Sentences with phrase «largest shipping company»

Maersk, the world's largest shipping company, completed an inaugural test this spring of using a blockchain to track its cargo.

Moller - Maersk Group, the world's largest shipping company by capacity, announced a slump in third - quarter profits on Wednesday due to low freight prices.

Not exact matches

In October 2012, «Spirit» launched, becoming the company's first ship to sail through Australian waters, as well as the largest ship to cruise to Australia year - round.

Kravetz, whose website is filled with large flashing photographs of brownie gift boxes, also warns against trying to compete on free shipping alone: «I don't want to be the company that people come to because of free shipping.»

It was also the largest ship ever built by the Italian shipbuilding company Fincantieri.

COSCO Shipping is a product of a state - driven merger between China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company and China Shipping Group, previously ranked sixth and seventh largest respectively in terms of the world's largest container shipping fleets.

Should the deal go through, COSCO Shipping will become the world's third - largest container shipping line after Denmark's Maersk Line and Switzerland's Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).

In January, the Department of Justice announced that McKesson had settled, for $ 150 million, civil claims that from 2008 to 2013 the company had failed to warn the DEA about the large number of suspicious orders of highly addictive painkillers it had shipped to certain parts of the country.

Everything a large company did, a startup should do — write a business plan; hire sales, marketing, engineering; spec all the product features on day one and build everything for a big first customer ship.

With short delivery times, large quantities to save money and free shipping, this company has understood its clients needs to a tee.

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.

COPENHAGEN, Feb 20 - Denmark's A.P. Maersk, the world's largest container shipping company, sold its North Sea - focused oil and gas business in August to France's Total in a $ 7.5 billion deal in August as it focuses on transport and logistics.

As CEO Cain explains, the new contract required shipping materials to even larger auto - parts companies that assemble components, which, in turn, are sent to assembly plants.

Carnival Corp. (CCL)-- The world's largest cruise company just commissioned four new ships to be built in less than 18 months.

Intel has teased the large - scale release of these 10 - nanometer chips for years, promising they'd deliver better performance with lower power usage than chips built with the company's 14 - nanometer technology, which have been shipping since 2014.

As the company that ships the most goods, Amazon is saving the largest amount of money — but the e-commerce giant also has the funds to deal with an increase.

Large companies are typically notorious for letting their customer service slide, relying on their pure inertia and critical mass to keep them afloat when dissatisfied users jump ship.

Shares of the Miami, Florida - based company which is set to debut the world's largest cruise ship, Symphony of the Seas, rose 1 percent to $ 128.50 in premarket trading.

Westshore Terminals (TSX: WTE), the company that handles the shipping of a large portion of the U.S. coal, issued an open letter asking the prime minister to reject Clark's call for a ban.

The president has claimed in prior Twitter messages that the Post Office loses «a fortune» thanks to Amazon's large shipping volumes while the company benefits from the government's postal service.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

One shipping company is in a partnership with Russia, and another that the U.S. Commerce secretary partially owned is tied to China's largest sovereign wealth fund.

Whether you're shipping tens, hundreds or thousands of packages per day, we are proud to provide international logistics services for small and large e-commerce companies.

CALGARY — TransCanada Corp. is moving ahead with a $ 12 - billion plan to ship western oil to Quebec and the East Coast — the largest project in the company's history and one it compares to the Canadian Pacific Railway in its economic impact for the country and trade benefits overseas.

These 850 - foot long «Aloha Class» ships will be used specifically for Matson's Hawaii service and will provide greater capacity as the company's largest ships.

«We're trying to get plants in larger areas closer to the customers we serve,» Stacks says, adding the new plant helps the company save money on shipping and logistics costs because of its proximity to two large cities.

He notes that the company's largest market outside of Texas is California, and that it also ships to nationwide retail chains.

To help ensure on - time delivery commitments and service levels are met, Franklin Baker contracts with the largest containerized shipping companies in the world to move its cargoes, such as APL Limited, a global container transportation services company.

A flat beer market and wine companies continuing to ship wine offshore in large bladders before bottling it in the United Kingdom is hurting Australia's largest glass bottle maker.

A flat beer market and wine companies continuing to ship wine offshore in large bladders before bottling it in the United Kingdom is hurting Australia's largest glass bottle maker, Owens - Illinois, even though it returned to profit after heavy restructuring.

Today the Company announced that it has shipped a nutricosmetics order to a large retail chain customer with over 4,000 stores throughout the United States.

We are the 5th largest beef processing company in the U.S. and process and ship over 5 million pounds of beef every day.

The company plans to start flying passengers as early as 2009, using the same basic plan that was used to launch SpaceShipOne: A large aircraft acting as a mother ship will carry the spacecraft to around 50,000 feet.

In the next few weeks, the research arm of Australia's largest company, BHP, will carry out tests on heat treatments to sterilise ballast water, using the water that cools the ship's engines.

No matter where you live, the world's largest transportation companies we partner with ship fabrics everywhere.

Our shipping marketplace helps you connect with trusted, feedback - rated service providers of all kinds — large companies, small fleets, single - truck owners and even roadtrippers that compete for your business and offer extra cargo space at a discount.

Funny story: A large shipment of my second book was actually stranded on the ocean for months because the shipping company went bankrupt while my books were in transit!

Distributor: a company that warehouses and ships books to bookstores, libraries, and retailers; the largest book distributors include Ingram and Baker & Taylor

Ingram is one of the largest distribution companies in the world and handles millions of book titles being shipped to bookstores all over the world.

The Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is the companies first large screen tablet and is available to ship starting toady.

Apple shipped 14.25 million iPads during the third quarter, including the mini and its larger 9.7 - inch counterpart, giving the company a 29.7 percent share of unit shipments, according to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS).

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses, the risk that the transactions with Microsoft and Pearson do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion contemplated by the relationship with Microsoft, including that it is not successful or is delayed, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Microsoft and Pearson commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

RIM's half - year delay between announcing and shipping the tablet also tarnished its reputation, since the company spent all its energy attacking the original iPad but, because of the interval, ended up competing against a larger, faster iPad 2.

A large company like Barnes & Noble could, for example, order hundreds of books, return them, and the publisher would be stuck with the costs of printing and shipping.

EnvisionWare, one of the largest providers of self - service products in the public library market, is preparing to ship this month a reporting tool that the company says will thread together and visualize data from its entire line of 22 products.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the effect of the proposed separation of NOOK Media, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, risks associated with the commercial agreement with Samsung, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses (including with respect to the timing of the completion thereof), the risk that the transactions with Pearson and Samsung do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion previously undertaken, including any risks associated with a reduction of international operations following termination of the Microsoft commercial agreement, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Pearson and Samsung commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, the risks associated with the termination of Microsoft commercial agreement, including potential customer losses, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2014, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

These raw materials are purchased by the ton, so they need to be put in large carrier ships and sent all around the world to the companies that will use them to create energy, steel, food products and other consumer goods.

This is the company's largest order on the books at $ 60 million and will ship over the next three years with most of the sales coming in 2014 and 2015.

Today, the Tankers International pool operates 41 ships including those of some of the world's largest tanker companies.

MMI Investments, DHT's largest shareholder, is calling for DHT to reinstate the company's dividend and appoint Robert N. Cowen, a «shipping industry veteran with over 30 years of experience including with DHT's former parent company, Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., to the DHT Board of Directors.»