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INDEX to The Cargo Letter:
OUR "A" Section: Trade, Financial & Inland News***
1. Freight Forwarder Trade Briefs ______________
2.
3. Freight Forwarder World Air Briefs ____________
4. FF World Ocean Briefs _____________________
5.
**Back By Popular Demand**
OUR "D" Section: FF in Cyberspace***
6. The Cargo Letter "Cyber Ports of Call" _________
OUR "E" Section: The Forwarder/Broker World***
7. New
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OUR "A" Section: Trade, Financial & Inland News***
1. Freight Forwarder Trade Briefs _____________
***U.S.
Export Goal Somewhat Short .......
as President Barack Obama's
2010 target of US$3.15 trillion by 2015 will fall short of its target at
current growth rates by almost 20 years, according to Drewry
Maritime Research.
***
***Study Shows
Growth in Number of Companies Utilizing 3PLs ........
as a recent study of client/3PL relationships just
issued by Armstrong & Associates offers some interesting insights about how
customers are utilizing 3PLs. Most customers use 3PLs for their
Transportation Management Systems, and more retailing and industrial businesses
are turning to 3PLs than ever before.The report
"Trends in 3PL/Customer Relationships – 2013" leverages Armstrong
& Associates' proprietary database of 6,398 3PL customer relationships to
provide detailed information on the top outsourcers to 3PLs, trends in service
demand and 3PL market size by vertical industry segment from 2005 through 2013.
According to the report, General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and Wal-Mart
each use 50 or more 3PLs. The report also quantifies the Global Fortune
500 3PL market at US$250.2Bn, a 67% increase since 2005. Within the
Global 500, "Technological" industry 3PL customers spent US$66.8Bn
with 3PLs in 2012 and are on track to spend US$71.1Bn in 2013. The
compound annual growth rate for Technological 3PL revenues was 9.3% from 2005
to 2012. "Electronics, Electrical Equipment" companies led all
Technological industry sub segments with over US$25.7Bn in 2012 3PL spend.
Read The Armstrong & Associates Report
www.3plogistics.com/PR_3PL_
www.3PLogistics.com/
***Japan
Imports & Exports Surge ......
as both rose in value by 10% in May 2013 compared to the same month last year,
according to Japan's Ministry of Finance. Imports increased by 10.1% in May to
reach US$68.7Bn, which marked their highest value in 2.5 years and the seventh
consecutive month of year on year import growth, reports the Journal of
Commerce. On a month to month basis, import value was up 1.6% from April's
US$67.7Bn. In the first five months of 2013, the total value of imports rose by
8.8% compared to the same period a year earlier to US$330.8Bn.
***The Call to
Renew GSP .....
as the program is set to expire on
Read The GSP Renewl Bill
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-
http://renewgsptoday.com/
***EU Makes
First WTO Complaint Against Russia .......
as in what marks Moscow's first dispute at the global trade body since it
joined in August 2012. At issue in the case (DS462) is a vehicle recycling fee,
which
What Is The WTO?
www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/
***United
States Steel Exports Jump..... as they increased
in May over April by 11.6%, as per the latest data released by the American
Institute for International Steel (AIIS). "Exports of American made steel
increased in May primarily due to improved shipments to our NAFTA partners and
other countries in the
***
***Game Changing
Trends In The Supply Chain ........a
presentation of the University of Tennessee
Watch The Webinar
www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Webinar PDF Slides
www.supplychain247.com/images/
***U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration HOS ...... as the new hours-of-service
rules, which regulate the amount of break time truckers need to take during a
shift, among other things, have gone into full effect as of July 1.
