Sentences with phrase «shipping ports in»

It's part and parcel of being one of the leading shipping ports in the world.

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).

Plans to start mining and exporting coal from one of the country's biggest deposits — the Galilee basin — require the expansion of the Abbot Point shipping port in north Queensland, within the boundaries of the famous marine park.

Surprisingly, Miami Beach contains the biggest cruise ship port in the world and with a distinct Latin feel, this city will surprise you in more ways than one.

Cruise ship ports in the Dominican Republic are located on the southcentral (Santo Domingo), north (Puerto Plata), southeastern (La Romana and Punta Cana) and northeastern (Samaná) coasts, visiting especially during the winter months.

Seaports: Cruise ship ports in the Dominican Republic are located on the southcentral (Santo Domingo), north (Puerto Plata), southeastern (La Romana and Punta Cana) and northeastern (Samaná) coasts, visiting especially during the winter months.

Indeed, tourism plays a vital role in this culturally vibrant city with miles of beautifully kept white - sand beaches, a small but energetic gay club scene, a wealth of both informal and sophisticated first - rate restaurants, and one of the greatest Colonial - era neighborhoods in the Western Hemisphere, Old San Juan, which is also home to one of the most popular cruise - ship ports in the Caribbean.

And the 6th largest shipping port in North America is in Tacoma, making the city a major player in the wave of economic globalization.

Not exact matches

The Germans failed to break the blockade, and its surface ships were forced to stay in German ports.

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).

It arrived in Spain on a ship from the Colombian port of Turbo, on the Caribbean coast in the northern state of Antioquia.

They can recommend the proper type of packing to protect your merchandise in transit, arrange to have the goods packed at the port or containerized, quote shipping rates and then book your merchandise onto a plane, train, truck or cargo ship.

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.

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.

Based in the northern port city of Hamburg, the company has shipped its product around the world in five short years, operating in six countries.

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.

Chris Davis, co-founder of the Loot Crate subscription service, describes how his company had to package and ship 250,000 boxes in three days after a massive strike closed down the port of Los Angeles.

Instead, Apple shipped iPhone 7 units with an adapter that lets users plug in tethered headphones through the Lightning port.

In early February Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas battled hurricane - force winds and 30 - foot waves, and the same ship is again facing severe weather, forcing an early return to its New Jersey port.

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.

The oil and shipping group will in the future turn its focus increasingly to its oil, port terminals and drilling units, Chief Executive Nils Andersen told Jyllands - Posten.

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

It launched in the Seychelles in 2015, and because it's an expedition ship, it can navigate smaller ports that larger vessels can't access.

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.

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.

In 2016, $ 90 billion in merchandise shipped through Washington ports, including more than a third of all U.S. aerospace exportIn 2016, $ 90 billion in merchandise shipped through Washington ports, including more than a third of all U.S. aerospace exportin merchandise shipped through Washington ports, including more than a third of all U.S. aerospace exports.

Last year $ 90 billion in merchandise shipped through Washington ports, including more than a third of all U.S. aerospace exports.

The high - grade cocaine was hidden on ships harbored in the Black Sea port of Constanta and registered as 320 tons of bananas.

With regard to oil exports, the product from Alberta has to be moved across B.C. (more pipelines needed) and shipped in tankers (more port construction) to Asia.

«Newmont has two port facilities where we ship concentrate product from our operations in Indonesia and Western Australia.

Chinese workers stand in front of a loaded cargo ship docked at a port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province, Sunday, April 8, 2018.

SAN FRANCISCO / TOKYO (Reuters)- A labor dispute at ports on the U.S. West Coast is disrupting supply chains across the Pacific, forcing some Asian exporters to resort to costly air freight and pushing up shipping rates as more freighters are caught up in long lines to dock.

Gaidar was warned by the assembled powers that day that any suspension of debt payments would result in the immediate suspension of urgent food aid, and that ships nearly arrived at the Black Sea ports would turn around.

There have also been occasional naval visits as Canadian ships en - route to deployment in the Gulf stopped off to show the flag in Shanghai and other Chinese ports and PLA navy ships have made sporadic visits to Canada's west coast naval base at Esquimalt, BC.

However, the Newcastle port operator's decision to introduce a quota system to allocate transport chain capacity and reduce the ship queue is one illustration that provides clear evidence that a shortage of transport capacity is limiting the industry's ability to meet strong growth in coal demand.

Soybeans rallied on news that a cargo ship had hit a dock in one of the Rosario ports in Argentina last week and that this particular dock would need repairs.

The backlog created by Cyclone Debbie's disruption was still being felt in December, with long shipping queues at major coal ports such as Dalrymple Bay.

Johnson has a combined 20 years of experience in container shipping (Maersk), port investments (Hutchison), and sell - side equity research coverage (JP Morgan, Jeffries) of the shipping industry.

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.

Banana was first shipped inland (further than port cities) in the 1880s and to a country other than the USA (England) in 1896 (28).

Catholics were charged with having assembled forty thousand soldiers in Europe disguised as pilgrims, and these were supposedly going to land in England, though none were ever seen and no ships were found in any port to carry them.

If the Israelis wanted the peace in the region, and to stop all the rocket attacks, etc, they would escort the humanitarian aid ships to Gaza, instead of offloading the ships at one of their ports AND treating the aid workers (who are civilians) like criminals.

Their ship, The Speedwell, was ready in the port of Leyden.

Questions, like a fleet of eighteen ships orbing into port, Under the lengthening shadow of the leaning tower, The death toll squared in the market courtyard, about the rigging And the wind whipped ropes.

By the early 19th century, sailing ships brought Chinese paper lanterns from the Philippines to the port of Vera Cruz in Mexico.

About Holland America Line [a division of Carnival Corporation and plc (NYSE: CCL and CUK)-RSB- Holland America Line's fleet of 14 ships offers more than 500 cruises to more than 400 ports in 98 countries, territories or dependencies around the world.

The Merchant Marine Act, also known as the Jones Act was enacted in 1920 and requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on American - made ships with an American crew.

My ship has docked back in my home port and I have been commuting to my ship every morning and trust me when I tell you at 5.45 am the last thing on my mind is food.