Sentences with phrase «shipping port for»

The name actually comes from the ford crossing in Rock River and the location made the contemporary urban area an ideal shipping port for inland Illinois.

It then grew into an important shipping port for materials and resources from Western Canada through the Great Lakes area.

Boats and ships traversed the estuary, which had become the main shipping port for the state of South Australia.

Not exact matches

It's also a natural deep water port and houses the largest naval fleet in the world, as well as the only major submarine and ship building yards in the U.S.. On top of that, it's becoming a center for the biotech industry and has a growing startup scene.

Best known as the world center of movie - making, LA is also a center for shipping (its port and adjacent Long Beach make up the fifth busiest port in the world).

While the ship, with room for more than 3,500 passengers and 1,300 crew, is in port, the limited power and overflowing waste call to mind the Carnival Triumph, which was left adrift in the Gulf of Mexico last month after an engine room fire.

After wandering the seas for a month and a half, the same tanker docked at a port on the heel of Italy's boot and offloaded what the ship's documents claimed was Greek olive oil.

In early March, as rebels fought for control of the country's east coast ports, where much of the country's oil is refined or shipped abroad, the price of the American crude contract (West Texas Intermediate, or WTI) broke US$ 100 for the first time since 2008.

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.

A positive outcome from the study would mean a need for increased infrastructure at the port, including shipping conveyors and a storage shed.

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.

For the northeast, supplies can be relatively easier to get but can be expensive due to the Jones Act, a maritime policy that requires goods transported by water between US ports to be carried on US - flagged ships.

And Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice president for industry platforms, told me about how blockchain technology is being used by Walmart and others in the food industry to keep track of the source of food for safety reasons, and by Maersk in the shipping industry to greatly reduce paperwork and port time.

U.S. Coast Guard officials also said interference with ships» GPS disrupted operations at a port for several hours in 2014 and at another terminal in 2015.

But the White House only gave Puerto Rico a 10 - day waiver for the Jones Act, a shipping regulation that requires that only US - built ships transport goods between US ports.

Norwegian Cruise Line and MSC Cruises, for example, will temporarily be sending some of their ships to the Western Caribbean and Mexico while the Eastern Caribbean ports recover.

With fewer tourist amenities than other Caribbean venues, Cuba might start out as a good port of call for cruise ships, Jacob said.

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

At the same time, they are letting U.S. coal companies ship their coal through B.C. ports to China, Japan and Korea for that exact purpose.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

WHen they threaten to blow up ports, blow up US ships, express hate for Americans (Christians) and then the tolerance wears thin (as it would anywhere)

Persecuted Christians on Indonesia's Ambon island face desperate conditions and the world is largely ignoring their plight, said two Americans who recently returned from a visit to the island.As many as 500,000 Christians have been driven from their homes and more than 2,500 have been killed by Muslim «jihad» warriors who have publicly declared they will push all Christians off the island or kill them.Christians are fleeing into the mountains, flooding into refugee camps and clogging ports to wait for the few ships ferrying refugees off the island.

The port had served for a century as the main access point for Manchester, linked by a ship canal to Liverpool and the sea.

Perhaps inevitably, the ship listed to port for a time, but she sailed on, gradually righted herself, and now allows us to look back with some clarity on where we have come.

They have 18,000 sq. ft. of office / warehouse space that now houses their USDA processing facilities and ports for shipping and receiving.

For example, Argentinian wines from Mendoza are shipped via Chilean ports, Valparaiso and San Antonio rather than Buenos Aires due to the latter being a 1,100 km distance by either road or rail.

Our itinerary was for three nights on board — with Day 2 being a port of call at Castaway Cay, and then a day at sea to enjoy the ship.

Where We Stayed in Vancouver Our home base for the weekend was the Fairmont Waterfront — directly across from Canada Place (the cruise ship port in Vancouver).

These umbrella strollers are ideal for the smaller spaces on the ship and on navigating ports like the Caribbean islands.

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.

The Nigerian government averred for instance that on 6th of January, 2013 the defendants lifted crude oil using the vessel AUTHENTIC and shipped same to BP Oil Supply of 28301 Ferry Road, Warrenville, Illinois, USA at the port of Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Operators of ships not remaining within that area (other than for reasons purely related to safety of life at sea, weather, navigational safety or military instructions) should allow any of their seafarers to choose not to proceed to the high - risk zone by allowing any such seafarers to leave the ship (or not to join it) at a preceding port.

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

A port would mean less truck traffic, less road wear - and - tear, better air quality, more jobs, more marketability for local goods shipped off Long Island, and a better way to get rid of our garbage.

As a hub for local Asian shipping and global transport, this island city - state is not just the world's busiest port, it's also at the greatest risk of invasion by non-native species.

Conceivably, the drones could sail in circles around a virtual mooring point, or run other preplanned patterns, before returning to port every year for cleaning — no ships necessary.

The Bush administration is pressing ahead with a plan — first revealed here — to make assault ships nuclear so they will not have to pull into hostile ports for fuel.

Ships typically pick up water at a port, carry it for stability, then discharge the ballast water at another port.

Final figures can not be known because official counts are done only after a ship reaches its destination to account for stowaways and passenger movement at ports.

He was addressing his hosts, men such as Frank Popoff, president of US chemicals giant Dow Chemicals, and Erling Lorentzen, chairman of Aracruz Cellulose, whose port for exporting wood pulp had that morning been blockaded by the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior.

And in the Dutch port of Vlissingen, the emissions from shipping for a given area are roughly comparable to emissions from industry.

The Phoenicians had to work hard to keep their ports deep enough for ships to enter.

The U.S. investigation pegged the number at 1,517; one reason for the discrepancy is that, at the time, officials counted passengers only after the ship reached its final destination, to account for passenger changes at ports and stowaways.

But setting a speed limit on cargo ships has been an elusive goal for port cities because shipping traffic is regulated internationally.

Even at noon on this otherwise sunny day, the sky was blanketed in hazy toxic smog from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the entry points for more than half of the goods shipped into the United States and the largest source of air pollution in California.

In 1991, the IMO adopted guidelines which recommend that ships should avoid taking on ballast in shallow areas and during toxic blooms of marine algae; keep accurate records of where and when ballast is loaded; exchange ballast water at sea, where toxic organisms are rare; and discharge sediments into approved areas at the port of destination («End of the line for deadly stowaways», New Scientist, 24 October 1992).

An expanded fleet of six vessels means off - duty ships would have time for maintenance in port, Goodman says.

For competitive reasons, and because ships are registered in various countries without regard to where their owners are based or what ports they visit, this can only be done by a global agreement.

On December 2nd, a ship carrying equipment and supplies for the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica will depart the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.

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 %.