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  BTX Air Express ONLINE
Containers aree secured to these sections using twist locks which act as keys bolting the container's four corners to the ship's deck and/or other containers in the stack.
Container with a removable fabric roof which enables heavy/bulk cargo to be loaded into the container by crane/elevator.
Refrigerated container that is fitted with a refrigerated unit for the carriage of cargoes that have to be frozen or chilled.
www.btxair.com /incoterms1.htm   (3792 words)

  
 International Container Bureau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The International Container Bureau is usually better know under its acronym BIC for Bureau International des conteneurs, its original French name.
It is an organisation whose goal is to unite any type of corporation or government unit or independent organism having anything to do with Container transport and multi modal freight handling.
It was originally established in ­1933 and stopped its operations during World War II to resume them in 1948.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Container_Bureau   (141 words)

  
 GENERAL CIRCULAR NO :68/2003
During the early period of growth of containerisation, marking of containers was left at the operators’ option, which resulted in duplication of container numbers.
The BIC code may be made use of in identifying and locating the owners of the containers.
The BIC Code, which is a priced publication in the form of a book, may be obtained from Bureau International des Containers 167, rue de Courcelles, F-75017 Paris, France.
kalalchennai.tn.nic.in /gc2003/gc682003.htm   (311 words)

  
 SDV Oilfield Offices - General Information - Glossary of International Trade Terms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Containers are secured to these sections using twist locks, which act as keys bolting the container's four corners to the ship's deck and/or other containers in the stack.
Open top container: Container with a removable fabric roof, which enables heavy/bulk cargo to be loaded into the container by crane/elevator.
Reefer: Refrigerated container that is fitted with a refrigerated unit for the carriage of cargoes that have to be frozen or chilled.
www.sdvoilfield.com /genst.htm   (4137 words)

  
 NAC International Group Ltd - Ocean Container Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
ISO containers also known as intermodal containers are designed for transportation by more than just one mode of transport: such as road and rail, or rail and ship.
The standard width of ISO containers is 8 feet, the standard heights are 8 feet 6 inches, and 9 feet 6 inches, and the most common lengths are 20 feet and 40 feet.
A refrigeration unit is built onto the nose of the container and power is provided by a motor generator (when container is on wheels), by terminal (when grounded in a yard) or by the ship (when laden on board).
www.nacintgp.com /ocontainer.htm   (1076 words)

  
 Summary Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Bureau Veritas has a significant number of large container ships under its class and has developed an extensive degree of expertise.
Bureau Veritas reviewed plans for the complete structure of the new containerships between mid-December 2004 and the end of March 2005.
To avoid potential damage, Bureau Veritas was able to advise on how to strengthen key stress areas in the hull structure using highly sophisticated VeriSTAR Hull software and detailed fatigue analysis.
www.bureauveritas.com /html/21570.45774.html   (350 words)

  
 International Container Terminal Services, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Containerized / Container Cargo - Cargo stuffed inside a container van with the external dimensions and ratings enumerated in series 1 of ISO 668-1976 which are specially designed to facilitate ready handling particularly their transfer from one mode of transport to another without intermediate reloading.
Container loadability at a minimum of 21 cbm for 20 foot and 50 cbm for 40 foot.
LCL containers stuffed outside the port and brought inside the port shall be charged the applicable rate for FCL.
www.ictsi.com /www/mict_tariff_3.htm   (1539 words)

  
 U. S. Bureau of Industry and Security - Compliance and Enforcement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The illicit transshipment, re-export, and diversion of goods and technologies in international commerce compromise the effectiveness of U.S. trade agreements and export control laws.
The TECI is a multi-faceted, cooperative initiative that seeks to strengthen the trade compliance and export control systems of those countries and companies that constitute global transshipment hubs.
A government-to-private sector prong, whereby the DOC works with industry - in particular, companies involved in the transportation of goods through transshipment country hubs, and major consignees and end-users of goods located in those hubs - to enlist their support in preventing illicit transshipments.
www.bxa.doc.gov /ComplianceAndEnforcement/ExecutiveSummary.html   (265 words)

  
 Eritrea
The arrestees, including four adolescents, were reportedly beaten by security officials with ropes and locked in metal shipping containers at a prison facility outside the capital.
The U.S. Ambassador and other Embassy officers have raised the cases of detentions and restrictions on nonsanctioned religious groups with government officials in the President's Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, and the leaders of the sole legal political party, the People's Front for Democracy and Justice.
Two senior staff from the State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom traveled to the country and met with senior government officials to discuss religious prisoners, religious freedom, and freedom of conscience.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35354.htm   (2786 words)

  
 [artinfo] 2003 Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival (fwd)
Ocean Capital Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival, 2003 For detailed information please check: http://popo.idv.tw/kmfa/index.htm Mission: In the Post-Industrial Age, “global village” and “world island” are no longer theoretical nouns.
The materials used to make containers, the design of the containers, the method of construction, painting, as well as the means for filling, loading, and movement all embody the spirit of modern industrial technology.
As a result, containers are a symbol of the exchange of goods in the modern age.
lists.c3.hu /pipermail/artinfo/2003-September/001749.html   (414 words)

