Florida Shipper articles from February 2005

Florida Shipper archives from February 2005

Alphabet soup WTO, FTAA, CAFTA+DR - What's it gonna be?(World Trade Organization)(Free Trade Area of the Americas)(Central American - Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement)
February 7, 2005... BYLINE: Rosalind McLymont Ann Watson reflects on the year she spent in the early 1990s at a garment factory in China as a supply-chain specialist for a high-end U.S. manufacturer and expresses no surprise that China has become a supplier...

Record blizzard - Ports and terminals turn to Tideworks.
February 7, 2005... Before the era of heightened security, few terminals and fewer ports had the time or resources to fully automate critical record-keeping processes even when they were not constrained by labor organizations fighting to keep jobs.When the...

Mixed signals - Homeland Security team awaits quarterback.
February 14, 2005... BYLINE: Angela Greiling Keane Shippers eager to learn what focus the federal government will bring to bear on supply-chain security as President George W. Bush begins his second term may be excused for drawing different conclusions from...

Central America issues still threaten CAFTA.(Central America Free Trade Agreement )
February 14, 2005... BYLINE: John T. Hyatt Although there was no mention of it in the president's State of the Union address, the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement could be sent by the administration to the House for hearings as early as...

Potent Chile - Expert rates Latin American container trade.
February 22, 2005... BYLINE: Paul Scott Abbott For Florida ports and those along the U.S. Gulf that depend upon trade with Latin America, prospects for hemispheric commerce look solid this year, even though it appears that broad-reaching free-trade initiatives...

Using the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement.
February 22, 2005... BYLINE: Bronson H. Lee The United States and Chile implemented a bilateral free-trade agreement on Jan, 1, 2004. On that date, more than 85 percent of qualifying consumer and industrial goods became duty-free. Duties on remaining...

CMA CGM - Heading for the top.
February 28, 2005... CMA CGMHeading for the top With a new logo, dedicated offices in Miami; Kingston, Jamaica; and Brazil, and the movement of more than 200,000 TEUs in the Caribbean Region in 2004, the days of underestimating CMA CGM are over.Jean-Serge...

Lula calls for free-trade agreement.(Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva)
February 28, 2005... Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Feb. 16 that negotiations for a free-trade agreement between The Common Market of the South and the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, the association of Caribbean nations, will be decisive for...