Welcome to the latest ICIS logistics and distribution e-newsletter. The economic crisis continued to dominate news in March. Sinking freight rates, overcapacity and weak demand... **View this email as a webpage** http://epidm.edgesuite.net/RBI/chemicals/chncl/HTML/CHNCL_20090330.html **Add us to your safe senders. Please click below** http://epidm.edgesuite.net/RBI/whitelist/whitelist.html Issue 23: 30 March 2009 Welcome to the latest ICIS logistics and distribution e-newsletter ================================================================== Sponsored by: ------------------ Oil Tanking We can, we care http://www.oiltanking.com/index_icis.php Paraclet Management -------------------------- Convenient shipping From & to All U.S. points (outbound, inbound, 3rd Party) (609) 499-3127 mailto:mike@bulktrk.com Mike Wilson The economic crisis continued to dominate news in March. 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