Container Lines' Hopes Hang on Restocking

Source: The Journal of Commerce

JOC Member Preview. To continue reading, login or register below. Container shipping lines hope peak-season volumes will get a boost from customers’ need to replenish tight inventories. Since the recession ended two years ago, most ...
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About the Top 100

Source: The Journal of Commerce

JOC Member Preview. To continue reading, login or register below. The Journal of Commerce’s Annual Top 100 Importers and Exporters ranking is based on data from PIERS, a JOC sister company, and other industry sources. Volumes are expressed in 20-foot eq ...
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American Consumer Buying Power Returns

Source: The Journal of Commerce

JOC Member Preview. To continue reading, login or register below. A warm winter sparked a strong start to 2012 retail sales, raising hopes for a hot peak shipping season American consumers are spending again, fueling optimism that contain ...
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Furniture Imports Remain Sluggish With Housing Market

Source: The Journal of Commerce

JOC Member Preview. To continue reading, login or register below. An uneven recovery and flat housing numbers point to sluggish growth or container shipping’s largest import commodity To gauge the outlook for furniture sales, ...
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The Ups and Downs of the Container Shipping Industry

Source: The Journal of Commerce

JOC Member Preview. To continue reading, login or register below. We’re never quite sure here in the Pacific Northwest just when summer will arrive — or whether it will at all. In 2011, Portland’s first 90-degree day didn’t come until t ...
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Year of Dragon brings baby boom in China

Source: Globe and Mail

CAROLYNNE WHEELER BEIJING— From Monday's Globe and Mail Published Sunday, May. 27, 2012 7:00PM EDT Last updated Sunday, May. 27, 2012 7:16PM EDT In the Year of the Dragon, the lineups at the Beijing Obstetri ...
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Foreign vessels 'may quit' NZ deep sea waters

Source: Radio New Zealand

A fishing industry researcher who exposed labour and human rights abuse on foreign deep-sea trawlers says reflagging them will lead to such vessels quitting New Zealand's fishing grounds for good. The Government last week anno ...
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Agritourism helps farmers cover costs

Source: N.J. Courier-Post Online

MORRISTOWN — Sure, Jim and Caroline Etsch farm traditionally, mainly raising hay and field corn on 1,100 acres in five municipalities in Middlesex and Monmouth counties. But for a half-dozen or so years on the 30-acre home farm on Route ...
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