Sentences with phrase «of merchant ships»

Some have the colors of merchant ships; others are flying the king's standard.

«With 90 percent of world trade carried by sea, the global network of merchant ships provides one of the most important modes of transportation» of intrusive species, says the study, which also estimates that bioinvasion is responsible for about $ 120 billion in financial losses per year.

Global average temperature The mean surface temperature of the Earth measured from three main sources: satellites, monthly readings from a network of over 3,000 surface temperature observation stations and sea surface temperature measurements taken mainly from the fleet of merchant ships, naval ships and data buoys.

Thousands of merchant ships were lost each year.

Nevertheless, in 1942 the state decided to declare war on German and Italian forces who had sunk a number of their merchant ships.

On 24 June 1911, George Washington participated in the Coronation Fleet Review by the United Kingdom's newly crowned king, George V. Stationed at the head of the second row of merchant ships, George Washington — full dressed for the occasion [19]-- was reported by The Times as «by far the largest ship present».

His first order: to take a dozen marines, board one of the merchant ships packed with refugees, and secure it from the bands of deserting South Vietnamese soldiers who were seizing ships and killing the crews.

One might say, glibly, that Lucie Borleteau's Fidelio, the Odyssey of Alice transplants the standard concerns of French art movies — books and sex — to the unusual setting of a merchant ship.

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German Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee decided to use his ships as raiders to attack merchant ships off the coast of South America to disrupt commerce.

Containers were painted with the weight of oil, the name of the farm where the olives were pressed, the merchant who shipped the oil, and the official who verified this information.

Some merchants have taken the mystery out of checkout by offering free shipping across their product lines.

This meant dealing with merchants who weren't familiar with the intricacies of shipping and the costs involved, or best practices for describing a product.

Merchants handled inventory, shipping, and listing their products on the site, while Shop.ca assisted where necessary and looked after customer service, taking a cut of every sale.

Its service makes it easy for e-commerce merchants to provide a wide array of shipping options, seamlessly fulfilling orders for customers.

Soviet merchant ships as well as vessels of the U.S. Seventh Fleet patronize its efficient port and repair yards.

For online merchants who sold during the 2013 holiday season, when asked which types of discounts were most effective, 48 percent indicated that «limited time sales and discounts» drove the highest conversions, with «free shipping» ranking second at 39 percent.

Products sold through FBA are eligible for service through Amazon Prime — namely, free two - day shipping and / or free regular shipping, depending on the order.336 Since many merchants selling on Amazon are competing with Amazon's own retail operation and its Amazon Prime service, using FBA offers sellers the opportunity to compete at less of a disadvantage.

It also recognized the desirability of moving away from the Anglo - Dutch - American system of «merchant banking» based on short - term lending against collateral in place, or for shipping of goods already produced.

Lack of familiarity with local shopping habits, language barriers, complex shipping and fulfillment needs, tax laws, foreign currencies, and confusion over payment methods are all deterrents that hold many merchants back.

British and Dutch merchant banking was to extend short - term credit on the basis of collateral such as real property or sales contracts for merchandise shipped («receivables»).

So merchants could significantly reduce product return rates by simply ensuring they ship the right item and ensure they use safe shipping modes that could reduce risk of damage.

Oden also has a curious habit of including excerpts whose only distinction is that they contain somewhat involved metaphors — a journey from Peking to Canton, one thief accusing another to the police, a merchant momentarily given false hope as he watches his ship founder at sea, an emperor choosing a day - laborer as his son - in - law, the difference in value between a pound of gold and a pound of feathers, a corpse still able to perform some of the functions of a living body — as if such metaphors were intrinsically humorous.

Merchant ships were all free - men who each owned a percentage of the cargo being carried.

Merchants Market Group consists of five operating companies, all reporting to President Rick Wilson: Merchants Export in Palm Beach, Fla., which buys and consolidates all of the products and ships them to the Caribbean distribution centers.

