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REGISTER TODAY FOR YOUR BEST SAVINGS! New this year - Micro Seminars, Shipper's Panel, Baseball Night & more. Breakbulk Americas 2015, we're intensely focused on the unique challenges that face project cargo logisticians, gathering industry experts from around the world. Breakbulk Americas 2015 provides you a unique opportunity to learn from expert logisticians and service providers. Christian Blair Thompson Breakbulk Americas Join us in Houston, October 5-8! We knew it would be tough to beat last year's 25th anniversary celebration, but I think you'll agree this year's agenda is truly unmatched. NEW presentations, workshops, networking - Shipper's Panel, Micro Seminars, Case Studies and Breakbulk Night at the Ballpark! See you in Houston! REGISTER TODAY » Use promo code BAM15 to activate your 10% discount. Featured Presentation Shipper's Panel — Shaping the Transport Envelope From Incoterms to port selection, how much of the ‘transport envelope' do cargo owners want or need to control, and how much control should they hand over to their subcontractors? Moderator: Philip B. Brown, Product Director, Fluor Daniel Fahringer, Strategic Sourcing Manager, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. Alex Strogen, Senior Global Commodity Leader, GE Global Operations Stephen Spoljaric, Transportation & Logistics Manager, Bechtel Oil Gas & Chemical Frank Imbruglia, Senior Project Logistics Manager, Technip USA, Inc. Learn more » Register TODAY »   Use promo code BAM15 to activate your 10% discount. Start planning now! October 5-6: Education Workshops October 6: Jerry Nagel Education Day October 6: VIP Leadership Summit (by invitation only) October 6: Evening Welcome Reception October 7-8: Exhibition, Conference Sessions, Micro-Seminars, Demos October 8: Night at the Ballpark - Minute Maid Park We're here to help with Everything! Registration, Visa Letters, Accommodations, Transportation, Exhibitors Education Workshops Jerry Nagel Education Day a series of sessions on the breakbulk industry for university students, industry freshmen. MORE INFO | REGISTER   PPG Certificate - Project Cargo Management is ISO accredited for project forwarders seeking to fast track or refresh their skills. MORE INFO | REGISTER   Heavy Lift Technical Workshop Land & Barge and Ocean Transport - intermediate-advanced students are taught best practices for safe heavy lifts. MORE INFO | REGISTER Agenda Highlights PEG Industry Outlook Ocean Currents - Part I: Multipurpose and Heavy-Lift Fleet Update Part II: Twice the Suez South Louisiana - Bracing for the Boom Shipper's Panel - Shaping the Transport Envelope Project Cargo Case Study: The Long and Winding Route Micro-Seminars Charter Party Overview, Elements, Negotiation Logistics Contract Negotiations

Fact Friday: Mega Ships

Fact Friday:  Mega Ships


Seeking efficiency and economies of scale, the world’s container carriers are increasingly ordering mega-ships capable of handling more than 8,000 20-foot-equivalent container units, especially on the Asia-Europe trade lane. Shippers and carriers looking to reach the North American east coast with these post-Panamax ships must transit the Suez Canal because, as their name implies, they are too big to sail through the Panama Canal. But with Panama’s decade-long canal expansion project set for completion in 2015, the giant vessels will be able to add the Panama Canal to their route options. Ports around the world are preparing for the onslaught of these mega-ships, dredging harbors and investing in super-post-Panamax cranes that can reach across 22 or more rows of containers to expedite loading and unloading operations.

Fact Friday: A Little More History

Fact Friday:  A little More of History from the Journal of Commerce

If  the Journal of Commerce was ever branded conservative, cantankerous or stubborn — and it was — those traits could be traced directly to the most famous of the publication’s founders, Samuel F.B. Morse. The inventor of the Morse code was, in 1827, an underemployed and perennially indebted portrait artist and widower with three children. He also was a fiery reactionary who was easily roused to action by perceived blemishes on the moral fabric of society.

One such affront to Morse’s concept of decency was the appearance in February of what was, for the times, a scandalously dressed dancer at a Bowery theatre and by the positive reviews she received by critics, one of whom wrote, “She never lets concealment prey on her charms.” Morse vented anonymously in a letter to the Observer newspaper. In the process he called for the creation of a new aper that could help cleanse the city of its of its moral impurities. Morse went on to write the prospectus for the new newspaper and is credited by historians for giving it its name. The “Journal of Commerce” was not initially intended to be primarily a business newspaper, but instead was so named because wealthy merchants such as its initial bankroller, Arthur Tappan, were envisioned as its main supporters.

