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v. t. e. The Carriage of Goods by Sea Act ( COGSA) [1] is a United States statute governing the rights and responsibilities between shippers of cargo and ship-owners regarding ocean shipments to and from the United States. It is the U.S. enactment of the International Convention Regarding Bills of Lading, commonly known as the "Hague Rules".
Certificate of origin. A Certificate of Origin or Declaration of Origin (often abbreviated to C/O, CO or DOO) is a document widely used in international trade transactions which attests that the product listed therein has met certain criteria to be considered as originating in a particular country. A certificate of origin / declaration of ...
See also: List of special economic zones and List of free-trade zones In special economic zones business and trades laws differ from the rest of the country. The term, and a number of other terms, can have different specific meanings in different countries and publications. Often they have relaxed jurisdiction of customs or related national regulations. They can be ports or other large areas ...
A scale-free network is a network whose degree distribution follows a power law, at least asymptotically. That is, the fraction P ( k) of nodes in the network having k connections to other nodes goes for large values of k as. where is a parameter whose value is typically in the range (wherein the second moment ( scale parameter) of is infinite ...
An illustration of a weasel using "weasel words". In this case, "some people" are a vague and undefined authority. In rhetoric, a weasel word, or anonymous authority, is a word and/or phrase aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague, ambiguous, or irrelevant claim has been communicated.
From a version of Dubai Ports World controversy : Surprisingly, Israel's largest shipping firm, Zim Integrated Shipping Services, came out in support of the deal. This is despite the U.A.E.'s backing of an Arab boycott of Israeli shipping. The company sails under the flags of other countries to avoid the boycott.
The Word. (free love) The Word was an individualist anarchist free love magazine founded in 1872. [1] The magazine was edited by Ezra Heywood and Angela Heywood from 1872–1890, 1892–1893, issued first from Princeton and then from Cambridge, Massachusetts. [2] The Word was subtitled "A Monthly Journal of Reform," and it included ...
Japanese ship-naming conventions. Japanese ship names follow different conventions from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word maru at the end (meaning circle ), while warships are never named after people, but rather after objects such as mountains, islands, weather phenomena, or animals.