The Journal of Commerce -
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Published on: 4/17/2000
Last Visited: 3/21/2001
We're in the 16th week of the year , and this is our strongest so far , said Clifton Hickok , general manager of marketing and pricing at Hanjin Shipping CO.We're optimistic..
On the other hand , a strong double-digit increase in cargo volume during the slack first quarter no longer guarantees that cargo volume will be dramatically higher than that during the peak summer and fall months.
Cobb Grantham , managing director of cargo consolidator DSL Ltd. , and former executive of Sea-Land Service Inc. , said that for years the trans-Pacific trade has followed a predictable pattern.He said that historically , an average of 17 % of the year's cargo has moved in the first quarter , 23 % in the second , 34 % in the third and 26 % in the fourth quarter.