Top Priority Port Air Quality Legislation Headed For Key California Assembly Vote, Perhaps Tomorrow

By Tina Andolina Legislative Director Planning and Conservation League After months of waiting, SB 974 (Lowenthal) ... freight routes are hardest hit by air pollution. These are often low-income communities of color ... s air quality. By collecting $30 for each shipping container processed at the ports, SB 974 provides [more...]

Date: 2008-07-14 23:17:35

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The Wages of Sin

The Wages of Sin - by Stephen Lendman "Reaping the whirlwind" for money manager and market strategist Jeremy Grantham in his latest no-nonsense commentary. Worlds different from most in the mainstream. Cheerleaders in upturns. Downplaying risks. Soft-pedaling reversals and still many in denial about the severity of today's crisis [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 11:16:14

For Sale Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500 & BlackBerry Storm 9530 Unlocked To Any Netw

E-Mail: roy.theodore@yahoo.com DEVICE WISE LTD was formed in 2006 and from its modest beginnings has now become one of the fastest growing ... (include freight and insurance costs) or freight fee will be charged. For more information ... with us and giving you the most competent services as we are using this medium to look [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 20:56:01

More Greenwashing by Schwarzenegger as California Fisheries Collapse

After vetoing a number of key environmental bills last week and presiding over the destruction of Central Valley salmon and Delta fish populations the past several years, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today had the audacity to gush about "green policies" and "clean, green technology" today when he gave the keynote address at TechNet's " [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 00:14:41

Implosion at Britannia Bulk (DWT)

Britannia Bulk Holdings Inc. (NYSE: DWT) is an international provider of dry bulk shipping and maritime logistics services with a focus on ... the same period and its entry into the forward freight agreements (”FFAs”) and a bunker fuel hedge ... on all teh wrong issues, this looks like a perfect example. The company’s Forward Freight Agreements [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 15:11:49

Start an Import Business - Small Business Opportunity

For those looking for a little more excitement, starting an import business can be adventurous and highly lucrative ... revolutionized the import business and made trading across international borders incredibly easy ... . So Why Go Through All This Hassle? International trading of goods makes sense because some countries [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 21:34:29

Trade Woes Continue, Tight Credit a Major Culprit

Reader Chris pointed us to some stories today on the difficult conditions in the shipping industry, the result of a falloff in trade. From Bloomberg: At least 20 percent of the vessels most commonly hired to haul coal and ore are sitting empty as steelmakers cut output and dwindling trade credit halts deliveries, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 06:20:36

DrumBeat: October 21, 2008

As Oil Prices Drop, OPEC Ponders Tough Solutions At the beginning of the year, OPEC producers felt confident that strong economic growth and tight supplies would keep oil prices high. When oil crossed the $100-a-barrel threshold in February, the cartel’s president blamed speculators and said there was not much OPEC could do [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 13:15:19

Money and business news 5th November 2008

Money blog - Money news Euro banks spread gloom as profits, forecasts fall PARIS (Reuters) - A raft of European bank results did little to lift gloom around the sector on Wednesday, with a recurring trend of falling profits and rising bad debts stemming from the global financial crisis. France's biggest bank BNP Paribas (BNPP [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 16:37:29

Courage Marine 3rd Quarter Announcement

By: Drizzt As expected the result was abit chui. The subsequent quarters will really reveal the mantle of this management ... . Revenue fell 25% while expense stayed relatively the same.(Freight rates plunging no?) Profit ... in 3Q07, reflecting the general decrease in dry bulk freight rates. The Baltic Dry Index (”BDI”) dropped [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 12:00:19

Debt Rattle, October 31 2008: Scramble for Pennies

G. G. Bain Scramble for pennies - Thanksgiving 1911. Before Halloween came into its own as a holiday in the US, there was "Thanksgiving masking" Kids would dress up and go door to door for apples, or "scramble for pennies." Ilargi: In Britain, the average homeowner has lost more on the value of his property in the past year than his/her [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 19:52:15

