Mike Scotto, president of American Warehousing, said the barge could be used less if the Port Authority would organize shipments destined for New York City to be dropped off in Red Hook before landing in Newark.
Launched in 2016 as a price comparison service for freight forwarders the agents that organize shipments from a supplier or manufacturer to their final destination—Freightos now also lets users book, manage and track shipments with more than 1,200 logistics providers.
The accusation -- that the Alfa Group's leaders had organized drug shipments from Central Asia to Europe -- was based on a United States intelligence source, based in turn on an interview with an unnamed former K.G.B. agent.
Two weeks after the plane was seized, investigators had yet to determine who organized the shipment and where it was headed.
In June 2013, the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies organized a shipment of 22,000 books from the United States to Somalia as part of an initiative to restock the library.
United States Special Operations forces were used to call in airstrikes and organize arms shipments to the alliance.
But the numbers are modest, and they are mostly involved in training and organizing arms shipments for a southern insurgency that has yet to take shape or hold.
Most important, beginning in 2002, it began building up the business of organizing complex shipments for corporate customers, known as contract logistics, first by purchasing the Schenker Group of Germany and then, in 2005, Bax Global, an American competitor.
The wheat, nearly a quarter of a billion pounds of it, may mean survival for millions in the mountains north and west of Kabul, said Mike Huggins, a 34-year-old Australian who helps organize the shipments for the United Nations World Food Program.
