to marvel at the joyous scene in ChicagoOs Grant Park after TuesdayOs election, and at how much Barack ObamaOs victory meant to...

RADAR SCREEN.
November 10, 2008... Look beyond Odoom and gloomO on the economic front For those trying to make sense of current economic developments, Nariman Behravesh has some advice: ODonOt get too carried away with the doom and gloom.O Behravesh, chief economist at IHS...

THE WEEK.
November 3, 2008... NOL, China Shipping Results Plummet: To no oneOs surprise, the global economic crisis is taking a heavy toll on ocean carriers. What may be a surprise is the extent of the damage. Neptune Orient Lines, parent company of APL Ltd., reported...

Two-front war.
November 3, 2008... BYLINE: BY BILL MONGELLUZZO Battle lines are drawn in the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks case. Now itOs up to the courts and the Federal Maritime Commission to determine whether the ports can enforce their requirements that harbor...

WhoOs saying what.
November 3, 2008... Here are the positions of various parties in the dispute over the clean-trucks plan at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The ports: They want the courts to uphold their concession agreements, which in Los AngelesOs case...

Car wreck.
November 3, 2008... BYLINE: BY DAVID BIEDERMAN The slumping automotive industry has left automakers scrambling to survive. Their logistics partners are scrambling to fill the void left by plunging automobile sales and to adapt to a new world of relentless...

After the storm.
November 3, 2008... BYLINE: BY PAUL T. ROSYNSKY DECKEHAD: High and heavy cargoes help carriers, Gulf ports shake off economic doldrums, hurricanes The U.S. economic crisis and the devastation from hurricanes Ike, Gustav, Rita and Katrina would make it...

Ramifications of Hapag-Lloyd deal.
November 3, 2008... BYLINE: BY GARY FERRULLI The recent announcement that Hapag-Lloyd has been sold to a consortium of Europe-based individuals and entities brings to an end the most recent drama in the ocean carrier industry. I use the word OdramaO because...

Taking credit.
November 3, 2008... BYLINE: BY BILL DIBENEDETTO Now more than ever, cash flow and access to liquidity are vital to business survival, no less so for the supplier segment of the supply chain. The problem for suppliers in the current financial environment...

Tight fit.
November 3, 2008... BYLINE: BY ALAN M. FIELD For apparel importers, there is an ironic upside to the global credit crisis: In credit-default swaps, derivatives and mortgage-backed securities, apparel executives have finally discovered complexity that...

No admittance.(Transportation Worker Identification Credential)
November 3, 2008... BYLINE: BY PETER T. LEACH Adolf Adrion, chairman and CEO of Hapag-Lloyd, recalls his days as an able seaman with nostalgia. In those days, young men went to sea to see the world, as well as to earn a living. Times have changed. OUnlike...

Phoenix port.
November 3, 2008... BYLINE: BY JOSEPH BONNEY Before Aug. 27, 2005, the Port of Gulfport, Miss., was thriving. Banana imports and other cargo had pushed container volume to more than 200,000 TEUs a year. Shipments of meat, lumber and breakbulk cargoes were...

WhatOs new about Onew and differentO.
November 3, 2008... BYLINE: BY CHARLIE PAPAVIZAS A proposed change in Customs and Border ProtectionOs approach to Orules of originO will affect a long-standing but obscure exception to the Jones Act, the set of laws that restrict domestic maritime commerce...

FDR, the maritime president.(Franklin D. Roosevelt)
November 3, 2008... BYLINE: BY PETER TIRSCHWELL As if to bury the ugly moment in American history that led to its creation, Ports America has underwritten an exhibit recently opened at New YorkOs South Street Seaport Museum that recalls the polar opposite O...

Two birds with one stone.
November 3, 2008... BYLINE: BY PETER T. LEACH Whoever wins the presidency, and whichever party controls the next Congress, will face one immediate national priority when they take office next year. Now that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has...

RADAR SCREEN.
November 3, 2008... BYLINE: BY PETER T. LEACH Whoever wins the presidency, and whichever party controls the next Congress, will face one immediate national priority when they take office next year. Now that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has...