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THE CARGO LETTER [502]
Air & Ocean Logistics - Customs Broker News
30 October 2013
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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" _________
7. New U.S. Transport Related Legal
Measures ________
MAP-21
Enforcement Grace Period Announced -- details of the mandatory new
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OUR "A" Section: Trade, Financial & Inland News***
1. Freight Forwarder Trade Briefs _____________
***Asia Growth
2013 Continues ....... as
aside from regional trade, Asia has enjoyed a year-on-year 5.4% increase in
exports to the rest of the world in the first half, according to UK-based Box
Trade Intelligence. Asian exports to the Middle East and Indian subcontinent
scored highest with 12% growth while trade to North America increased 2.4% and
to northern
Learn More About Box Trade Intelligence
www.boxtradeintelligence.com/
***Aisia Bellwether? .......as
the number of exhibitors at the autumn session of the Canton Trade Fair has
fallen the most since 2009 because of a subdued global economy and weaker
currencies in key markets. The twice-yearly Canton Fair, held in three gigantic
conference halls in eastern
***
Read Details of The Free Trade Agreement
http://trade.ec.europa.eu/
***
***Making Many Mexican Motors ..... as
its auto industry will soon see a US$10Bn factory building spree with Japanese
and German auto manufacturers spearheading the drive, illustrating the nation's
rising economic challenge to rivals from the
***Royal Mail Privatization: Shares & Strikes ...... as workers have voted to
strike, a week after UK's postal service's initial public offering, which was
seven times oversubscribed with more than 700,000 investors applying for shares
in the state-owned postal company. The walkout will take place on November 4
unless a deal safeguarding employment is reached, according to a statement
issued by the Communications Workers Union (CWU), reports Bloomberg.
Sixty-three per cent of the 112,000 Royal Mail workers turned out for the vote
in which 78% of the respondents voted in favour of a
walkout. "Postal workers care about jobs, terms & conditions more than
they care about shares," said CWU deputy general secretary David Ward.
"Postal workers will not pay for the profits of private operators and
faceless shareholders." Royal Mail shares were sold to investors at
GBP3.30 (US$5.20) and have climbed 44% to about GBP4.73 since it started
trading on the London Stock Exchange on Oct. 15. The government sold 52.2% of
the Royal Mail in the biggest privatization since British Rail was sold in the
1990s, with a further 7.8% likely to be offered in the coming weeks depending
on demand.
***True Temperature Service ......
as UPS announced new service levels for managing temperature-sensitive health
care products as part of its UPS Temperature True portfolio. With tremendous
global growth in the transportation of cold chain products, health care
companies can now choose from tiered service levels based on the degree of
control needed, leveraging both the speed of air and the economies of oceanfreight while ensuring protection in the supply chain.
Learn More About UPS Temperature Temp
www.ups.com/content/us/en/
***Panalpina Pays Class Action Fine .....
as Swiss forwarding giant has agreed to a fine of
US$35M to settle a
***Kuehne + Nagel Pharma Deal At SHA ..... as
the Swiss forwarding giant has won a contract to provide Johnson & Johnson
Medical China with temperature-controlled warehouse facility, covering 20,000
square metres near
***Motor Truck
Cargo Theft Risk Increasing ..... as
a new report shows truck cargo theft during the most recent three-month period
increased in the
Read More About FreightWatch
www.freightwatchintl.com/
***Shorthaul Exempt From HOS
Rules ...... as the Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Administration formally amended its 2011 hours of service
rule Oct. 25 to exempt shorthaul drivers from taking
a 30-minute rest break after eight hours of driving. The Final Rule provides an
exception from the 30-minute rest break requirement for short-haul drivers who
are not required to prepare records of duty status. The exception applies to:
(A) all drivers (whether they hold a CDL or not) who operate within 100
air-miles of their normal work reporting location and satisfy the time
limitations and recordkeeping requirements of § 395.1(e)(1).;
and (B) all non-CDL drivers who operate within a 150 air-mile radius of the
location where the driver reports for duty and satisfy the time limitations and
recordkeeping requirements of § 395.1(e)(2). Changes to the federal
hours-of-service rule topped the 2013 survey of critical issues facing the
North American trucking industry, the American Transportation Research
Institute reported.
