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...Mars bought VCA, an operator of veterinary clinics, for $9.1bn in 2017 and acquired Wrigley’s chewing gum for $23bn in 2008 but its recent purchases have been smaller....
...Flex LNG, operator of the Flex Volunteer, an LNG carrier that had been due to sail through the affected area, said on Monday that the vessel’s charterers had ordered it to divert via the Cape of Good Hope...
...Cargill’s head of ocean transport has called on the shipping industry to give wind power a chance in its efforts to decarbonise, as one of the world’s largest marine freight operators prepares to test the...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 3. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Ministers were critical of ferry operator P&O for using agency staff to replace workers on its ships earlier this year....
...The shares of the trio of big cruise operators have each about doubled so far in 2023. Carnival announced record revenue in its most recent quarter....
...The measures against Micron outlined by the Cyberspace Administration of China bar critical infrastructure operators from buying products containing the US company’s chips because of alleged “serious network...
...Describing the landscape around Echo Camp, Virts says, “the mountains are the most beautiful I have seen across Earth, Venus and Mars.”...
...Woronka added that the slow recovery in the cruise industry — due in part to more onerous Covid-19 restrictions from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention than are enforced on other travel operators...
...The operator handling routes from Shanghai has offered a 20 per cent discount on rates....
...It raised $9.1mn back in April, in a seed round led by Alameda Research and Ship Capital. Since then, not a whole lot of news....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 28 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Its ports subsidiary is now among the world’s top three largest port operators....
...A vessel said to be owned by Roman Abramovich left a Turkish marina after a Financial Times report that the port’s UK-listed operator risked violating sanctions....
...“You have these highly efficient ports sending these big ships in waves because of these Covid lockdowns,” he said. “They’re unloading these huge ships . . . to ports that are one-third as efficient....
...The more that leave, the worse delays get, and the less money those owner operators can make.”...
...To right the ship, JAB turned to Mr Laubies, a consumer industry veteran who spent decades at Mars Inc....
...Rival cruise operator Carnival advanced more than 7 per cent....
...On some days, he would set off for work having paid for childcare, only to find there were no bikes to ship, or pay for the day....
...Larger ships help operators to benefit from economies of scale, reducing costs and emissions....
...CD&R’s portfolio includes Motor Fuel Group, a forecourt operator of 900-plus sites....
...In the meantime, operators hope a broad set of measures, including multiple tests for guests on ships and before the trip, UV air filtration, additional medical facilities, cuts in capacity and contactless...
...The theme was 5G moving beyond the rollout of networks by operators to actual deployment of the tech by business....
...Another cruise line operator, Carnival, started the trend when it reopened the junk bond market with a $4bn debt deal at a whopping 12 per cent yield....
...Before the pandemic there was a secondary market for ships in which smaller operators bought up boats from the industry’s dominant participants....
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