These are provided by various independent shipping companies and their conditions and seaworthiness vary considerably.

The flag, or features of it, are often used in the logos of organisations of companies which stress a pan-European element, for example European lobbyist groups or transnational shipping companies.

Situated at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, adjacent to the Strait of Gibraltar ( one of the world's busiest shipping lanes ) and with over 7, 000 ship calls each year, Gibraltar is home to a wealth of shipping expertise and to many specialist companies offering a comprehensive range of support services, most notably the dockyard of Gibdock.

Guyana's foreign trade is handled by foreign shipping companies.

Liberal concessions allowed U. S. based concerns to enter the Honduran market, first as shipping companies, and then as railroad and banana producing enterprises.

* Merchant marine, a collective term for all of the merchant ships, shipping companies, and merchant mariners, usually of a particular country ; also known in British usage as the Merchant Navy

" Awaited by shipping companies, this ' historic event ' will cut thousands of miles off their routes.

The port ’ s location at the extreme western point of Africa, at the crossroad of the major sea-lanes linking Europe to South America, makes it a natural port of call for shipping companies.

Lasker, a cash donor and Harding's general campaign manager, had no previous experience with shipping companies.

A congressional investigation revealed that while Lasker was in charge many valuable steel cargo ships worth between $ 200 and $ 250 a ton were sold as low as $ 30 a ton to private American shipping companies without an appraisal board.

In March 2009, four Norwegian shipping companies desisted from Western Sahara trade.

The standard sizes and fitting and reinforcement norms that now exist evolved out of a series of compromises among international shipping companies, European railroads, U. S. railroads, and U. S. trucking companies.

Most economic studies of containerization merely assumed that shipping companies would begin to replace older forms of transportation with containerization, but did not predict that the process of containerization itself would have a more direct influence on the choice of producers and increase the total volume of trade.

President George W. Bush invoked the law most recently in connection with the employer lockout of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union during negotiations with West Coast shipping and stevedoring companies in 2001.

Thus the very popular MARITIME CYPRUS shipping conference which takes place every 2 years, attracting all the largest shipping companies of the world.

In 1996 tax rules in Norway were changed to keep shipping companies competitive and under the Norwegian flag.

These companies offer drop shipping services to companies and individuals.

During the Canadian national elections of 2003 and 2006, it was cited that the former Minister of Finance and later Prime Minister Paul Martin had international shipping companies that operated in Barbados ' offshore sector under the bilateral treaty possibly saving his company from higher taxes in Canada.

* Evergreen Group ( 長榮集團 ), the organizational designation used by a Taiwan-based conglomerate of shipping, transportation, and associated service companies

Another reason was that the traditional families who owned the majority of the fleet failed to foresee the benefits in participating in the steam ship revolution that significantly cut shipping operational costs through reduced crew and independence of the winds, putting them at a disadvantage vis-á-vis the new shipping companies of Piraeus, Patras and Syros.

Nova Scotia was also the birthplace and home of Samuel Cunard, a British shipping magnate, born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line.

* Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Bt ( shipping magnate )

The Cunard Line, formerly the Cunard White-Star Line, is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England, and operated by Carnival UK.

At the moment, Cunard is the only shipping company to operate a scheduled passenger service between Europe and North America.

Also in 1983, the Trafalgar attempted a hostile takeover of P & O, another large passenger and cargo shipping line, which was formed the same year as Cunard.

Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet ( 21 November 1787 – 28 April 1865 ) was a British shipping magnate, born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line.

Cunard was a highly successful entrepreneur in Halifax shipping and one of a group of twelve individuals who dominated the affairs of Nova Scotia.

* Samuel Cunard ( 1787 – 1865 ), British shipping magnate

* Cunard Line, shipping company founded by Samuel Cunard

* Laura Charlotte, artist, married William Cunard, son of the shipping magnate Sir Samuel Cunard at Windsor, Nova Scotia, 30 December 1851 ; three sons, one daughter.

