31.  Controlling interests are owned by a Bahamian partnership associated with the wealthy Pritzker family of Chicago and by a shipping company owned by a Norwegian family, the Wilhelmsens.

32.  Costly regulations and high-wage workers in North America, Japan and Northern Europe often make it profitable for shipping companies to reflag.

33.  Corrects to note that SabreTech is an aircraft maintenance company, not a shipping company.

34.  Customers of many shipping companies have had to pay huge charges for trucking the containers from other ports in Japan to the Kobe area.

35.  Efforts are under way to develop an American-flag cruise industry, but American shipping companies that must pay United States taxes and wages face serious disadvantages.

36.  EVA is an affiliate of Evergreen Marine Corp., a container shipping company.

37.  EVA Airways, a subsidiary of the shipping company, hopes to begin flights to Hong Kong from Taipei as early as July.

38.  Fearful of offending China and being denied business opportunities there, most major international shipping companies have also backed away from sending high-level delegations.

39.  Fishermen, the U.S. Navy and shipping companies all are eager to cooperate in efforts to save the right whale, she said.

40.  For shipping companies making plans for the next century, Shugert said, the progress in places like Baltimore is more attractive than the piecemeal plans here.