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Free Shipping Day is a one-day event held annually in mid-December. On the promotional holiday, consumers can shop from both large and small online merchants that offer free shipping with guaranteed delivery by Christmas Eve.
List of busiest container ports. This article lists the world's busiest container ports (ports with container terminals that specialize in handling goods transported in intermodal shipping containers ), by total number of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) transported through the port.
Ten-codes, officially known as ten signals, are brevity codes used to represent common phrases in voice communication, particularly by law enforcement and in citizens band (CB) radio transmissions. The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [1]
Shipping $2.4 billion (2015) Chryss Goulandris Shipping $2.4 billion (2015) George Prokopiou and family Shipping $2 billion (2015) Sokratis Kokkalis: Telecommunications, construction $1.9 billion (2015) Evangelos Mytilineos: steel $1.7 billion George Economou and family Shipping, art collector $1.5 billion (2015) Nikos Pateras and family Shipping
FCA – Free Carrier (named place of delivery) The seller delivers the goods, cleared for export, at a named place (possibly including the seller's own premises). The goods can be delivered to a carrier nominated by the buyer, or to another party nominated by the buyer.
A forward freight agreement ( FFA) is a financial forward contract that allows ship owners, charterers and speculators to hedge against the volatility of freight rates. It gives the contract owner the right to buy and sell the price of freight for future dates. FFAs are built on an index composed of a shipping route for tanker or a basket of ...
Free shipping is a marketing tactic used primarily by online vendors and mail-order catalogs as a sales strategy to attract customers.
Maritime Vessel Shipping line 1 Date Deaths 1 Missing 1 Survivors 1 Remarks SS Corregidor: Compania Maritima 17 December 1941 900-1,200: Unknown 282 The ferry was sailing to the Visayas and was carrying around 1200-1500 passengers, mostly refugees fleeing the bombing of Manila by the Japanese during the Second World War, when it struck a mine off Corregidor Island and sank in five minutes.
A 20-foot-long (6.1 m) ISO container equals 1 TEU. Two forty-foot containers stacked on top of two twenty-foot containers. These four containers represent 6 TEU. The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports. [1]
20 October 1940 Torpedo boat Simone Schiaffino: Seized at sea Confiscated, renamed Palermo Sunk by Allied aircraft while under German control in 1944 Desmoulea, 8,120 ton. Between Avgo and Crete Convoy AN 14 31 January 1941 Torpedo boats Lupo and Libra: Torpedo Disabled, beached at Souda Bay Towed to Port Said Further damaged by Luftwaffe aircraft