Sentences with phrase «of trade ships»

Adorning them with patterns from African Dutch batik fabric, Shonibare has designed his sculptures to evoke the billowing sails of trade ships, conjuring notions of cultural history and national and ethnic identities.

They reached some regions by means of trade ships, thus expanding their habitats.

If the captain of a trading ship fires cannon on a canoe to prevent the canoeists trading with another boat vying for their trade, that boat's owners can sue the captain: Tarleton v M'Gawley (1793) Peake 270.

Not exact matches

That's why even if I am headed to a trade show, I'll ship everything I'll need — like a booth, materials, and books — to my hotel ahead of time so that I can be flexible when flying.

In an era of wagon caravans and sailing ships, those trading ties did little to extend a then - insular China's geopolitical clout.

Several ships carrying cargoes of sorghum from the United States to China have changed course since trade disputes have increased between the two countries.

Managing shipping on your own is complicated, often requiring the help of additional employees who require training on the vast array of shipping options, tax consequences, customs clearance rules and international trade policies.

«I think the best way to do that is to allow for the kind of open and smart trade between provinces that would facilitate that and it would include increasing the ability of Alberta to ship more product to the west.»

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.

Several times before I've commented on the implications of a possible U.S. - China trade war in response to Trump's repeated calls to raise tariffs on goods shipped in from the Asian giant.

People will be able to track the progress of ships and their cargo around the world in the network and transactions involving the cargo and ships will be done in Tulipcoin — so the value should rise in line with international trade.

LaRocco is the author of «Opportunity Knocking» (Agate Publishing 2014), «Dynasties of the Sea: The Ships and Entrepreneurs Who Ushered in the Era of Free Trade» (Marine Money 2012) and «Thriving in the New Economy: Lessons from Today's Top Business Minds» (Wiley 2010).

Contract talks between the two sides have dragged on for nine months, leading to labor tensions, chronic cargo congestion and shipping delays at ports along the coast that collectively handle nearly half of all U.S. maritime trade and more than 70 percent of imports from Asia.

D'Avignon pointed out that Alberta and B.C. have the most integrated economies in Canada and if costs rise in B.C., it will affect the cost of trade goods going to Alberta and the cost to ship Alberta products such as grain from West Coast ports.

It started with «negative screening»; he gives the example of Quakers, centuries ago, vetoing the use of their funds to finance ships involved in the slave trade.

Coulson said the Supreme Court's interpretation has implications for many trade laws, including those that permit direct shipping of wine to consumers in Ontario but not in B.C.

Without mentioning specific trade arrangements such as NAFTA or the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), Trump used the moment to boast that «America has finally turned the page on decades of unfair trade deals that sacrificed our prosperity and shipped away our companies.»

Trump's explanation of where the jobs went was simple enough to resonate with even the most low - information voters: They went to Mexico and China, shipped there by politicians who cut trade deals tailored to benefit multinational corporations, not American workers.

The Port of Seattle received the first cargo ship from China to the United States in 1979, and the first state trade mission to China was organized and headed by then - Gov Dixy Lee Ray.

About 90 % of world trade is transported by sea and the stakes are high in increasingly crowded shipping lanes.

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.

The Vancouver Board of Trade persuaded the federal government to dredge the First Narrows for shipping.

While China is the chief source of the global oversupply of steel and aluminum, it currently ships little steel and aluminum to the US because of previously imposed trade barriers.

First, trade imbalances originate in other countries that resolve them directly by exporting excess savings to the United States, and indirectly by exporting excess production in the form of intermediate goods shipped to several countries in a value chain, which in turn run trade surpluses with the United States.

Governments routinely squeezed trading posts for tax revenue, taking a cut of all goods shipped through the port.

The economics of large, labour - intensive plants no longer work in the United States or Canada in an era of robots and inexpensive shipping from Asian countries, most of which have no free trade agreement with either the U.S. or Canada.

Labor has been ramping up its opposition to the trade, ever since video surfaced last month of Australian sheep dying in horrific conditions on board a ship.

Most of the 75 ships transport oil and gas products worldwide, presenting a conflict of interest for the commerce secretary as he negotiates trade deals.

APM Reports published a story Monday reporting that Ross» chief of staff, Wendy Teramoto, not only served on the shipping companies» boards, but helped negotiate a trade deal with China.

This sea is also a major shipping route, the disruption of which would interrupt vital supply lines of energy, food and other trade with serious impacts on the regional and global economies.

The value of those ships stands to grow as Ross negotiates trade deals on behalf of the U.S. and advises on U.S. infrastructure policy.

This afternoon, former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Gary Gensler is slated to ship a speech at MIT's Business of Blockchain Conference.

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

Her work history includes successfully launching several businesses ranging from online sales to trading internationally, and she has shipped to every continent in the world with the exception of Antarctica.

The strength of world trade and the shift in trade patterns can also be seen in global shipping freight rates, as shipping still accounts for around two - thirds of the value of all international goods transportation.

Shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) were trading slightly higher Monday despite reports that the iPhone 8 will be shipped later than usual.

@@@@ Sean p.OK none of your people came on a slave ships the blacks in America are Hebrew Isrealite the song kombiyah is Hebrew not African and you read Deuteronomy chapter 28:68 its talking about the transatlantic slave trade not the first physical real Egypt in north Africa look at Washington DC look at the Washington monument that is not European that's from first Egypt USA is second spiritual Egypt

Most of the royals no longer rule outright (as in control of nations) But through power, money and influence control behind the scenes, including oil, banks, realestate, and world trade and shipping.

As T. V. Philip observes, almost all of those who went out as missionaries in the earlier period were «a distinctive social class in British society... of craftsmen, small traders, shoe makers, printers, ship builders, school teachers...» William Carey, for instance, plied the trade of a cobbler to supplement his meagre earnings as a village school teacher and Baptist pastor.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18 and cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!

Trade was primarily responsible for the development of an elaborate network of well built roads and a system of shipping which made full use of the potentialities of the Mediterranean Sea.

«I see a lot of customers jumping ship from the big publicly traded companies and looking our way with everything we have to offer.

For example, at the height of the slave / sugar / rum trade, ships which had left full for England, often had little cargo for their return trips to the islands.

We visited the Scheepvaartmuseum, or the Netherlands Maritime Museum and went on board the Amsterdam, a replica of a Dutch spice trading ship that was built from 1985 to 1990.

«We had just completed a batch of a new product to be shipped on Friday that the client was introducing at a trade show in Las Vegas that Monday at a luncheon,» he explains.

The company traded food products and lumber and was involved in the building and operation of ships related to this business.

The trade can have a somewhat negative attitude to bulk shipping and in - market bottling, which is surprising as it has been a feature of the wine trade for most of its history: until the 1960s it was common for wines like cru Burgundy and classed growth Bordeaux to be bulk shipped and bottled all over Europe.

Mark Lansley, managing director of Broadland Wineries, that runs its own third party bottling facility in the UK as well as shipping bulk wine to help create its own brands for the on and off - trades, it is a complex issue.

About 10.6 million litres of bottled Australian wine worth over US$ 80.67 million was shipped to China, slightly shy of France's US$ 96.65 million, based on the Chinese trade organisation's data.