The Erie Canal had been opened just two years earlier, attracting a new business class of ambitious New Englanders such as Tappan to New York City.

Morse was a complex individual. Raised in New England by a Calvinist minister who was opposed to slavery and educated at Phillips Academy and Yale, he held strong prejudices, including being a supporter of slavery.

“He dislikes immigrants, especially Catholics and especially Irish,” said Kenneth Silverman, whose biography of Morse, “Lighting Man,” will be published by Knopf next year. “A lot of that came from his visits to Europe, where he got to see the Catholic church first-hand and blamed it for the state of European society, which he thought was immoral, backward and despotic, and didn’t want that to come to America.

“The other side of it is that he is a tremendously imaginative and inventive guy,” Silverman said. He credits Morse with largely creating the art scene in New York, helping found the National Academy of Design in 1825. Morse was himself an accomplished artist acknowledged by posterity; in 1982 one of his paintings sold for the highest price ever paid for the work of an American artist, $3.25 million.

By the late 1830s Morse was working full time on the device for which he would become most famous, the electric telegraph. It was not his idea, and other models had been proposed earlier, according to historians. Even the Morse Code did not differ significantly from others’ versions. But Morse persuaded Congress to fund the first telegraph line from Baltimore to Washington, over which were sent the famous words, “What hath God wrought!” It took a U.S. Supreme Court decision to finally secure Morse’s patent rights to the invention, but he had already gotten rich, buying an estate overlooking the Hudson and building an Italian villa there.

Throughout his life, Morse maintained an affection for the JoC. He used the publication to defend the National Academy of Design and when he went abroad he was occasionally asked to serve as a special correspondent.

Fact Friday: A little bit of History

Fact Friday:  A little bit of History from the Journal of Commerce

It was early October 1830, and the young man climbing onto the anchored ship was a reporter for The Journal of Commerce. He was after the latest news from the Continent and the vessel’s cargo manifests. If he could get them back into port before any other reporter could reach the French ship, his paper would have another exclusive on the latest news from Europe.

And the New York businessmen who would be eagerly reading the paper would get an early look at the kind of cargo the ship would be bringing in for auction to the highest bidders on the waterfront.

The schooner that pulled alongside the French vessel, inbound from Le Havre, was called the Evening Edition, the newest of two so-called news boats owned by the newspaper. Their shallow draft and speed enabled them to skim over the shoals that ringed the harbor and easily beat the rowboats maintained by rival newspapers back into Lower Manhattan.

When the Evening Edition slid into its berth near the foot of Manhattan that afternoon, the reporter raced up the gangplank and back to his paper’s editorial offices at 91 Wall Street, just off Water Street.

The story he had scribbled on his notepad would give New Yorkers their first news of the astounding coup in France. King Charles X had abdicated in the wake of street riots in Paris that marked the Revolution of 1830. The story reported that Louis-Phillippe, the “citizen king,” had assumed the throne.

The “scoop” published by The Journal of Commerce in its special “extra” edition that day in 1830 was one of many the paper gained through its fleet of news boats. The boats characterized the paper’s commitment to being the fastest and most accurate of New York’s many papers. Over the coming years, the JoC would adapt its methods of news-gathering to the continuing revolutions in technology that would transform the way papers gathered the news.

Willingness to embrace change has enabled The Journal of Commerce, which is 175 years old this year, to survive while countless other publications have failed. Change is the very nature of the world The Journal of Commerce has covered since the day it was born on Sept. 1, 1827.

Over the years The Journal of Commerce has been a respected voice on subjects as diverse as banking, commodities, insurance, energy and transportation. Today the emphasis of the weekly Journal of Commerce newsmagazine and its breaking-news website, The Journal of Commerce Online, is on international trade, transportation and logistics — subjects that descend directly from the paper’s coverage early in its history.

International trade has been at the heart of the JoC’s coverage since the publication was launched by a group of upright New York businessmen as part of a war on sin. In fact, it was the unbending religious convictions of its founders that steered the paper into becoming the young nation’s leading maritime and business journal.

— in New York, NY.

