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Internet vendors benefit from a simplified sales model as compared to traditional brick-and-mortar stores. By storing goods remotely at a warehouse location and shipping goods directly to a consumer, significant transportation needs are eliminated both on the part of the vendor (shipping goods to stores) and by the consumer (traveling to stores).
Screenshot of the CAS Common Chemistry database with information about caffeine ().. A CAS Registry Number [1] (also referred to as CAS RN [2] or informally CAS Number) is a unique identification number, assigned by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in the US to every chemical substance described in the open scientific literature, in order to index the substance in the CAS Registry.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is a ministry of the Government of India, that is the apex body for formulation and administration of the rules, regulations and laws relating to road transport, transport research and in also to increase the mobility and efficiency of the road transport system in India.
Explosions of electronic devices used by Hezbollah members kill at least 42 people and injure thousands of others in Lebanon and Syria.; Severe flooding (pictured) in central Europe leaves at least 25 people dead and 11 others missing, with several towns submerged.
Sourced from Jane's Fighting Ships 2008–2009, p. 876 The Point class is a class of six roll-on/roll-off sealift ships originally procured under a Private Finance Initiative to be available for use as naval auxiliaries to the British armed forces .
The bill was approved by the cabinet on 2 July 2009. [10] Rajya Sabha passed the bill on 20 July 2009 [11] and the Lok Sabha on 4 August 2009. [12] It received Presidential assent and was notified as law on 26 August 2009 [13] as The Children's Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act. [14]
Containerization has revolutionized cargo shipping. As of 2009 approximately 90% of non-bulk cargo worldwide is moved by containers stacked on transport ships; [11] 26% of all container transshipment is carried out in China. [12] As of 2005, some 18 million total containers make over 200 million trips per year. [citation needed]
The "Rotterdam Rules" (formally, the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea) is a treaty proposing new international rules to revise the legal framework for maritime affreightment and carriage of goods by sea.