Here Is A Complete Briefing On The HOS Rule Change
www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-
***Spotlight
On Commercial Driver Fatigue ......
as the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has launched a
commercial driver fatigue management website. The North American Fatigue
Management Program site provides free information on screening sleep disorders,
fatigue management technologies and how to develop corporate culture to reduce
driver fatigue.
www.nafmp.com/en/
FMCSA Launches Interactive Driver Fatigue Management Tool To Prevent
Fatigue-Related Crashes
www.fmcsa.dot.gov/about/news/
***Gone In 60 Seconds ....... as it took a while after the
invention of the gas-powered automobile by Karl Benz in Germany in 1886 for
someone to steal the wheels. The first stolen car is said to be of a
French aristocrat's Peugot in
Vehicle Theft Prevention: What You Should Know
www.nhtsa.gov/Vehicle+Safety/
Anit-Theft Devices
www.nhtsa.gov/DOT/NHTSA/
California Cargo Theft
Interdiction Program
www.chp.ca.gov/programs/ctip.
***Geofencing Goes From Terror To Theft ...... as the ability to use tracking
or communications systems to alert carriers if a truck goes off its specified
route, originally was touted for its anti-terrorism potential. The idea was
that if terrorists captured a tank truck carrying a flammable, explosive or
poisonous load, carriers could alert authorities when the truck left its
designated route. However, there has been little or no opportunity to use that
capability, so carriers deploying the systems are finding other ways to use
their systems, some related to security concerns such as cargo theft, others to
improving operational efficiency to obtain a CDL in the State of issuance.
However, if the employer intends to assign the driver a vehicle necessitating
the doubles/triples or tank vehicle endorsement, the employer must administer
the road test under. Now, with incidents of stolen cargo rising, according to
the latest report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), the
theft-prevention aspect of geofencing becomes more
critical. NICB reported cargo thefts increased to 1,215 in 2011, up 17% from
2010. A recent FBI Web commentary on cargo theft portrayed it as a
"gateway crime" to even bigger problems that could include terrorism.
"In many instances, a cargo theft investigation will turn into a case
involving organized crime, public corruption, health care fraud, insurance
fraud, drug trafficking, money laundering or possibly even terrorism,"
according to the FBI commentary. The newer technologies are trying to find ways
to hide the device or find ways of keeping crooks from disabling it,"
***For Want of A
Handbrake ........
as it is the railroad industry's ultimate fail-safe
mechanism. It is supposed to help avert disasters like the one that engulfed a
Canadian town on July 6, when a runaway train loaded with oil hurtled downhill,
derailed and exploded, leaving 50 people dead or missing. The railroad
initially blamed the catastrophe on the failure of the train's pneumatic
airbrakes after an engine fire, but the company acknowledged on Wednesday that
the train's engineer did not apply an adequate number of handbrakes to hold the
train in place, and failed to comply with regulations. A Reuters
review of Canadian and
***Squaring
Up With The Cold ........as
two U.S. companies are marketing a less-than-truckload cold transport unit that
keeps products at cool to cold temperatures (-30F/-34C) for five days in
ordinary dry vans, reports the American Journal of Transportation of Plymouth,
Massachusetts. "With the Critical Cube, shippers no longer need to wait
for a reefer LTL carrier to consolidate loads or pay for a dedicated
truck," said the joint statement from Chicago's CarrierDirect
and Los Angeles-based One Stop Critical. The Critical Cube, good for
pharmaceuticals, chemicals and foodstuffs, is available for intra-California
shipments, and will be introduced elsewhere in the
Watch The Critical Cube Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=
***Going To The
"Gas" Station .......
as Ryder System has opened two natural-gas fueling stations in California to
the public. Each station, located at Ryder fueling and maintenance facilities
in
***Kerry
Logistics Expands In Brazil .......
as the Hong Kong-based forwarder has acquired a majority stake in Braservice, a leading Brazil-based logistics and customs
brokerage company, with a domestic network of seventeen offices throughout the
country, including Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia. Founded in 1991, Braservice has developed into a leading provider of supply
chain solutions focused on the Brazilian and Latin American markets, with a
special focus on FMCG, automotive, fashion and lifestyle.