E. Hunter Harrison, President and Chief Executive Officer of CN, to deliver keynote address at

3rd Annual Canada Maritime Conference

NEWARK, N.J. (Aug. 18, 2008) — E. Hunter Harrison, considered one of the leading transportation visionaries of modern times, will deliver the keynote address at the 3rd Annual Canada Maritime Conference that takes place Sept. 30-Oct.1, 2008, at the Sheraton Wall Centre in Vancouver, B.C. Harrison, who became president and CEO of CN on Jan.1, 2003, will discuss his vision for the future of rail in North America during his keynote address on Oct. 1, 2008. Credited with accelerating CN's turnaround by focusing on performance and cost control, Harrison joined CN in 1998 after five years as President and Chief Executive Officer of Illinois Central Corp. and its subsidiary, Illinois Central Railroad Co. CN completed its acquisition of the IC in July 1999. During his career with IC, Harrison devised the concept of scheduled railroading service for freight shipments, maintaining a sharp focus on operational efficiency and asset utilization. By 1996, he succeeded in driving the railroad's operating ratio down by some 30 points to the low 60s – the best in the North American rail industry at the time. Named CEO of the Year in 2007 by Canada's Report on Business magazine, Harrison's watch at CN has seen the company's revenues increase by one-third, profits double and the company become the hands-down most-efficient railroad in North America. Rail companies across the continent have begun copying Harrison's "precision railroading model" by running freight trains on a schedule. The Canada Maritime Conference is produced by The Journal of Commerce Conferences and Canadian Sailings magazine, both divisions of Commonwealth Business Media. "Supply Chain Transparencies" is the theme of this year's conference, which is hosted by Port Metro Vancouver. Panels will feature industry leaders discussing issues and trends impacting Canadian trade lanes, such as port capacity, export trends, and issues with the U.S./Canadian border. To register for the 3rd Annual Canada Maritime Conference, contact JoC Conferences at (760) 294-5563 or by email at events@joc.com or go to www.joc.com/conferences/cmc. For exhibiting and sponsorship information, contact Julie Wallner at (209) 451-4870 or by email at jwallner@joc.com.

About Commonwealth Business Media Commonwealth Business Media Inc., a subsidiary of United Business Media Limited, is the leading information provider to the global trade, transportation and travel market with comprehensive proprietary data, news and analytical content. Its leading brands include The Journal of Commerce, PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, OAG (Official Airline Guide), Air Cargo World, Traffic World, and Aviation Industry Group, plus a number of directory databases covering the international trade, railroad and trucking markets. The company also produces more than 30 conferences serving the international trade, aviation and maritime markets. For more information, visit http://www.cbizmedia.com/.

About CN CN – Canadian National Railway Company and its operating railway subsidiaries – spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico, serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key metropolitan areas of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America.

E-Filing of Shipper Export Documentation

The New E-Filing regulations seem to be foremost in everyone's thoughts this week, especially since these new regulations went into effect July 2. We received the following notification from the U. S. Commercial Service, Export Assistance Center here in Houston

Mandatory Electronic Filing For SED Shipments

The U.S. Census Bureau has issued the final rule, which requires mandatory filing of export informaton through the Automated Export System (AES) or through the AESDirect for all shipments where a Shipper's Export Declaration (SED) is required, effective July 2, 2008. There will be a 90 day implementation period, ending September 30. After that, export information must be filed electronically through the AES or AESDirect. These new regulations, published in the Federal Register on June 2, 2008 have tougher penalty provisions that affect everyone in the export process. Penalties may be imposed per violation of the Foreigh Trade Regulations (FTR) from $1,100 to $10,000 both civil and criminal. Anyone submitting paper SEDs after September 30, 2008, will be in violation and subject to penalties. for details on this important rule, see: www.census.gov/foreign-trade/aes/mandatory/index.html

Further, we received the following notification from the Journal of Commerce about an upcoming Web Training on these new regulations.

Journal of Commerce

"Live Teleconference"
New Export Rules – E-Filing of Shipper Export Declaration
Friday, July 25, 2008 ~ 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Eastern Time Zone

A comprehensive revision of the nation's export regulations, including mandatory electronic filing of export documents, effective July 1st, will bring an end to paper shippers export declaration, and make the Automated Export System the only legal means for filing export data. Enforcement of these new regulations will begin 60 days after.Census will phase in the regulations to give exporters time to get accustomed to the biggest change, mandatory electronic filing of export documents through the Automated Export System. Jerry Greenwell, Trade Ombudsman, Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau, will give more insight to the Automated Export System.

Other topics to be covered:

• How will Census delegate enforcement authority to other agencies?
• Who is going to get penalized for noncompliance?
• How will the penalties be enforced?
• What will be the mitigating factors?
• Who is responsible for routed export transactions?
• What are the major changes in the new Foreign Trade Regulations from the old regulations?

Moderator:Bob Edmonson, Senior Editor, The Journal of CommerceSpeaker: Jerry Greenwell, Trade Ombudsman, Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau

Live participation is $99 and allows access to one phone line for an unlimited number of listeners. A live question and answer session will follow the presentations.

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Friday, July 25, 2008 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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