A Bold Prediction Dry bulk charter rates will hit new highs in 2008, but tanker earnings will be lower than anticipated, especially with the uncertainty over whether the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries will increase crude production.
Shipowners, meantime, are nervously monitoring an industry benchmark, the Baltic Dry Index of bulk freighter charter rates, which has lost more than half its value since the start of the year.
Mr Blair himself gave it the thumbs-up in a pre-election interview when he said: "I do subscribe to the vast bulk of Charter 88 .In this section Tomorrow, perhaps All God's children Hypothetical Redesigning Britain's constitution A nation of telephonists The Europhiles' rebel yell Remember, remember By-election boulders ReprintsCharter 88 has always relished the imagery of oppression.
The bulk of the charter schools' financing comes from the school districts that their students would otherwise be attending, with grant money supplementing that amount.
This is a million miles from GCHQ's Operation Tempora and a snoopers' charter – the bulk collection of everyone's data for mining by spooks at their leisure, whether any suspicion exists or not.
Copenhagen-based Atlas is a privately held dry-bulk operator that charters 35 of its 41 vessels from other companies.
According to Howe Robinson, a London shipbroker, the fourth quarter of 2003 saw an unprecedented spike in charter rates for bulk shipping, mostly due to a 17% rise in Chinese industrial production.
Freed of their erstwhile Lib Dem partners, the Conservatives have not merely revived the snooper's charter for the bulk harvesting of comms data, but have also proposed helping the agencies access the substantive content of more messages.
The heavily Democratic state has a Republican governor, powerful teachers unions and a high-profile, low-performing school district, Baltimore, that holds the bulk of the state's charter schools.
The key elements of the snooper's charter, including the bulk collection and storage for 12 months of everyone's personal data, tracking their use of the web, phones and social media, will remain firmly in place when the government publishes its new investigatory powers bill on Wednesday.
The key official report on the future of Britain's surveillance laws clears the way for the introduction of the "snooper's charter" – the unwarranted bulk collection of personal communications data that tracks everyone's use of their phones, the web and social media.