Read More About Braservice
www.braservinet.com.br/v3-en/
***The Evil Trade .......
as Kenyan officials seized 775 pieces of elephant ivory weighing 1.3 tons in
the port city of Mombasa hidden under fish for export
and destined for Malaysia from Uganda, they said. Poaching has risen in recent
years across sub-Saharan
***Kittens & Kustoms .........as
Thai customs say they have rescued about 90 famished cats that they believed
had been headed to
***US$100M
Customs Sting -- Convicting Our Own .......
as U.S. District Court Judge Michael M. Anello
sentenced the former president of the San Diego Customs Broker Association,
Gerardo Chavez, to a 37-month prison term for evading duties on over US$100M in
imports of clothing & tobacco products. The court also seized his property
in
Read The
www.ttb.gov/press/fy13/chavez-
www.ice.gov/news/releases/
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**AA Cargo. DOWN for 2nd quarter with US$167M in revenue,
a 4.3% decline from the same period in 2012.
**CSX Corp. UP with a 4.4% increase in second quarter
profit to US$535M year on year, drawn on slightly increasing revenues of
US$3.1Bn.
**Forward Air. DOWN as Q2 net income declined to US$13.8M, or 45 cents a share, from US$14.2M, or 48 cents, a
year ago.
**Hub Group. UP as Q2 net income rose to US$18.6M, or 50
cents per share, from US$17M, or 46 cents, a year ago. Revenue rose 8% to
US$837M.
**J.B. Hunt Transport Services. UP with net income rose to US$87.7M, or 73
cents a share, from US$80.5M, or 67 cents, in last year's second quarter.
**Kuehne + Nagel. UP with a 3.3%, year-over-year revenue
increase during the first half of 2013, ending the period at US$10.94M.
**OOCL. DOWN as revenue as a whole fell 3.7%
year-on-year in the first half to US$2.7Bn
**Union Pacific. UP for Q2 with net income of US$1.1Bn
during the second quarter — US$100M rise over 2012's 2nd-quarter
results
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3. Freight Forwarder World Air Briefs __________
***Excuse Me? The
Pilot Can't Actually Fly? ......as
a potentially telling revelation in the wake of the Asiana
Airlines Boeing 777 crash landing at the San Francisco airport on July 13: Asiana pilots have little training on manual flying and
visual approaches, according to three pilots Bloomberg spoke to who have either
flown for Asiana or helped train Korean crews. One of
the three recalls preparing to land an Asiana jet at
LAX and asking his Korean co-pilot to make a visual approach. The co-pilot
couldn't do it, forcing the American captain to take over in order to avoid an
accident. The co-pilot's explanation to him afterward: "I don't need to
know this. We just don't do this." Explains the
Read More About Korean Pilot Training Experiences
www.newser.com/story/171044/
***U.S. Issues
Enhanced Traiing Standards ....... as co-pilots will need more
than six times more flight hours before flying domestic cargo and passenger
airlines at 1,500 hours total time as a pilot, according to the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA). The latest change to the Airline Transport Pilot
(ATP) certificate requirements raises the bar from 250 hours and includes
additional training and testing specific on aircraft flown for both pilots and
co-pilots. It also includes the requirement for a pilot to have a minimum of
1,000 flight hours as a co-pilot in air carrier operations before acting as a
captain for an American airline.
Read More About Airline Transport Pilot (ATP)
Certificate Requirements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
***Mode
Vulnerability? ....... as
smugglers are finding air freight more porous than seafreight
as it offers faster and more permissive transport, according to two senior
White House officials, reports the National Journal of Washington DC.
"Compared to maritime shipments, where states may have days or weeks to
develop interdiction courses of action, in the air domain, time is truly of the
essence," said Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence
Rebecca Hersman, who is in charge of countering
weapons of mass destruction. Speaking at a meeting of the Center for Strategic
and International Studies marking the 10th anniversary of the creation of the
Proliferation Security Initiative, she said:
So What Is The Proliferation Security Initiative?
www.state.gov/t/isn/c10390.htm
www.armscontrol.org/
***Whew !! It Wasn't The Batteries........ as at approximately 1550 hrs UTC on
***Say Hello To Western Global Airlines ....... as it aims to begin
operations in September, first with an MD-11 freighter, to which three more
aircraft of this type will be added during its first year of operation.
