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Despite higher fuel costs, retailers cut shipping rates (USA Today)
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:53:31 GMT Much higher fuel costs this season raised fears that free or cut-rate shipping would go the way of $2.50-a-gallon gas. But as retailers grapple with the shaky U.S. economy, many have calculated that they can't afford to put off shoppers with hefty shipping costs, even if it means eating higher fuel costs.

Updated shipping law overlooks Web sales (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:10:28 GMT Two weeks ago, we gave an update on the state of shipping wine directly from wineries to wine lovers. But because the issue is so complicated, we had to stick to the highlights. So here’s the rest of the story (if you missed the first one, you can see our last dozen or so columns at www.journalgazette.net/uncorked).

Deals on shipping have consumer appeal (UPI)
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:05:23 GMT NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. retailers are keeping a careful eye on their holiday tradition of offering free shipping during the Christmas shopping season, retail analysts said.

Iran to expand shipping fleet by March '09 (Zawya)
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:14:26 GMT 06 September 2008 TEHRAN - The managing director of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines announced here on Friday that 27 ships will be added to IRISL fleet by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20).

The new China price (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:24:34 GMT High oil prices make shipping goods so costly that some manufacturers are bring overseas work back home.

The container that revolutionized shipping (The Press-Enterprise)
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:59:02 GMT In 1937, an enterprising North Carolina truck driver named Malcolm McLean waited hours at a New Jersey dock for his rig to be unloaded and the freight placed on a boat.

New Rules Needed To Govern World's Fragile Polar Regions (Science Daily)
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:12:31 GMT Consideration of international law and policy issues in polar regions is urgently needed as climate change opens the Arctic Ocean to shipping, fishing, and other resource exploitation, and as growing numbers of bioprospectors, researchers and tourists flock to Antarctica, all with potentially serious environmental consequences in these highly fragile ecosystems.

Deals on shipping have consumer appeal (Moldova.org)
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:10:21 GMT U.S. retailers are keeping a careful eye on their holiday tradition of offering free shipping during the Christmas shopping season, retail analysts said.While fuel costs have escalated, the cost of shipping by weight has also grown, USA Today reported Friday. But, retailers are wary of adding to shipping costs, fearing they might cross some kind of magical emotional threshold, said Jim Hoefflin, ...

LOGISTICS (The Hindu)
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:46:44 GMT SHIPPING/PORTS: Cruise operators want one good port of call in short run Witnessing a demand for cruise tourism in India, international cruise operators want the Indian Government to set up one or two good ports of call in the short run rather than planning to set up cruise hubs (which can be taken up as long-term ...

Noisy ships drown out ocean serenity (Sydney Morning Herald)
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:07:31 GMT NOISE pollution is posing an increasing threat in oceans by deafening marine animals, forcing global shipping regulators to find ways to solve the problem.

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