Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest poultry firms. Every 24 hours it ships as many as 50,000 day-old chicks to clients around the globe, some of them in the U.S. Newborn chicks can live for no more than three days without feeding, which is prohibitively expensive during transport. Thus air freight is essential for Shaver's business. Says a company official: "For the moment we are managing, but if U.S. flights halt, that could start backing up Canadian flights, and we would be in trouble...
...important new industries get their products to market by air transport. Much of the 1.2 million lbs. of air-freight cargo shipped every day out of Boston's Logan International Airport consists of computers, semiconductors and other microelectronics equipment manufactured by high-technology firms in the Boston area. Last week those shipments were leaving as usual...
Most businesses are so far surviving the air controllers' strike reasonably well primarily because much of the $2.4 billion in goods shipped yearly by air freight moves at night, when passenger air traffic is at a minimum. Although many airlines last week had to cut their passenger flights by anywhere from 20% to 40% during certain high-volume daytime hours, night flights and freight shipments have not been hard...
That has been a relief to freight forwarding companies everywhere. In fact, in recent years, many such companies have begun operating, or sharply expanding, cargo-plane services of their own. Flying Tiger Line of Los Angeles, the largest U.S. all-cargo carrier (1980 revenues: $713 million), ships everything from oil-drilling equipment and Pharmaceuticals to machine parts, chemicals and cut flowers. Emery Air Freight Corp. of Wilton, Conn. (1980 revenues: $551 million), operates 62 aircraft serving 130 airports in North America, Europe and the Pacific. Federal Express of Memphis flies 60 jets delivering small packages overnight. Federal Express...
Other brainstormers-all patriots, most half-serious-variously suggested trucking the big missiles along the nation's highways (tolls could be a problem), loading them onto freight trains or secreting them on river barges...