Registered in
www.westernglobalair.com/#
DOT Application of Western Global Airlines, L.L.C.
www.noticeandcomment.com/
***Independent
Pilots Assn. (IPA) Goes Global .......
as the U.S.-based labor union representing 2,600 UPS airline pilots has joined
International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) a global labor federation
with official status at United Nations transport agencies. The ITF unites 700
transport trade unions in 150 countries, and represents 4.5 million union
members. It also has a representative role at the UN's International Civil
Aviation Agency (ICAO), as well as at its International Labour
Organisation (ILO) and its International Maritime
Organization (IMO). As such, the ITF has sources of detailed corporate
information from supply chain and logistics companies such as UPS, FedEx, DHL,
TNT, and DPD/GeoPost.
***Mriya Hauls ....... as Chapman Freeborn and
Air Cargo International (ACI) have completed an Antonov
AN-225 charter to fly five giant compressors weighing 140 tons from South Korea
to France this month, the first time the world's largest aircraft has been used
for an operation to EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg.
Meet The Antonov An-225 Mriya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Aloha Air Cargo
Wants You ....... as Hawaii's
biggest inter-island air freight carrier, is hiring as many as 50 new cargo
agents in preparation for the opening of its new cargo facility at Honolulu
International Airport in first quarter 2014. Aloha appears well out of the
woods, 5 years after its near-death experience when it shut down cargo
operations after the sale to Seattle-based Saltchuk
was nearly derailed because the pilots union insisted its old contracts be honoured. The US$10.5M deal was rescued when a bankruptcy
judge approved a motion to avoid the company's union contracts.
***Volumes >>> Hong Kong Int'l Airport (HKIA) posted a 2% increase in air
freight to two million tons in the first half year-on-year, while flight
movements rose 5.1% to 180,650. >>> Lufthansa Cargo airlifted 0.8% less cargo and mail in
June 2013 than in the same month last year while in the first half cargo
volumes dropped 3.5% to 839,000 tons. >>> Moscow Domodedovo
Airport has announced that air
freight volumes in June 2013 rose by 2.5% compared to the same month a year
earlier to 16.7 thousand tons.
***Tragic Bagram Cargo Crash To Court ....... as death lawsuits are arising
in
The Tragic Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=
About National Airlines
www.nationalairlines.aero/
About The Bagram Loss
***Around The
World In 80 Days -- Cut To Seven .......
as an aviation milestone was achieved in this month 80 years ago, as famed
pilot Wiley Post landed his Lockheed monoplane on Long Island, New York,
completing the first solo flight around the world. In a feat of endurance,
he made the trip in 7 days, 18 hours. His plane is now displayed in the
National Air and
***Moon Express
Announces New Home ....... as
the lunar resource company has announced the opening of a Propulsion
Development Facility in
Read More About MoonEx
www.moonexpress.com/
***Cutting Down
On Paperwork ...... as a Long
Island man was washing his van outside his home on June 27, when a metal
clipboard filled with aviation paperwork plummeted from the sky, landing just
feet away from him. Gus Binos, of Shirley, was left
shaken by the bizarre incident that took place at around 3.30pm when he
heard something hit the ground in his driveway about 20 feet from where he was
standing. 'Wow, what if I got hit with it?" Binos
told the station NBC New York. 'It is a very sharp piece of metal. I mean, with
the velocity that it was coming down, it would have stuck a hole in my head.'
