The government could allow FedEx to have a permanent, effectively government-sponsored, monopoly over the shipping market.
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"The shipping market has been hit by a triple whammy of bad weather, weaker Chinese iron-ore demand and public holidays, " Mr. Williams of Braemar Seascope said.
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.
We have 15 or so licensees shipping into the market now.
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The stock completely broke down after hours, as the second-biggest shipping company by market capitalization blamed constrained revenue growth in its FedEx Express group for the shortfall.
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The stock has gotten a big boost from the robust market for shipping companies: As a group, shares are up 77% since mid-May.
Shipping will probably gain market share from less efficient modes of transport, but higher fuel prices may also cause the entire transportation pie to shrink.
Samsung increased its smartphone market share by shipping an estimated 68 million smartphones and accounting for approximately 34% of all smartphone shipments in the quarter.
After its mid-summer reveal, JVC's entry into the booming action sports camera market is now shipping and we got to spend some time with the questionably-named GC-XA1 ADIXXION at the company's CEDIA booth.
Allowing significant sharing between the navy program and the commercial world would give us an immediate, multi-lap advantage over all other competitors in a world wide market for commercial shipping using nuclear instead of diesel.
The bubble has triggered rampant speculation in the so-called relet market, where a shipping company recharters ships.
In an earlier post I likened the semiconductor market to airlines and shipping, two other capital-intensive markets with undifferentiated products.
Trucking companies' market share of domestic shipping has been stalled at 30% for the past decade, while rail shipping is up from 38% to 43%.
This behavior is common to any capital intensive business with a lag time, and I have described the similarity of the semiconductor market to airlines and shipping firms in an earlier post.
So why add to your troubles by setting up in, or shipping goods into, a mini-market cut off by borders from both the large ones?
They complain that barriers to China's domestic market mean that India is mostly shipping unrefined minerals and primary goods, getting finished products in return.
Despite the pending lifting of the grain export ban, scheduled to go into effect on July 1, the Central Bank of Russia does not expect domestic food prices to rise in response to more of Russian agribusiness shipping grains abroad instead of serving the local market.
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Allow Trinity House, which oversees shipping safety, to charge for services on open market to cut costs for existing users.
Meanwhile, Apple will launch the new version of the iPad, the Motorola Xoom and scads of other Android pads will hit the market and Research In Motion will be shipping the Playbook.
The Asia Pacific iron ore division provides four direct shipping export products to Asia via the global seaborne trade market, and has a rated annual production capacity of 9 million tons of iron ore.
However, I think the complication for our market is that, like other parts of shipping, during the last decade or more our industry was really over-built, so the oversupply of tonnage is outstripping the forecasted demand, and has done so consistently since 2009 through 2013, from what we can see of newbuildings.
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An insurer, if one can be found, could easily charge 4% of the market value of the stockpile, plus security and shipping charges.
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The market is currently edgy about the fortunes of the shipping industry, particularly after the bankruptcy of the medium-size American carrier Eastwind Maritime earlier this year.
Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba are shipping hybrid HDDs targeted for the ultra-thin mobile computer market with up to 8 GB of flash memory and 1 TB hard disk storage.
Rival Hewlett-Packard retained first place, shipping 15.9 million units and taking 18% of the market.
The tariff structure has, predictably, led to a loss in market share to the roads, oil pipelines and coastal shipping.
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In downtown Brooklyn, NY, Dekalb Market this summer will band together a small village of shipping containers to shill fresh produce, food and coffee.
Samsung Electronics Co. retained its bragging rights as the smartphone leader, shipping nearly 64 million devices for a 29 percent share of the global market.
But the spot market, where vessels are chartered for specific trips or time periods, is very unpredictable, particularly since regulators put a stop two years ago to an arrangement between shipping lines (the top 15 of which control 80% of the market) to manage overcapacity by co-operating on routes and rates.
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