_{The Cargo Letter}

Section A: Trade, Financial & Inland News | Section B: FF World Air News |
Section C: FF World Ocean News | Section D: FF in Cyberspace |
Section E: The Forwarder Broker World

OUR "D" Section: FF in Cyberspace

6. The Cargo Letter "Cyber Ports of Call"

Here are our suggested world wide web sites of the week for your business, your information and your amusement ...............

Skyrage Foundation ....... news and guides to this mounting problem

Advanced Technologies ......... heavy lift airships.

Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Company ......... ramp-to-ramp rates
for intermodal service on more than 200 of its lanes.

Green Award ...... established in Rotterdam in 1994 as world's only system of
incentives for safe & environmentally safe shipping.

Hong Kong Observatory Typhoon Warning Signals ....... it's been a very bad
couple of months out there.

London P&I Club

Maylasian Maritime Portal ........ new site.

On-Line Economic Literacy Project (GATS)

Online Tanker Industry Index

P&O Nedlloyd .........has upgraded its Internet website.

Railway Children ....... a charity lonely & homeless children who tend to
congregate around stations.

Search Engine To The Shipping World

Warp Drive Underwater ......... details of future "supercavitation" drive
from Scientific American.

FOR FUN

Mind Chimes & Ocean Songs ....... trial version of listening to quieting
sounds of the sea, and so forth.

"Moulin Rouge" .........explore the spectacular period sets from the hit film
"Moulin Rouge" at Fox Studios in Australia, including the theater, street,
cafe, & dining room.

Take A Break ...... 11 clips of the Marx Brothers.

EVENTS

Asian Marine Surveying Forum II ....... at the Shangri-la Hotel, Singapore on
3-4 Sept. 2001.

DOT NAFTA Gathering .......... as the U.S. Dept. of Transportation will hold
a NAFTA conference in San Antonio, Texas, on Oct. 21-24 -- to include U.S.,
Canadian & Mexican government officials from regulatory agencies that affect
cross-border transport operations. Panel sessions (English & Spanish) will
provide information about requirements for motor carrier operations under
NAFTA. Contact Eddie Carazo at (202) 366-2892 -- or:
http://www.dot.gov/NAFTA

eyefortransport Conference .......... Sept. 13-14 in Singapore -- will
feature industry speakers across all modes who will outline strategic
direction, predictions & the challenges for the logistics industry. The conference is said to offer two days of break-out sessions on issues as
diverse as XML driven logistics, e-strategies for carrier capacity
distribution and container management & tracking.

Singapore Ports & Shipping Expo ........ 5-6 Sept. 2001, Singapore

Wood Work .......... as the Engineered Wood Assn. & the American Wood
Packaging Assn. will hold a wood shipping container conference Sept. 6-8 in
Seattle, Wash. -- with talks on technology, export regulations, competitive
packaging & logistics. For more information, contact Kim Sivertsen at (253)
565-6600.

Please click below for other sections:
Section A
Section B
Section C
Section E

Please click below to go back to the Cargo Letter home page.
Cargo Letter Home Page

Return to the top of Section D

Written from wire stories, the Associated Press, Reuters, Hong Kong Shipping News Lloyds & other world sources.