Founded by Yataro Iwasaki as a shipping company in the early 1870s, Mitsubishi's expansion paralleled Japan's industrialization.
The bubble has triggered rampant speculation in the so-called relet market, where a shipping company recharters ships.
If a package needs a shipping label, the computer orders one via Bluetooth from a portable printer.
Though a tycoon himself (a shipping magnate), he is suspicious of speculative markets.
Elias Koteas told me to follow him, and I did, to a shipping crate in the corner of the lot.
Hyundai Motor includes the makers of Hyundai and Kia automobiles, parts vendors, logistics firms, the steel company and a shipping line.
Talks are under way about whether to leave the wreck on the seabed, near a shipping lane, or to raise it.
At Gazelle.com, we got a box and a shipping label by mail within four days, which made shipping the most convenient.
Expeditors generates a 24% return on capital, something that a shipping company with a lot of vehicles would be hard-pressed to match.
This is likely to put severe pressure on China's fast-growing ports, says a joint study by Drewry and APL, a shipping line.
When people buy an item from someone on Poshmark, the seller gets a shipping label they print and use to send the item.
When a product is sold, sellers can print out a shipping label, attach it to the package and drop it at the post office.
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Using a roll of clear plastic film bought at a shipping store, he binds each bag by hand, rotating it on a swivel chair.
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Oil prices jumped on initial news that unrest in Egypt could topple the government and create a shipping bottleneck at the Suez Canal.
They have advanced to within 55 miles of Lake Michigan in the Illinois River, which connects with a shipping canal and other waters that reach Lake Michigan.
Each serves about 120 stores, and most of them have assigned a shipping dock to every store, with a truck-trailer parked waiting to fill up for a run.
When a shipping company--foreign or domestic--needs to change a route, a vessel or a port of call, it has to ask the harbour association six weeks in advance.
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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By contrast, a bunch of grapes travels from the farm to a packer, to a shipping centre, to a warehouse, to a shop and finally to a consumer's fridge.
The academic paper is still far away from producing a shipping device, although a Microsoft doctoral fellowship's partial contribution to funding the study indicates one direction the technology might go.
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Jennifer Summers, a restaurant cook, has seven other children, whose ages range from 2 to 16, and Ashley is her oldest, said Debra Summers, a shipping clerk who lives in Parma, Ohio.
Among the failed investments was an unsecured loan of 700m euros to a shipping company - about half of which was lost - and a loan of half a billion euros to a Greek TV company.
An electric barrier in a shipping canal near Chicago is meant to keep them from migrating into Lake Michigan, where scientists say they eventually could spread to the other Great Lakes and out-compete native fish for food.
The other is a drop-ship website where products may come from various locations and arrive at your door with a shipping service like FedEx or UPS. Both may charge a fee for these services in addition to shipping and handling costs.
Craig Pinckney, 34, a shipping manager at a Connecticut environmental laboratory, seriously considered trading in his Alienware Area 51 tower (complete with a cyborg-green paint job) for the new Doom 3 machine, but decided he could just upgrade his processor and video card instead.
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The ship is owned by Cyprus' Diataxis Shipping Company and is operated by a Russian shipping company, FESCO Transport Group.
Claus Peter Offen, owner of a Hamburg shipping company, won the Wally class after a close-fought battle with Argentinean pharmaceuticals magnate Alberto Roemmers.
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