Study of a particular shipping line like, Cunard, P & O, Danube steamers, South American packets or American steamboat mail are a few options as are ; Ship Letter marks, mail between a mother country and its colonies or mail between two countries separated by seas or oceans.

*, according to shipping legend, initially supposed to be called Victoria in line with the naming of Cunard Steamship Lines liners, with an ending in-ia, as with the Lusitania, Mauritania, and the like

In those days, most shipping lines ( Cunard, Hamburg-Amerika, and North German Lloyd among them ) housed their third-class passengers in large open-berthed dormitories usually located at the forward end of the vessel ; but the White Star Line strictly kept to the policy of dividing their third-class accommodations into two areas on each ship.

RMS " Crown " as displayed by the Cunard liner RMS Laconia ( 1921 ) | RMS Laconia It was used by many shipping lines, but is often associated in particular with the Cunard Line, Royal Mail Lines and Union-Castle Line, which held a number of high-profile mail contracts, and which traditionally prefixed the names of many of their ships with the initials " RMS ".

It is the former headquarters of the Cunard Line shipping company.

After several years that scheme, too, came to nothing, and in 1913 the Cunard shipping line announced its intention to build a new headquarters in Liverpool.

Her father was Sir Bache Cunard, an heir to the Cunard Line shipping businesses, interested in polo and fox hunting, and a baronet.

* 1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company ( d. 1899 )

The White Mountains Railroad up the Ammonoosuc River Valley opened August 1, 1853, shipping Bath's lumber, potatoes, livestock and wood pulp.

With a family background in the shipping business, Chao applied for and was granted a White House Fellowship in 1983 during the administration of President Ronald Reagan.

As the shipping routes from the Atlantic Ocean to Murmansk and the ports of the White Sea pass through the Barents Sea, the waters near Bear Island were of great strategic importance in the Second World War as well as the Cold War.

In 2003, the Russian inland oil shipping company Volgotanker started using the White Sea-Baltic Canal for exporting fuel oil.

The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as just White Star Line, was a highly prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated vessel, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of Titanic < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s sister ship Britannic.

In 1902 the White Star Line was absorbed into the International Mercantile Marine Co. ( IMM ), a large American shipping conglomerate.

White Star was among the first shipping lines to have passenger ships with inexpensive accommodation for third-class passengers, in addition to places for higher paying first-and second-class.

In 1927 the White Star Line was purchased by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ( RMSPC ), making RMSPC the largest shipping group in the world.

He was the son of the shipping magnate Harold Arthur Sanderson, general manager of the White Star Line.

( Беломорско-Онежское государственное бассейновое управление водных путей и судоходства ), which is also responsible for shipping on Lake Onega and in Belomorsk harbor area ( but not throughout the actual White Sea ).

He told the alien ambassadors that, if they wanted the White Star fleet to continue to patrol their borders and protect alien shipping, their governments would have to declare their treaties with the Earth Alliance " null and void ", and they would have to be neutral in the coming war between Sheridan and Clark's forces.

She was the heiress to the White Star Line shipping fortune when her uncle, William Imrie, died in 1906.

From 1863 till 1899 Thomas Henry Ismay was president of White Star Line and had several ships under his authority, Most of these ships up until 1870 were chartered, even after 1870 most of White Star Lines vessels were chartered from more notable / wealthy shipping lines, the reason being so that they were not completely at fault if someone died on board because of medical or the ships being and condition.

J. Bruce Ismay was the managing director of the White Star Line, one of the top shipping companies of the North Atlantic.

William Imrie was co-owner of White Star Line shipping, and Amy was the sole heir to his fortune upon his death in 1906, receiving income from his estate during her life.

IMM was founded by shipping magnates Clement Griscom of the American Line and Red Star Line, Bernard N. Baker of the Atlantic Transport Line, J. Bruce Ismay of the White Star Line, and John Ellerman of the Leyland Line.

Designed by architects Richard Norman Shaw and J. Francis Doyle, it was built for the Ismay, Imrie and Company shipping company, which later became the White Star Line.