The unusual projectile, believed to belong to a pilot, contained a stack of
documents, including flight patterns and navigation guidelines for flying
through
***Taking Aim On
New Drone Goals?......
as normally, if you shot down an aircraft owned by the federal government,
you'd be in trouble. But a small
Watch The Drone Bounty Story
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K80_-
Move: Supply Chain Drones
on the Horizon
http://mhlnews.com/powered-
***No Laughing
Matter ....... as the
National Transportation Safety Board issued a press release acknowledging that
a summer intern had erroneously confirmed four fake Asiana
pilot names to Bay Area TV station KTVU. The release corroborates KTVU's claims that an NTSB official had confirmed that
"Ho Lee Fuk" and "Sum Ting Wong,"
"We Tu Lo" and "Bang Ding Ow," had been manning Asiana
flight 214, which crashed near
Listen To The KTVU Report
http://gawker.com/ktvu-
New Video of The Accident
www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/
Asiana Flt 214 Recreation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=shF_
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OUR "C" Section: FF World Ocean News***
4. FF World Ocean Briefs
***Somali
Piracy Continues Welcome Slide .......
as it is on the deepest decline since 2006, and while the Gulf of Guinea
the latest hotspot, global figures still show a decline of total acts of
piracy. According to the Int'l Maritime Bureau (IMB) report, the first 6 months
of this year showed 138 Somali attacks compared to 177 in same period 2012, of
which there were four reported incidents off the coast of
***Drewry Study Sparks Real Cost Concern ...... as United Nations rules,
subject to little legislative review by environmentally friendly governments,
are raising alarm in the supply chain as new eco compliance costs threaten to raise
fuel bills 51%, which is more than 50% of voyage costs. At issue in the Nordic
states are clean air sulphur limits hatched by
diplomats at the UN's International Maritime Organization (IMO) that will soon
cover the
Read More About Drewry
www.drewry.co.uk/
***Foreign NRA
Allowed ...... as the U.S.
Federal Maritime Commission has voted to allow foreign non-vessel-operating
common carriers to enter into negotiated rate arrangements (NRAs),
a move designed to ease their administrative burden and bring consistency to
the tariff filing process.
Watch This Explanation of Negotiated Rate Arrangements (NRAs)
- YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
FMC Guidance for NVOCCs on How to Use Negotiated Rate
Arrangements
www.fmc.gov/news/negotiated_
***First M/V Costa Concordia Convictions ......
as five employees of an Italian cruise company for M/V Costa Concordia shipwreck that killed 32 crew and
