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  2. East India Company - Wikipedia

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    The East India Company (EIC) [ a ] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [ 4 ] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of South Asia and Hong Kong.

  3. India - Wikipedia

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    With an estimated 1,428,627,663 residents in 2023, India is the world's most populous country. [ 14 ] 1,210,193,422 residents were reported in the 2011 provisional census report. [ 360 ] Its population grew by 17.64% from 2001 to 2011, [ 361 ] compared to 21.54% growth in the previous decade (1991–2001). [ 361 ]

  4. Chennai Port - Wikipedia

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    The Shipping Corporation of India operated regular Chennai–Singapore services till 1984. On an average, 10 international cruise vessels dock in the port each year. The number of tourists visiting the port in 2008–09 was 2,616, which rose to 3,401 in 2009–10.

  5. United Parcel Service - Wikipedia

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    ups.com. Footnotes / references. [1][2][3][4][5] United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [6] and one of the world's ...

  6. Maersk - Wikipedia

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    A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S (Danish: [ˈɛˀ ˈpʰe̝ˀ ˈmølɐ ˈmɛɐ̯sk]), usually known simply as Maersk (English: / mɛərsk / MAIRSK), [3] is a Danish shipping and logistics company founded in 1904 by Arnold Peter Møller and his father Peter Mærsk Møller. Maersk's business activities include shipping, port operation, supply chain ...

  7. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia

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    Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [49] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [50] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 14th most visited website in the ...

  8. Container ship - Wikipedia

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    A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport and now carry most seagoing non-bulk cargo.

  9. List of Amazon locations - Wikipedia

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    List of Amazon locations. hide. Amazon's Day 1 building in Seattle. Doppler building in Seattle. re:Invent in Seattle. Amazon Spheres in Seattle. Amazon is an American technology company that has a multinational presence with offices and facilities around the world. The company is based in Seattle, Washington and has over 1,600,000 employees ...