Sentences with phrase «of container 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.

The U. S. Coast Guard, which is investigating on behalf of the National Transportation Safety Board, has interviewed the crew of the container ship.

Hundreds of containers shipped from the U.S. or the Gulf were left stranded in the Pakistani port of Karachi until mid-2012.

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I leave a note for duty officers on the chart table of the container ship Kendal.

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?

Paul Greengrass's gripping account of the taking of a container ship by Somali pirates benefits from exceptional turns by old (Tom Hanks) and new (Barkhad Abdi) alike.

Based on the 2009 raid of the container ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates, it's a triumph of studio filmmaking with a deceptive simplicity that unfolds to reveal surprising complexity, and its palpable tension caused my fingernails to mysteriously grow shorter during its runtime.

Harrison says «I just can't see how it will be economical» to replace the current system of container ships with sail - powered cargo ships.

Not exact matches

Say the ship carrying your containers runs afoul of stormy weather.

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.

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.

The consolidation — including Maersk's takeover of Hamburg Süd, Cosco offer to buy to buy Hong Kong's OOCL, and the merger of three Japanese liners — has almost halved the number of global container shipping firms since 2015.

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.

The main building is made of 17 shipping containers that measure 8 feet wide and 9.5 feet tall.

Each food entrepreneur will have access to a mini farm the equivalent of two acres of land, but the gardens are built vertically in a shipping container, taking up less than 320 square feet.

The Philippines - flagged container ship ACX Crystal and the U.S. warship collided at night just south of Tokyo Bay on June 17.

Watch this video to see how the shipping containers were transformed in the space of 14 weeks.

The second order took up 90 % of a shipping container.

An eight - episode series about the world of shipping containers and global trade may seem like a niche subject, but it doesn't take long for host Alexis Madrigal to convince listeners why the development of this worldwide network has shaped every aspect of life on Earth.

He's also closed or combined several intermodal terminals (hubs designed for the transfer of shipping containers).

Pitch: «BetaBox is a custom prototyping lab built inside of a shipping container.

Nuevo Laredo is a very important passageway in the state of Tamaulipas for drugs heading to the United States because of its connection to routes leading to northeastern US cities, and also because of the fact that US customs does not have the capacity to verify every shipping container that passes through.

U.K. based SEaB Energy, for example, uses compact anaerobic digestion systems in shipping containers to turn organic waste into energy in the form of biogas.

«I'm still very optimistic on the fundamentals of the global container shipping industry,» Chief Executive Soren Skou told Reuters after the quarterly results.

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.

The container shipping unit, Maersk Line, is preparing for the market in Vietnam to cool down after 21 years of high growth, business daily Borsen said.

When a container ship arrives in the United States with a half - million Tweety Bird shirts for Warner Brothers that look like cheap knockoffs because they are the wrong shade of yellow, it is the sourcing company, not the factory, that will get the unhappy call, he said.

«There's a lot of delays, and this is pushing up panamax (container) rates as fewer ships are available for new orders,» a leading Singapore - based broker said.

Singapore - listed Neptune Orient Lines» (NEPS.SI) container shipping unit reported an 8 percent decline in the fourth quarter, partly because of fewer trans - Pacific sailings as a result of the congestion.

G3Box creates cost - effective medical clinics out of recycled shipping containers.

In a world where nearly everything we eat, wear, or use daily comes from somewhere else (and probably arrives on a shipping container), the cost of freight matters.

On an underutilized parking lot south of Market Street, Campsyte's minimal viable product has been erected - a recycled shipping container that can be stacked three stories high to create offices, retail spaces or temporary housing.

The so - called program calls for 100 shipping containers with laptops, furniture, and Land Cruiser vehicles will be set up as makeshift, mobile police stations in Mosul and across five liberated provinces, Canadian Brig. Gen. D.J. Anderson, who is director of partner force development for coalition.

This beast of a machine, as big as a shipping container, uses a closed loop of evaporation and condensation to turn contaminated water into distilled - quality H2O.

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).

Longstanding links between British gangs and Central American cartels have focused on Liverpool and its docks, where container ships bring in vast quantities of cocaine, principally from Venezuela and Ecuador.

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.

Next to the Airstream, modified shipping containers painted in primary colors revealed a laundry room, kitchen, and a pantry stocked with cases of Fernet, an Italian digestif.

Hundreds of thousands of other products were shipped, too, like 56,000 Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy sets; 47,000 TVs (up 1,300 percent year - over-year); 51,000 Bose headphones (vs. 8 last Wednesday); 28,000 Rubbermaid container sets (a deal that was actually made fun of via Twitter users at times); 24,000 pressure cookers; 14,000 iRobot Roomba 595 vacuum robots; 12,000 Fifty Shades of Grey Blu - rays; and 10,000 of Meguiar's X2020 Supreme Shine microfiber towels.

Maersk, Europe's largest shipping line, cautioned Thursday that it's facing a shortage of containers needed to move consumer goods during the peak summer season, for instance.

Think of those large container ships with millions in cargo.

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.

In essence, the company identified the product's shipping container in customs filings instead of what was inside — the Cheetos.

Architects are using shipping containers for a wide range of projects all over the world, including constructing entire shipping container home districts, presenting a lucrative market opportunity.

We believe this process of standardization will have a transformative impact on our world comparable to the way the shipping container standardized commerce in the 1950s and drove globalization, or how the standardization of web protocols in the 1980s gave us the digital information economy we know today.

All, those tiny (in comparison) packages on those ships are intermodal shipping containers — and the biggest lessor in the world of those containers is Textainer — with about 2 million of them.

The Port of Trieste is a trade hub thanks to a significant commercial shipping business, busy container and oil terminals, and steel works.

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

The addition of Greater China Intermodal's 18 container ships...