passengers were convicted in an Italian court on Saturday after it accepted
their plea bargains. The longest sentence went to the crisis coordinator for
Costa Crociere SpA, the
cruise company, who was sentenced to two years and 10 months. Concordia's hotel
director was sentenced to two years and six months while two bridge officers
and a helmsman got sentences ranging from one year and eight months to one year
and 11 months. Handled separately from the plea bargains is the trial of Costa
Concordia Capt. Francesco Schettino, which opened
this week. Schettino is charged with manslaughter for
causing the January 2012 shipwreck off the Tuscan
***They Might Be Giants ....... as Shipping Consultants
managing director Andrew Penfold says 22,000-TEU
ships are coming in a few years and 24,000-TEUers won't be far behind,
according to economies-of-scale research done with Lloyd's Register and two
unidentified shipping lines. Speaking at the recent TOC Container Supply Chain
conference in
***MIGs At The Ditch ...... as
***What If
Read The Drewry Report
http://ciw.drewry.co.uk/
***STX PanOcean Bankrupt .......
as South Korea's biggest commodities shipping line, filed for Chapter 15
bankruptcy protection on June 20, according to court records. The company,
based in
www.stxpanocean.com/eng/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
***M/V Maersk
Mc-Kinney Moller On Maiden Voyage ..... as
Maersk Line's first of twenty 18,000-TEUers, named
after the late son of the parent company's founder, has left the
Watch Construction of M/V Maersk
Mc-Kinney Moller
www.youtube.com/watch?v=
***Meet P3 ...... as there is a new super-sized
vessel sharing agreement that the world's three largest box lines, Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and CMA CMG,
hope to form is not a "done deal", according to MSC vice president
Diego Aponte, who said talks are still underway to seek clearance from
regulators. The carriers announced plans to form a long-term alliance in the
three main east-west trades, called the P3 network and together they will
operate 2.6 million TEU of capacity, deploying 255 ships on 29 loops. It will
have a market share of more than 40 per cent in the Asia-Europe trades, said Mr Aponte. In the Asia-Europe trades, MSC and CMA CGM have
a vessel sharing agreement covering services to northern
***Port Accidents
Said Avoidable ....... as
transport & logistics insurer TT Club's latest analysis of 9,500 claims
over the past 7 years, valued at US$400M, confirmed an ongoing trend in
avoidable damaging events that resulted in claims. The study showed that the majority (68%) were due to poor operations, and processes
and a further 14% resulted from maintenance related issues. Only 18% were
caused by weather related issues, seemingly out of the control of the operator,
but an amount of these could have been avoided through more adequate
preparation. The main area of risk, unsurprisingly, was in the operation of
mobile equipment, such as quay cranes, lift trucks, rubber-tyred
gantry cranes and straddle carriers. These make up two-thirds of the
operational claims by value. For example, quay crane boom-to-ship collisions
are common at 236 incidents in the past 7 years worth US$15M and representing
31% of quay crane claims. TT Club suggests these accidents could be greatly
reduced by fitting boom anti-collision sensors.
***Smugglers Get
Stuck ....... as the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection's
Read About The Switchblade Knife Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
***2012 Port
Report ...... as Zepol Corporation, a trade intelligence company, says its
latest study that analyses of the trade activity at the top 20 ports in the
United States shows the top port by a landslide is the Port of Los Angeles. The
LA port surpassed all other ports by handling over one million TEU and over
500,000 shipments in 2012, a report posted on Marketwire
said. Based on TEU volume, 11 of the top 20 ports posted positive growth from
2011 to 2012. The highest growth level in 2012 was achieved by the
Read The 2012 Top Ports Report
www.zepol.com/BLOG/post/2013/
***Indian Port Slide ......
as 12 major ports suffered a 4% first quarter year-on-year decline in box
volume in fiscal 2013-2014 to 1.87 million TEU while overall tonnage fell 7% to
28.6 million tons. From April through to June, ports registered total cargo
tonnage decline of one per cent to 137.15 million tons from 138.5 million tons
a year earlier, according to figures released by the Indian Ports Association.
The highest tonnage was seen at Kandla with
throughput of 23.3 million tons followed by Paradip,
at 17 million tons, Nehru, at 15.6 million tons, Visakhapatnam
at 14.6 million tons, Mumbai at 13.3 million tons and Chennai at 12.8 million
tons.
***Throughput >>> Port of Antwerp's container traffic
declined 1.7% to 4.29 million TEU in the first half, but overall cargo
throughput increased two per cent to 95.7 million tones year on year. >>> South Carolina Ports Authority(SCPA)
has announced container throughput at the Port
of Charleston was up 9% in
the fiscal year that ending June 30, with 1.56 million TEU handled during the
12-month period. >>>
***This Month In
U.S. Navy History
1813 - Lt. John Gamble, the first Marine to command a ship in battle -- prize
vessel Greenwich in capture of British whaler Seringapatam.
1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry lands and holds first meeting with Japanese at
1882 - Sailors and Marines from four
1916 - USS North Carolina is first Navy ship to carry and operate
aircraft.
1934 - USS Houston takes Franklin Delano Roosevelt on first
visit of a
1943 - Gunfire from
1945 -
1950 - U.S. Marines sail from
1990 - Commander Rosemary B. Mariner becomes first woman to command an
operational aviation squadron (VAQ-34).
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**Back By Popular Demand**
We're sorry, but there were so many sinkings,
explosions, pirate attacks, fires, cargo mishaps, battles on the water &
other disasters at sea that we do not have room to print even the highlights this
month. Many people lost their lives at sea this month!!
But you can read all this month's disaster news at our special Internet web
feature which provides full details of each event -- our Vessel Casualties & Pirate
Activity Database. Bookmark the site and visit every day! Updated twice daily.