  
 BIC Owner Codes
The container owner's code shall consist of three capital letters, shall be unique and shall be registered with the International Container Bureau (B.I.C. - Bureau International des Conteneurs), either through an affiliated national registration organization (see annex G) or directly with:
The characteristics (size, shape, layout, etc.) detailled in 6.1 and 6.2.1 shall be displayed as nearly as practicable in accordance with clause 6, i.e.
Bureau International des Conteneurs et du Transport Intermodal (B.I.C.)
www.container-contacts.net /info.htm   (337 words)

  
 Vietnam
Both the Constitution and government decrees provide for freedom of worship; however, the Government continued to restrict significantly those publicly organized activities of religious groups that were not recognized by the Government or that it declared to be at variance with state laws and policies.
Catholic bishops face no restrictions on international travel, including to Rome, and many nuns have also been able to go abroad for study and conferences.
During a visit to Vietnam, the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom advocated for greater religious freedom and enquired about reported abuses with the Deputy Foreign Minister, the head of the Office of Religious Affairs, and Party intellectuals.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2003/24327.htm   (13427 words)

  
 International Container Bureau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The International Container Bureau is usually better know under its acronym BIC for Bureau Internationaldes conteneurs, its original French name.
It is an organisation whose goal is to unite any type of corporation or governmentunit or independent organism having anything to do with Container transport andmulti modal freight handling.
It has several publications and is responsible for the BIC codes which constitute the standard ISOstandard 6346 coding system for every container owner and container operating company.
www.therfcc.org /RFCC/international-container-bureau-333550.html   (121 words)

  
 International Container Terminal Services, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Manila International Container Terminal (MICT) is one of the three ports in the Port of Manila, the core of the Philippine port system.
A dedicated container terminal, the MICT is located between the North and the South Harbors, protruding westward into the Manila Bay at the mouth of the Pasig River, the city’s major waterway.
The MICT today is the Philippines’ largest international container terminal in terms of volume and capacity.
www.ictsi.com /www/manila_international.htm   (594 words)

  
 Delphino_interview
BVnet is the secure client extranet of Bureau Veritas.
one of the world's largest container leasing companies, BVnet is known as "Unitank".
Unitank makes available all documentation related to transport tanks, dry freight containers and their contents.
www.bureauveritas.com /html/9855.html   (37 words)

  
 Dow Jones Interactive
Washington -- A highly trained explosives-detection team was sent yesterday to the Palermo Senator, a 340-metre container ship, anchored 10 kilometres off the New Jersey coast, as efforts to hunt down the source of radiation detected aboard the ship continued, the Pentagon said.
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Customs Service, Department of Energy, and the Coast Guard are working jointly to determine whether the radiation is coming from one of the ship's containers or from the ship itself.
With fears of a crude nuclear device, or "dirty bomb," hidden among a ship's cargo making its way into the United States, security has been tightened at international ports.
www.chass.utoronto.ca /~ygkim/globeportfolio/containershort.htm   (132 words)

  
 Institute of International Container Lessors, Bedford, New York, USA
Structural repairs to containers (dry and reefers), trailers, chassis, and gensets; trained reefer technicians for all types of refrigeration machinery, CFC recycling; sandblasting and painting; welding and chassis frame straightening; storage and handling.
Containers are bought, sold, overhauled/modified for local requirements including the oil industry.
All container repair facilities are automated and computerized, utilizing custom developed local area network systems to provide flexible and up to date administration.
www.iicl.org /docs/iicl-directory/profiles.htm   (2333 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, APRIL 1993 US DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS MATTERS DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 10047 RELEASED APRIL 1993 The Report is for sale by the Government Printing Office, Superindendent of Documents.
Status of Country Cyprus is not a producer or significant consumer of narcotics, but its location and its status as the gateway to and from Lebanon make it a convenient transit point for traffickers, especially from Lebanon and Turkey.
International enforcement cooperation is limited by the de facto division of the island into a government-controlled area and a northern Turkish-speaking area.
www.kypros.org /Documents/USSD/Narcotics/93.html   (894 words)

  
 CalTrade Report - 24 -Hour Maritime Security Rules Expanded   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, ocean shipping, container cargo, imports, documentation, mainfests - 24 -Hour Maritime Security Rules Expanded - Effectively immediately, the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection will penalize and fine carriers that don’t provide “adequate” cargo manifest information.
CalTrade Report Asia Quake Victims The US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is expanding enforcement of the "24-hour rule" that requires advance cargo declarations for vessels sailing from foreign ports to the US.
The spokesman said the CBP had reviewed more than 2.4 million bills of lading between February 2 and April 29 and that about 260 containers with inadequate cargo descriptions were denied loading for violation of the 24-hour rule.
www.caltradereport.com /eWebPages/front-page-1050356200.html   (627 words)

