Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
I've been in tankers for 50 years, and I like it. For me, it's still fun.
This new global economy, it's all based on the sea routes.
There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.
On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.
You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
London is the headquarters of the International Maritime Organisation, the location of the largest insurance market, and houses a significant ship-broking community, apart from the many other professional services related to shipping.
We should encourage the establishment of American steamship lines.
By using big data, it will also be possible to predict adverse weather conditions, rerouting ships to avoid delays, and monitor fuel data, thereby allowing companies to optimize their supply chains and the way they drive their business.
Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America's place in global trade.
The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of designers, engineers, boat builders, an incredible group of people, and there are a lot of nationalities in New Zealand's team.
Investing in ports with partners is a very common model for us.
The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough.
Sea freight is by far the cheapest, most economical way to move goods.
(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and across every ocean in the biggest, the most difficult and dangerous job ever undertaken. As time goes on, there will be greater public understanding of our merchant's fleet record during this war.
Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
We believe it is important to have an organisational link in London, still the world's premier maritime centre.
