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    of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has...
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  • Drop shipping is a form of retail business in which the seller accepts customer orders without keeping stock on hand. Instead, in a form of supply chain...
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    used in modern domestic shipping within North America to describe the point at which a seller is no longer responsible for shipping costs. Ownership of a...
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  • The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...
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    Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., branded as MSC, is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970. The company is owned...
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  • Shipping insurance is a service which may reimburse senders whose parcels are lost, stolen, and/or damaged in transit. In Canada and the US, shipping...
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  • A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable...
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  • Several shipping lines are involved in intermodal freight transport as part of international trade. This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies...
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    China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited, abbreviated as COSCO Shipping, is a Chinese state-owned multinational conglomerate headquartered in Shanghai...
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  • Shipping is the transportation of cargo. Shipping may also refer to: Shipping line, a business that operates ships that it may or may not own Shipping...
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  • Free shipping is a marketing tactic used primarily by online vendors and mail-order catalogs as a sales strategy to attract customers. Internet vendors...
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    Shipping (derived from the word relationship) is the term for the desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional...
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  • The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office...
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  • Shipping News was an American post-rock/post-hardcore band. The group formed in the fall of 1996 when members Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller, who were both...
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  • The term shipping terminal may apply to facilities where loading and unloading of people or goods takes place: Freight terminal, a processing node for...
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    A shipping line or shipping company is a company whose line of business is ownership and operation of ships. Shipping companies provide a method of distinguishing...
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  • Shipping Wars is an American reality television series that aired on A&E from January 10, 2012, to April 29, 2015. Season 9 premiered on November 30, 2021...
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  • Log shipping is the process of automating the backup of transaction log files on a primary (production) database server, and then restoring them onto a...
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  • Chartering is an activity within the shipping industry whereby a shipowner hires out the use of their vessel to a charterer. The contract between the parties...
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  • Sea lane (redirect from Shipping route)
    A sea lane, sea road or shipping lane is a regularly used navigable route for large water vessels (ships) on wide waterways such as oceans and large lakes...
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    implications of portraying taboo and abusive sexual content within shipping fanfiction. "Shipping"—the depiction of a romantic or sexual relationship between...
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  • A shipping agency, shipping agent, or ship agency is the term used to refer to the appointed companies that handle operational and procedural (legal)...
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    Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd. was a South Korean logistics and container transport company. Hanjin Shipping was South Korea's largest container line and one...
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  • In shipping, the designation A1 is a symbol used to denote quality of construction and material. In the various shipping registers ships are classed and...
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    COSCO SHIPPING Lines Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 中远海运集运) is a Chinese international container transportation and shipping company. It is a subsidiary of COSCO...
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  • abolished and replaced by the Ministry of the Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping (Υπουργείο Οικονομίας, Ανταγωνιστικότητας και Ναυτιλίας). The new ministry...
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  • The World Shipping Council (WSC) is the primary industry trade association representing the international liner shipping industry, which offers regularly...
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  • A shipping master is an appointment in some countries that manages certain affairs of the merchant navy. The exact duties a shipping master carries out...
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  • The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) is a public sector undertaking that operates and manages vessels servicing both national and international lines...
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  • "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" is a song by the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys, with lyrics written by folk singer Woody Guthrie. The original version...
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