  
 The Anti-Corruption Bureau: Report - Introduction
The details of this shipment were forwarded to Singapore authorities that acted swiftly on this information and the consignment was seized on 28 June 2002.
Upon opening of the container, its contents revealed an assortment of contraband African elephant ivory weighing about 6.5 tonnes, consisting of 532 whole tusks and about 41,000 rough-carved cylinders similar to those used for hanko signatures in the Far East.
We further appreciate the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) for their financial support in the investigations.
www.sdnp.org.mw /ruleoflaw/acb/latest_release.html   (692 words)

  
 My Garden Guide - FAQ
The kidney-shaped “nut” is contained within a semi-hard, grayish brown shell, usually less than half as long as the apple, attached beneath the cashew apple.
The seeds of Tacca—a genus of 10 or so herbaceous perennials from the subtropical forests of West Africa and Southeast Asia, grown for their handsome foliage and unusual flowers—should be sown in the spring on the surface of a porous soil mix at 70 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Place the containers in the refrigerator (not the freezer) for the period of time indicated: 2 months for Silphium integrefolium and 2-3 months for Eupatorium purpureum.
www.onlinegardener.com /faq.html   (18443 words)

  
 gbw1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In: Restaurator (International journal for the preservation of library and archival materials) v.
International Conference of Hand Papermakers (1980 : Boston Mass.) International Conference of Hand Papermakers : Boston, Massachusetts, USA, October 2-5, 1980 / Elaine Koretsky and Bernard Toale, directors.
International Conference on the Conservation of Library and Archive Materials and the Graphic Arts (1980 : Cambridge) Abstracts and preprints : international conference on the conservation of library and archive materials and the graphic arts / editor, Guy Petherbridge.
www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/gbw/gbw1.html   (11237 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Cyprus officials are concerned that Cyprus' offshore business sector is being used for international money laundering activities, and monitors some monetary activities to deter such activities.
Traffickers conceal heroin and cannabis resin in the substantial container traffic transshipped through Cyprus, and take advantage of air connections to transship drug-related currency to and from Europe.
Cyprus' success as an international offshore center has made it vulnerable to international money laundering activities, particularly by the Russian mafia, and other organized crime groups.
www.kypros.org /Documents/USSD/Narcotics/95.html   (939 words)

  
 Henry Shapiro Papers (Library of Congress)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In 1937 he was hired by UPI and was appointed manager of its Moscow bureau in 1939.
In particular, files pertaining to China contain many reports on the deterioration of relations with the Soviet Union during the early 1960s.
Other files contain notes on detente, politics, and ideology, and a typescript of Shapiro's oral memoir conducted by the American Jewish Committee.
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/shapiro.old.html   (1915 words)

  
 HERBAL ENCYCLOPEDIA: Laws   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In other words, a particular drug, even though exempt from proofs of safety and efficacy under existing laws, was barred from commerce if any unsubstantiated claim was made as part of the labeling that it was "good" for anything, that is, effective for the treatment of a disease state.
When it comes to gotu kola (which does not contain any cola), and Fo-ti-tieng, which is not the same as fo-ti, the situation becomes dangerously confusing.
However, Canada, once considered to be on the international cutting edge of natural products regulation, has become another "average" regulatory environment for herbs with the closing of the Natural Products Section of the Bureau of Drug Research, Health, and Welfare in Canada in 1993.
www.canoe.ca /HealthHerbal/laws.html   (3735 words)

  
 conser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
(Conser), was founded on 1987 to represent Unicon International, leader Company, worldwide known in the area of container technical surveys.
CONSER nowadays offers inspection services for all kind of containers; cargo surveys on cooled, frozen or dry cargo; container sale on dry and reefer units, as well as Isotank certification and cleaning certification.
It is worth to emphasize that the Company we represent - Unicon International - founded on 1981, joined Bureau Veritas group in 1999 and today is performing an average of 87.000 surveys per month, operating in more than 150 locations in the different continents and attending more than 350 customers in the World.
www.conser.cl /eng.empresa.html   (126 words)

  
 CalTrade Report - Oakland Activates New Anti-Nuke Security System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Trucks carrying containers out of each terminal drive through at a non-stop pace as the machine "reads" its cargo, searching for the dreaded "dirty bomb" or any item emitting radiation.
If alarms are triggered, customs agents inspect containers more closely, she said.
The first quarter of this year saw more than 525,000 containers move through the port's facilities, some 19.3% more than the volume handled during the same period in 2004.
www.caltradereport.com /eWebPages/front-page-1114713299.html   (639 words)

  
 Container International Moving   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
International Shipping Company: Specializing in international moving company, freight services, moving container, overseas shipping, import export,...
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International moving company based in Spain specialising in Local, National, European and International Removals, Container Storage and Air and Sea...
www.moving-relocation-tips.com /OPG/moving528.html   (431 words)

  
 Online edition of Daily News - News
The Megaports Initiative supports foreign countries in deploying radiation detection capability at key seaports to screen cargo containers for nuclear and other radioactive materials.
The Megaports Initiative, in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Customs and Border Protection is making technical resources available to complement Customs' Container Security Initiative at international ports.
The specialised radiation detection technology was developed by Department of Energy laboratories as part of overall US nuclear security efforts to improve the security of the international maritime trading system and guard against proliferation of weapons material.
www.dailynews.lk /2004/08/27/new27.html   (150 words)

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