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...Wallenius Wilhelmsen, the world’s biggest operator of car-carrying ships, has reported record annual profits as growing exports of Chinese electric vehicles helped drive demand....
...Container lines have been able to reactivate idle ships to meet the extra demand created by longer journeys....
...Lasse Kristoffersen, chief executive of Wallenius Wilhelmsen, operator of the largest fleet of car-carrying ships, said his company’s vessels had also sped up....
...The name of its registered owner in the Marshall Islands: Social Club Inc....
...The newly formed “Google DeepMind” unit will be led by him, with a clear mission to develop “general AI systems” that are even more “capable and responsible”, and can be integrated into new products and services...
...Data compiled by MariTrace, a ship-tracking service, showed that as of Tuesday evening, only 210 ships were traversing the Red Sea, the route to and from the Suez Canal, one of the biggest changes in international...
...In European countries experiencing recessions, demand for express services fell....
...This has led to a backlog of ships waiting to cross between the Atlantic and Pacific, and made it more expensive....
...“This is just the beginning of the consolidation rocket ship,” one senior Wall Street executive told DD. The FT has followed Fink’s dance into private markets closely....
...These would service a long-standing deep seaport inside Kampot’s sleepy cow pasture and rice field-filled special economic zone....
...Ministers were critical of ferry operator P&O for using agency staff to replace workers on its ships earlier this year....
...About five years ago, Ma returned to help right the ship. Officially given the title of special assistant to her husband, her authority within the company soon exceeded that modest designation....
...Hacking Inc....
...“Being at McKinsey China feels like being on a sinking ship,” said one junior consultant. McKinsey told the Financial Times it had a “solid client and recruiting pipeline” in China....
...Alphabet hopes its own conversational AI service, Bard, will stop users from jumping ship. Big Tech’s embrace of generative AI has sparked frenzied interest among investors....
...“The market has historically underestimated the long-term impact of new [Apple] product/services launches,” analysts at Morgan Stanley wrote in a note to clients earlier this month....
...More specifically, how to ship more ammunition to those fighting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, fearful that if western governments can’t increase both the scale and speed of supplies, Kyiv could run dangerously...
...“China is the growth engine . . . and is now the only market without a return to service,” the company said. “Hopefully, this will start to change in 2023.”...
...Even so, the raw number of cancellations on Netflix isn’t a good look for a service that increasingly seems like a mausoleum for abandoned projects....
...Last year, Pontoppidan worked on Maersk’s order for eight carbon-neutral ships....
...For example, a survey by the American Bar Association earlier this year found that more than 40 per cent of lawyers with fewer than 10 years of practice would jump ship to a rival firm if their ability to...
...For several years, for instance, these companies have shipped large quantities of industrial materials and equipment on ships from Russia through the port of Douala in Cameroon....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 31 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Gary Retelny Retelny has for more than a decade led one of the two least-appreciated power brokers of the investment industry, proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services....
...so far risen quicker than prices for services....
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