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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. Does The Customs Broker Have A Duty To Confirm Payment Status of The
Cargo?
-- A New False Legal Theory Against
Brokers --
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OUR "A" Section: Trade, Financial & Inland News***
1. Freight Forwarder Trade Briefs _____________
***Transport Industry M&A Activity Makes Healthy Return ......... as merger and
acquisition activity in the transportation and logistics sector in the fourth
quarter of 2013 fared well, posting the second highest quarterly deal volume
and value in the last three years, even though 2013 overall deal volume and value
did not fare nearly as well, according to Pricewaterhouse
Coopers' (PwC) report, "Intersections: Fourth
Quarter 2013 global transportation and logistics industry mergers and
acquisitions analysis." PwC reported that the
fourth quarter saw a 57% increase in deal volume, with deal value up more than
100%. Fourth quarter deal value—for deals valued at US$50M or more—was
US$23.2Bn and represents 66 announced deals with an average deal value of
US$352M, compared to 42 deals representing US$10.7Bn in total value in the
third quarter of 2013 and 68 deals totaling US$26.5Bn in the 4th quarter of
2012. For all of 2013, PwC reported there were 185
deals valued at US$50M or more, totaling US$65.2Bn, which is 19% off of total
2012 value.
Read The PwC Report
www.pwc.com/us/en/industrial-
***U.S. Export
Pace Hitting Records ........as
goods valued at US$2.3 trillion last year with 26 states achieving growth in
2013 and 16 setting revenue records, according to the federal Commerce Dept.
Export leaders were Texas with US$279.7Bn and California with US$168.1Bn in
value. Following were
***U.S.
Import/Export Changes .......
as on
Read Details of Changes To The Import & Export Process
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-
***Amazon To
Self Sustain On The Subcontinent .......
as in the next two years the world's largest retailer will use its own
logistics network to deliver nearly every product sold on its Indian portal. This move. along with the launch of
high-value products like apparel and increased tie-ups with local sellers. will form the crux of the Seattle-based company's strategy
to take on competitors in
Make A visit To Amazon
www.amazon.in/
***
Visit The English Language Service of China Customs
http://english.customs.gov.cn/
***Japan Customs Wants To Hear From You ...... as beginning March 1, 2014,
both the custodial ocean carrier and the NVOCC will be required to submit an
advance manifest filing for all containerized ocean shipments entering Japan or
transiting through Japan. Similar to the U.S. Automated Manifest System, ocean
carriers and
Visit Japan Customs For The
Details
***Changes In
Reporting Medical Device Problems .......
as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule amending its postmarket medical device reporting to require device
manufacturers and importers to electronically submit medical device reports (MDRs), begining 14 Aug., 2015.
The reporting is currently accepted in paper format. The notice explains that,
"This final rule includes reports of deaths, serious injuries, and
malfunctions that must be reported to FDA in initial 5-day, 10-day, or 30-day
individual MDRs."
Read The FDA Final Rue Details
www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/
***The Power of TMS ..... as
in its 2012-2017 TMS Global Market Research Study published in 2013, research
firm ARC says that transportation management systems (TMS) continue to offer a
lower freight spend. And that trend shows no signs of slowing down any time
soon. ARC says that over 40% of respondents felt if they were forced to give up
their TMS and go back to more manual processes for planning and execution,
their total freight costs would increase by 5% to 10%. Twenty-three percent of
shippers surveyed felt their total freight costs not under the control of the
TMS would increase by over 10%.
Read The ARC Transportation Management Systems Report
www.arcweb.com/market-studies/
***
***Forward Air
Corp.'s Major Buy .......as it is to acquire container and intermodal trucker, Central States Trucking Company (CTS),
and its logistics arm for US$95.6M. Illinois-based CTS will provide a scalable
platform, which will allow it to achieve high margins and low asset intensity,
said its chairman and CEO Bruce Campbell, reported American Shipper.
