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...Indian Ocean for centuries. In this era of globalization, many trading corporations have pressured their respective governments to take action. The gulf also contains a very profitable tourist route for high-end cruises. On Tuesday, the 246 passengers aboard the cruise ship MS Columbus, owned by the German firm Hapag-Lloyd, were flown to Dubai in order to avoid the danger zone. The secretary-general of the German tourist federation, Hans-Gustav Koch, claimed that in order to cope with the pirates, “We want escorts.” Both the U.S.’s diplomatic initiative...
...surge, though, reflects cold-war logic. The Soviets want the hard currency that their shipping industry can earn-especially U.S. dollars and West German marks-and the prestige that can come from showing the red flag around the world. Adds Karl-Heinz Sager, deputy chairman of Hamburg's Hapag-Lloyd shippers: "The Russians are also learning a great deal about the flows of trade and kinds of goods. That kind of information is invaluable for them politically and strategically...
...Janeiro, thus was important out of all proportion to its size. When two German freighters were scuttled in the Peruvian harbor of Callao last week (see p. 41), troops rushed to the L.P. airport at Limatambo. There they found Ernest Eilers, L.P. manager, and Ernest Krefft, manager of Kosmos-Hapag Steamship Agency, preparing to flee from Peru in the L.P. Junkers. The troops took over...
Even with passports in hand both foreigners and U. S. travelers had only Hobson's choice of liners, no certain sailing dates. Stalled were Poland's Gdynia-America Line, Hapag-Lloyd. Britain and France maintained no dependable schedule. Passengers were warmly urged to try neutral lines. If they were insistent on a French or British ship, booking clerks politely jotted down preferential boats and sailings, but few hours before departure many a sailing might be suspended for from two weeks to kingdom-come. Italian liners, after hugging home ports since the outbreak of war, took...
Before he became "Tsar" Mr. Lederer, now a naturalized U. S. citizen, was the U. S. resident director for Hamburg-American. Months ago he ordered his old business friends of Hapag and former business rivals of North German Lloyd to stop accepting blocked marks. For a while they disobeyed him, later obeyed. Last week Tsar Lederer, after delving through the two lines' books, decided that during their period of disobedience they lured away 4,000 passengers from the other conference lines. He ordered Hapag to pay $69,000 in restitution, North German Lloyd to pay $113,000-this money...