But a shipper who hears tales about lost luggage may be inclined to patronize FedEx instead.
The shipper must record on the CMIR, the size, origin and destination of the shipment.
Tsakos Energy Navigation, Greece's third-largest shipper by tonnage, trades on the New York Stock Exchange.
Now he offered solace: Buy.com would use Ingram Book Group as its sole shipper of Web orders.
The improvement in shipping rates is helping to bolster shares of Japan's biggest dry-bulk shipper Mitsui O.
This bulk shipper and had an amazing run through 2006-2007 that brought its stock price to dizzying heights.
The shipper generates stable cash flow from the bulk of its fleet of 48 vessels, mostly dry bulk.
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"A large part of my heart still resides in the red clay of this place, " notes Robert Shipper.
Even so Apple slipped from number 2 smartphone shipper to number 6.
And why should rail passengers be any less subsidised than the motorist, the airline passenger or the barge-line shipper?
Home Depot already buys from 500 suppliers in China and is the second-largest container shipper from the country, after Wal-Mart.
Shipper UPS is also in the top 10, with 3, 700 job listings.
On August 5th Chile's CSAV, which runs the world's eighth-largest container fleet, became the first shipper to make a container-derivative trade (with Morgan Stanley).
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Mr. JIM BOGART (Leader, Grower-Shipper Association): The industry and this association, in particular, are very sympathetic as for the reason or purpose of the march.
Tsakos Energy Navigation (nyse: TNP - news - people ), Greece's third-largest shipper by tonnage, trades on the New York Stock Exchange.
Frank Shipper, a management professor at Salisbury University, in Salisbury, Md.
An overall lighter weight vehicle allows a shipper to pack more goods in a truck and still stay within fuel standards, which will increase freight movement.
Naming a shipper a winner might seem contrarian given well-documented evidence that more than half of all e-shoppers abandon their purchases after seeing the freight charges.
He gave us his insights on where the global economy is going in and here exchanges business lessons learned from his legendary billionaire father-in-law, shipper Y.
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Already at the forefront of the American HDTV market in 2008, Vizio positioned itself as the number one shipper of LCD HDTVs in the country in 2009.
This suits multinational customers such as Morgan Stanley, Coca-Cola, Interpol and Danish shipper Maersk, but Equant's reach makes its service about 10% to 15% pricier than its rivals'.
Now, as the housing industry has begun to show signs of a recovery, Norfolk Southern looks to benefit as it is a major bulk shipper for construction materials.
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Home Depot already buys from 500 suppliers in China and is the second-largest container shipper from the country, after Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ).
Residents like shipper Festus Mbisiogu -- who has been working in China for six years -- say they have trouble getting documents allowing their families to join them, making it harder for them to settle down.
Indeed, there are now seven bills going through the legislature that would increase regulation to one degree or another in the industry, mostly in response to shipper outrage at the shambolic rail performance of recent years.
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Buyer and seller, borrower and lender, investor and broker, shipper and receiver all counterparties in any trade, except for cash and carry transactions, want assurances that if contracts are violated the aggrieved party can seek justice in court.
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