Iran Dirty Bomb Plot Thwarted, days away from execution; No Media Coverage for 2 months and counting.

You know that Country we know as “Iran” who’s government a certain Barrack Obama wants to dignify by meeting in direct high ... the actual nature of the mysterious “powdered cargo” but the captain and his officers were very evasive. Initially they said that the cargo contained “crude oil” but then claimed it contained “minerals [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 06:15:32
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Sea Cargo Domestic

Transaka Cargo is International cargo express in Indonesia, provide Full Container 20 FT from Jakarta to several Destination port in Indonesia, ... we can handle project shipment in Indonesia, Transaka... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 22:25:10
Blog: 1Iklan | Media Iklan Ba...

SCI Eyes JV For Diversification

SCI Eyes JV For Diversification Posted July 27th, 2008 by Keshav Seth Company News India Business Featured Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) ... routes, in-railway transportation of containers and inland container depots at cargo freight [more...]

Date: 2008-07-27 04:57:58
Blog: Top News | Only Top Sto...

The Three Different Types Of Airplanes

You may be wondering why there are so many different types of airplanes for sale. What makes them different from each other? ... , a few of these planes are a little unusual-looking.Sometimes private shipping companies and the postal ... seats are removed and large containers full of cargo go in their place. Experimental aircrafts [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 05:12:55
Blog: All about Online Vehicl...

The Iranian Mystery Ship: Death from the Sea

(PIMPIN TURTLE cannot confirm or deny the validity of this story. Validity is up to our readers to discern.) ... the ship's seven cargo containers but the containers [more...]

Date: 2008-10-05 11:17:36
Blog: I'm A Pimpin Turtle......

Exports jump at L.A., Long Beach ports but imports falter

Incoming goods are down so much that the twin ports are on pace to record their second straight year of declines in overall international trade ... this year, the biggest U.S. contribution to the international supply chain were vast mountains of empty cargo containers outbound on ships to China, where they were quickly refilled with the imports [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 05:23:22
Blog: Breaking Business & Fin...

SHAMROCK cargo vessel.

Built as a multi-purpose roll-on-roll off vessel under yard No 533 by Satierul Naval Braila S.A ... and break bulk cargo as well as containers, including 100 plugs for refrigerated containers. According ... and current (2004) president and CEO of Toronto-based trucking and logistics giant Clarcke Inc [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 00:47:39
Blog: ShipStamps.co.uk - post...

Problems with “Letters of Credit” and international trade

International trade depends on “Letters of Credit”, or LCs. They finance shipments, but also assure the shipper he gets paid for the cargo sent ... of the oil.” “Mumbai-based Essar Shipping Ports & Logistics Ltd. couldn’t buy equipment used to handle ... fill 100 40-foot cargo containers. Then Burnett got a call from his buyer at Shanghai VIVA Wood [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 10:29:55
Blog: Sjeltur ...

Bloomberg: Credit Tsunami Swamps Trade

A very interesting story on Bloomberg which leads to the question I posed yesterday in the coal piece - how much of the "global slowdown" ... that would fill 100 40-foot cargo containers. Then Burnett got a call from his buyer at Shanghai VIVA ... for buyers. Coupled with declining demand, the credit squeeze is threatening international trade [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 12:00:04
Blog: Fund my Mutual Fund...

Africa Used for Meth Traffic by Mexican Cartels

African Port Security- Super tight.RELATED CONTENT: AFRICAN CRIME86 Wives Gets You Fatwa'd WTF?(CAT DIRT SEZ) ... between Mexico and the United States. Ask yourself how many cargo containers come in from places other ... to the U.S.Stephen Brown of international police organization Interpol said that even [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 15:14:00
Blog: cat dirt sez ...

Hijacked Iranian Ship was a Dirty Bomb Meant for Israel on Yom Kippur

by Brian Harring The MV Iran Deyanat. Photo from Maritime News Russia ... s seven cargo containers but the containers were locked. The crew claimed that they did [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 02:48:01
Blog: No Compromise When it C...

TRANSPORT & LOGISTICS, Mergers & Acquisitions * WORLDWIDE

Strategic Buyers - International Deals * Germany - 10 Oct: Wilson A.S.A. announced the pending acquisition of the remaining 50 ... transportation, container haulage, bulk cargo handling, chemical warehousing and drumming services ... of haul truckload dedicated service primarily in the Eastern US. Terms were not disclosed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 19:03:33
Blog: trucks world news...

soaring fuel prices pushing port truckers to the brink of rebellion

from the SEATTLE TIMES:   Sunday, June 15, 2008 - Page updated at 11:37 AM Permission to reprint or copy this article or photo, ... : Baljinder “Nick” Singh heads down Highway 167 to deliver freight to the Port of Tacoma. Singh ... , and by 7 a.m. is in a Seattle freight yard, hurrying to hook up a 40-foot cargo container to his rig. “ [more...]

