Second, it has tried to prevent the harpoon ships from connecting with the factory ship, the Nisshin Maru.

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It can also mean the difference between investing in a ship building factory in Singapore, or putting it in Seattle instead.

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Having grown up in the old economy, DoveBid also has the know-how to offer all sorts of ancillary services, such as evaluating assets for buyers and helping them to work out how to ship heavy factory-equipment from, say, Chicago to Shanghai.

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Additionally, this will apparently force the company to ship these larger factory yields via sea transport rather than air, which also slows things down.

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Ten years ago, Tramco opened a factory in Hull, England, to ship goods tariff-free to Europe.

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With cars, a company either has to make the car domestically and ship it abroad, or build a factory abroad in order to sell products there.

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One of Belfast's most established actors, Dan Gordon used his performance to promote Northern Ireland's ship building history through his play The Boat Factory.

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The 125m vessel became stranded after slipping its moorings outside Mostyn Docks, where the ship was due to pick up plane wings made at the Airbus factory in Broughton.

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