Sentences with phrase «by container ship»

Have you ever wondered what it's like to travel by container ship?

Actual consumer prices in Puerto Rico aren't significantly higher than prices on the mainland, except for a few choice things like Milk (which is probably more a result of having to ship milk by container ship than from a nearby farm).

The majority of products in your malls and stores get there by container ship.

``... an Arctic Ocean that in summers later this century is transformed into a wave - lapped expanse of blue water frequented by container ships, tankers, a lot more salmon and a lot fewer polar bears.»

But it does not undermine the long - term forecast, which is for an Arctic Ocean that in summers later this century is transformed into a wave - lapped expanse of blue water frequented by container ships, tankers, a lot more salmon and a lot fewer polar bears.

Not exact matches

If all goes according to plan, the team will begin distributing its batteries, which come stacked on racks inside a 40 - foot shipping container, to three pilot clients by next year.

Marine shipping is often done by tankers stacked with containers that get lifted off the trailer of an 18 - wheeler and stacked on the boat, typically entails international import / export business, and requires knowledge of customs regulations in general and for specific merchandise.

The stash was the largest ever seized by Spanish police and the largest quantity found in a single shipping container in Europe, the statement said.

Shares in Maersk are down by more than 30 percent from a July 2017 peak when optimism around freight rates and a turnaround in global container shipping began to fade.

World's no. 1 container shipper and one of Denmark's largest companies Maersk was hit by major cyber attack in June, one of the biggest - ever disruptions to hit global shipping.

Danish conglomerate AP Møller - Maersk has delivered a damning assessment of the state of the container shipping sector by signalling it will switch investment to its other businesses.

By implementing the system, Maher hopes to be prepared to handle the larger container ships that will be in service once the Panama Canal expansion opens next year.

Google engineers found that by applying machine learning to this data they were able to identify the reason any vessel is at sea — whether it is a transport ferry, container ship, leisure vessel, or fishing boat.

The keys are smuggled into Mexico and then on to the United States — by land, air, or sea — using methods as varied as they are ingenious: stashed under fresh produce, in cans of jalapeños, in the bellies of frozen shark carcasses, in trap compartments of cars, trucks, motor homes, container ships, small aircraft, even submarines; taped to the bodies of backpackers traveling by bus; catapulted over border fences; concealed in the trunks of corrupt local sheriffs; or trundled through underground tunnels (some so well constructed that they have air conditioning), a tactic purportedly devised by El Chapo himself.

There's Container Park, an outdoor hangout space and shopping center made out of shipping containers where Sheryl Crow played a live concert last year, new restaurants which will serve food as diverse as handmade Cajun sausages and vegan pizza, the new independent bookstore that just opened, founded by Scott Seeley, who is imported from Brooklyn and once ran Dave Eggers» 826NYC.

Since launch in 2015, the business has become an authority in the shipping container home niche by selling DIY guides and eBooks.

Transporting containers from ports inland via railroads is 10 - 30 % more cost efficient than shipping by trucks.

«She's going to be using the authentic ingredients, which we will be shipping by container over to the Philippines.

For example, it takes 88 % less fuel to ship a container by water from New Zealand to the east coast of North America than it takes to transport a truckload of fruit from the west to east coast of the United States.

Shipment and production data collected and aggregated by Precision Consulting (precisionconsultingcompany.com) show the U.S. glass container industry will have shipped around 28 billion containers to customers in 2017, a slight decrease from 2016.

Using data provided * by a large grower in Mexico, a transparent software - modeling tool was used to analyze total annual costs for using corrugated containers vs. RPCs to ship 144 million pounds of Roma tomatoes to Houston, TX.

Actual data provided by a large onion grower confirmed that using RPCs instead of corrugated containers increased their annual shipping costs by 10.4 percent system - wide.

The prices listed by sellers on GrapeConnect often exclude shipping, container, and miscellaneous other fees, any or all of which may be added to the listed price to arrive at the final sale price of a particular deal.

Testing and analysis conducted by the University of California - Davis and toxicology experts Haley & Aldrich investigating the cleanliness of corrugated shipping containers confirmed that all corrugated containers tested met acceptable sanitation levels.

