At least one shipping line is passing on the higher insurance costs to customers.
Hyundai Motor includes the makers of Hyundai and Kia automobiles, parts vendors, logistics firms, the steel company and a shipping line.
Earlier, Peter Shanks, president and managing director of shipping line Cunard, said a berth would allow for more visits by ships.
This is likely to put severe pressure on China's fast-growing ports, says a joint study by Drewry and APL, a shipping line.
"The bigger the ship the lower the fuel consumption, that's one thing, " said Thomas Riber Knudsen, Asia Pacific CEO of shipping line Maersk.
This month police arrested the former head of the national shipping line who had gone on the run in March after a probe into corruption at the firm.
Last year marked 140 years since a group of Chinese merchants in Shanghai founded a shipping line to compete with those of Western capitalists, a first for China.
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Wei Jiafu, Cosco group president and chief executive officer, told reporters and editors of The Washington Times on June 2 that the shipping line has no connection to the Chinese military and is only interested in making money.
Similarly, Dell announced it will begin shipping a new line of Dimension PCs with factory-installed Cisco Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line modems for select U.S. West customers.
These days many shipping lines believe that bigger is better, not just for the shipping companies' bottom line, but also the environment.
Microsoft will start shipping its Surface tablet line on October 26, the same day it will officially launch Windows 8, the company disclosed in its 10-K filing with the SEC for the June 2012 fiscal year.
One way to find out if it can work for you is to do some math to find out how offering free shipping will impact your bottom line while also considering the benefits of offering this perk to your customers.
Its highly anticipated line of 2013 TVs will begin shipping this month in the U.S., beginning with the LED 8000-series and the Plasma 8500-series.
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Other notables nominated by local people for the honour are toymaker Frank Hornby, trade union activist Bessie Bradock, and shipping magnate and founder of the White Star Line, Henry Ishmay.
Hugely discounted goods at retail competed with free shipping and no sales tax from many on-line merchants.
That same year the DVDmarket began to soar, and Ji worked his China contacts to line up his first supplier and began shipping truckloads of cheap players to Circuit City.
By taking a narrow view of costs, with a principal focus on labor costs, it could appear on a spreadsheet that shipping factories and jobs to China would help the bottom line and pop the share price, and along with that, eye-popping management bonuses.
Thus, if Apple, which owns the whole stack, decides to move some work (or some data to work on) to the endpoint or, in this case, gathers the data at the endpoint and keeps it there for later use such a scheme is much more efficient than shipping the data up to the cloud for processing and sending results back down the line.
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The largest shipping agent in Japan, the company operates over 750 ships and has its own cruise line.
NanoOpto has actually been shipping products for several months, although not in any quantity that would impact its bottom line.
He was the Manager of Industrial Relations for Keystone Shipping Company from 1996 to 2003, and was Vice President of Operations for the Sea Line Company from 1987 to 1988.
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Although the new line was announced in February, the first new model, the R707, just began shipping to stores this month.
If the retailer's overall costs--such as labor, shipping, marketing and other products--remain static, that extra penny of margin can flow to the bottom line.
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