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...fighting an unequal battle against well-organized collectors who slip into the country across unmarked borders and ship out containers full of historic pieces, which are highly prized on the international market. In December last year, p.n.g. police were tipped off about two small boxes left at a DHL courier's office in the sleepy port town of Wewak, near the mouth of the Sepik. Both were to be shipped to private addresses in Germany and appeared to have been given security checks by the shipping agent. But when detectives carefully opened the lids and parted the plastic bags filled...
...items worth 6% of the U.S. GDP every 24 hours. By leveraging its operational efficiency, UPS is attacking what Eskew estimates might become a $3 trillion market--not only taking on smaller, European-based logistics firms like Exel and TNT but also fending off competitive pressure from Belgium-based DHL, which is making an aggressive push into the U.S. Over the past few years, UPS has spent more than $1 billion acquiring 25 companies (from a bank to freight forwarders) to become a logistics jack-of-all-trades. Just last month the company agreed to buy Menlo Worldwide Forwarding, which...
...disease. The government estimates that 141 people have died from vCJD since the illness was identified in 1995. Air of Regret SWITZERLAND The government apologized to Russia as investigators concluded that Swiss air traffic control problems were partly to blame when a Russian passenger jet and a DHL cargo plane collided over Germany in July 2002, killing 71. The Russian crew heeded instructions from an air traffic controller that took them into the cargo plane's path. The controller was murdered in February in a suspected revenge attack. Not a Candidate CHECHNYA Ramzan Kadyrov, 27, the son of assassinated leader...
...collision. The July 2002 accident, involving a Russian charter jet and a DHL cargo plane, killed 71 people, the majority of whom were Russian schoolchildren. Friends Again GERMANY Frosty relations with the U.S. seemed to thaw as Chancellor Gerhard Schröder met U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House. While Schröder insisted that German troops would not go to Iraq , he also said Berlin will not stand in the way if NATO decides to send peacekeeping troops there, and will lead the way in forgiving part of Iraq's $120 billion foreign debt...
...According to two aviation sources, the men were able to get inside a container on a Boeing 727 cargo aircraft flown from the Dominican Republic to Miami under contract for DHL Airways. DHL did not return messages seeking comment. More troubling is that at least one of the men had an employee identification card of a company that allowed him access to the secure area of a foreign airport. "Inside jobs are the soft underbelly of the system," says one aviation security expert...