Debt Rattle, November 1 2008: Cold Turkey

Lewis Wickes Hine Toter April 1913 Columbus, Georgia. Eagle and Phoenix Mill. Hine: A 'dinner-toter' waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry sometimes 10 or more meals a day [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 18:39:08

UK Economist Proposes Global Trading Scheme for Aviation and Shipping Emissions

Dr. Terry Barker of Cambridge University and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research has proposed a Global Emissions Trading Scheme (GETS) for ships and planes in response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) last year stating that a suitable framework for effective mitigation policies has yet to be devised [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 16:46:30

Freight rates begin to fall for world merchand fleet

Geneva (epo/unc). - The Review of Maritime Transport 2008, published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) ... of Maritime Transport 2008 (RMT) reports. Strong demand for shipping services, according to UNCTAD ... accompanied by reduced demand for shipping services, increasing the effects of the financial crisis and global [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 10:51:50

For Sale Brand New Apple Iphone 3G 16GB & Samsung i8510 INNOV8 Unlocked To Any Networ

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Date: 2008-10-25 19:16:36

The Green Computing Update

This article was written by Jeremy Faludi in November 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. This is the last installment in our green computing update. Part 1 dealt with data centers, Part 2 was about components, Part 3 covered whole machines, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 18:44:01

DrumBeat: August 25, 2008

Abandon 19th Century Fuels and Move Toward 21st Century Reponses (Calif. Dem. Candidate Debbie Cook) Every American needs to understand that the world has now experienced three years of flat oil production and during those three years, another 230 million energy consumers were added to the population of the world [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 14:15:39

Find Package Shipping Agents in

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Date: 2008-11-05 00:57:27

Math Problem Time: Netflix and Broadband

There's no complicated geometry or number theory this time, just multiplication ... to have users download movies than pay business class postal rates? This provides a convenient excuse ... ), petabyte (1000 terabytes) and exabyte (1000 petabytes). Suppose that freight moves at an average [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 19:00:10

Wrong-Way Bets Beget Losses and Lawsuits

One of the more distressing side effects of the recent dramatic events in the global financial markets has been the sudden and unexpected reversal of fortune on any number of financial transactions and positions, particularly with respect to commodities and currencies [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 01:57:06

As an Issue, Taxes Favor Obama

Polls Lean Toward Democrat on a Traditional GOP Strength By Michael Abramowitz and Robert Barnes Washington Post Staff Writers  Friday, ... in his “Straight Talk Express” bus on Thursday, McCain invoked Joe the Plumber, the Ohio tradesman [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 20:26:42

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

NOS netting facility to ease fears of FFA market's 'bloody Friday'

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index,Baltic Dry Indices,Ship Chartering,Shipchartering,Voyage Fixtures,Time Charter Fixtures,Panamax,Capesize,Handymax, ... .  The 11th-hour facility was put together by brokerage Freight Investor Services with Norwegian clearing house ... Handysize,Supramax,Dry Cargo Fixtures,Bulk Cargo Fixtures,Baltic Exchange,Freight Review,M [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 15:43:21

The Weekly Carboholic: anti-oil speculator resolution useless political theater

On June 26, the United States House of Representatives passed HR 6377, a resolution that requires the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to use all of its authority, including emergency powers if appropriate, to manage energy commodities. The resolution passed the House 402-19. This resolution is political theater [more...]

Date: 2008-07-02 12:30:32

DrumBeat: April 14, 2008

Fears emerge over Russia’s oil output Russian oil production has peaked and may never return to current levels, one of the country’s top energy executives has warned, fuelling concerns that the world’s biggest oil producers cannot keep up with rampant Asian demand [more...]

Date: 2008-04-14 13:06:18

DrumBeat: April 14, 2008

Fears emerge over Russia’s oil output Russian oil production has peaked and may never return to current levels, one of the country’s top energy executives has warned, fuelling concerns that the world’s biggest oil producers cannot keep up with rampant Asian demand [more...]

