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...supposedly well-guarded NATO base at Zell and drove 300 miles along the autobahn to Krefeld with the 9½-ft. rocket sticking out a window. When their leader, Manfred Ramminger, inquired at the Düsseldorf airport about the best way to get a shipment to Moscow, KLM suggested air freight and Lufthansa assured him that nobody at the German customs office would bother about the contents...
...same kind of positive reinforcement was tried a few years ago by Emery Air Freight of Wilton, Conn. To reduce the breakage that resulted when goods were packed in the wrong boxes for shipping, supervisors began complimenting packers when the correct boxes were chosen. Taking new pride in their work, the employees made virtually no mistakes, breakage ceased, and the company saved $600,000 in a year...
...major issue of the strike is neither wages nor benefits -though the union wants hefty increases in both-but a jurisdictional dispute with another union. At stake is the job of "stuffing and unstuffing" containers near the dock, an operation that increasingly is being handled by Teamster employees of freight-forwarding companies. San Francisco Teamster Boss Joseph Diviny has notified freight firms that his union has "no intention of giving up the work" and calls Bridges' claim that all dock labor belongs to longshoremen "a lot of baloney." The Teamsters recently agreed to settle the dispute by mediation...
...Soviets had long maintained that they were powerless to prevent East Germany from harassing traffic along the corridors; last week's agreement became possible only after the Russians consented to take specific responsibility for ensuring free access to West Berlin. The draft document specifies that passenger and freight trains, buses and trucks will be sealed before they enter East German territory, and only the seals will be subject to inspection by border police. Trains, now held to a 50-m.p.h. speed limit, will be allowed to go faster-probably 75 m.p.h. The East Germans, who now routinely halt...
Crisis Needed. Shipping men expect that freight rates will stay at their pres-ent depressed levels well into 1972. By that time, enough tonnage will have been taken out of service, and the factors of supply and demand will settle into balance once again. In the meantime, more than a few shipowners grudgingly agree with the Greek shipping journal Naftiliaki, which cynically observes: "What the markets need at the moment is some political crisis that would send a shiver down the spines of charterers and leave them scurrying for any available tonnage...