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...Walmart said it had chartered its own vessels and rerouted deliveries to less-congested ports in order to keep goods moving....
...In Australia, dozens of wharf workers at a DP World terminal at Melbourne port were stood down after refusing to unload a container vessel that had previously docked in Shanghai and Taiwan....
...(FT) Oil relief Oil prices rebounded after Donald Trump ordered US warships to “shoot down” Iranian vessels if they posed a threat....
...Mr Kulkarni said the sector would become more like “Apple v Samsung”, where biotechs competed on adding generation after generation of features....
...Gibraltar releases an Iranian tanker after a court sets aside a last-minute legal bid from the US to seize the vessel and Walmart raises its outlook for the US market while government data show unexpectedly...
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
...Walmart has looked to discount its prices, even for organic groceries, to retain market share....
...Given that military vessels are also built at the site, it is an especially sensitive location....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...Walmart acquired discount stores Wertkauf and Interspar in 1997 but after nine years it conceded defeat, sold 85 stores to Metro AG and incurred a loss of $1bn....
...The licence, held by Amazon China, allows it to buy space from vessel owners and sell it to the public....
...that process has come under attack from one of the world’s most aggressive activist funds: Elliott Associates, which pursued Argentina over unpaid debts to the point of trying to seize one of its naval vessels...
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...However, strikes against vessels are contingent on a UN mandate and an invitation from warring Libyan authorities to take action in their waters....
...But the real foretaste of the future – and digital hell – is with companies such as Walmart and Amazon, he claims....
...I think that is where it gets scary for the Dollar Generals and Walmart,” he says....
...Hua Chunying, spokeswoman for the Chinese foreign ministry, on Friday said there were 63 Vietnamese ships near the rig, but refused to say how many Chinese vessels were there....
...Target’s gain year-to-date has beaten Walmart’s performance....
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
...Neither could the Suffolk potter Jonathan Keep, whose clay vessels are literally decorated with the sound of music....
...Food minister K V Thomas said the government would allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, paving the way for retail giants like Walmart and Tesco to enter the market....
...In a separate case, New York-listed Diana Shipping said in December it was owed $4.8m for charter of the M/V Houston, which it had chartered for five years to China’s Shagang Shipping....
...The Supreme Court will rule, not on the merits of the case, known as Dukes v Walmart, but on Walmart’s claim that the class is too broadly constituted, and that the complaints should be brought on a more...
...Like the Airbus A380, the Triple-E is a bet on a future of large vessels travelling among giant hubs rather than smaller and more flexible vessels....
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