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  2. Express mail - Wikipedia

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    Express Mail Service (EMS) service logo. Express Mail Service (EMS) is an international express postal service offered by postal-administration members of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).

  3. Oil tanker - Wikipedia

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    By way of comparison, the United Kingdom consumed about 1.6 million barrels (250,000 m 3) of oil per day in 2009. [43] ULCCs commissioned in the 1970s were the largest vessels ever built, but have all now been scrapped.

  4. Baltic Dry Index - Wikipedia

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    Baltic Dry Index 1985 - 2022. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is a shipping freight-cost index issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange.The BDI is a composite of the Capesize, Panamax and Supramax timecharter averages.

  5. Duty-free shop - Wikipedia

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    Brendan O'Regan established the world's first duty-free shop at Shannon Airport in Ireland in 1947; [6] it remains in operation today. Designed to provide a service for trans-Atlantic airline passengers typically travelling between Europe and North America whose flights stopped for refuelling on outbound and inbound legs of their journeys, it was an immediate success and has been copied worldwide.

  6. Red Sea crisis - Wikipedia

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    [155] [156] Later that day, the Houthis' Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center sent statements to shipping insurers and firms announcing a formal ban on vessels owned or partially owned by Israeli, British, or American entities or individuals in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Arabian Sea. The ban also included vessels sailing under the ...

  7. Fandom (website) - Wikipedia

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    Hallidie Building in San Francisco, current Fandom headquarters. Fandom [a] (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia [b]) is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.). [9]

  8. Mexican War of Independence - Wikipedia

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    The next day, Hidalgo issued his call to arms in Dolores. Immediately after the Mexico City coup ousting Iturrigaray, juntas in Spain created the Supreme Central Junta of Spain and the Indies, on 25 September 1808 in Aranjuez. Its creation was a major step in the political development in the Spanish empire, once it became clear that there ...

  9. Pets.com - Wikipedia

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    Pets.com tried to build a customer base by offering discounts and free shipping, but it was impossible to turn a profit while absorbing the costs of shipping for heavy bags of cat litter and cans of pet food within a business field whose conventional profit margins are only two to four percent.