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...It has been harder to get through the Panama Canal because of a severe drought, which has lowered water levels and reduced the number of crossings on offer....
...It would eventually aggregate bookings for “freight, road, railway, water transport and air-shipping” services, state media said, without elaborating....
...Charted waters To quote the name of another FT newsletter, we live in disrupted times....
...Dark and metafictional, it would have been among the year’s best even without the freight of Panahi having also been imprisoned, as a critic of the Tehran regime....
...By trusting our team and supporting them with flexibility, they return the favour with excellent work, a great attitude and team spirit....
...“We did not anticipate that transportation and freight costs would soar the way they have,” echoed Target’s chief executive Brian Cornell....
...The stains on the poster are identified as water and blood, presumed to be from the cleaning of Vicious’ syringes. “It says so much,” says Heaton....
...“I don’t believe that is compatible either with the spirit or the letter of the Withdrawal Agreement of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement [TCA],” he added....
...Ready-to-drink cocktails, a broad group that also includes the flavoured alcoholic sparkling water known as hard seltzer, were the only category to record growth last year....
...His curving white “Oshun” sofa is named after the orisha (guiding spirit) of fertility; a wallpaper design coloured the serene blue of Lake Neuchâtel near his home is called “Yemoja”, after a water spirit...
...Most have sheltered in the jungle inside Myanmar, often without adequate food and water....
...“The past year has shown people they can do their jobs just as well from here as from anywhere else,” concludes Elizabeth Hanley, president of Windsor Real Estate Inc....
...Even a bridging agreement to extend current arrangements until a new deal came in would only meet the letter rather than the spirit of our prediction....
...For the senior executives calling shots poolside from their Sag Harbor beach bunkers or English countryside hideaways, spirits were high....
...She will replace Carl Ice, who will retire in January after 42 years at the freight network. More from Reuters....
...Take sparkling water, some cheap alcohol usually distilled from sugar, add some fruit flavouring, stick it in a brightly coloured can — and you have a new US drinks craze, “spiked seltzer”....
...But for the EU, the US’s refusal to talk until it has to goes against the multilateral spirit....
...Charted waters With travel bans from Europe now in place in the US, imports could also be affected as air freight is expected to be limited by the loss of belly-hold cargo capacity from passenger airlines...
...Along with Adobe, Salesforce is “one of the first two cars on the digital transformation freight train,” he said....
...There's a palpable sense that China has betrayed that spirit.”...
...“Physically fit employees are more alert, more productive and more creative, and they exhibit more team spirit,” he once said....
...It’s totally contrary to the spirit in which we are negotiating,” she said, adding that the attempts had failed....
...: $3.8tn, the market for freight trucking in 2017 It is this framing that allows Mr Khosrowshahi to say “we are not even 1 per cent done with our work”. 5....
...But its spirit and principles are slowly gaining traction as Muslims in Indonesia — a secular democracy — become more pious....
...“Jony is a free spirit,” says Stefan Behling, head of studio at architects of Foster + Partners. “He’s a dreamer, he’s an artist, he’s a philosopher....
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