Read More About FMCSA Hpurs of Service For Drivers
www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-
Read The FMCSA Final Rule
https://s3.amazonaws.com/
***ATA Sees
Capacity Squeeze Ahead ......
as the American Trucking Associations chief economist Bob Costello says U.S.
trucking will eventually see a capacity crunch as demand for freight services
outstrips the slower growth supply of trucks & drivers. "Once we see
more accelerated economic growth - think 3% - it will eventually cause very
tight capacity," he said, adding that ATA's
truck tonnage index was increasing faster than overall loads, a sign of
recovery. Speaking at the "All Eyes on the Economy" seminar sponsored
by Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, Mr Costello said: "Our tonnage index continues to
rise, mostly because recovery in energy and construction is outpacing recovery
in general economy. So heavy freight is driving tonnage even
if loads are growing slower." With slow growth in loads and rising
costs, Costello said fleets could see weakened margins in the near term.
"While we do see tightening capacity going forward, until we get to those
consistent levels of growth, margins will be under pressure because the costs
of fuel, driver recruitment and retention and equipment will rise faster than
freight rates," he said.
***Dealing
With Driver Retention ......
as on Oct. 22, ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello said fleets are adjusting to
continued tightness in the driver market by increasing pay & hiring newer
drivers. "While the driver shortage is generally confined to only certain
segments of the trucking industry," Costello said here during the
"All About the Driver" General Session,
sponsored by Freightliner Trucks, "it is having real impacts in how fleets
recruit and retain their drivers." "Fleets in all segments of
trucking have told us they are having a more difficult time finding qualified
drivers than they were a year ago," Costello said. "As a result, more
fleets are considering hiring drivers straight out of driver training programs
and nearly 75% of those we surveyed plan to increase pay or have already done
so." The industry needs to find an average of roughly 96,000 new drivers
annually to keep pace with demand. If freight demand grows as it is projected
to, the driver shortage could balloon to nearly 240,000 drivers by 2022,
according to ATA data.
***Brown Leads The Way To LNG .... as
natural gas utilization continues to be a major action item for transportation
and logistics bellwether UPS, with the company announcing that it will invest
roughly US$50M to build another 9 liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations.
This follows an April announcement by the company, when it rolled out its plan
to purchase roughly 700 liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles and build 4
refueling stations by the end of next year. When these stations are up and
running, which UPS expects by the end of 2014, UPS will have 13 LNG stations.
The nine new LNG fueling stations will be based in
***Forwarders
Middle East Risk Challenge ......
as insurance coverage will remain a problem for
forwarders until the sector, particularly in the
***Moving Sharks ...... as Stockholm-based Conroute Air & Sea has handled the customs clearance
and documentation for an unusual shipment of 15 blacktop reef sharks by air
freight from Ngurah Rai
International Airport on Bali Island, Indonesia to Haga
Ocean, a tropical rain forest and aquarium in Hagaparken,
Stockholm.
***Acute Cargo
Shortage ....... as a German
couple's marriage got off to a rocky start when the groom forgot his bride at a
highway gas station on the way home from their honeymoon, only noticing she was
missing after hours had passed. Police said Oct. 11 the couple was heading home
to
***Tracked Down ......
as authorities say a Kansas man who was walking along railroad tracks wearing
headphones was hit by a train that he didn't hear approaching behind him - but
he got back up and kept walking. Shawnee County Sheriff Herman Jones says the
BNSF conductor slowed down the train and blew the horn when he saw 25-year-old
Kristopher Wenberg on the tracks in
***Attention All
Passengers...... as officials would like the person who left a stash of
gold bars and a pile of banknotes in the luggage deposit at Cologne's main
railway station to kindly contact German police. That was the appeal that
police in the western German city issued Sept. 27, for information to track
down the owner of the several kilos (pounds) of gold and a six-figure sum of euros in cash. The stash was found in April in a luggage
locker at the station, a major European transport hub. Police said they're
going public after being unable to link the haul to any crime and hearing
nothing from any legitimate owner. Whoever the owner is shouldn't leave it too
much longer. Police say that if nobody comes forward, the stash will be sold.
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**Canadian National Railway (CN). UP with a 6.2% year-on-year 3rd quarter net
profit increase to US$683.2M, drawn on record revenues up 8%.
