The companies specialize in large cargo shipments by air, from machinery and computers to furniture.

The treaty allows shipments by air, and the changes would permit transportation by sea.

Sharp growth in cargo shipments by air is producing a shortage of freighter aircraft around the world.

OAG Cargo delivers decision support tools that can be integrated into an organization's workflow to optimize the planning of shipments by air.

Since a Valujet DC-9 crashed soon after takeoff from Miami in May 1996, several Federal agencies have been trying to tighten scrutiny over cargo shipments by air.

The FOCA also issues permits for hazardous shipments by air, this concerns mainly chemical hazardous substances such as ammunition, as well as biological or radioactive cargo.

Recently, HOBt has been removed from many chemical vendor catalogues; although almost always found as a hydrate, HOBt may be explosive when allowed to fully dehydrate and shipment by air or sea is heavily restricted.

A former senior official in the Israeli Ministry of Defense told me that the shipments by air and sea involved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment and that detailed lists of each shipment were provided to senior officials in the Reagan Administration.

DEAD is toxic, shock and light sensitive; it can violently explode when its undiluted form is heated above 100 C. Shipment by air of pure diethyl azodicarboxylate is prohibited in the United States and is carried out in solution, typically about 40% DEAD in toluene.