SPECIAL NOTE: Please view the dramatic new pictures at our special
"Gallery of Cargo Loss" website feature.
www.cargolaw.com/gallery.html
See our historic feature
from ten years ago in Nov. 2003: "Stepping In
It"
www.cargolaw.com/
See our newest photo
feature "Singles Only" - Transportation Disasters Told In A
Single Photo!
www.cargolaw.com/
Daily Vessel Casualties ...... as we don't want you to miss
the excitement of our 24 hour reports of the dramatic events at sea each day --
stories of casualties & pirates --- almost none of which are carried on
your local news. Edited daily by Christoph
Wahner, Esq. of Countryman & McDaniel.
www.cargolaw.com/
NOTE: The
historic dangers of carriage by sea continue to be quite real. Shippers must be encouraged to purchase high quality marine cargo insurance from their freight forwarder or customs broker. It's dangerous out there.
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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..............
Cargo & Trade>>>>>>
2013 Top 50 Global & Top 30 Domestic 3PL's
www.supplychain247.com/
Advice For Seafarers Using Lawyers
www.seafarersrights.org/
An Overview of Irish Export Controls
www.worldecr.com/wp-content/
Congressional Hearing: Threat, Risk And Vulnerability: The Future of the TWIC
(Transportation Worker Identification Credential) Program - 18 June 2013
http://homeland.house.gov/
The Dangers of A Longshoreman's Daily Work
www.longshoreshippingnews.com/
Hong Kong Maritime Museum
www.hkmaritimemuseum.org/
Maritime TV Minute of Madness
http://maritimetv.com/
Michigan State University 100% Online Master Certificate in Strategic Global
Management
www.
Move: Supply Chain Drones on the Horizon
http://mhlnews.com/powered-
President Barack Obama
Announces New Trade Africa Partnership
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-
Reminder: Full Enforcement of Importer Security Filing Began July 9
www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/
Shanghai: Portrait of A Port City
http://vimeo.com/63635193
Subsea Volcanos: Unseen Sculpters of The Seabed
www.marinelink.com/news/
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Final Rule For Exclusion From
Lead Limits For Children's Toys
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/
U.S. Dept. of State & Dept. of Commerce Final Rules as part of the Export
Control Reform
www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-
U.S. Export Control Reforms For Categories of The U.S. Munitions List
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-
PRODUCTS>>>>>>>>>
Drewry's Container Freight Rate Insight ...... rates on over 600 int'l
trade routes as well as several aggregated indexes.
www.drewrycfri.co.uk/?utm_
SUDS ...... as cloud
software maker CargoSphere is offering SUDS (Smart
Upload and Diagnostics Solution), a confidential rate mesh system for the ocean
and air carriers, and logistics providers reads external rate data from any
carrier contract format and loads it into a database. SUDS automates the
time-consuming, tedious tasks of managing and processing carrier contracts as
well as numerous contract amendments and speeds processing of large volumes of
external freight rate data, the company said.
www.cargosphere.com/SUDS.html
EVENTS>>>>>>>>>
Transport Events
www.transportevents.com/
Trade Shows, Exhibitions,
Conferences & Business Events Worldwide
www.eventseye.com/
World Trade Organization
Events
www.wto.org/english/news_e/
4th Annual Marine Tech
Summit-2013 .........23-25 Sept.,
Hangzhou, China
www.bitconferences.com/
2nd Annual World Congress
of Ocean-2013 ........... 23-25
Sept., Hangzhou, China
www.bitconferences.com/
6th Optimising
Port Development Conference ..........
4-5 Dec. 2013, London
www.wplgroup.com/aci/
9th IATA Cargo Claims &
Loss Prevention ......... 19 - 21
November, 2013, Limerick, Ireland
www.cvent.com/d/
www.terrapinn.com/conference/
Air Cargo & Logistics
Asia Conference and Exhibition .........
16-18 Oct. 2013, Singapore
http://atwonline.com/events/
Cargo Logistics Canada Expo + Conference ..........
