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...But crossing the gulf to the real world is just the first step in a process likely to take years, as the company slowly extends the areas in which it feels confident to drive....
...Since then, it has invested in financial services, commodities, real estate, transportation and retail....
...Morten Arntzen, chief executive of OSG, a tanker company, counters: “Transportation is a really minuscule part of the delivery cost of gasoline....
...Consumers, manufacturers and retailers in the US mid-west and inland eastern cities could all benefit....
...It was chartered as an “international business district” – a hub for companies working in China....
...You can see it in the pilots. Like Ahab, McAllister went to sea aged 18, working as a deckhand on oil ships in the Gulf of Mexico before earning his captain’s licence and landing in New York in 1979....
...Paper maker Temple Inland said third quarter shipments would fall after it sold one of its plants in California and closed another in New York due to flooding....
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