***Intermodal Rebound ....... as IANA reports total 2013
Learn About The Intermodal Assoc. of North America
www.intermodal.org/
***The Port Labor Issue & Organized Labor ...... as a new report issued by
three organizations said classification of port truckers as independent
contractors rather than employees is costing US$1.4Bn in lost revenue. Curtis
Whalen, who heads American Trucking Assns' Intermodal
Motor Carriers Conference was dismissive of the report
from the National Employment Law Project, Los Angeles Alliance for a New
Economy and Change to
Read The Report
www.nelp.org/page/-/Justice/
***When Cargo Takes The Bus ...... as Greyhound Package
Express has partnered with contract courier United We Ship to provide same day
courier services to more than 50 cities in the United States. We provide these
services through a combination of employee drivers, owner/operators and
independent contractors.
Read More About United We Ship
http://unitedweship.com/same-
Reasd More About Greyhound Package Express
www.shipgreyhound.com/e/pages/
***Undercover Box .......
as U.S. Congressional Rep. Steven Horsford has traded
his suit and tie for a brown, short-sleeve UPS uniform - not because he's
quitting Congress, but because it's a way to make closer contact with his
constituents. The Nevada Democrat went "undercover" Friday morning to
help a
***EU Seizes
Contraband That Was Dutyable At US$12M ....... as
the European Commission has released the results of Operation
"Warehouse," a major joint customs operation which it says has
prevented large losses to the budgets of the European Union and member states
with the seizure of 45 million smuggled cigarettes, 135,000 liters of diesel
fuel and 14,000 liters of vodka. Operation Warehouse was carried out in Oct.
2013 by the Lithuanian Customs Service and the Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate in
close co-operation with the European Anti-Fraud Office (O
See Photos & Details of The Operation
http://ec.europa.eu/anti_
***Who's Driving
Your Forklift? ....... as an
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**Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings.
**Bombardier. UP with a US$97M year-on-year net profit
from US$4M loss in the fourth quarter, drawn on revenues of US$5.3Bn, up 15%.
**Cargotec. UP with a 61.5% year-on-year net profit
decline to US$75.7M in 2013.
**Expeditors International of Washington Inc.
**Forward Air.
**Hanjin
Shipping.
**Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), includes APL
**
**USA Truck.
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3. Freight Forwarder World Air Briefs __________
***Why Did They
Move The Airport?......... as commercial airlines have either landed at the
wrong airport or started to land and aborted attempts just in time on at least
150 flights, according to a search by The Associated Press. These incidents
include a Southwest Airlines jet last month in
***Lufthansa Cargo Raided? ...... as its offices in
Germany and the STX Group in South Korea have been raided by investigators in
connection with two separate cases of alleged bribery and inside corruption.
Lufthansa Cargo's headquarters, as well as around 16 other premises, both
business and residential, were searched by German investigators in connection
with a bribery probe on Feb. 18, according to a spokeswoman from the Frankfurt
prosecutor's office, reported the UK' Handy Shipping Guide. The raids are part
of a continuing investigation centered on five individuals, including one of
the airline's managers. Lufthansa says it is cooperating fully with the
authorities. This isn't the first time Lufthansa Cargo has come under the scrutiny
of prosecutors, following its involvement in an international air freight
price-fixing cartel that resulted in a multitude of cargo carriers being fined
hundreds of millions of dollars.
***Next Round of Cargo Price Fixing Payments ...... as on
***American
Airlines Cargo Sets New Weight Record .....as in January the amount of
cargo carried on one of its new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft from
***U.S. Questions
India Safety ....... as
regulators downgraded
IATA Airline Safety Rating Criteria
www.airlineratings.com/safety_
***In The Belly
of The Beast ....... as
Russian International, a joint venture between Antonov
Airlines and Volga Dnepr, has carried a mega power station rotor from Kuwait to
Singapore, using one of its Ruslan heavy lift
freighters. Loading and unloading the rotors, weighing 99 tons on its
custom-designed cradle and measuring 14 meters x 3.6m x 4m, required the use of
mobile cranes and the aircraft's own portable ramp system, the latter adding a
further seven tons to the total load transported, a company statement said. The
aircraft used is the first Antonov's An-124 aircraft
to be repainted in the new blue and yellow livery already seen on its An-225
aircraft. All other Antonov-owned An-124 aircraft in
the fleet will be repainted as they undergo maintenance.