29-30 Jan. 2014, Vanouver, Canada
www.bettermail.ca/ct/1177/
European International
Freight Conference 2013 ........
21-23 Nov. 2013, London
http://fnceuropeconference.
FIATA World Congress 2013
in Singapore ....... 16-19 Oct.
2013
www.fiata2013.org/site/
Intermodal Europe 2013 ......8-10 Oct. 2013, Hamburg Messe, Hamburg Germany
www.worldcargonews.com/htm/
Intermodal Asia 2014 ........1-3 April 2014, Shanghai World
Expo Center, Shanghai
www.intermodal-asia.com/
Marine Insurance
Association of Seattle 2013 Golf & Bowling Tournament and Banquet ........ Oct. 7 2013
https://mias.memberclicks.net/
Transport Security Expo 2013 ........13-14 Nov. 2013, Olympia,
London UK
www.transec.com/page.cfm/Link=
UK Truckfest 2013 ..........
18 Aug. at Balmoral Park
www.truckfest.co.uk/
Western Cargo Conference (WESCCON) .........
17-20 Oct. 2013, Racho Las Palmas Resort, Rancho
Mirage, CA
www.wesccon.com/Section.asp?
Apps For That - iPhones & Droids>>>>>>>>>
Trucker SOS .......... to help
you know how to properly place warning devices in the event you have to stop
your truck on the shoulder.
uDrove .......
replaces in-cab paperwork and delivers the data instantly to a web account –
allowing you to manage your trucking business faster, smarter and more cost
effectively
www.udrove.com/Splash/Default.
General Interest>>>>>>>>>
American Memory from the Library of Congress - Browse Motion Piture Collections
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
Angel Flight
www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=
As Glacier Melts, Secrets of Lost Military Plane Revealed
http://news.yahoo.com/glacier-
Heineken Asks Travelers at JFK to Drop Everything, Fly to Mysterious Location
http://mashable.com/2013/07/
History of Los Angeles In Pictures (151
pages)
www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/
No Engine Starter? No Problem!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-
Nolo's Free Dictionary of Law Terms And Legal Definitions
www.nolo.com/dictionary
Northrop Unmanned Systems
www.northropgrumman.com/
San Francisco KTVU Reports Asiana Air Pilots Were
"Sum Ting Wong" And "Ho Lee Fuk"
http://gawker.com/ktvu-
Terror At 11,000 Feet
http://flightaware.com/
Why Russians Use Dash Cams, (dashboard
cameras) - Truly Amazing!
www.youtube.com/embed/5RAaW_
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OUR "E" Section: The Forwarder/Broker World***
7. New U.S.
Transport Related Legal Cases _______
CSX Transportation,
Inc. v. Alabama Dept. of Revenue
Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
The court held on July 1, 2013 that Alabama's imposition of sales and use tax
on diesel fuel purchased by rail carriers violates the Railroad Revitalization
and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 ("4-R Act"). This is the second
time that the case has been before the Circuit Court. An earlier decision of
the Circuit Court holding that a rail carrier could not challenge its
competitors' exemptions from sales and use tax under the 4-R Act was reversed
by the U.S. Supreme Court on
Read The Decision
www.ca11.uscourts.gov/
And again this month, a lighter look back at transport related legal cases .......
Hobbs v. Hartford
Ins. Co. of the Midwest
823 N.E.2d 561 - Illinois 2005
A Rule For Understanding Your Policy: Where
an ambiguity in an insurance policy is found, courts will construe it in favor
of the insured, but will not torture ordinary words until they confess to
ambiguity.
http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/
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Written from wire stories, the Associated Press, Reuters, Hong Kong Shipping
News Lloyds & other world sources.
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Michael S. McDaniel, Esq. Editor (Countryman & McDaniel)
Christoph M. Wahner, Esq. (Countryman & McDaniel) Daily Vessel Casualties
Bruce Lindsay, Esq.
(Countryman & McDaniel)
Maria Jackson (Countryman & McDaniel)
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