Word: freighting
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...Railroad executive vice president John Koraleski faces his customers these days, he prefers to stay on his feet rather than sit in one place, he says, "because it's harder to hit a moving target." It has been that kind of year for UP, the nation's No. 1 freight carrier, which moves millions of tons of coal, lumber, automobiles, corn--you name it--each...
...seized by police in a town near the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border. He had been chatting up a fellow passenger in French, and he believes that her boyfriend complained to a cop. Murthy was kept in a room in the train station for 72 hours and shipped out on a freight car. "There was no going back to communism after that," he says...
...contraband items. There are other gaping holes in airline security, as well. One of the most glaring examples is the cargo carried aboard passenger flights, which for the most part goes completely without inspection. Only recently, the government began screening an undisclosed (but certainly small) percentage of this freight traffic...
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...million people and 5 million tons of merchandise to travel through the tunnel annually by 2000. What they didn't count on was the popularity of discount airlines. Hence, in 2003, after eight full years of operations, Eurotunnel counted just 6.3 million passengers and 1.7 million tons of freight, and posted a €1.9 billion loss. The income shortfall has left the company scarcely able to honor payments to creditor banks, much less post profits or pay dividends. Financial aid from the British or French governments is explicitly prohibited in the 1986 treaty founding the project. "Without a doubt...