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...“Some of the competitors in [the] Greater Bay Area continue to receive government incentives, hence able to offer attractive lower price option[s] to shipping lines,” the company added....
...The port shippers only decide that a year is good enough to produce a vintage port every three or four years, and they call that “declaring a vintage”. 48....
...Rezakhani is currently serving a five-year prison term after pleading guilty earlier this year to a separate scheme to defraud a small bank, consumer-tech giant Apple and various shippers....
...Shippers have been increasingly bringing their goods in via Canada, east coast ports or by air to circumvent the congestion....
...Yet the view from Angels Gate Park, overlooking San Pedro Bay, illustrates why automation and other efficiency measures are becoming urgent....
...It also reaches our tables having often travelled huge distances from tropical plantations as part of a formidable logistical exercise carried out by producers, shippers and distributors....
...In the dotcom bubble a first generation of high-speed shippers including Webvan and Kozmo blazed out by expanding too quickly with high costs and shaky systems....
...The main proposal has come from Exxon and TransCanada, the Canadian pipeline company, for a $41bn, 1,700m pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Alberta that would then connect with an existing system that carries...
...If the downturn continues much longer, Braemar’s Mr Sjoberg suggests, they may instead need to send gleaming-hulled new vessels each costing $170m straight to the parking bay....
...Since 1870, the family has been wine merchants and shippers, innkeepers and cigar merchants but today concentrates on shipping wine from around the world to its cellars in Greenwich....
...Simplot Company was the largest shipper of fresh potatoes in the country. In the early 1960s, the company became the main supplier of McDonald’s french fries....
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