**Canadian Pacific
Railway (CP). UP with a record year-on-year 47.7% 3rd
quarter profit increase to US$318M, drawn on revenues up 5.5%.
**CSX Rail. UP with a 1.7% year-on-year 3rd quarter
profit increase to US$463M, drawn on revenues of US$3Bn, up 3%.
**Delta Airlines. UP as net profit for 3rd 2013 quarter was
US$1.2Bn, or US$1.41 per diluted share, excluding special items, a US$444M
improvement year-over-year.
**Etihad Airways. UP with 3rd quarter revenue of US$1.4Bn, a 11% increase year over year supported by an increase in
cargo revenue of 39% to US$244M.
**Forward Air Corp. UP with a 15.4% year-on-year net profit
increase to US$14.2M in the 3rd quarter, drawn on revenues of US$170M, up 18%.
**Kuehne + Nagel. UP with a 23.8% year-on-year increase in
net profit to US$485.7M.
**
**Rickmers Maritime. UP with a 59% year-on-year increase in 3rd
quarter profit to US$13.1M.
**Panalpina. UP with a gross profit rise US$450.95M in
3rd quarter, a year-over-year increase of 6%.
**Union Pacific. UP with an 11% year-on-year 3rd quarter
profit increase to US$3.2Bn drawn on revenues of US$16.33Bn, up 4%.
**UPS. UP as 3rd quarter revenue jumped up 3.4% to
US$13.5Bn, and operating profit rose 133.5% to US$1.8Bn, with quarterly
earnings per share—at US$1.16—increased 9.4% and edged Wall Street analysts'
expectations of US$1.15 per share.
**US Airways Group, Inc. UP as its 3rd quarter 2013 pretax profit
excluding net special items was a record US$367M, a US$174M, or 90%,
year-over-year
improvement.
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3. Freight Forwarder World Air Briefs __________
***A Visit To UPS Worldport........
as it sits on 600 acres in
Start Your Visit
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=
***Airbus' Cargo
Global Freighter Forecast 2013-2032 ......
as world-wide air freight traffic is projected to grow by an average of 4.8%
annually over the next 20 years, almost doubling the required global freighter
fleet to nearly 3,000 aircraft. This projected growth is driven by numerous
positive global trends in economic activity, including world trade, private
consumption and industrial production. The forecast shows the overall worldwide
air cargo demand by the year 2032 will require around 2,700 new and converted
aircraft. Over half of these will be needed for fleet replacement – driven by
current old aircraft retirements – with the remainder being for growth. Of
these 2,700 aircraft, 870 will be factory-built freighters worth approximately
US$234Bn, while around 1,860 will be converted from passenger aircraft. A
further 175 in 2032 will be aircraft which are already in service as freighters
today. Belly freight usage in passenger aircraft is taken into account – which
will remain largely unchanged at around half of commercial air freight on
international traffic.
Read The Airbus Freighter Forecast
www.airbus.com/company/market/
***e-Commerce As
Jet Fuel....... as it is expected to come to the rescue of the ailing air
cargo sector, according to new air cargo market research from ResearchMoz of Albany, New York. Its "Global Air Cargo
Market 2012-2016: Industry Size, Share, Growth, Trends And
Forecast" sees worldwide air freight growth running at 5.97% a year over
the forecast period. "One of the key factors contributing to this market
growth is the increasing number of online retail stores," said the ResearchMoz press statement, announcing the release of its
latest study. Key vendors operating in this market today are Deutsche Post,
FedEx, UPS, TNT Express, Air France-KLM-Martin Air Cargo, Lufthansa Cargo and
Singapore Airlines Cargo, the release said. "The global air cargo has also
been witnessing an increase in new air routes. However, increasing competition
from surface transportation could pose a challenge to the growth of this
market," it said. In 2013, demand levels have far exceeded available
capacity out of the
Read more about ResearchMoz And
Market Trends.
www.researchmoz.com/
***Bigger Planes, Bigger Bellies ...... as the glut in bellyhold capacity of more new wide-body passenger jets,
such as the Boeing 770-300 ER and the Airbus A330-300, is threatening to weaken
air freight demand still further, says the International Air Transport Assn.
(IATA). The problem is putting pressure on the market and "what you see is
competition forcing yields down," said IATA director general Tony Tyler,
former CEO of Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways. Mr. Tyler made the remark
following his Sept. downgrade of air cargo traffic of six percentage points
from 1.5% to 0.9% for 2013. Passenger growth is set to 5% growth for the year.
