FreightWaves Flashback
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FreightWaves Flashback 1982: Bringing home the boosters
Ships designed, built, fitted out at Jacksonville are performing well for NASA in shuttle booster recovery program.
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FreightWaves Flashback 1982: Customs agents go after containerized contraband
Shippers and ocean carriers aren’t the only ones taking advantage of containerized shipping. Drug smugglers are, too.
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FreightWaves Flashback 1973: Piper Aircraft delivers its planes in 40 ft. containers
Piper Executive Victor C. McCollum outlined how improvement in containerization could further benefit his company and its distributors abroad.
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FreightWaves Flashback 1963: Baby chicks — big export business
One Florida hatchery credits modern innovations and personal overseas visits to customers for its continued success.
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FreightWaves Flashback 1961 – Orange juice cold chain flows from Port Canaveral to NY
The SS Tropicana routinely hauls 650,000 gallons of orange juice from Florida to New York every eight days.
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FreightWaves Flashback 2003 – Unknown impact of SARS
17 years ago, the SARS outbreak topped the list of concerns for the international shipping industry.
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FreightWaves Flashback 1974 — JAX mini-bridge speeds delivery of 7,000 West Coast-bound VWs
An overflow of West Coast-bound vehicle shipments characterized one of the largest mini-bridge operations ever assembled for a single movement.
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FreightWaves Flashback 1963 – Offshore vegetable farms moved from Cuba
Forced out by Castro, some offshore Florida farmers look to grow their produce elsewhere.
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FreightWaves Flashback: Motor carrier finds private telephone network way of the future
We take a look back at the state-of-the-art technology that streamlined trucking in 1961.
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FreightWaves Flashback: Moon craft arrives on ocean barge
America’s mission to put a man on the moon draws one step closer to reality.
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