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TRUCKING AIR OCEAN TECHNOLOGY TRADE FINANCE 3PL WAREHOUSING SUPPLY CHAIN AIR Watch vehicles the company already has in hand are 12-bay box trucks with a 33,000 gross vehicle weight. With a gross combination vehicle weight of 55,000, the new hybrid electric tractors are comparable to standard bulk delivery trucks used by the company. The announcement is the latest eco-friendly effort by the bottling giant, which was recently recognized for undertaking an overhaul of its lighting systems at 24 facilities in California in an energy efﬁciency drive that will cut electricity use by 5.6 million kilowatt-hours a year. Airbus Warns of “Horrible” Year Ahead European aircraft manufacturing giant Airbus warned last month of a “horrible” year ahead, which will see its orders halved as the global economic crisis hits the airline industry, reports Agence France Presse. This year “may be much more horrible from the customers point of view than 2008,” Airbus head Thomas Enders said, citing the impact of soaring fuel prices in the ﬁrst half, followed by the recession and credit crunch of the second. Enders said he expected a sharp drop off in orders for Airbus, with plane deliveries this year likely to surpass the number of orders for the ﬁrst time since 2003. “We all know that 2009 will be a very challenging year for the aeronautics industry. At Airbus we are well prepared and conﬁdent,” he said. Airbus officials say they expect 300 to 400 orders this year, less than half the number won in 2008. Last year, Airbus overtook U.S. rival Boeing with 777 orders and 483 deliveries compared to Boeing’s 662 orders and 375 deliveries. With a handling capacity of 1 million TEUs, the terminal boasts a 2,400-foot berth with six gantry cranes and six transfer cranes, and serves the all-water route from China to the East Coast via the Panama Canal. The $230 million facility is operated by TraPac, the wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s MOL. Los Angeles-based TraPac also operates terminals in Los Angeles and Oakland. JAXPORT is also is building a second 1 million TEU terminal with an estimated project cost of $207 million on land adjacent to TraPac. It signed a 30-year operating lease in December with Hanjin Shipping of South Korea. Port of Mobile Adds Containerized Services Maersk Lines is expanding its weekly north-south Espreso service between the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America, with new port calls in Mobile, Alabama; Progreso, Mexico; and Belize City, Belize. The newly added service with be the third container service to call at the Alabama State Port Authority’s new Mobile Container Terminal, after Zim’s Asia-Gulf Express and CMA CGM’s PEX 3, both Far East services. By the end of 2009, the three services are expected to bring some 120,000 TEUs annually to the Mobile Container Terminal, which has a ﬁrst-phase capacity of 350,000 TEUs. ports and Central U.S. terminals. Last month, the railroad announced plans for an express international container service from ports in Seattle and Tacoma to intermodal facilities in Memphis, Tennessee, and Elwood, Illinois—site of BNSF Logistics Park - Chicago. Initially, BNSF will offer one full train weekly from either port to either terminal per a schedule matching ocean carriers’ discharge/dray. The railroad plans to expand the service as interest grows. “This express service can cut down transit time by almost a full day, making it one of the fastest intermodal cargo services from the Pacific Northwest to Chicago and Memphis,” stated Steve Branscum, BNSF group vice president-consumer products marketing. BNSF is expanding capacity at the Memphis facility, which will feature ﬁve of the largest widespan cranes in North America, automated checkpoints, and an environmentally friendly process for moving trailers and containers between rail and the highway. Plans for Second Detroit Bridge Advance Plans to build a second border crossing between Michigan and Ontario have received environmental approvals from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The approval is the ﬁnal environmental clearance required by the Detroit River International Crossing (DRIC) group, and and allows Michigan to begin rightof-way acquisition and construction planning for the bridge. If completed, the project— including a plaza where tolls and U.S. border inspection activities will occur, and an interchange connecting it to Interstate 75—would span nearly seven miles. Under current estimates, the new crossing is expected to be open to trafﬁc in 2013. The U.S. Department of Transportation says the process to complete DRIC’s federal environmental documentation lasted less than four years, about half the time needed for similar projects of this size, and included more than 100 meetings and public hearings. TRUCKING Coke’s Green Fleet is the Real Thing Coca-Cola Enterprises, the largest bottler of Coke beverages, is more than doubling the size of its hybrid electric delivery ﬂeet and will have 327 green trucks on the road in the U.S. and Canada—making it the biggest such ﬂeet in North America. At the same time, the company said it is also launching a new vehicle that is larger than those in its existing fleet of heavy-duty hybrids. The majority of the 142 hybrid OCEAN TraPac Container Terminal Opens in JAXPORT The new TraPac Container Terminal at the Port of Jacksonville, Florida is now in operation, welcoming the ﬁrst vessel on January 12. RAIL BNSF Improves Paciﬁc Northwest Intermodal BNSF Railway is reducing transit time for international containers moving between Paciﬁc Northwest 10 WORLD TRADE FEBRUARY 2009

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World Trade - February 2009 Contents Taking Stock in America Confronting Corruption in Latin America Supply Chain Watch Tradewinds Where's the Goods? Where's the Money? Hope on the Horizon Managing Fleets in Turbulent Times The Impact of China's Economic Slowdown on U.S. Supply Chains The Fuel Volatile Supply Chain Getting the Most from On-the-Fly Transactions Managing Supply Chain Risk by Managing China Sourcing Capacity OECD Global Economic Outlook for 2009 'Natural' Agricultural Monopolies No More

World Trade - February 2009

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