To obtain maximum flexibility in terms of certification and flight and landing rights, it is important that the primary carrier operate under an air operator's certificate (AOC) granted by an European Union country.
Michael Toohey, the chief executive of the Waterways Council, a group that lobbies on behalf of inland carriers, operators and ports, said that argument rings hollow.
The Waterways Council, a group that lobbies on behalf of inland carriers, operators and ports, had initially warned that traffic would come to a halt by Monday.
The stockmarket value of firms operating bulk carriers (ships that transport raw materials such as ore, coal and grain) has soared from almost nothing to $5 billion in the same period.Most of the recent IPOs have involved bulk-carrier operators.
Even with the river remaining open, the companies that normally ship billions of dollars in goods up and down the waters each month have suffered, said Debra Colbert, a spokeswoman for the Waterways Council, a group that lobbies on behalf of inland carriers, operators and ports.
This clouds the real issue: that carriers, operators, and backbones want to make more money out of something that essentially costs them nothing to carry.
The bankruptcy filing would be yet another stage in the disintegration of WorldCom, the nation's second-largest long-distance carrier and operator of the largest Internet data network.
The co-existing systems can be secondary carriers of the same network operator, carriers of other network operators, or completely different radio access systems, e.g., non-OFDM systems.
The expansion of the rule may increase customer defections from smaller rural carriers to operators with bigger networks, Roger Entner, an analyst at the Yankee Group, said.
Global Crossing's network is currently being used by 40percentt of Fortune 500 companies, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs.
