Word: cargo
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Security experts shiver when they talk about the nation's cargo-handling procedures. Thousands of low-paid workers have carte blanche to roam airports, ramps and runways without undergoing personal inspections or having their belongings checked. "We put big steel doors on the front of the airport, but the back door is wide open," says Walsh. Cargo on freight planes is rarely inspected. Their cockpit doors, if they exist, aren't required to be reinforced, and security is lax. "There's easy access for a midnight takeover of a major cargo carrier, and a 747 has enough...
...season in New England, so for the next six months, Boston will survive thanks to farmers in California and Mexico, New Zealand and Florida. Not to mention the truck drivers, merchant marines, train workers, and airplane pilots that bring all of it here. I came across several large airline cargo containers from overseas: our dinners have clearly become globalized...
...dangerous corrosion or cracking. Boeing claims the plane will be 20% more fuel efficient than comparable current models like the Airbus 330-200 or Boeing's 20-year-old 767--a bottom-line factor that drives nearly every airline's purchasing decisions. The plane will also have more cargo space than its rivals, no small advantage given that on some flights, the cargo hold is where the only profit is. Airbus spokesman Clay McConnell counters that there already is such an economical plane flying. "By launching the 7E7, Boeing is acknowledging just how good our 330-200 plane really...
...SIGNED. APPROVAL FOR DIRECT COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS BETWEEN VIETNAM AND THE U.S., for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War; in Hanoi. The agreement, which is still being finalized, will permit passenger and cargo flights. More than 1 million ethnic Vietnamese now live in the U.S., and Americans account for the second-highest number of visitors to Vietnam, after Chinese...
...furniture is up," says Steve Farley, executive vice president of BombayKids, a year-old offshoot of the Bombay Co. The firm has just six kids' stores now, but it plans to have 100 in three years. At Pier 1, CEO Marvin Girouard foresees the company's new chain of Cargo Kids stores growing from 33 now to 300 over the next decade. "It's a huge underserved market," Girouard says, and he is frankly eager to brand customers while they're young. "If we get them early, they'll continue to buy from Pier 1 forever," he says...