* Exxon Shipping Company failed to properly maintain the Raytheon Collision Avoidance System ( RAYCAS ) radar, which, if functional, would have indicated to the third mate an impending collision with the Bligh Reef by detecting the " radar reflector ", placed on the next rock inland from Bligh Reef for the purpose of keeping boats on course via radar.

" Shipping on the Clyde ", by John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1881.

On 3 March 1969 Alexander Rhea, managing director of General Motors-Holden's at the time, was joined by press photographers and the Federal Minister of Shipping and Transport, Ian Sinclair as the two men drove the two millionth Holden, an HK Brougham off the production line.

They were previously owned by Waterman Steamship Corporation but recently sold to MSC and now operated by Keystone Shipping Co.

A competitor service is operated by Strait Shipping Ltd, using the former French ships Santa Regina and the former Danish Straitsman, under the Bluebridge brand.

De Lesseps therefore tried to increase revenues by interpreting the kind of net ton referred to in the second concession ( tonneau de capacité ) as meaning a ship's real freight capacity and not only the theoretical net tonnage of the Moorsom System introduced in Britain by the Merchant Shipping Act in 1854.

The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 had allowed the Shipping Board to sell ships made by the U. S. Government to private American companies.

* Starting in this year and ending in 1275, the Muslim Shougeng Pu serves as the Commissioner of Merchant Shipping for the Song Dynasty Chinese seaport at Quanzhou due to his effort on defeating pirates, according to a monograph on the Chinese shipping industry and maritime economy in dynasties of Tang and Sung written by Jitsuzo Kuwabara ( 桑原騭藏, 1870-1931 ).

In that position he introduced legislation on many topics, from Merchant Shipping and Companies to Railway regulation, but his main achievement was in stopping a proposed national strike of the railway unions by brokering an agreement between the unions and the railway companies.

* 1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

Built in 1890, by the Globe Shipping Company of Cleveland, Ohio.

Shipping has long been a support of Norway's export sector, but much of Norway's economic growth has been fueled by an abundance of natural resources, including petroleum exploration and production, hydroelectric power, and fisheries.

* Shipping freight ( important for liquid natural gas ( LNG ) exports ) will grow by an average of 5. 3 percent a year in the 2009-2013.

This status was confirmed to an extent by the Merchant Shipping ( Registration, etc.

Merchant vessels transiting areas of increased pirate activity ( i. e. the Gulf of Aden, Somali Basin, Southern Red Sea and Bab-el-Mandeb straits ) are advised to implement Self-Protective measures in accordance with most recent Best Management Practices agreed upon by the members of the merchant industry, and endorsed by the NATO Shipping Centre, and the Maritime Security Centre Horn-of-Africa ( MSCHOA )

Canadian jurisdiction in the area of " Navigation and Shipping " is vested in the Parliament of Canada by virtue of s. 91 ( 10 ) of the Constitution Act, 1867.

The captain rode out Katrina on the cargo ship, owned by Caribbean Shipping Inc., and the ship was returned to sea six months later, using a large crane.

Shipping over the years has been by wagon, small trucks, rail freight, and then by large trailer trucks.

The airline was established in March 1970 by Luxair, the Salen Shipping Group, Loftleiðir and various private interests in Luxembourg.

Shipping has declined in recent decades with the decline of rail service to ports and the increased capacity of highways to larger ports outside of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which freezes in the winter.

Shipping business to the island declined in the late 1970s as it was no longer cost effective to ship phosphate by rail to Boca Grande when it could be loaded at Tampa.

Shipping cross-country by rail to the ports of Charleston and Savannah made perfect economic sense.

Shipping declined as a transport medium following road and rail construction through the region between 1850 and 1890, especially the construction of a rail bridge over the waterway in 1899.

In 1918, Hopper was awarded the U. S. Shipping Board Prize for his war poster, “ Smash the Hun ,” and he was able to exhibit on three occasions: in 1917 with the Society of Independent Artists, in January 1920 ( a one-man exhibition at the Whitney Studio Club, which was the precursor to the Whitney Museum ), and in 1922 ( again with the Whitney Studio Club ).

) Act 1993 and the consolidating Merchant Shipping Act 1995 which, in Section 4, Subsection 1, prohibits the use of any distinctive national colours or those used or resembling flags or pendants on Her Majesty's Ships, " except the Red Ensign, the Union flag ( commonly known as the Union Jack ) with a white border ", and some other exceptions permitted elsewhere in the Acts.

Shipping of property from the port began to decline after completion of railroads which began in Virginia in the 1830s.

Other notable characters include: Lionel's father, Rocky ( Frank Middlemass ), who owns a large country house in Hampshire, which he later gives to Lionel ; the housekeeper, Mrs. Bale ( Janet Henfrey ), who has an unusual interest in the Shipping Forecast, and the gardener, Lol Ferris ( Tim Wylton ).

The church was erected because of the generosity of Captain David King of the shipbuilding firm of Bullard King & Co which also ran the Natal Direct Shipping Line, which ran ships direct from London to Durban without stopping at the Cape.

Shipping at Bayport attracted the attention of The Union Blockade Squadron which intercepted eleven blockade runners near there between 1862 and 1865.

Shipping is still the nerve of the town with its dockyards, its shipping companies and its maritime school which for more than a century has trained navigators for the Danish merchant fleet.

Many people, however, shared his view that the bill had been stifled by the pressure of the shipowners, and popular feeling forced the government to pass a bill which in the following year, was amended into the Merchant Shipping Act.

The excavation for the Harlem River Shipping Canal in 1895, directly through an old quarry site, also served to provide a large quantity of marble rubble, which was used as a building material throughout the area.

The shipping movement for Liverpool was controlled by the ' North West Shipping Control ' at Bank Hall ( a country house in Lancashire ) during World War II, which was situated away from Liverpool due to the high risk of bombing.

* London Glory, the name of three successive tanker ships of London & Overseas Freighters, the last of which is now the Front Glory owned by Frontline Shipping

In 1819, Alexander Allan had founded the Allan Shipping Line, which became synonymous with running goods and passengers between Scotland and Montreal.

Shipping companies and Southampton & Company Maranha Maranha Shipping Company, shipping steam, which performed the transportation of cotton from the states of Georgia and Alabama, began operating in St. Louis shaft-London, leading to production of Caxias and Baixada Maranhão.

Shipping operations languished after the war, and in 1927, the City of Newark started construction of Newark Liberty International Airport on the northwest quadrant of the wetlands which lay between Port Newark and the edge of the developed city.

He was chief engineer for BR Shipping from 1971-4 ( during which period he married ), then a test and guarantee engineer for John Kincaid of Greenock from 1974-77.

Shipping operations languished after the war, and in 1927, the City of Newark started construction of Newark Airport ( now known as Newark Liberty International Airport ) on the northwest quadrant of the wetlands which lay between Port Newark and the edge of the developed city.

Shipping needed unrestricted access to the Pool of London which imposed constraints on the crossings that became increasingly necessary with the commercial development on both sides of the river.

The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the U. S. National Book Award.

The COLREGs are contained within the Merchant Shipping ( Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions ) Regulations of 1996 as amended from time to time and is distributed and accessed in the form of a " Merchant Shipping Notice " ( MSN ), which is used to " convey mandatory information that must be complied with under UK legislation.