The Cargo Letter

Section A: Section: 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

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.

Disaster Averted! ........ a warehouse dropped cluster bomb! Amazing photo!
www.cargolaw.com/2000nightmare_singles.only.html

QM2 ......... take a virtual tour of the Queen Mary 2, set to enter service in Jan. 2004.
http://64.55.185.163/QM2/default.asp

Canadian Int'l Freight Forwarders Assn. ......... commentary on UNCITRAL's Report of the Working Group on Transport Law's 9th Session, held at New York April 15-26, 2002. PDF files.
www.ciffa.com/downloads/2002/July/12/CIFFASubmission_UNCITRALReport1.pdf
www.ciffa.com/downloads/2002/July/12/UNCITRAL_Report.pdf

Comite Maritime Int'l (CMI) .......... United Nations Commission on Internet Trade Law (UNCITRAL) begins its review of a proposal for a new transport law convention -- formerly -- the proposed "COGSA of 1998."
www.uncitral.org/english/workinggroups/wg_3/wp21e.pdf
www.cargolaw.com/cases_cogsa_2000.html

"Dangerous Waters" .......... modern piracy & terror on the high sea, a new book from John S. Burnett.
www.modernpiracy.com

Getting The Most From Your CCTV System ........ practical instruction from MRC investigations.
www.mrciusa.com/advisories.asp?A_ID=20

Making Fair Trade Work In Mexico.
www.americaspolicy.org/citizen-action/series/mexicos-fair-trade-movement.html

Maritime Security ......... new measures under development.
www.gard.no/Publish/PandInews/pn1622/pn1622.html

Marine Forum Online. www.mareforum.com

National IPR Center ............ multi-agency center collects, analyzes & disseminates intelligence involving copyright & trademark infringement, and theft of trade secrets -- located at the U.S. Customs Service Center, Washington.
www.customs.gov/iprcenter

Use of Dunnage Air Bags In Stow ............. practical instruction from Gard Services.
www.gard.no/Publish/Marinelosscir/ml1658/ml1658.html

Northeast Branch of The Nautical Society of The UK.
www.neni.org.uk/pages/content.html

UN Development Program Human Development Report 2002 ............focuses on the effect of politics -- particularly of democracy -- on human development, together with its country-by-country ranking of human development.
www.undp.org/hdr2002/

U.S. Int'l Trade Commission Reports
www.usitc.gov/

World Trade Organization .......... documents online.
http://docsonline.wto.org/gen_home.asp?language=1&_=1

PRODUCTS :
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Bunker World.
www.bunkerworld.com

Charter Party Online Vessel Histories.
www.vesselsafety.net/

Free Transport Security Manual ....... from J.J. Keller & Co.
www.jjkeller.com/browse/product.html

MacWorld ........ streaming video of amazing new features & products--there are over 150 of them.
www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwny02/

Trade Winds Maritime Classified Ads & Help Wanted
www.tradewinds.no/classified/

Transport Topics ......... U.S. trucking news.
www.ttnews.com

North America 3PL Guide ........ 10th edition of the A&A publication now published.
www.3Plogistics.com/3PLguideinf.htm

EVENTS :
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Long Beach - Los Angeles Harbor Transportation Club ........ 6PM, Thursday, August 8th 2002, Ports 'O' Call Restaurant, San Pedro. Speaker is John Cushing, President, eModal.com, Inc. highlighting "The Scheduler", an appointment system for harbor & other port community system tools such as on-line fee payments, electronic delivery orders, the Driver I.D. system & others.
www.htc.org/

Los Angeles Transportation Club .......... August Executive Speaker Series, August 13, 2002 -- Jerry Moyes, President & CEO, Swift Transportation Company, Inc.
www.latc.la

"Virtual Box: Integrating The Container Shipping Supply Chain" ........... so-called "digital ship" conference, Sept. 18-19. a 2-day conference in Hamburg.
www.thedigitalship.com/containershipping.htm

WTO Meetings Notices.
www.wto.org/english/news_e/meets.pdf

FOR FUN :
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Fly Fishing .......... video seminars illustrating how to tie the Double Hitch & Hand Whip-Finish & how to use a Matarelli Whip-finish Tool.
http://flyfishing.about.com/library/ffm/ftb/aajbwhipfinish.htm

Real Games ........ from Real Audio, a well respected industry name. Hundreds of free games form your desktop.
http://www.realonearcade.com/

U2540 ......... tour the WWII submarine.
www.zeitraum.com/_submarine/

Please click below for other sections:
Section A: Section: 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

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