Those with growth increases in August were Middle Eastern carriers up 23.8%,
which put pressure on Asia-Pacific freight carriers by slowing demand for
manufactured goods in the region. IATA is forecasting cargo growth into 2014 at
a healthy 3.7%.
Read More About IATA
www.iata.org/Pages/default.
***FedEx To Buy Itself ...... as the board of directors has
given the go-ahead for a new share repurchase program of up to 32 million of
its voting common stock. The company said the new repurchase authorization of
the remaining 7.4 million shares is under its existing buyback program. It
stated the shares may be repurchased from time to time in the open market or in
privately negotiated transactions, according to
***Air
***Act 2......
as Germany's ACG Air Cargo Global is a new cargo start-up planning to succeed
failed German cargo carrier Air Cargo Germany with operations scheduled to
start as early as January, Swiss-based ch-aviation
reports. It is reportedly planning to use Frankfurt Hahn as its operating base,
but use a foreign air operator certificate. Air Cargo
***FedEx New Temp Control Unit At The Hub .......as the 88,000-square-foot
(8,175-square-meter) facility will interface with
***Less 747-8, Prep For The X ......
as Boeing is cutting the production of its newest 747, the 747-8 jumbo in
January 16% to 18 planes a year due to slack demand, reports in the Seattle
Times. "Although we are making a small adjustment to our production rate,
it doesn't change our confidence in the 747-8 or our commitment to the programme," said 747 VP Eric Lindbladas.
Boeing has sold 40 passenger and 67 cargo versions; 56 jets have been
delivered. A
Read More About The Boeing 747-8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Read More About the Boeing 777X
www.flightglobal.com/features/
***Open 24 Hours,
But No Drive-Thru .... as
***Freighter
Conversions Abroad ....... as
Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services Co., Ltd., (Boeing Shanghai) has successfully
completed the first of three 737-400 passenger-to-freighter (PTF) conversions
for Yangtze River Express under a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) held by
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI) under license from Boeing. This PTF
conversion is also the first 737 PTF Boeing
Read More About Boeing
www.boeingshanghai.com/
***American Cargo On The
***Heathrow Cargo
Handlers Busted ......as the
drugs would arrive in
***Volumes >>> American Airlines has posted a 7.5% year-on-year
increase to 146,690 million ton miles in Sept., and for the first nine months
of 2013, ton miles dropped to 1.330 million, slipping 0.4% from the 1.325 million
reported for the same period last year. >>> Etihad Cargo increased
its cargo volumes by 41% to 132,448 tons during the 3rd quarter up from same
quarter 2012 of 94,123. >>> Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragonair
posted a 4.4% year-on-year decline in Sept. air cargo volume 128,610 tons while
passenger numbers rose 6% to 2,379,812.>>> Lufthansa Cargo tonnage fell 2.2% to 1.3 million tons
it increased its load factor to 69.3% in the first 9 months of the year. >>>
***Keep Your
Nose Up !...... as Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) has fired the captain who
was at the controls of a plane that landed nose first at New York's LaGuardia
Airport in July, injuring nine people and snarling air traffic for hours.
Cockpit procedure has been a focus of the
***Really ????? .....as
the Pentagon is sending US$50M cargo aircraft straight from the assembly line
to mothballs because it has no use for them, yet it still hasn't stopped
ordering the aircraft, according to a report. A dozen nearly new Italian-built
C-27J Spartans have been shipped to an Air Force facility in
Read More About The C-27J Spartan Cargo Controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
***When The Cargo
Is Jewels ...... as a French
mountain climber stumbled upon a case of dozens of cut jewels, worth hundreds
of thousands of dollars - believed to be debris from one of two Air India
crashes decades ago, police said. Police commander Sylvain Merly
of
***When The Low
Bid Crumbles ...... as the
US$250M runway beneath our Countryman & McDaniel office windows at Los Angeles International
Airport, rebuilt 6 years ago, is riddled with construction defects, including
cracks, exposed steel reinforcing bars and deteriorating concrete, according to
city officials. The mounting problems, including the runway's failure to meet
FAA construction standards, could disrupt future flight operations at the
nation's third-busiest airport, according to a city lawsuit filed against
companies responsible for the work. The city says it will be forced to
prematurely reconstruct the 2 1/2 miles of pavement, a potentially complex and
disruptive undertaking that would require rerouting air traffic to other
runways. Typically, a commercial runway has a life span of 20 to 25 years.