AN-225 Mriya -- World's Largest Aircraft ........and there is only one copy;
requires 7 crew on the flight deck
http://gelio.livejournal.com/
***That Label Has An Important Purpose ...... as the U.S. Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) seeks to fine Amazon Fulfillment US$78,000 for failing to
label high-gloss enamel paint, a hazard class 3 flammable liquid hazardous
material, on a FedEx flight last August. Amazon Fulfillment Services of North
Las Vegas shipped a quart of the paint from
Review The Hazardous Materials Air Safety Resources
www.faa.gov/about/office_org/
***Volumes >>> Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragonair posted
a 1.4% drop in January cargo volume year on year to 130,955 tons, but a 9.3%
increase in passengers to 2,544,259 seats. >>> Kansas City International Airport(KCI) posted a 3.5% year-on-year increase in air
freight to 16.1 million pounds in Dec. and a 195.2 % increase in mail volume. >>> Virgin Atlantic Cargo posted 13% year-on-year increase in
tonnage from the
***Do Not Smoke Your Bicycle Seat ...... as customs officers in
***No Laughing Matter ..... as
two former
***The Great Air Courriers:
Just Wo Is Judd Frost?
www.juddfrost.com/
***NOTICE: Those Conducting Wars After Normal
Business Hours Are Subject To Fine Or Inprisonment ...... as known for being on the
cutting edge military preparedness, this month's hijacking of an Ethiopian
Airlines Boeing 767 airliner caught the Swiss Air Force with its pants down,
reported HIS Jane's Defence Weekly. Before the
hijacked airliner landed at
***Hauling The Trash...... as Justin Bieber
and his entourage smoked so much marijuana on his private jet to the Super
Bowl, pilots were forced to strap on oxygen masks so the "Cheech and Chong"-style
hotbox wouldn't get them high, authorities said. The airplane captain warned
the pothead pop star and his father, Jeremy Bieber,
38, several times to stop smoking weed — which produced a cloud of smoke so
thick that pilots feared they would fail a drug test simply from breathing, NBC
reports. But instead of putting down his lighter, Bieber
and his dad lashed out at a flight attendant in an "extremely
abusive" rant, forcing her to hide near the cockpit during the Jan. 31
flight from
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OUR "C" Section: FF World Ocean News***
4. FF World Ocean Briefs
***Lost Container
Record Set..... as the Danish-flagged container
Read The Maersk Line Update
www.maerskline.com/en-us/
***Container Line Reliability Declines .....
as Maersk Line remains the
top container shipping line in terms of schedule reliability for the second
year in a row, however, its performance decreased by 3 percentage points in
2013 compared to the previous year to 88%. Overall, schedule reliability for
container lines globally deteriorated last year, declining by 1.1 percentage points year on year to 79.5%, according to data collected by
Copenhagen-based research group SeaIntel Maritime
Analysis on 200 ports across dozens of trade lanes. Staying in second and third
place for a second consecutive year were Hamburg Sud
and APL, which also both saw marginal decreases in their schedule reliability.
The worst performers in 2013 were Mediterranean Shipping Co, Zim and
Read More About SeaIntel Maritime Analysis
www.seaintel.com/
***Lock
Construction To Recommence ......
as the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has announced it has reached a deal with
the construction consortium that will allow for work to resume on the third set
of locks in the Panama Canal expansion project. A statement late 19 Feb. by the
ACP said the new locks contractor Grupo Unidos por el Canal, S.A. (GUPC),
led by Sacyr of Spain and Italy's Salini
Impregilo, has accepted the ACP's
repeated request and has agreed to restart work on 27 Feb. As part of the
agreement, ACP will pay GUPC US$36.8M for December invoices to ensure that GUPC
cancels pending payments and obligations to suppliers, the statement said. The
dispute has been ongoing since early January, when the contractor first claimed
that it was owed as much as US$1.6Bn. The canal expansion project, to double
the capacity of the waterway to accommodate 13,000-TEU ships from the 4,800 TEUers it handles today, was to cost US$5.25Bn, but cost
overruns have increased the price to nearly US$7Bn.
