The World Shipping Council estimates that approximately 675 containers are lost from cargo ships every year.
The World Shipping Council referred CNN to the documents it filed with the government, but did not provide anyone for an interview.
It has got itself a fine place on the map, just across the Mediterranean from Europe, astride world shipping routes.
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In 2007 the International Chamber of Shipping and the World Shipping Council began work on a code of practice for container storage.
If it cannot meet expansion demands of world shipping alliances they will take their trade and our jobs to continental ports that can.
The World Shipping Council has already argued that vessels should be stopped and inspected, if necessary, not at the initial port of entry in America but at their ultimate destination.
It rebuilt itself after the Second World War, its shipping, motor manufacturing and electronics business leading the world.
Goldman's claim to celebrity, in addition to secretly running the world, is shipping its best and brightest off to run the federal government and the central bank, not appearing on reality TV or in social media.
The bank, the world's biggest lender to shipping, reckons that, failing a surge in world economic growth, many ships will have to be broken up to bring supply back into line with demand.
The dolphins swimming in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes are nimble and smart.
Panama boasts the world's biggest shipping registry, which means business for lawyers and boat-servicing companies.
Hong Kong is one of the world's busiest shipping channels, but its ferries have a good safety record.
Moller - Maersk, the world's largest shipping company, for nearly four decades.
More than 130 pirates attacks, including close to 50 successful hijackings, were reported in 2008, threatening one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in the Atlantic on 15 April 1912, with the loss of 1, 503 passengers and crew, becoming one of the world's worst shipping disasters.
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In recent years there has been a rise in the number of piracy attacks, especially off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
The vast area of waters, dotted with partially submerged atolls and reefs, contain some of the world's busiest shipping lanes and are thought to hold large deposits of oil and natural gas.
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But the world never stays still and shipping anything to the US in the wake of the 11 September attacks means stringent checks.
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Rampant piracy off Somalia has made the country's waters the world's most dangerous shipping lane, has secured Somali bandits tens of millions of dollars in ransoms and pushed up insurance premiums for ships.
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.
Furthermore, the general ratcheting up of diplomatic tensions between the West and Iran over the republic's nuclear ambitions raises fears of a potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important shipping channel for oil deliveries.
With the new site, eBay is pooling listings from sellers around the world that are available for shipping to Russia and inviting Russian shoppers to search the site either in English or Cyrillic, with payments processed through PayPal. eBay Russia had registered 54% growth in user spend in 2012 even as the number of active users grew almost 75%.
The Baltic Dry Index, a composite of commodity shipping costs around the world, fell for a 32nd consecutive session to 662.
In a statement shipping minister Stephen Hammond said the technology should improve navigational safety in "the busiest shipping channel in the world".
To build the foundation for these works, the Corps had to pour an 8-foot-thick concrete foundation underwater in the middle of one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
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The Baltic Dry Index, which measures shipping prices around the world, remained flat for most of the quarter, but surged toward the end of August, registering a 9% gain through Q3.
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"There are about 400 established architectural projects making use of shipping containers around the world, " says Slovenian architect Jure Kotnik, who has written two books on the subject and is curating an international exhibition on "container architecture" currently on display at the AIA in Seattle.
Sadly, Pebble won't be making its way to backers by its original September estimate, but the design team wants you to know that it's hard at work, traveling the world to source components, running shipping tests and spending time refining the user interface in order to provide a top-notch experience once you do receive your device in the mail.
What about the tech support requirements, warranty issues, and shipping the unit around the world?
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Around 90% of world trade is currently carried by the shipping industry, according to the International Maritime Organization.
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