Located on the south side of the airport complex near the city of
See Runway 25-Left On Our Live Webcam
www.cargolaw.com/lax_webcam2.
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OUR "C" Section: FF World Ocean News***
4. FF World Ocean Briefs ____________
Preparing For The
Mammoth P3 Alliance ...... as
announced this month, Maersk Line, MSC and CMA CGM
intend to share vessels in the Asia-Europe, Transpacific and Transatlantic
trades from 2Q 14. A total of 255 ships will be operated in 29 loops with a
combined capacity of 2.6 million teu. Drewry reports the ramifications of the consolidation for
the port industry are enormous. Each of the three carriers already operates
more ULCVs than anyone else, so catering for their combined
cargo handling requirements will be on a scale never seen before. Not
surprisingly, views are divergent on whether the three will
consolidate/rationalize their port calls, therefore. Whilst economies of scale
are there for the taking, it will result in tampering with the well-established
berthing windows of each schedule, and the feeder/intermodal connections of
each carrier, which will, presumably, remain separate.
Read The Entire Drewry Report
***The Unseen Risk ...... as cyber attacks on
containerships and port infrastructure will become more sophisticated, says IT
security consultancy MWR InfoSecurity, which advises
companies to do more about supply chain security. Maritime and IT security
companies have raised their concerns after hackers
penetrated software in the Port Antwerp to pinpoint the location of containers
concealing smuggled drugs so they could be delivered to bogus drivers with the
right documents and codes. Said GoAGT (
Read More About GoAGT Security Solutions
http://goagt.org/
***The
Changed Shape of Shipping ......
as high-cube containers have grown eight per cent in 2012 and now account for
49% of the boxes afloat, a figure that is expected to surpass the 50% by the
end of the year, say Drewry analysts. The high-cube
growth is reducing the proportion of FEUs, though TEUs have held their 33% allotment for many years. High
cube boxes also pose shipboard stowage problems and skew cargo data when
extrapolated from TEU units, which hold 6.5% less cargo than the high cube
equivalent. Drewry said there is now a need to
measure cargo by tons or cubic meters because of differences between the FEU
and the high cube 40-footer, which allows shippers 13% more cargo and little
extra cost on land or sea. Reefer shippers are the biggest group to demand the
40ft high-cube used in almost 92% of all refrigerated cargo being shipped in
equipment last year at two million TEU. But dry cargo remains mostly shipped in
the high-cube. The 9ft 6in high cube containers are usually stowed below deck
to prevent compromise of the navigating bridge's line of sight on the deck
where 50% of the vessel's cellular capacity is located. However in doing so as
much as 7ft (2.1 metres) are lost under-deck because
it is built for eight-feet, six -inch boxes, which means the space usually the
top tier of stacks are lost. The bottom line is containerized cargo growth has
been underestimated as a 40ft high-cube container equates to two TEU when in
fact, it is 13 per cent more than two TEU.
***Shipping Act
Violations Charged ..... as
the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has recovered US$617,500 in fines from 9
non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) and
forwarders in the
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-
Maersk Line To Halt
***Slow Steaming
In The Nursery .... as vessels entering
Rules For Compliance with Seasonal Management Areas
www.savannahmaritime.com/
Maps of the Calving and Nursery Grounds
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/
***Going To The Gold ........ as
ESCO Integrated Transport North America has launched a regular container
service from North America to
***So
***All Quiet ..... as
the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season looks set to go down as a big washout,
marking the first time in 45 years that the strongest storm to form was just a
minor Category 1 hurricane. There could still be a late surprise in the June
1-Nov. 30 season, since the cyclone that mushroomed into Superstorm
Sandy was just revving up at this time last year. But so far, at least, it has
been one of the weakest seasons since modern record-keeping began about half a
century ago,
***Throughput >>> Eastern China's
***This
Month In
1864 - USS Washusett captures Confederate raider CSS Florida in harbor of
1917 - USS Cassin (DD 43) is torpedoed by German submarine U-61 off the coast of
1918 - Naval aviators of Marine Day Squadron 9 make the first raid-in-force for the Northern Bombing Group in
World War I, when they bombed a German railroad at
1924 - Rigid airship Shenandoah commences transcontinental flight.
