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...But they couldn’t steer the ship because everyone else was doing the same.” “In the old days, you only needed to get there fast....
...WEBUTECH PTE....
...Products made in hubs including China and Vietnam have been held up by shortages of ships and trucks. Profits from transportation and warehousing are soaring....
...Other institutional clients abandoned ship but Kent stuck with its longstanding stockpicker....
...Amazon, meanwhile, whose entry into Singapore earlier this year was marred by being forced to halt orders when demand exceeded its ability to ship goods, has been reduced to co-opting Uber cars to deliver...
...She said Mr Winters had “steadied the ship, securing the foundations with a rights issue, and he’s also started repositioning the bank”....
...On a single day in July 2011, Somers Cocks reports, six cruise ships carrying 35,000 passengers docked simultaneously. Just this knowledge gives one pause. Yet of course people want to come here....
...The move comes less than six months after Temasek sold its entire 3 per cent stake in SembCorp Marine, one of two big Singapore-based ship repairers and offshore oil rig builders, for S$327m....
...Mr Fredriksen’s plans to invest in new ships are controversial....
...Prices for existing ships would, however, have to reflect the disadvantages of taking on less fuel-efficient ships....
...Its big strategies to drive growth seem to consist of the Kardashians and something management calls “omni-channel retailing“, the latter being something that retailers the world over have been doing for...
...for tighter cruise ship regulation....
...“The value is in the ships.” That could prompt banks to seize debtor shipping firms’ assets rather than try to restructure them....
...Shipowners buy ships speculating on earnings in several years’ time, Mr Stopford says. “That is a pretty amazing thing to do when you consider what some of these ships sell for.”...
...Mr Sohmen-Pao said it had been a tough decision to lay the ship up, knowing it would earn nothing while idle. But layup reduced a ship’s operating costs and would encourage a market recovery....
...Companies’ debt burdens and their obligations to pay for new ships ordered at the height of ship earnings – and shipyard prices – in 2008 are also critical factors....
...Mr Ramos said the Odebrecht unit was investing $5bn in equipment, from drilling ships and floating oil platforms to pipeline laying vessels....
...Vale in talks to sell mega iron ore vessels Brazilian mining giant Vale is in talks with Chinese and other ship owners to sell or lease its planned fleet of giant bulk carriers, Reuters reports....
...The seizure of the arms ship comes alongside the latest evidence of Somali pirates’ increasing ability to strike far off shore....
...In recent weeks it has forced one or two rises in slot rates, but on the Asia-Europe route, containers still ship for an average of about $800 – at least $200 below breakeven....
...As a larger line, NOL would face a greater challenge balancing the need to keep its ships full with the risk of taking too much low-value freight at cheap rates....
...Fleets have grown about 15 per cent in each of the past two years and more ships are on the way....
...But prosecutors say that he told Deutsche Bank that they would be used for buying new ships....
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