Date: 2008-04-14 13:06:18

Freight rates begin to fall for World Merchant fleet

  Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index,Baltic Dry Indices,Ship Chartering,Shipchartering,Voyage Fixtures,Time Charter Fixtures,Panamax,Capesize, ... , freight markets and rates, ports, surface transport, and logistics services, as well as trends in ship ... Handymax,Handysize,Supramax,Dry Cargo Fixtures,Bulk Cargo Fixtures,Baltic Exchange,Freight Review [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 13:17:11

COLUMN-Freight index does not herald end is nigh:John Kemp

COLUMN-Freight index does not herald end is nigh:John Kemp October 23rd, 2008 –John Kemp is a Reuters columnist ... . Because ocean shipping plays a central role in anincreasingly globalised economy, analysts often ... for the health of the manufacturing system andworld economy. The dramatic slump in freight rates in less than [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 13:32:25

For Shippers, the Perfect Storm

The shipping business has been weak as global economic activity has sagged. (Source: Dryships.com) ... , it may not. “If it created an uptick in the Baltic Dry Freight Index, somebody might believe in it,” says [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 11:09:00

TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA - Martin Transportation Systems to Close Dayton-Area Hub by End of the Year

Huber Heights,OH,USA -Manufacturing & Technology -November 05, 2008: ... ... * Con-way being pushed to cut rates San Mateo,CAL,USA -The Mercury News -5 Nov 2008: -- Con-way ... as the trucking industry struggles with a two-year-old slump in freight shipping demand... The San Mateo-based [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 05:57:25

China Maritime Law Conference. Wuhan, November 8-9.

The 2008 China Maritime Law Special Topic Research annual meeting will be in Wuhan, China, this weekend, November 8 and 9 ... arising from transport of dangerous cargo. In addition to maritime lawyers, the meeting will draw ... that Chinese companies, for a whole host of reasons [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 14:37:41

MCX gets nod to begin stock exchange operations

After launching carbon trading and currency futures, the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) ... commodity. Freight futures are another promising market for the exchange for which it has a strategic collaboration with the London-based Baltic Exchange, which is one of the world's leading shipping [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 06:17:49

Coarse Grain prices Crash; Freight rates to go down further

Coarse Grain prices Crash Following low demand and lower export possibilities from India, maize prices this week were down by 4.8% against last week. Prices averaged Rs.8170 per MT at the market yard, about 2.7% lower than the Minimum Support Price (MSP) announced by GOI. The prices were about 19% higher than last year at the same time [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 05:37:29

Opinion: Fears of global recession overshadow easing of financial crisis

Opinion: Fears of global recession overshadow easing of financial crisis October 22nd, ... . The Baltic Dry Index (a measure of international freight and shipping activity) fell 4.6% last night ... of England to continue cutting interest rates. Meantime, the Bank of Canada actually cut rates [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 21:17:31

Financial Crisis

Trade finance: is international trade grinding to a halt? - MoneyWeek Quote: Is international trade grinding to a halt? ... and our reliance on shipping – mean that huge volumes of everything from basic commodities to finished goods travel [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 02:10:09

Stock Market news: Rate cuts and job losses

US Federal Reserve cut key interest rate to 1% while Indian companies prepared plans to lay off 25% of work force in the next 10 days ... in all sectors. 2. USA: Consumer confidence fell to lowest level in 40 years (lowest reading [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 02:31:00

Deflation or Inflation?