The ivory combs recovered from the wreckage in the hole are identical to combs found in the remains of El Matancero, a Spanish merchant ship that sank off Mexico in 1742, but none of the 16 different crucifixes and religious medals recovered from the hole is like any of the 120 different crucifixes and medals found on the Matancero.

the golden age of piracy happened bc conditions on merchant ships, and the british navy, were so horrible and oppressive that sailors were like bump this and turned to piracy bc 1) it's wayyy for democratic and 2) better shares of the booty.

The company still does 65 % of its business in uniforms for the merchant marine, Navy and Coast Guard and in supplies for the «slop chest» (like an Army PX or Navy ship's service), which every merchant vessel is required to have.

Despite claims of the targeted nature of letters of marque, historically these mostly allowed an aggrieved merchant to attack a broad category of targets based on the nationality of the other ships.

[120][121] Trade and exports Ghana Export Treemap by Product (2014) from Harvard Atlas of Economic Complexity ■ 1st image: Container ships and Merchant ships being loaded and unloaded at Intermodal freight transport of Tema Harbour.

Barely 48 hours after a merchant ship hijacked of the Coast of Benin Republic waters, have Nigerian Navy Special Forces foiled an attempt by sea pirates to hijack and abduct 25 foreign nationals aboard a Maersk merchant ship on Nigerian waters, carrying general -LSB-...]

The International Maritime Bureau said Thursday that Pirates have kidnapped 10 sailors from a merchant ship off the coast of southern Nigeria in the latest attack in the restive region.

In the first nine months of 2010 Somali pirates were involved in 127 attacks on merchant ships, 35 of which were hijacked.

An online medium had yesterday, reported that Biafra agitators have allegedly hijacked a merchant ship and threatened to blow it up with its foreign crew if government authorities do not release its detained leader agitating for a breakaway state of Biafra.

Cuomo vetoed a measure that would have made it harder for the State Liquor Authority to crack down on merchants who ship booze to states where out - of - state purchases are prohibited, saying it would turn New York into a «haven for entities intent on breaking other state's laws.»

The Hijacked MT Leon Dias is in Coast of Benin Republic The merchant ship, MT LEON DIAS that was allegedly hijacked by gunmen is current off the Coast of Cotonou in the Benin Republic.

The Act forces Puerto Rican merchants to use American ships and ports for commerce and adds millions of dollars of unnecessary costs to industry.

Specifically, since as a pirate is considered hostes humani generis (enemy of the human race), a merchant ship could kill pirates with impunity and probably pass any legal challenges in their next port of call.

The latter are often made up of former members of various armed forces, who embark on merchant ships and guard them during transits through high risk waters.

Historically a heavily armed merchant ship crosses the line into a warship or privateer of the flag states.

Beginning in 2002, they spent several weeks each year searching the coastal cliffs and the dried - up lagoon for signs of a harbor that might have sheltered merchant ships like those depicted in Hatshepsut's wall carvings.

Given the cities» historical trade networks, researchers believe that this high incidence of the normally rare mutation resulted from a few polydactyl merchant - ship cats taking shore leave as far back as the mid-18th century.

Early telescopes sold like mad to merchants, who used them to spot approaching trade ships in hopes of beating out competitors.

In March, the team reported the discovery of the wreck of the HMS Tarpon, a British submarine from World War II that sank with around 59 crewmembers aboard after a battle with an armed German merchant ship in 1940.

To come into force, the Ballast Water Convention requires 30 nations to ratify the treaty, which they have — but those nations must hold the registrations for 35 per cent of the world's merchant shipping tonnage.

Cecilia de Castro, lead author of the review, commented: «This study comes at a pertinent time, providing further evidence to highlight the importance of the IMO Ballast Water Convention, which has recently reached 35 per cent of world merchant shipping tonnage and will enter into force on 8/09/2017.

In October Steven Miller, a researcher in the marine meteorology division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, announced that he and his team had matched 1995 satellite data to a firsthand account from a British merchant ship, the SS Lima, and found a section of the Indian Ocean that glowed for three nights in a row.

This map from the data visualisation studio Kiln, in collaboration with the UCL Energy Institute, gives an idea of the scale of the global merchant shipping fleet, using data from 2012:

-- Martin Gassmann, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, Directionality of underwater radiated noise from contemporary merchant ships

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