Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Collectors Find New Ways to Store Wine
- Hewlett-Packard looks beyond computers and printers
- Brazil Parana To Open Ethanol Terminal, Studies Pipeline
- The Union Democrat

Collectors Find New Ways to Store Wine
Washington Post – Dec 26, 2006
About $8 million to $10 million worth of wine is in this room," he said. "Reputation is very important. "Many wine storage companies are offshoots of moving companies, self-storage businesses and wine stores. Guarantee Wine Storage in Jersey City, N. , is a division of Moishe’s Moving, a well-known moving company in the New York area. The company began offering wine storage five years ago, adding to its businesses of document, art and data storage.

Hewlett-Packard looks beyond computers and printers
International Herald Tribune – Dec 26, 2006
It still needs to add revenue by growing from within, and that will not be easy. “HP could do both,” said Benjamin Reitzes, an analyst with UBS Investment Research. “A company with almost $100 billion in revenue should be doing both. ” It has some ideas. It is moving quickly to build printers for almost any application in which ink hits paper. Analysts say that is a slam dunk. Two other areas it has identified for growth, selling cost- efficient corporate data centers and consumer electronics, pose considerably more risk.

Brazil Parana To Open Ethanol Terminal, Studies Pipeline
CattleNetwork.com – Dec 26, 2006
7 million to construct the terminal, but “another BRL4 (million) to BRL5 million will most likely be needed to beef up operations and systems at the terminal, as well as security,” said Rezende, adding that he believed that state cane millers will partner up with Paranagua port to make these investments. &nbsp
Parana isn’t along among Brazilian states in looking to ramp up its investments for ethanol infrastructure, as global interest in the country’s cane-based, eco-friendly fuel grows. &nbsp
In October, German storage company Oiltanking announced that it had allotted $12 million to build an ethanol terminal at the center-south port of Vitoria, with the storage capacity of 34 million liters of ethanol, an initial capacity of moving 400 million liters of ethanol per year, and operations scheduled to start in May 2008. &nbsp
Possible Pipeline
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With an eye to future exports, Parana’s cane millers are also in the middle of conducting viability studies for a possible ethanol-dedicated pipe in the state in coming years, said Rezende. &nbsp
Initial studies show that it is 16 times cheaper to transport the state’s ethanol via a pipeline than via highway, he said. &nbsp
“It costs $32 per cubic meter (to send ethanol) from Maringa to the port, while it costs $2 (per cubic meter) to send it via pipeline,” said Rezende. &nbsp
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The distance from the key cane-producing region of Maringa to the port of Paranagua is roughly 520-530 kilometers, he added… 7 million to construct the terminal, but “another BRL4 (million) to BRL5 million will most likely be needed to beef up operations and systems at the terminal, as well as security,” said Rezende, adding that he believed that state cane millers will partner up with Paranagua port to make these investments. &nbsp
Parana isn’t along among Brazilian states in looking to ramp up its investments for ethanol infrastructure, as global interest in the country’s cane-based, eco-friendly fuel grows. &nbsp
In October, German storage company Oiltanking announced that it had allotted $12 million to build an ethanol terminal at the center-south port of Vitoria, with the storage capacity of 34 million liters of ethanol, an initial capacity of moving 400 million liters of ethanol per year, and operations scheduled to start in May 2008. &nbsp
Possible Pipeline
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With an eye to future exports, Parana’s cane millers are also in the middle of conducting viability studies for a possible ethanol-dedicated pipe in the state in coming years, said Rezende. &nbsp
Initial studies show that it is 16 times cheaper to transport the state’s ethanol via a pipeline than via highway, he said. &nbsp
“It costs $32 per cubic meter (to send ethanol) from Maringa to the port, while it costs $2 (per cubic meter) to send it via pipeline,” said Rezende. &nbsp
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The distance from the key cane-producing region of Maringa to the port of Paranagua is roughly 520-530 kilometers, he added.

The Union Democrat
Union Democrat – Dec 26, 2006
First steps
Cleanup started this summer, led by the Shaw Group Inc. That company is paid by a trust set up under the terms of the settlement. Their work so far has focused on the mine’s tailing storage area. That 120-acre stretch of sediment and rock, discarded during mining, must be covered by a clay and soil seal. The seal should further prevent rain from washing high levels of arsenic, nitrates and sulfates into ground and surface water. Those chemicals are not lethal to humans or wildlife in small doses.