***M/V Maersk Alabama In New Controversy ....... as an investigation into the
deaths of two American security contractors by the Seychelles Police Force has
confirmed the presence of drugs and drug paraphernalia in the cabin of the Maersk Alabama where the bodies of the two men were found
on 18 Feb. A statement from Maersk Line on 20 Feb.,
confirmed what some had suspected about the mysterious deaths onboard the
U.S.-flagged container vessel made famous in 2009 when it was hijacked by
Somali pirates and later depicted in the film "Captain Phillips". The
bodies of the two men were found in a cabin on 18 Feb. at about
***In With The
New -- Out With The Old ......
as vessels due for delivery this year, amounting to a record 1.65 million TEU
and representing 9.6% of the total global fleet as of January, will be offset
by scrapping 500,000 TEU and 200,000 TEU in delivery deferrals. The flood of
vessel scrapings and delivery postponements would cut 4.1% off the forecast
2014 capacity growth rate and bring it down to 5.5%, according to Alphaliner, which would be the lowest annual increase since
1999. Containership scrapping is expected to reach a new annual record spurred
by the recent exodus of unwanted panamax ships, which
are expected to account for more than half of the capacity to be scrapped this
year. A record number of ships has already been sold
for scrap in the last two months, led by Maersk and Hanjin Shipping, who are in the swing of disposing 27
vessels ranging in size from 3,600 to 5,300 TEU. There are 80 ships for 302,000
TEU slated for delivery in 2014 to non-operating owners that are without known
charter employment.
***A Baker's
Dozen To The Breakers ..... as Hanjin Shipping has sold 13 containerships - seven 5,302
TEU and six 4,024 TEUers built between 1996 and 1998
- for scrap on the breaker beaches of
Pictures & Video of The Vessel Breakers -- Sad On So Many Levels
Shipbreakers in Gadani
beach, Pakistan -- Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=
World's Biggest Ship Graveyard -- Photo Essay
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/
The Ship Breakers Of Bangladesh - CBS News 60 Minutes Video
www.cbsnews.com/news/the-ship-
***The Overside Container ....... as the Through Transport Club,
which insures 15 of the top 20 container lines, has put the loss of overside ocean containers at fewer than 2,000 a year. But
other industry sources say the number may be as high as 10,000. That would
still represent far less than 1% of the containers traversing the world's
oceans. Maersk, one of the world's largest lines,
says its highest annual loss in the last decade was 59 containers, although it
lost about 520 cans from M/V Svendborg Maersk in the
See "Un-Stacked" Our Nov, 2004 Feature On Overside
Containers, Including our Jan, 2000 The Cargo Letter Story "The
Dangers of Mayonnaise."
www.cargolaw.com/
***New Convoy
Rules For Larger Vessels .......
as southbound transit rules introduced by the Suez Canal Authority this month
will allow larger containerships returning from Europe to the Far East to
reduce their passage time by up to half a day. Under the amended rules
container vessels over 95,000 special
***Sending Seamail ...... as satellite enabled solutions provider,
Airbus Defence and Space, has announced a record 50
million emails were sent via its dedicated SkyFile
Mail software by 40,000 mariners worldwide in 2013, an increase of 25% over the
previous year. SkyFile Mail is designed for
businesses and crew working for shipping companies. It is a messaging
application optimized for satcom, and a partner for Pharostar, Sealink and WaveCall
***Put A Sock In
It ....... as
***Smoking Your Kayak .....
as Australian customs in
***A Risky
Business ....... as M&M
International Freight Forwarding (Beijing) Co Ltd has issued a notice to the
trade that it had accidentally lost BML (Blue Maritime Line) Ocean or Combined
Transport Bill of Lading Original bill of lading for 3,000 copies (blank
forms), and BML Ocean or Combined Transport Bill of Lading non-negotiable copy
b/l for 1,500 copies in September 2013. "The lost original b/l Nos are from 0029001 to 0032000.
The loss has been reported to the police, and the company has declared the lost
b/l form is invalid. Both BML and M&M
International Freight Forwarding (Beijing) Co Ltd will not take any
responsibility for any loss," said a M&M declaration.