Roubini, aka Dr. Doom, has an interesting article in which he claims we are likely to face Deflation in the coming months ... % from their July peak (and the Baltic Freight Index–the best measure of international shipping costs–is 90% down [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 13:55:24

Oracle 11i - The Complete Package

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Date: 2008-10-20 14:33:55

For Shippers, the Perfect Storm

The shipping business has been weak as global economic activity has sagged. (Source: Dryships.com) ... not. “If it created an uptick in the Baltic Dry Freight Index, somebody might believe in it,” says [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 20:10:28

Bulk-shipping rates to rise 'quickly,' Cosco's Wei says

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index,Baltic Dry Indices,Ship Chartering,Shipchartering,Voyage Fixtures,Time Charter Fixtures,Panamax,Capesize,Handymax, ... Philip Embiricos, president of The Baltic & International Maritime Council, a shipping group ... Handysize,Supramax,Dry Cargo Fixtures,Bulk Cargo Fixtures,Baltic Exchange,Freight Review,Maritime [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 15:30:57

Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings

Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics ... Strength Rating: 2.644479 Pacer International, Inc. (Pacer International) is a non-asset based North ... and international shipping companies who utilize intermodal transportation, and its logistics segment [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 19:04:00

End The Fed Demonstrations November 22

10/22/2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis The confiscations of systems and wealth generating locations is beginning. The US has opened yet another window into the awful nothingness of the Cave of Wealth and Death. The 'rescue' amounts are now well over $2 trillion and rising weekly [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 13:13:29

NOL still generates profits despite weak shipping mart

NOL still generates profits despite weak shipping mart By George O’Young 2008-11-10 12:42 AM The Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) ... % for the year to date to US$5.98 billion. Freight rates However, APL’s 3Q08 EBIT decreased to US$9 million driven largely by lower core freight rates in the Asia-Europe trade and, increasingly [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 05:13:48

How to Get a FREE Computer, Scale & Printer from DHL

How to Get a FREE Computer, Scale & Printer from DHL By Paul Buisson UPS, FedEx and DHL all have programs in place to provide higher volume shippers with computers ... discounted heavy freight services. If you are a current DHL customer then a reseller may [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 13:09:55

Pacific Basin sticks to investment plan

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index,Baltic Dry Indices,Ship Chartering,Shipchartering,Voyage Fixtures,Time Charter Fixtures,Panamax,Capesize,Handymax,Handysize,Supramax,Dry Cargo Fixtures,Bulk Cargo Fixtures,Baltic Exchange,Freight Review,Maritime Baltic Index,Maritime Industry,Maritime,Freight Forward Agreements,FFA,Pacific Basin Editor: Bruce [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 14:14:05

Shipowners Starting to Cancel Orders

We have been reporting from time to time on the impact of the credit crisis on international trade ... ships. While ocean transport is a notoriously cyclical industry, some incumbents have said [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 21:02:28

High transportation and shipping costs got you down?

greening of transportation that I reported on earlier this week, I came across an incredible new product, the EFuel100 MicroFuelerTM. This incredibly beautiful “appliance” lets you make your own fuel [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 14:36:03

Shipowners Idle 20% of Bulk Vessels as Rates Collapse

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index,Baltic Dry Indices,Ship Chartering,Shipchartering,Voyage Fixtures,Time Charter Fixtures,Panamax,Capesize,Handymax,Handysize,Supramax,Dry Cargo Fixtures,Bulk Cargo Fixtures,Baltic Exchange,Freight Review,Maritime Baltic Index,Maritime Industry,Maritime,Freight Forward Agreements,FFA,TNT Freight Review By Alaric [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 15:35:19

Shipping at a standstill

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index,Baltic Dry Indices,Ship Chartering,Shipchartering,Voyage Fixtures,Time Charter Fixtures,Panamax,Capesize,Handymax,Handysize,Supramax,Dry Cargo Fixtures,Bulk Cargo Fixtures,Baltic Exchange,Freight Review,Maritime Baltic Index,Maritime Industry,Maritime,Freight Forward Agreements,FFA,Financial Crisis Tuesday [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 04:43:58

Could MSC fill a gap at Royal Caribbean?

It's an intriguing question, posed by Mark Tre in the Cruise Examiner, ... -largest container line, can survive in a diminishing market where freight rates are dropping every week [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 12:33:06

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