Date: 2008-06-18 06:09:51
Blog: GANGBOX: CONSTRUCTION W...

Hijacked Iranian Ship was a Dirty Bomb Meant for Israel on Yom Kippur

The MV Iran Deyanat. Photo from Maritime News Russia ... seven cargo containers but the containers were locked. The crew claimed that they did [more...]

Date: 2008-10-05 17:50:16
Blog: Shirat Devorah...

Danang port looks towards Greater Mekong Subregion

Blessed by nature, Danang port has rapidly emerged as a main artery of not only its home central region but also of the Central Highlands and is ... of container cargo coming through the port in Danang city has steadily increased in recent years, with 2007’s total volume increasing by 43 percent over the amount handled in 2006. Cargo volume over the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 13:03:36
Blog: Talk-Vietnam ...

16 pirates died after handling substance on captured Iranian ship

The World Tribune: Western intelligence agencies have been monitoring the capture of the Iran Deyanat, seized by Somali pirates on Aug ... the Iranian ship… … blasted open one of the seven cargo units, said to contain an unidentified powdery ... relayed $200,000 to a Somali broker for the release of the ship.  … not released as IRGC Islamic [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 04:29:21
Blog: Ravalli County News ...

Electric Trucks Cheaper In Port Of Los Angeles

Electric Trucks Cheaper In Port Of Los Angeles The ports around LA have been under regulatory pressure to pollute less ... about three hours to charge, has a range of about 30 miles while pulling a 60,000-pound cargo container, and about 60 miles empty. Although that distance may not sound useful, much of freight hauling [more...]

Date: 2008-07-13 20:44:23
Blog: FuturePundit ...

Cargo Volume Forecast to fall 5% as Retailers Trim Orders

Cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to decline 6% in 2008 compared with 2007 as the nation’s slow economy ... challenging and our industry is trying to hit the balance point between supply and demand as closely ... to medium because of new regulations that will require trucking companies seeking to do business [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 14:42:43
Blog: Transworld Business - T...

Malko PiggyBack Cargo Container

Allows any flatbed trailer to handle both rugged flatbed material as well as fragile, weather affected materials. Huge cost savings for trucking/shipping companies - reduces dependencies on 3rd party box vans. Made from Wabash Duraplate. [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 19:12:16
Blog: Air Cargo Blog...

Study Finds Large Cargo Ship Soot Emissions 2x Previous Estimates; Tugboats Are Top Emitters Per Unit of Fuel

Tugboats at work in Alameda Harbor, California. Click to enlarge ... , and tugboats emit nearly twice as much soot for the amount of fuel used than other commercial vessels ... vessel, Ronald H. Brown, the team measured black carbon emitted by tankers, cargo and container ships [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 17:36:38
Blog: Green Car Congress...

Travel by container ship

Another story of traveling by cargo ship. The stevedores, or as we call them in the states, longshoremen, ... " -- 'steersman' in Greek. So the arrangement of cargo and the logistics of operations are already optimized by software, the next step will be to link that software directly to the hardware of cranes [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 14:40:06
Blog: kottke.org :: home of f...

Isotopia: New Radiation Scanner Might Keep Longshoremen Happy

A Finnish company has developed a cargo-scanning solution that accurately detects radiation in shipping containers without ... containers full of Ikea furniture and knockoff handbags. As a result, Congress passed the Security [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 23:14:41
Blog: Autopia - Wired Blogs...

Seamen's Salve in Los Angeles

It's a chilly Friday evening and Father Henry Hernando arrives at the International Seafarers Center (ISC) ... , the maritime chaplain comes here almost nightly to visit with cargo and container ship seafarers-mostly [more...]

Date: 2008-04-30 18:17:27
Blog: ABS-CBN News Online (Be...

Foggy Morning Train

Yesterday morning I was driving into town and it was extremely foggy ... carry coal, freight or containers. The containers are either from or placed on large cargo ships [more...]

Date: 2008-10-19 15:57:00
Blog: Iowa Grasslands...

Neptune Orients reports slowdown in cargo shipments

Neptune Orient Lines, Southeast Asia's biggest container carrier, reported its first decline in shipping traffic in three years. Container volume dropped by 1% to 186,500 cargo-boxes in the four weeks ended October 17. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 22:16:32
Blog: China & Asia Stock Aler...