***Drones In The
Straits of Malacca ..... as
the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (
***Throughput >>> DP World's container terminals across
its global portfolio handled 55 million TEU last year, with gross container
volumes growing by 0.7% on the previous year. >>> Inner Mongolian city Erenhot recorded a trade cargo volume
of 13.05 million tonnes in 2013, an increase of
12.53% compared to the year before, setting a record high. >>> Northern China's Hebei Province posted a 70.7% year-on-year increase
in container volume to 133,000 TEU in January >>> Hong Kong handled two million TEU in January,
representing a year-on-year decline of 2.7% from 2.1 million TEU in January
last year. >>>
***This Month In U.S. Navy History
1779 - John Paul Jones takes command of Bonhomme
Richard
1919 - The first ship named for an enlisted man, USS Osmond Ingram (DD 255) is launched.
1943 - USS Iowa (BB-61) is commissioned on the 211th anniversary of the General of
the Armies George Washington's birth at the New York Naval Ship Yard at
1945 - Four days after landing on
1945 - USS Bismark
Sea (CVE-95) struck by a kamikaze off
1960 - USS Sargo (SSN-583) surfaces at North Pole
***The Toughest
Race ...... as four members
of the British Royal Air Force were rescued by the crew of the bulk carrier M/V Hedvig Bulker and were brought back to dry land, 4
Feb., after a treacherous 51 day, trans-Atlantic attempt from Spain to Antigua
in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. The team
had a broken rudder on day 46 and after exhausting all efforts to fix it in
heavy seas, running low on food and water, and near to losing all electronics, they used the little electricity they had left
to call for help on their satellite phone. U.S. Coast Guard watchstanders
in
Read More About The Talisker Whisky Atlantic
Challenge -- World's Toughest Race Continues
www.
***The Romantic
Story Behind The Seven Pointed Maersk Star ....... as Anna Møller (founder A.P. Møller's
mother) was accompanying her husband, Capt. Peter Mærsk
Møller on an ocean voyage. During the journey she
fell seriously ill; at one point it seemed as if she might not make it. Peter Maersk Møller stood on deck,
looked up into a cloudy night sky and prayed for his wife's well-being. As he
looked up, there was a chink in the clouds through which he saw a single star.
That star gave him a sense of hope, and she later recovered. That star of hope
became his and Maersk's logo. Peter Maersk Møller later wrote
to Anna explaining the symbolism of the Maersk
star, which by then was on the funnel of his first steamship, S/S Laura (1886): "The little star on the
funnel is a reminder of the evening I prayed for you so dejectedly and
anxiously, asking for the sign that I might see in the grey, overcast sky, a
reminder that the Lord hears our prayers."
Read More Sories On The Maersk History Page
http://maerskstories.maersk.
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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.
SPE
www.cargolaw.com/gallery.html
See our new feature for
Aug. 2009: "Reefer Madness" -- includes our Jan, 2000 The Cargo Letter Story "The Dangers of Mayonnaise."
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>>>>>>
3PLAdvisor
www.3pladvisor.com/
Anatomy of the Most Efficient Supply Chain Process ....... free white paper
https://rapidrequest.
Danish Port of Hirtshal ....... make a visit with new
movies & webcams
www.portofhirtshals.com/The-
Game Plan: The Logistics of Putting on the Super Bowl
www.supplychain247.com/
Houston Pilots 2014 .......an
engrossing video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Maritime TV -- U.S. Maritime Administrator Chip Jaenichen
Speaks at "Winds Of Change in Shipping" Conference
www.maritimetv.com/Events/
Spanish Cargo M/V Luno breaks In Two Off The French
Coast on 7 Feb. 2014 ..... dramatic video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Stanford-IATA Aviation Strategy Program .....
advanced executive education for the aviation industry
http://aviation.stanford.edu/
The Aeroscraft ....... a 266 feet long and 110 feet wide
cargo California airship.
www.supplychain247.com/
The Real Abscam --
Undercover video which American Hustle was about
www.youtube.com/watch?v=
The Story of Aviation Winglets
www.b737.org.uk/winglets.htm
Top Tips to Ship Safe Globally
https://rapidrequest.
