Most unprepared of all was chief air-cargo operator HACTL, which was forced to stop processing freight at its spanking new Super Terminal 1.

CNN: A Date with Disaster

Moreover, continuing shift in freight traffic from air to the sea, driven by higher fuel prices is not helping the air-cargo industry at all.

FORBES: After Weak Results FedEx Looks Like A $105 Stock

Security Council is debating a U.S.-drafted resolution that would require international inspections of all cargo moving in and out of North Korea in response to the nation's apparent nuclear-weapons test.

NPR: U.N. Debates Response to N. Korean Nuclear Test

Its calls to curb financial services and ban all heavy-arms exports to Iran, to inspect suspicious cargo and to restrict some Iranian companies and officials will allow individual countries to take more draconian steps to stamp on the trade supporting Iran's programme.

ECONOMIST: Iranian sanctions

The crew of the patrol ship Taepyeongyang No.9, from the Coast Guard of the Republic of Korea, nominated by the Republic of Korea, for rescuing all three crew members and 12 passengers from a cargo-passenger ship, in high winds, heavy seas and snow, in December 2010.

FORBES: Korean Ship Captain Honored for Extraordinary Bravery at Sea

One global company based in Florida, MTN has for the past thirty years pioneered and developed satellite-based services for virtually all of the cruise ships and cargo carriers in the world.

FORBES: Cruise Ship Communications for Passengers Is About to Change

When restless New York City hedge fund manager Robert Fairchild watches the Baltic Dry Cargo Index plunge 97%, registering an all-time high and a 25-year low within the span of just six months, he decides to buy a ship.

FORBES: From the high seas of finance - Shipping Man

PetTravel.com notes that KLM recently banned four breeds of snub-nosed dogs in the cargo hold, and Delta Air Lines is restricting all pets from the cargo hold of its B767s.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

It's all about the skin, each gleaming, crisp scallop of which bears a slender, super-tender cargo of meat and fat (which shouldn't need the hyped-up hoisin sauce it's often served with).

WSJ: Let Them Eat Fat: In Praise of Fatty Foods