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...Guatemala border. There, a vicious army of Central American gangbangers called the Mara Salvatrucha are known for assaulting, robbing and raping passing migrants. From there, Uxpanapa clients are often loaded onto freight trains for a two-day journey to Veracruz, Mexico. Hundreds of migrants can be pressed into empty cargo cars, especially when railroad security are paid to look the other way. Nearer the U.S. border, they are usually handed off to partner cells that promise to get them deep into America, beyond U.S. immigration authorities, who now have checkpoints well north of the border...
...domestic labels have had to double their output compared with European clothiers'. The endless search for the next new thing, dubbed shinhatsubai in Japanese, affects everything from orange juice at the convenience store, which contains less pulp in the summer months, to ever so slightly different shades of khaki cargo pants for each season. Some fashionistas sniff that mix-and-match collaboration is simply this year's shinhatsubai. But the trend's champions argue that this craze might have a longer shelf life because it allows both the haute designers and street labels to diversify into each other's audiences...
Ever wonder where lost luggage winds up if it never finds its way home? At unclaimedbaggage.com the website for a 31-year-old store in Scottsboro, Ala., you can buy orphan luggage and cargo at a fraction of the original cost. The site has sold a wide variety of lost goods, including cell-phone accessories, a 75-carat aquamarine, even a suit of armor. "We often say that if these bags could talk, what a story they'd tell," says Bryan Owens, Unclaimed Baggage's CEO. How does the company get its hands on these goods? Airlines pay settlements...
...distinguished only by a giant portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il gazing beatifically over shabby tarmac. Though unpicturesque, Sunan has been providing U.S. spy satellites with plenty of photo opportunities of late. On at least six occasions between April and early July, satellites spotted Iranian IL-76 cargo planes being loaded with wooden crates at Sunan. The frequency of the flights was unusual?normally no more than two flights a year take off from Sunan bound for Iran, according to U.S. government sources. But of greater concern was the size and shape of the crates, which indicated their...
...represents a real threat to DB's business. Raith says DB has aggressively cut prices for chemical transport in an effort to compete. A spokeswoman confirms that DB has been "passing on cost reductions to its clients." Responding to the competition, it has also expanded its service of chemical cargo trains, and struck deals with rail-freight operators in France, Austria and Switzerland to offer the sort of international service that Rail4Chem has been fighting to provide. Meanwhile, Raith has no choice but to buy electricity from DB's energy division, which sells it to him at 37% more than...