Australia's major wine groups ship large quantities of lower - end commercial wine to bottling plants in the United Kingdom and Europe in large bladder - type containers to save costs in a highly competitive export market which has been squeezed by the high Australian dollar.

The food bazaar, a maze of repurposed shipping containers, seemed like a display of staggering abundance — even in winter, when the overwhelming summer bounty of gorgeous, wormy produce was replaced by dry heaps of potatoes and onions.

Shipping containers used to ship the coconut oil to the US by sea from the tropics can reach temperatures of over 130 degrees F.

Collection Rate: The amount of material collected (by weight or by unit) that is shipped to the recycler by the primary processor (e.g., the MRF) compared to the amount of beverage container material placed on the market in that jurisdiction, excluding exports.

New York - based designers Workshop / APD have brought this intriguing vibe to life with the use of natural materials such as weathered brick, oiled steel, and worn concrete, creating a unique 160 - seat dining room joined by a large shipping container set in the middle of the space adorned with hand - painted graffiti - and media - inspired designs by Brooklyn - based artist, Mr. Ewok One.

Littlefield added, «Moving production to Holland will also now allow us to ship Newcastle Brown Ale from HEINEKEN demand points, enabling distributors to order by the pallet versus by container.

It feels young and still as half - built as the old building facades held up by ziggurats made of shipping containers.

Please note that we ship by the container - load as our minimum orders.

For containers entering by ship, the most common method, inspection rates have actually gone down to 4 % (nine years ago the rate was already an unacceptable low of 5 %).

Or, alternatively, vigilant riot police stood guard as the French government sought to improve living standards by moving refugees to converted shipping containers or other accommodation centers.

A shipping container houses the Garbage In Power Out System by Sustainable Waste Power Systems on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, in Saugerties, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

Jan Kopernicki said: «Over 80 % of world trade travels by ship, with some 18 million containers making over 200 million trips each year.

In rural northern Alabama, NYC has become infamous for about 200 shipping containers full of sewage sludge that came by rail, and have been rotting on train cars for six weeks, stalled on the way to a nearby landfill.

A study by the state Department of Transportation says the project would lower shipping costs by $ 500 per container while boosting the local economy and easing congestion and wear and tear on highways and roads.

The project is expected to lower shipping costs by $ 500 per container, boosting local agriculture and other sectors, the DOT report said.

If the negotiations with DeWitt are successful, state officials plan to help expand the existing DeWitt yard so that 30,000 containers a year can be sent by rail from Central New York to ships at the Port of New York / New Jersey.

The project is expected to lower shipping costs by up to $ 500 per container, boosting local agriculture and other sectors, the DOT report said.

He estimated that the entire device, when built, could be transported by truck through city streets or past shipping containers in ports.

In all likelihood, each of these crossed at least one ocean within the dark confines of a container measuring 8 by 8.5 by 20 feet, stacked with as many as 10,999 others aboard one of the 4,500 container ships in use around the world.

An American who buys golf clubs abroad and doesn't want to declare them can send them via a company that packs them in a shipping container, which then slips them into port without ever being seen by customs agents; the ability of drug dealers to bypass even the most elaborate border controls is a well - known problem.

Every day, idling cargo ships carrying 30,000 containers from Asia and the Pacific basin are unloaded by construction cranes towering more than 200 feet high on the docks.

Steve: By the way, during Donovan's talk, he put up a table of numbers of containers shipped to the U.S. in the year 2004 for various companies; and the leader, which will be no surprise, was Wal - Mart, which received — how many shipped containers?

In the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, containers are lifted off ships by robotic cranes and slotted into the right stacks with the help of automated trolleys.

Career achievement award No. 2 goes to director Agnes Varda, another 89 - year - old who along with photographer JR made a charming documentary by driving around France, taking photos of people and animals, then posting them giant size on walls and shipping containers.

Her sailor husband is mostly absent (the container ship being the cinematic symbol of choice for 21st - century globalized capitalism), and her parents are mired in debts brought about by tax evasion and the financial crisis.

Captain Phillips is director Paul Greengrass's multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates.