Florida Shipper articles from November 2005

Florida Shipper archives from November 2005

Turn the page - Recounting a record storm season.
November 8, 2005... The busiest tropical storm season in history with 13 hurricanes and 24 storms is all but over, except for the untold stories and far-reaching, often unexpected consequences.After surveying the steamy ruins of soggy cane fields, U.S. Sugar Corp....

Fourteen garment nations want U.S. access.
November 8, 2005... Fourteen nations in Asia and the Pacific Rim have launched a bid for duty-free market access in the U.S.The garment manufacturers from 14 "least developed countries" (LDCs) of Asia and the Pacific have organized a joint lobbying program at the...

Fewer socks from China.
November 14, 2005... Sock imports from China for the next 12 months will be limited to slightly more than 744 million pairs.According to an agreement signed on Nov. 1, the new quota will allow slightly more than 120 million pairs of Chinese-made cotton, wool and...

SPECIAL REPORT: - Leading Women in Florida Transportation.
November 14, 2005... The Florida Shipper recognizes five for excellence in leadership In a complex trade and logistics market such as Florida, leadership matters. Where change can be rapid and sometimes daunting, individuals with experience, wisdom and patience...

Caricom's schedule in peril.
November 21, 2005... BYLINE: Sir Ronald Sanders The end of 2005 is now a few short weeks away and so is another of the deadlines that Caricom heads of government had set for the establishment of the Caribbean Single Market. It is a deadline that the Caricom...

Jury acquits Miami and New York executives.
November 21, 2005... BYLINE: Peter T. Leach In the end, the jury believed the labor leader who wept, not the admitted mob murderer who was the government's star witness. It played out like a movie. Harold Daggett wept on the witness stand as he recalled the...

What's really behind the US-China textile deal.
November 28, 2005... BYLINE: David M. Lenard It took several months of difficult negotiations, including at least five meetings between U.S. and Chinese officials, but the result is a comprehensive, three-year, U.S.-China trade deal that allows foreign...

The vantage advantage - Tideworks team puts dashboards in terminals.
November 28, 2005... BYLINE: Rick Eyerdam Somewhere outside of Washington, D.C., a top-secret computer runs a top-secret program that searches through import and export documents, business profiles, terrorist intelligence in a dozen languages and the manifests...