In 1958, he moved to New York, where he found work as a cargo manager on the docks while immersing himself in the city's thriving jazz scene.
Douglas Brittin, the air cargo manager for the Transportation Security Administration, said the likelihood of airline personnel needing to open art crates or other complex cargo would probably remain low even after August.
"Peter, the cargo manager, hit the lid on the bottom and lifted it.
His father was a cargo sales manager at Newark International Airport for United Airlines.
Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, he spent most of his adult life in the Chicago area as Cargo Sales Manager for Air New Zealand and Proprietor of "All Things Irish".
"The number of Koreans stationed in the U.S. has been drastically cut, and they will be replaced by local hires," said Sung Ho Lee, cargo marketing manager for Korean Air Lines in Los Angeles.
"Carriers were forced to either comply — sometimes on very short notice — or to come up with an alternative procedure," said Margreet Lommerts, manager for cargo and security at the Association of European Airlines in Brussels.
"For a period of three or four days, we handled some additional New York cargo," said David M. Thomas, general manager of operations at the 570-acre Dundalk Marine Terminal, the biggest for general cargo here, in the harbor where Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 1814.
Yet the svelte, ATV-like vehicle can carry up to a tonne of cargo, says Marcus Knobloch, network manager for Poly-lab.net, a consortium of 14 German research, design and production companies and two research organisations, and the Kulan's developer.
The crisis is having diplomatic reverberations, with Prime Minister José María Aznar insisting today that the ship's destination was the British colony of Gibraltar, an assertion denied by the ship's managers, the cargo's owners and the British government.
North Korea has blocked South Korean managers and cargo trucks from crossing the heavily armed border to Kaesong for six days to protest United Nations sanctions over its February nuclear test and joint military drills that the United States and South Korea are conducting on the Korean Peninsula.
