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...First, British whaling ships pillaged the north Atlantic, launching from London to colonies in North America. After the American Revolutionary War, the whalers of the British empire moved southward....
...More than a third of US bridge spans need significant repairs and should be replaced, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association....
...In the meantime, the Americans and Chinese are each brushing up on the thinking of Alfred Mahan, the 19th-century military strategist and author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History....
...The Ukrainians used two Neptune anti-ship missiles designed and produced by Kyiv-based Luch State Design Bureau. The missile, first tested in 2016, is evidently a success....
...Marina Manolopoulou, the Athens-based founder of Kultia Jewels, is another new-home builder. Hers is being designed by Babis Ioannou of architectural practice ISV....
...Home Depot has received most of the goods it expected for the fourth quarter, even though there are about 95 ships still anchored off the shore of California, according to chief operating officer Ted Decker...
...Shipping by sea is the far cheaper option, he observed. “When you [ship goods by] air, it comes at a cost; it eats into your margin, [so] air is the last trigger you pull,” he said....
...Sea-Intelligence....
...Now Pye, author of an acclaimed history of the North Sea as well as works of historical fiction, has balanced the scales with a compact but lustrous gem of a book....
...A few minutes’ walk from the Gateway of India, it overlooks shoreline palm trees and sailboats on the Arabian Sea....
...The problems confronting contemporary architecture are all in this city: rising sea levels, mass tourism, the globalisation, the materials, the shipping, the waste....
...curve in the conduct of domestic monetary conditions combined to set off a general American-led inflation and commodity super price cycle....
...Then they block the routes between east and west, forcing all ships to sail around the south of Australia, and calculate how much trade is lost to the increased shipping costs....
...“So far, retail sales data are painting a picture of a V-shaped recovery in consumer spending, but it is doubtful this momentum can be sustained,” said Jefferies economists Aneta Markowska and Thomas Simons...
...(FT) Shipping lines stalled For the container shipping industry, whose fortunes depend on globalisation, coronavirus has proven a formidable foe: sailors are stranded on ships, while containers arrived...
...retro-futuristic V-shaped gate....
...On display at the V&A is a panel of floral marquetry attributed to Marc Simon that once decorated the ship’s deluxe Beauvais suite....
...and elsewhere,” say the authors of a 2013 paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society....
...The flows, while modest, suggest traders are already finding ways to profit by shipping American oil abroad, even as it remains one of the world’s biggest crude oil importers....
...Other endorsers include DNV, the American Bureau of Shipping and Lloyd’s Register, which set standards for ships and offshore structures, as well as Network Rail....
...A protest called “V-day” — V being for vaffanculo, the Italian equivalent of “fuck off” — drew 80,000 people to one event....
...China is also increasingly patrolling the South China Sea with armed coastguard ships, instead of fishery bureau vessels....
...bureau chief for the FT....
...Two towered above us, their legs bound alarmingly to 12ft stilts, incongruous against the piles of shipping containers....
...He bought a ship in 1950, starting what became one of the world’s largest shipping groups. In rare interviews, Mr Ofer cuts a genial, unassuming figure: small in stature, with ursine features....
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