1944 - The Battle of Leyte Gulf, a series of separate battles, begins with
attacks on Japanese ships.
1962 - A
1983 - Terrorist bombing of Marine barracks at
1990 - USS Iowa (BB-61) decommissioned at Naval Station
Norfolk, VA. She would be back.
***Solemn Treasure .....
as a violin that was being played as the RMS Titanic went down was sold for US$1.46M at
auction on Oct. 19, a record price for memorabilia from the doomed ocean liner.
Band leader Wallace Hartley played the instrument, trying to calm passengers as
the ship slipped into the frozen waters of the North Atlantic in April 1912
after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to
***
www.mbari.org/news/news_
***Capt. Phillips
Crew Lawsuit Has No Merit Says Maritime Expert ....... as noted Admiralty Attorney
and Author, Dr. Capt. John A.C. Cartner was
interviewed by Maritime TV in response to recent press accounts of a lawsuit
claim filed by several former crew members of the Maersk
Alabama related to the hijacking of the ship by pirates in 2009, documented in
the current hit movie Capt. Phillips starring Tom Hanks. In
the interview.
Watch The Maritime TV Interview
www.maritimetv.com/
***National Press Club Newsmaker Event - Capt. Richard
Phillips Remarks ....... as
the master who survived a harrowing ordeal at sea in 2009 when his ship the Maersk Alabama was boarded by Somali pirates and whose
story is the subject of a new feature film, Captain Phillips, starring Tom
Hanks being released Oct. 11, spoke at a National Press Club Newsmaker the day
before the film's opening.
Watch Capt. Richard Phillips Remarks
www.maritimetv.com/
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5.
**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.
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See our new feature for
Nov. 2008: "The Death of Hercules"
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See our newest photo
feature "Singles Only" -
Transportation Disasters Told In A Single Photo!
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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
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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 3PLs
www.supplychain247.com/
Airbus' Cargo GLOBAL MARKET FORECAST 2013-2032
www.airbus.com/company/market/
Amazon the Remora (Suckerfish) of the Retail World, Operates within Supplier
Warehouses
www.supplychain247.com/
EU Trade Deal With Costa Rica & El Salvador Becomes Operational
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-
www.sice.oas.org/TPD/CACM_EU/
FedEx Displays Its First 767-300F Freighter
http://news.van.fedex.com/
Maersk Film: Container Controled
Atmosphere For Reefers .....how
it works
www.multivu.com/mnr/63464-
Study Says Tomato Shipments Cost Less in Corrugated
http://mhlnews.com/global-
U.S. Dept. of Commerce Final Rules on Export Control Reform
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-
U. S. Customs Schedule B PDF .......free
www.census.gov/foreign-trade/
U.S. Trade Representative Request for Public Comments to Compile the Report on
Technical Barriers to Trade
www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/
PRODUCTS>>>>>>>>>
Shaking the Skies......by Giovanni Bisignani,
Former DG | CEO of IATA -- the untold story of change in aviation after 9/11
http://atwonline.com/shaking-
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/
6th Optimising
Port Development Conference ..........
4-5 Dec. 2013, London
www.wplgroup.com/aci/
9th IATA Cargo Claims &
Loss Prevention ......... 19 - 21
Nov., 2013, Limerick, Ireland
www.cvent.com/d/
11th Annual European 3PL
http://events.eft.com/eu3pl/
Asia Pacific Rail 2014 .....18-20
March 2014, Hong Kong
www.terrapinn.com/conference/
Battleship USS Iowa Veteran's Day ............
9 Nov. 2013, Port of Los Angeles
http://pacificbattleship.com/
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,
http://fnceuropeconference.
FNC Freight Conference 2013 ........21-23
Nov. 2013,
http://fnceuropeconference.
IATA Legal Symposium 2014....... 23 - 25, Feb. 2014, San Francisco
www.iata.org/events/Pages/
IATA Passenger Terminal
Expo 2014 .........25-27 March
2014, Barcelona
www.passengerterminal-expo.
Intermodal Asia 2014 ........1-3 April 2014, Shanghai World
Expo Center, Shanghai
www.intermodal-asia.com/
SNAME 2013 Annual Meeting & Expo ........
Nov. 6-8, 2013, Hyatt Regency Bellevue - Bellevue, WA
www.sname.org/
Transport Security Expo 2013 ........13-14 Nov. 2013, Olympia,
London UK
www.transec.com/page.cfm/Link=
World Cargo Symposium 2014 ........11-13 March, Hyatt Regency
Century Plaza, Los Angeles
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=FdEaE-
https://ems.resrunner.com/
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Magnifing Glass
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Meteor Counter..........Be a part of NASA meteor research
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PaperKarma ......intellegent spam control
www.paperkarma.com/
Secret Menu Starbucks Edition ....over
100 delicious beverage recipes to try on your next visit
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Shoeboxed Receipt & Mileage Tracker .....maximize reimbursements and
tax deductions in seconds
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General Interest>>>>>>>>>
Air New Zealand's Latest Safety Video Stars Betty White
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-
Amazing Self Parkimg Car
http://youtu.be/dQjntXvMVTE
"Big Ass Spiders." .....
Greg Grunberg (the nieghbor
of your editor) has made a new movie.
Watch The Trailer:
http://youtu.be/WeRW_dClNkI
Cruise Ship Parade
www.shipparade.com/
Disneyland - The Birth of the Swamp Fox
http://youtu.be/bOBwVJQi6_Y
Inside A U.S. C-130H During A Night Air Cargo Drop Over Afghanistan
http://theaviationist.com/
"Billy Bad Ass" - The DDG 1000 Zumwalt
Class - U.S. Multimission Stealth Destroyer
www.naval-technology.com/
Clever German Slingshot
www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=
Human Acievement & Spirit
www.youtube.com/embed/
"Oilfield Dodge" Promotional Film
www.youtube.com/embed/
Russian Car Commercial On Ice -
Amazing
www.youtube.com/embed/
Supersonic—The Origins of Concorde
http://airchive.com/blog/2013/
Why A Man Should Always Let The Lady Speak First
www.youtube.com/watch_popup?
Winglets Save Billions of Dollars in Fuel Costs
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/
World's Most Dramatic Runways
www.cnn.com/2013/10/10/travel/
World War II in Europe: Every Day ......the changing front lines of the
European Theater of World War II every day from the German invasion of Poland
to the surrender of Germany.
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=
Would You Be Told If Your Plane Was Going Down?
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/
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OUR "E" Section: The Forwarder/Broker World***
7. New U.S.
Transport Related Legal Cases _______
***MAP-21 Enforcement Grace Period Announced.......as
the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has provided a 60-day phase-in
period beginning 1 October 2013 for the new operating authority and minimum
financial responsibility requirements to allow the industry to complete all
necessary filings. Under § 32915 of the "Moving Ahead for Progress
in the 21st Century Act" (MAP-21), anyone acting as a broker or freight
forwarder and subject to FMCSA jurisdiction, including motor carriers, must
register and obtain broker or freight forwarder authority from the FMCSA.
Under § 32918, financial security requirements are amended and increased so
that all FMCSA regulated brokers and freight forwarders must obtain and file
with the FMCSA a surety bond or trust fund agreement in the amount of
US$75,000.
MAP-21 is intended to establish a clear definition of the three types of
operating authorities for domestic interstate logistics companies: freight
forwarder, broker, and carrier. As will now be enforced, a freight forwarder is one who assumes carriage liability under a
bill of lading but subcontracts the load to a carrier and does not physically
perform carriage or operate equipment. A broker is one who does
not assume liability for carriage, does not issue a
bill of lading and merely appoints an identified carrier on its customer's
behalf as agent. A carrier assumes carriage liability under a bill of
lading and performs physical carriage / operates equipment. Under the new
changes, there will ultimately be separate operating authority numbers for each
authority type and the provider is to make clear under which authority it is
acting. Without additional broker or freight forwarder authority, motor
carriers will no longer be permitted to fully subcontract or "convenience
interline" a load.
Proper compliance by your operation will not only avoid regulatory penalties
but will facilitate a more accurate risk forecast as to legal
liabilities. We
encourage you to contact the attorneys at Countryman & McDaniel for a consultation <info@CargoLaw.com >
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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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