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Leviathan is a 2012 American documentary directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. It is a work about the North American fishing industry. The film was acquired for U.S. distribution by The Cinema Guild. The film-makers used GoPro cameras and worked twenty-hour shifts during ...
"Sailing By" is played every night on BBC Radio 4 at around 00:45hrs before the late Shipping Forecast. Its tune is repetitive, assisting in its role of serving as a signal for sailors tuning in to be able to easily identify the radio station. It also functions as a buffer: depending on when the final programme before closedown finishes ...
Zappos Insights also offers a three-day bootcamp where participants visit the headquarters and have meetings with Zappos executives. [50] [51] In 2007, Zappos acquired 6pm.com from eBags. The site sells shoes and accessories. [52] [53] Zappos sponsors the "Zappos Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas Marathon and ½ Marathon", which draw 28,000 runners each ...
The New Zealand Shipping Company (NZSC) was a shipping company whose ships ran passenger and cargo services between Great Britain and New Zealand between 1873 and 1973. A group of Christchurch businessmen [ 1 ] founded the company in 1873, similar groups formed in the other main centres, to counter the dominance of the Shaw Savill line ...
A free-trade zone (FTZ) is a class of special economic zone. [1] [2] ...
Five Indian survivors were invited to a two-day recovery workshop in Mumbai, directed by the Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme. It was reported that many of them were suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. The Indian government guaranteed survivors better-paying jobs in Indian waters.
The vast majority of containers moved by large, ocean-faring container ships are 20-foot (1 TEU) and 40-foot (2 TEU) ISO-standard shipping containers, with 40-foot units outnumbering 20-foot units to such an extent that the actual number of containers moved is between 55%–60% of the number of TEUs counted.
Independence Day (Urdu: یومِ آزادی, romanized: Yaum-i Āzādī ), observed annually on 14 August, is a national holiday in Pakistan.It commemorates the day when Pakistan achieved independence from the United Kingdom and was declared a sovereign state following the termination of the British Raj between the 14th and 15th August 1947.