Hints and tips:
...One reason the port is packed is that in nearby trucking yards, empty containers can only be stored in stacks of two. (In the ports they can be stacked higher, but not without limit.)...
...BTA’s lawyers secured a court order to open the container....
...The scrub and cacti of brush country were subsumed by an unruly sprawl of makeshift sheds, truck yards, pipe stacks, drilling rigs, gas flares and pounding pumps....
...Margins are clearly under pressure: prices of new container ships (Chinese yards’ speciality) have fallen 15 per cent in the past year, says Barclays, while the cost of buying second-hand ships has dropped...
...Mr Phillipson added that Boxpark, which is built on an old railway goods yard in Shoreditch, brought retail to an area of London that had missed out on the last development boom....
...Direct selling has moved on from its 1950s roots, when suburban housewives flogged Tupperware containers over vol au vents and cups of tea....
...Yet Mr Pyne insists that the modern ships his company is ordering should be so much more fuel-efficient than previous US coastal shipping, that the cost disadvantages of buying from a US yard will pale by...
...The Danish company has ordered, from a South Korean yard, 10 vessels bigger than aircraft carriers that will carry vast quantities of Chinese-made goods from Asia to Europe....
...Because non-German owners almost never order container ships from German yards, the owner was almost certainly German....
...Some 724 cargo containers full of Toy Story 3 ephemera have landed in the US alone, almost twice the amount of any recent film estimates Panjiva, which tracks international trade....
...“It’s cost effective for Greek owners to build and repair vessels at Chinese yards,” one analyst said....
...The strategy culminated in 2006 and 2007, when the yard built Maersk’s E-Class vessels, the world’s largest container ships, which are 397m long and 56m wide....
...In recent years, hundreds of steel workers and mechanics have lost their jobs to repair yards in Asia and the former Yugoslavia, where labour costs are lower....
...the world’s largest container ships, Maersk’s E Class....
...For many truckers, however, in recent years long stretches of highway have been a less familiar home than the gatehouses and cranes of railroad companies’ intermodal yards, where shipping containers move...
...The land also bears the scars of decades of poverty – collapsed chicken houses, signs advertising “wood for sale”, a faded placard taped to a mailbox printed with the words “Indoor yard sale”....
...rivals, have recently announced cancellations for some container vessels and chemical ships....
...Maersk Line, the group’s container carrier, had its 397m-long E Class ships, the world’s largest box ships, built there....
...part-time investment analyst; moved in August 2004 to Fearnley Fonds as an equity analyst on global shipping and shipyards; currently senior analyst, with colleague Lars Erich Nilsen, on the global shipping, yards...
International Edition