McLean's - American Shipper

Vol. 48, No. 4LOGISTICS 28EC security under scrutiny 32Calif. goods movement center stage 34Building a NAFTA house 40FORWARDING/NVOs 42CBP’s toughest sale? 42NSAs expected to take off in 2004 43Kuehne + Nagel’s earnings up 32% 43TRANSPORT/AIR 44Making government connections 442005 record year for U.S. air exports 44TRANSPORT/OCEAN 46Stock market casts wary eye over lines 46No Maersk, no problem 46Location key for Suez Canal 64Virginia counting on Suez 67Advance on the new Silk Road 69Environmentally friendly heir 72Sea Star confident in Puerto Rico trade 74TRANSPORT/INLAND 76Barges offer congestion release valve 76PORTS 78Big and little collaboration 88‘Give up the MRGO’ 90SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTSAPL joins transatlantic leg of pendulum ...FEFC lines raise rates, bunker surcharge ...Zim details AMP service rotation change ...COSCO, Evergreen start China/U.S. loop... Zim adds Oakland to round-the-worldservice ... Hanjin to join new Asia/Mediterraneanservice ... “K” Line, MOL introduceNew Andes link ... Econocaribe startsNewark/Ecuador serviceDEPARTMENTSComments & Letters 2Shippers’ Case Law 92Corporate Appointments 93Service Announcements 94Editorial 96On the CoverApril 2006Port security: Fear vs. facts 78How did a well-publicized international mergerbetween two port operators go unnoticedfor almost three months until the 11th hour,only to be torched by a wildfire of oppositionin the United States over concerns that an Arabcompany owned by the government of Dubaiposed a threat to national security? And whywas it so easy to light the fuse of U.S. anxiety?McLean — A retrospective 8American entrepreneur Malcom McLean was the primecatalyst of containerization, which in only 50 yearshas revolutionized world trade as nothing before sincethe time steam engines were put on ships. AmericanShipper asked several of McLean’s associates what theyremember most vividly about him, and what he wouldthink of today’s post 9/11 trading world.Mandatory AES stalled 28When the U.S. Census Bureau’s Foreign Trade Divisionstated its reasons for an “indefinite” delay in issuinglong-awaited regulations for mandatory electronic filingof export information, American shippers and freightforwarders lost their cool. A few weeks before the ruleswere to be published, DHS and CBP told Census officialsit would not approve the regulations unless two significantchanges were made in the Automated Export System.Transpacific transformation 50The tide in the transpacific is shifting, with shippersseemingly holding all the marbles when it comesto negotiating freight rates in the trade this spring.Yet crumbling and congested infrastructure, volatile oilprices and continued growth of Chinese exportsis putting a damper on the industry. That’s good news,unless you’re a carrier, or unless you plan on continuingto ship past this year. There’s storms brewing, analysts say.Daily News UpdatesFeature Articles & Analysisamericanshipper.comYour subscription to American Shipper brings you bothAmerican Shipper MagazineAMERICAN SHIPPER: APRIL 2006 1