The wife of Sueton Grant ran her husband's shipping business in Newport, R.
The likeliest explanation is that new sanctions, designed to cut off Iran from the global financial system and bedevil its oil exports, are doing serious damage to its shipping business.
In 2008, Dubai-based DP World won a 25-year contract to expand and operate the port in the capital city, Dakar, which had been a major stopover for the French shipping business since the 1800s.
The family shipping business, co-owned with his brother Eyal -- who is based in Monaco -- runs the largest fleet of British-flagged ships in the world, and there is a wing at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich named after their father Sammy.
Yes, HSBC had a pretty high profile and much-touted withdrawal, but Morgan Stanley just learned it will manage a multi-billion dollar privatization of SovComFlot, a state-owned ship construction and shipping business, and other Western investment banks are chomping at the bit to get a piece of the other asset sales that are coming down the pike.
In the truly international business of shipping, China has emerged from being a jurisdiction of last resort to a jurisdiction of choice in many cases.
In the business of shipping dry-bulk cargoes, mostly iron ore, coal and grain, there is not even the hint of a silver lining to the cloud.
The authorities' progress in improving port security at home and abroad has not been matched by their efforts to make the business of shipping more transparent.
Austrian lawyer Helmut Sohmen took charge of the shipping side of the business, while Peter Woo ran Wharf until leaving to devote his time to public service.
Panama boasts the world's biggest shipping registry, which means business for lawyers and boat-servicing companies.
But the business of international shipping is notoriously lawless and, in some respects, becoming more so.
That invites a certain amount of chaos, along with higher average shipping costs, notes Wharton Business School professor Serguei Netessine.
It was the little decisions to overnight a business package when standard shipping would work.
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It rebuilt itself after the Second World War, its shipping, motor manufacturing and electronics business leading the world.
For Booker, a 159-year-old British firm that started off as a sugar producer in South America, it meant anticipating the nationalisation of its core business and moving into shipping and shopkeeping.
Dell - seriously affordable small business desktops, free shipping.
Therefore, agreements with shipping companies will be crucial for this business to be really successful.
EBay, for example, even encourages its sellers to offer free shipping as a way to grow their business.
But increased scrapping and the possibility that unprofitable shipping firms could be forced out of business should eventually lend some stability to prices, they say.
Sanctions would disrupt a major portion of the U.S.-Chinese shipping market controlled by Cosco, whose business lines include port terminals and warehousing, insurance, real estate and hotel management.
Though the expectation of free return shipping can pose a challenge for small business owners who cannot manage returns as efficiently on their own, this should not discourage them from refining the returns handling process.
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In the end, if you can avoid making common mistakes like setting the minimum order threshold too high or even neglecting to educate your customers on how much you are saving them offering free shipping can be a profitable endeavor for your business.
Shipping companies lost significant sums on repairs, lost business and other operational costs.
Mr Tung was a shipping tycoon from a Shanghai family who owed his business's survival to the government in Beijing.
Before the end of the summer--exact dates are rarities in this business--Novell plans to start shipping a new version of its OS, NetWare 5.
Together, analysts said, those assets can help Mr. Charoen create a business that doesn't rely on shipping a huge volume of rice-liquor back home to rural Thailand.
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And the U.S. should encourage Asian shipping lines all of which have significant business interests in the U.S. to comply with U.S. sanctions laws or face stiff penalties.
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