Sentences with phrase «container shipping port»
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Spanish police have made a record cocaine seizure, finding 8,740 kilos of the drug hidden among 1,080 boxes of bananas in a shipping container at the southern port of Algeciras.
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Retailers have been forced to pay fees to trucking companies to compensate for the increased time and trouble, while shipping companies have been diverting container ships carrying Northeast - bound cargo to ports in Baltimore, Montreal and elsewhere, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
Hundreds of containers shipped from the U.S. or the Gulf were left stranded in the Pakistani port of Karachi until mid-2012.
The Port of Chicago is one of the nation's largest inland cargo ports, and the city is the world's third - largest handler of shipping containers (after Singapore and Hong Kong).
Transporting containers from ports inland via railroads is 10 - 30 % more cost efficient than shipping by trucks.
Johnson has a combined 20 years of experience in container shipping (Maersk), port investments (Hutchison), and sell - side equity research coverage (JP Morgan, Jeffries) of the shipping industry.
London has suffered the fate of many once - great port cities — container ships now discharge their cargoes far down the Thames, and the city's wharves are deserted.
Right now, Marisa is very concerned that our borders and ports are vulnerable — the vast majority of cargo containers enter our country through ship or truck, and yet the inspection rates for both are woefully low.
Scientists model the movement of ants to streamline the handling of shipping containers at international ports.
He estimated that the entire device, when built, could be transported by truck through city streets or past shipping containers in ports.
In September 2006, agents descended on two ports in Rio de Janeiro state and seized 1.65 metric tons of endangered flowers packed inside a shipping container.
Now scientists have modeled this extremely efficient foraging to optimize the handling of shipping containers at international ports.
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.
The invention could plug a gaping hole in American security: the unexamined 6 million ship containers that enter U.S. ports every year.
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.
Key components of land - based sources include litter, trash and debris from construction, ports and marinas, commercial and industrial facilities, and trash blown out of garbage containers, trucks, and landfills.1 Ocean - based sources, such as, overboard discharges from ships and discarded fishing gear, account for the other 20 %.
Load the 40 ft. overseas container on the container truck for delivery to the port for shipping.
About Blog Lloyd's List is the leading source for the maritime industry covering all sectors of the shipping world including tankers, containers, ports and dry bulk.
Completed on time and under budget, the upgraded port now has 4.6 acres added to its container yard, providing the facility with an increased capacity for stacking and storing ship containers.
After sailing through the busy port and getting my closest look yet at the huge container ships that dock outside of Singapore, underdeveloped St John's Island felt a world away from the... Read more about St John's Island.
Mary Iverson's imagery was initially inspired by her fascination with Seattle's port, and her observation of the massive shipping containers transacted there.
In the early 2000s, the city of Oslo began to redevelop the sagging industrial port of Bjørvika, replacing its rusted containers and ships with office buildings, schools, and blockbuster museums.
Now fake shipping containers have come to North America; On the way to a meeting in Vancouver's Strathcona district up near the container port, I was shocked to see what I thought was the biggest container housing project ever, except it's not; it's a building designed to look like a big stack of containers.
Reuters reports that a Giant African Snail was recently found - and destroyed - in a shipping container at the port of Brisbane.
Last June, the Brazilian authorities discovered 91 shipping containers full of trash in the nation's ports, all exported from Britain.
There are millions of shipping containers at ports across the country just waiting to be recycled into relocatable, durable, securable and sustainable buildings that become homes, businesses and school gymnasiums around the world.
A.P. Møller - Mærsk is an integrated transport and logistics company with multiple brands and is a global leader in container shipping and ports.
Exploding shipping containers have popped up — literally — in western Washington's ports.
His clients include companies involved within ports and terminals; bulk, container and RoRo shipping; 3PLs and freight forwarders as well as blue chip retailers and consumer goods companies.
Craig is particularly well known for his expertise in container shipping, multimodal transport, ports and terminals and project shipments.
Stemming from his role at DHS, Stewart has a deep background in the international implications of US security policy — from the disputes over US collection of data from international businesses to the US statutory command that all containers being shipped to the US be scanned before leaving foreign ports.
A truck transports a shipping container at the cargo terminal port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province, Friday, April 6, 2018.
29, 2018 photo, container ships is docked at the Yangshan port in Shanghai.
«I time the number of moves they do an hour from the port to the ship [as they load or unload containers].
Its port facilities are the largest on the eastern seaboard of the United States and it is the key shipping container facility for this region.
The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the United States and is among the world's largest shipping ports.
About Blog Lloyd's List is the leading source for the maritime industry covering all sectors of the shipping world including tankers, containers, ports and dry bulk.
In addition to tax incentives, the Virgin Islands are equipped with a functional freight and transportation system for container and bulk shipping, utilizing our harbors and deep water ports.