White House "Made in Rural America" Export & Investment Initiative
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-
PRODUCTS>>>>>>>>>
Best U.S. Customs Broker Exam Study Course
http://
Neptune Maritime Security Ltd .....now certified by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LRQA)
to ISO PAS 28007 for armed shipboard armed security contractors.
www.neptunemaritimesecurity.
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/
11th Annual International
Trade Symposium -- "It's All About Bigger Ships"........ May 8,
Norfolk
www.vamaritime.com/event/
2014 IANA Intermodal EXPO ....... 21-23 Sept. 2014, Long Beach,
CA
www.intermodal.org/events/
Air Cargo 2014 .........March 30
- April 1, 2014, Orlando, FL
http://aircargoconference.com/
AfricaRail 2014 .........1-2
July 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa
www.terrapinn.com/template/
Asia Pacific Maritime (APM)........19
- 21 March 2014, Singapore
www.apmaritime.com/
Asia Pacific Rail 2014 .....18-20 March 2014, Hong Kong
www.terrapinn.com/conference/
CNS Partnership Conference 2014 .........4-6
May 2014, San Antonio, Texas
www.cnsc.net/events/Pages/cns-
FNC International Freight Conference 2014 Singapore ........12-14 June 2014, Singapore
http://fnc-group.com/Freight-
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/
Maritime Innovation and Technology ........
16-17 Oct. 2014,
www.regonline.co.uk/register/
MODEX 2014 .....17-20
March 2014, Atlanta
www.modexshow.com/
Transportation & Logistics Council 40th Annual Conference .........17-19 March, Nashville,
Tennessee 2014,
www.tlcouncil.org/40th_Annual_
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) East Coast Trade Symposium ........March 6-7, 2014, Washington, DC
www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/
Women in Aviation's 25th
Annual International Conference ........6-8
March 2014, Orlando, FL
www.wai.org/14conference/
World Cargo Symposium 2014 ........11-13 March, Hyatt Regency
Century Plaza, Los Angeles
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=FdEaE-
https://ems.resrunner.com/
Apps For That - iPhones & Droids>>>>>>>>>
Nokia Treasure Tag .......use
your smart phone to locate lost valuables or equipment
www.nokia.com/global/products/
General Interest>>>>>>>>>
Aircraft Manufacturing In Kenya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-_
AN-225 Mriya -- World's Largest Aircraft ........and there is only one copy;
requires 7 crew on the flight deck
http://gelio.livejournal.com/
Confessions of a TSA Agent -- I Saw Ypu Naked
www.politico.com/magazine/
CNN: Crazy Things Americans Tried To Take On Planes in 2013
www.cnn.com/2014/02/06/travel/
Do Not Fly Helicopters Into Steel Cables
www.chonday.com/Videos/
Dumb Things People Do with Forklifts
http://mhlnews.com/powered-
European TV Commercials Might Not Work In The U.S.
www.youtube.com/embed/
Fine Dining
www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Fish Are Dumb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Fresh Guacamole......the 2013 Academy Award Nominated film by PES, the shortest
film ever nominated for an Oscar. You gotta watch
this!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=
How to Erase and Clean-up a Scanned PDF in Acrobat XI
http://blogs.adobe.com/
Instructional Video: How To Park A Vessel At High Speed
www.youtube.com/embed/
Nature's Wonder
www.andiesisle.com/creation/
Plans For TWA Flight Center Hotel and Museum Fall Through
www.frequentbusinesstraveler.
Remembering The DC-10: End of An Era or Good Riddance?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-
Transport Rescue?
www.youtube-nocookie.com/
Valentine's Flower Delivery by Drone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Virgin Atlasntic Uses Google
Glasses To ID Passengers
www.dailymail.co.uk/
World's 'First Airport' Largely Unknown
www.cnn.com/2014/02/21/travel/
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OUR "E" Section: The Forwarder/Broker World***
7. Does The Customs
Broker Have A Duty To Confirm Payment Status of The Cargo? No. _______
-- A
New False Legal Theory Against Brokers --
What is the responsibility of a customs broker to a shipper when the cargo is
released to the consignee without an original bill of lading or without proper
payment made/arranged for the goods? Traditionally, a customs broker
generally bears a fiduciary only to the consignee to promptly clear the cargo
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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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