Word: shippers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most comic episode of European arms smuggling to surface involves a 4,300-ton West German freighter that has been sailing back and forth off the coast of Portugal for nearly a month. Gretl, owned by a Hamburg shipper, was carrying $6.8 million worth of Portuguese-made munitions, including some 67,000 120-mm mortar shells that were originally bound from the port of Setubal to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. The shipment in a West German flag carrier was illegal under a Bonn law that forbids the transport of armaments to "areas of tension." The delivery was contracted...
...delivered to Iran, the Lisbon government refused to let Gretl's crew dump its high-explosive cargo back on Portuguese docks. Ever since, the ship and its hapless crew have been condemned to their Iberian shuttle, at a cost of roughly $10,000 a day, while the West German shipper, the Danish charterer and the governments involved try to untangle the mess...
...nation's largest package shipper is still UPS (estimated 1983 sales: $6 billion), which has been dubbed the Brown Giant for its fleet of 62,000 chocolate-colored trucks. UPS, which started in Seattle in 1907 with six messengers and two bicycles, last year delivered 1.8 billion parcels, twice as many as the U.S. Postal Service. UPS got into overnight service in September 1982, promising arrival by 3 p.m. the next day at prices lower than Federal's. Now UPS delivers by noon, but Federal has moved up its arrival time by 90 minutes...
That the Peckinpaugh is no pleasure craft is evident. Built in 1921 and named for a Great Lakes coal shipper whose brother Roger once managed the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians, the Peckinpaugh was drafted into service during World War II to carry coal offshore, and made several runs to Cuba. But then it was restored to its original purpose, which was to run the still waters of the canal...
...Harvard shipper didn't lot Daley or the team down though, as he calmly put the last tally in the nest...