> Frogwatch wrote:
> > On Nov 4, 11:14 am, William Black <william.bl
...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Jack Linthicum wrote:
> >>> On Nov 4, 10:37 am, William Black <william.bl
...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> >>>> vaughn wrote:
> >>>>> JERUSALEM - Israeli commandos seized a ship Wednesday that defense officials
> >>>>> said was carrying more than 60 tons of missiles, rockets and anti-tank weapons
> >>>>> bound for Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas. The pre-dawn seizure
> >>>>> in the waters near Cyprus was a rare interception of a suspected arms shipment
> >>>>> by Israel, which has long accused Iran of arming its enemies. Israel offered no
> >>>>> evidence to support its claim that the weapons came from Iran and were meant for
> >>>>> Hezbollah.
> >>>>> Complete article at:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571548,00.html > >>>> Don't you just love the idea that the company who owns the ship had no
> >>>> idea what was in the containers.
> >>>> Having been involved is shipping some stuff internationally by sea in
> >>>> recent years I know that everyone wants to see bills of lading, and
> >>>> most carriers won't even consider shipments to or from some countries
> >>>> unless their agents can fully inspect the cargo prior to loading.
> >>>> If you want to send a cardboard carton of stuff to anywhere in the
> >>>> middle east you'll only get to seal it after the carrier's agent has
> >>>> inspected it and made sure that what's in the box is what the documents
> >>>> say is in the box.
> >>>> Send a couple of pallets that aren't wrapped in transparent plastic and
> >>>> it'll be opened at some [point.
> >>>> Send a container and you can be pretty sure that at some point someone
> >>>> from the shipper or their agents will want a look inside...
> >>>> --
> >>>> William Black
> >>>> "Any number under six"
> >>>> The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of
> >>>> Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat
> >>>> single handed with a quarterstaff.
> >>> Gee, that's funny. We had a thread here some months back that said
> >>> just the opposite. Live and learn I guess.
> >> I remember.
> >> But this isn't shipping stuff in and out of major Western ports.
> >> As I said then, everything I've shipped 'surface', which ranges from
> >> cartons to half a dozen pallets, gets inspected closely by both
> >> officials and shipping agents.
> >> Asia and the Middle East is full of very paranoid people who know that
> >> someone is out to get them, and governments who employ thousands of
> >> cops and customs officers because they know that three out of four
> >> people who cross their borders are either CIA men or drug smugglers or
> >> worse.
> >> Nobody ships containers into the Middle East without knowing exactly
> >> what's inside them unless they've been paid a very great deal of money
> >> not to ask...
> >> --
> >> William Black
> >> "Any number under six"
> >> The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of
> >> Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat
> >> single handed with a quarterstaff.
> > This has been a problem for my company in shipping sensitive
> > instruments to the ME. We try like hell to make the crates nearly
> > bombproof and idjit proof and then they go and open them and handle
> > the stuff causing scratches and misalignments. The customer does not
> > understand why the unit that was freshly painted before shipping has
> > scratched and needs alignment. It is not worthwhile doing business in
> > the ME for this reason.
> You're going to have to do what a lot of people shipping to sensitive
> areas do, which is to develop a method of packing that allows full
> inspection of the contents.
> You're still not going to stop half educated cops and customs men
> opening the pack to make sure you're not shipping bomb parts into their
> homeland (not that could spot a bomb part unless it was ticking), but
> you'll stop most of it...
> --
> William Black
> "Any number under six"
> The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of
> Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat
> single handed with a quarterstaff.
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