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...The company attributed the fall to companies raising smaller amounts at lower valuations....
...Shippers have come to regard facilities in mainland China as a more attractive option than Hong Kong, to which goods manufactured in the delta region need to be trans-shipped by barge, small container ship...
...“The biggest risk we see is that ‘agaveros’ will come out of planting for the next five years ahead,” said Dave Ingram, chief supply chain officer at Bacardi, which makes Patron, Cazadores and Corzo tequila...
...Already, water levels in the Rhine river in Europe have been so low that barges vital for transporting goods have struggled to run....
...Car companies including General Motors and Ford said on Tuesday that they would work to reroute shipments to nearby ports, while Nissan said it did not expect significant disruption....
...It planned to send the coal by barge down the Zambezi river to an Indian Ocean port but quickly ran into problems....
...Health kick: A group of Nestlé shareholders has asked the world’s biggest food company to reduce its reliance on unhealthy products....
...Following a group show at the Smithsonian last year, Lugo’s recent exhibition at R & Company in New York drew upon personal narratives, “remixing” historical inspirations with “motifs inspired by the street...
...And now Bibby Stockholm, a triple-decker brick of a barge on which floats the UK government’s backlogged asylum policy....
...“We always suggest investing in a portfolio . . . to mitigate risk rather than putting all your eggs in one basket,” said Madeleine Ingram, a director at Calculus Capital, an EIS and VCT fund manager....
...And then eventually they will move these towers in pieces on to the barges. Megan Daly Imagine there’ll be three to four of them on a barge going down....
...And I just urge everybody to be a bit patient while the ferry companies work their way through the backlog....
...However, ocean tankers arriving at Cambodia’s coastal ports would still need to offload their containers on to barges capable of carrying up to 1,000 tonnes up the 4.7-metre-deep canal in the rainy season...
...The restaurants — Saltmakers by the Sea, Salty’s Grill & Bakery, the Big Barge — seem to open and close at random. Soon I discover why: the same people — Amba, Holly and Imogen — work in them all....
...As in Albany, European companies are centre stage....
...Even as we talked a soya barge slunk along the skyline....
...What binds all three of these London-listed funds is that they push the envelope of the private equity model by going to places that most big operators won’t touch with a barge pole, and generating real...
...On the rise are artist agencies, which act more like sports management companies rather than as partners, who share in the upside — and sometimes downside — of their wards....
...Tell us why every company doesn’t just do a Jack Welch and put its business on a barge and move it to whatever is the cheapest domicile for labour, with the least rules for protecting . . . that protect...
...The grain is then loaded into barges, sailed via inland waterways to Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta, where the cargo is loaded on to larger seaborne tankers....
...Recruiting more barge pilots to increase traffic in the Danube delta could help, he said. “The pressure of cargo mounts. Ukrainian neighbours need to export those cargoes....
...And actually, a lot of people were not touching this arrow with a barge pole, and yet they were kind of able to double down, perhaps without the same kind of scrutiny for short-term, midterm returns from...
...Brussels also promised to help organise convoys of trucks, trains and barges to transport the grain to ports where it can be sent to countries in need....
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