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Shipping investments are a form of alternative investment into an asset related to worldwide shipping. This could be into ships themselves, or a related asset such as shipping container , with the expectation of capital appreciation, dividends , and/or interest earnings.
Earnings from shipping amounted to €35.4 billion in 2014, [12] while between 2000 and 2010 Greek shipping contributed [citation needed] a total of €280 billion [12] (almost the country's public debt in 2014 and 4.5 times the receipts from the European Union in the period 2000–2013). [12]
The EU's Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability Towards a Toxic-Free Environment is a strategy published in 2020 that is part of the EU's zero pollution ambition, a key commitment of the European Green Deal.
Scott's great snake, a cartoon map illustrating the Union blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, known as the Anaconda Plan, illustrated by J.B. Elliott C47s unloading at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, part of the airlift of supplies which broke the Soviet Union's 1948 land blockade of West Berlin
Market entry strategy is a planned distribution and delivery method of goods or services to a new target market. In the import and export of services, it refers to ...
In 1902, J.P. Morgan & Co. financed the formation of International Mercantile Marine Co. (IMMC), an Atlantic shipping company which absorbed several major American and British lines, in an attempt to monopolize the shipping trade. Morgan hoped to dominate transatlantic shipping through interlocking directorates and contractual arrangements with ...
In military strategy, a choke point (or chokepoint), or sometimes bottleneck, is a geographical feature on land such as a valley, defile or bridge, or maritime passage through a critical waterway such as a strait, which an armed force is forced to pass through in order to reach its objective, sometimes on a substantially narrowed front and ...
The whaler on HMS Sheffield being manned with an armed boarding party to check a neutral vessel stopped at sea, 20 Oct 1941. The Blockade of Germany (1939–1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire and by France in order to restrict the supplies of minerals, fuel, metals, food and textiles needed by Nazi Germany – and ...