"K" Line suspends shipping to Rangoon-MIZZIMA

http://www.mizzima.com/news/regional/1192-qkq-line-suspends-shipping-to-rangoon ... the shipment of container cargo to Burma and plans to terminate business entirely in the coming month [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 16:55:55
Blog: Peaceful Burma (ျငိမ္းခ...

Allcargo Global Logistics bounces back after a free fall

Allcargo Global Logistics was locked at 10% upper circuit at Rs 303 ... , container freight stations, project cargo handling, airfreight and transport logistics. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 16:18:00
Blog: MONEY MATTERS...

Japan shippers mark bumper year but outlook soft

Japan shippers mark bumper year but outlook soft April 25th, 2008 TOKYO, April 25 (Reuters) - Japanese shipping firms NipponYusen KK (9101 ... into gains from robust demandand higher freight rates. The nation’s biggest marine transport firms ... earnings for both itsdry bulkers and container lines but said it expected a recoveryat its air cargo unit [more...]

Date: 2008-04-25 04:29:59
Blog: Finance, Economy-Busine...

Storing prices

Shippers using Jebel Ali Port were in for quite a surprise the past few days when they learned that DP World has jacked prices for container storage ... that decision. The freight companies may look to book cargoes via other ports, but one must bear in mind [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 13:32:45
Blog: LOG.ae Delivering Quali...

Five killed as cargo ship sinks off China

At least five sailors were killed and three missing after a container ship sank off a port in northeast China's Liaoning province, ... nautical miles from the site of accident. The vessle belonged to Fuzhou Mingfa Shipping company [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 08:01:46
Blog: Latest News|Daily Local...

German clashes over nuclear cargo

Protesters cemented themselves to the railway track (see video at bottom of story) ... protests from environmentalists. Eleven containers of treated waste were on Monday transferred ... Party said. “I want to bloc the transporter and stop it from making its way to the storage facility [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 00:33:53
Blog: Nuclear and Indigenous...

National transportation infrastructure fund legislation

my colleague’s post on Monday regarding proposed legislation to introduce a national container fee, ... be collected through two mechanisms: * a waybill fee for beneficial freight rail and commercial motor vehicle cargo owners—or shippers—that is assessed against the cost of transportation [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 10:57:31
Blog: Third Party Logistics N...

The Shipping Blues for China’s Small Builders

Today’s WSJ reports on the impact of the economic slowdown across the shipping industry, from railroads and cargo ships to trucks and package delivery firms. In the first nine months of this year, the number of containers entering the U.S. via its top 10 container ports was 7.2% lower [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 08:59:50
Blog: China Journal ...

cargo geeking

I’ve been watching the Showtime series “Dexter” on DVD recently ... of it. The crime scene was a 2 TEU shipping container. From screen shots of old newspaper articles ... t think that they had vast container yards at the time. Also: Dexter tracks down the container serial [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 12:24:24
Blog: dispatches from TJICist...

Joseph St These cargo

Louis Montana Billings Great Falls Missoula Nebraska Lincoln North Platte Omaha Nevada Henderson Las Vegas North Las Vegas Reno New Hampshire ... containers, heavy loads and delivery deadlines. Cloud Young America Mississippi Biloxi Gulfport [more...]

Date: 2008-07-04 08:55:55
Blog: Trucking Business Onlin...

Containered Excitement

So the Thames Gateway really is a a portal to somewhere rather than a hiding to nowhere ... the manufacturing period alone, and its potential as an international port able to handle, well, an awful lot of cargo, is huge. It should send some very positive waves up the estuary at a time [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 21:50:57
Blog: Londonist: London News,...

Illegal Deals of Government Agencies At Ports

As stakeholders continue to express concerns over the clog multiple government agencies constitute to 48-hour cargo clearance project of the Federal Government, freight forwarders have alleged that these agencies collect at least N1, 000 illegal fees from them on each container before they are allowed to leave the port. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 17:05:47
Blog: Nigerian News and Newsp...

Maximus maintains high-flying growth trend

Maximus Air Cargo, the Abu-Dhabi headquartered specialist ‘heavy-lifter’ of the airfreight world, ... increases in key performance measures. Freight-ton kilometres flown, the most important indicator ... of the EU-led peacekeeping operations in Chad, comprised two 20 ft containers. The Hercules also [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 09:54:57
Blog: LOG.ae Delivering Quali...

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