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...firm into a tailspin. Remember Lockheed's L1011? Mechanically, the A380 works. But Airbus has had to tear up its delivery schedule several times because of nagging manufacturing problems, primarily involving wiring. That has enraged launch customers; some have canceled their orders. FedEx and UPS walked, which killed the cargo version of the plane...
...passport for $300 in Baghdad and used it to take a smuggler's ride through Syria to Turkey. In Turkey a smuggler traded Daniel's Iraqi passport for a false European passport for $8,000--paid by his parents in Baghdad. Then he hid in the back of a cargo truck with three other Iraqi men for the duration of the 3,000-mile journey into Sweden...
...wholly controlled by the CIA until 1972. The State Department confirmed that it had used Southern Air to fly part of the legal $27 million in nonmilitary supplies from the U.S. to the contras. The department said it had no responsibility for the fact that after unloading this permissible cargo in Ilopango or Aguacate, the same planes picked up military supplies and dropped them to the rebels in Nicaragua. The State Department's Abrams concedes that U.S. officials were aware of the arms deliveries but, he argues, implausibly, that who directed or paid for such flights was "none...
When the Italian cargo ship M.S.C. Napoli was critically damaged during a storm off Branscombe beach in southwestern England on Jan. 18, locals waited for the wave of pollution to land on their shore-line...
...comfort of a Hong Kong office. Software tracks the fleet on an onscreen map, with the position of each vessel marked by an icon. Click on one, and the computer calls up every scrap of data you can imagine--the ship's current route and historic movements, its cargo, entire crew roster and maintenance schedule. One ship, the program tells you, is dropping off 6,000 tons of fruit in Rotterdam, another is discharging steel products in Tanzania, while yet another is loading methanol in Malaysia. Port operator Hutchison Whampoa has an equally impressive system to help run its Hong...