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Adams Express Company

Along with the other expresses, its shipping interests were merged by the government into the American Railway Express Company, which later became the Railway Express Agency.

Amalie Dietrich

She was employed as a naturalist by Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy (1818 - 1885), a wealthy shipping magnate who at the time was establishing the Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg.

Ardrossan Winton Pier railway station

Train services in connection with the sailings of Burns and Laird Lines to Belfast and Isle of Man Steam Packet Company to Douglas, Isle of Man ceased in 1976 and 1985, respectively, when the shipping routes closed.

Benson, Arizona

Benson then served as a rail junction point to obtain ore and refined metal by wagon, in turn shipping rail freight back to the mines at Tombstone, Fairbank, Contention and Bisbee.

Bernard Baker

Bernard N. Baker (1854–1918), shipping magnate from Baltimore, Maryland

Bernard Goldsmith

Goldsmith was the driving force behind the building of locks to navigate around the Willamette River falls across from Oregon City, which allowed boats to travel from the Pacific Ocean to Eugene, Oregon, cutting the cost of shipping Willamette Valley goods to Portland by half.

Bundaberg railway station

Bundaberg's first railway station, on the Mount Perry railway line, was built in 1881 as a transfer station to the Bundaberg docks for shipping coal from nearby mines.

Chepo expedition

Sailing up the Mandingua River, the expedition crossed the Isthmus of Panama into the Pacific where they raided shipping for several months as well as looting and then burning the town of Chepo, Panama.

Coat of arms

-- Systemic bias/biased perspective --> An example in recent use is the logo of Mitsubishi corporation which started as a shipping and maritime enterprise and whose emblem is based on a water chestnut derived from its maritime history with a military naval influence.

Columbia, Maine

During the Civil War, berries were hand-picked, hand-canned and soldered for shipping to the Union Army.

Compañía Transatlántica Española

The arrival of the first passenger jets, like the Boeing 707, and the ensuing popularization of air travel, would deal a mortal blow to the transoceanic shipping lines throughout the world.

Condor Syndikat

Its first share-holders were the three directors of Condor Syndikat, including Fritz W. Hammer, and the Brazilian Count Pereira Carneiro, owner of Jornal do Brasil and a shipping company.

Cost externalizing

An example of cost externalizing would be using a global courier service (such as FedEx and UPS) to do all or most of the shipping and logistics work for the company.

Eduard Shifrin

He is the co-founder with Alexander Shnaider of Midland Group, a holding company headquartered in Guernsey that embraces interests in steel (Zaporizhstal), shipping, real estate, agriculture and owned motorsport (Midland F1 Racing).

Étienne Léandri

He led mafia criminal activities, mainly drug shipping and money forgery, notably working with Lucky Luciano.

Exeter, Pennsylvania

In the 1830s the region entered a boom period and began shipping coal by the Pennsylvania Canal, and by the 1840s even down the Lehigh Canal to Allentown, Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington, New York City, and other east coast cities and ports via the connecting engineering works of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company such as the upper Lehigh Canal, the Ashley Planes and the early Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, along with other railroads that flocked to or were born in the area.

Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg

Otto Skorzeny, who had been investigating the possibility of using manned torpedoes against Allied shipping, was briefed by Hitler to revive the project, and he contacted famous test pilot Hanna Reitsch.

Guðni Jónsson

He also published histories of the Flensburg school (1932), the Eimskipafélag Íslands shipping company (1939) and the University of Iceland (1961).

Hal C. Banks

An American with mob connections, he came to Canada in 1949 to help bust purportedly Communist-controlled shipping unions and establish the Seafarers International Union as their replacement.

Halland-class destroyer

They were re-fitted in the 1960s and re-armed with Saab/Nord Aviation Robot 08 anti-shipping missiles (a missile derivative of the Nord Aviation CT20 drone).

Hansweert

For a long time, Hansweert was an important stop on the shortest shipping route between the busy ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, but all that changed when the Scheldt–Rhine Canal opened up and became the quicker route.

Harmaston, Texas

Harmaston, located at the southwest corner of Lake Houston, was developed along the timber shipping railroad line Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway.

Herman Ambrosius Jan Baanders

Major projects of the firm in the period up to the mid-1920s included the district of Heijplaat in the harbour of Rotterdam (1912-1921) — originally built as a garden city (tuindorp) to house the employees of the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij shipping company — and the Amsterdam secondary school Amsterdams Lyceum (1917-1922).

Hermann Oelrichs

Hermann Oelrichs (June 8, 1850, Baltimore, Maryland – September 1, 1906, aboard SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Atlantic Ocean), was an American businessman, multimillionaire, and agent of Norddeutsche Lloyd shipping.

Hiller OH-23 Raven

With the help of shipping mogul Henry Kaiser, Hiller established the United Helicopters company in 1946.

Hilma Hooker

The vessel was built at the Van der Giessen de Noord shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, Netherlands, for the shipping company Scheepvaart En Steenkolen Mij. N. V.

J. Steven Wharton

He was the previous head of the Wharton shipping complex at nearby Gunness.

Jack Siedle

Born on 11 January 1903 in Berea, Durban, Natal, Siedle was the youngest son of Otto Siedle, who was born in Woolwich, London of southern German stock and who trained as a watchmaker, subsequently emigrating to Durban where he became prominent in the shipping business and public affairs.

Jeffrey Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow

He was executive chairman of the shipping line P&O from 1983 to 2005, having joined the board as a non-executive Director on 6 February 1980, and is now Life President of P&O Cruises.

John Charles Molteno, Jr.

For the duration of his career, he served as the confidential agent of his brother, the shipping magnate Percy Molteno.

Kilcullen

Other local historical features include Dun Ailinne, New Abbey and Castlemartin, the home of Kilcullen's most famous residents, media magnate Tony O'Reilly and his wife, horse-breeding shipping heiress Chryss Goulandris.

Lancaster House, Manchester

Lancaster House in Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, was a packing and shipping warehouse built between 1905 and 1910 for Lloyd's Packing Warehouses Limited, which had, by merger, become the dominant commercial packing company in early-twentieth-century Manchester.

M/V Barfleur

Moliere has not been acquired by Eurotunnel for MyFerryLink and had been sold to Scapino Shipping Ltd, then laid up in Tilbury.

Mark Power

Between 1992 and 1996, Power embarked on The Shipping Forecast — a project that involved travelling to and photographing all 31 areas covered by the Shipping Forecast broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Misc

MISC Berhad, Malaysia International Shipping Corporation Berhad

MSV Nordica

There have also been concerns about the legal liability in case of an oil spill after a report by the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy claimed that the Finnish State could be held liable and the compensations could include the entire property of Arctia Shipping, the state-owned shipping company that owns and operates the Finnish icebreaker fleet.

National Anti-Vivisection Alliance

The report focused on US-cargo giant Amerijet International who were, at the time, shipping monkeys to American laboratories.

Northwest African Air Forces

Northwest African Coastal Air Force (NACAF), initially under (acting commander) Group Captain G. G. Barrett and, soon afterwards, Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Lloyd: comprised No. 201 (Naval Co-operation) Group's anti-shipping coastal force (10 squadrons: Greek, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), South African Air Force (SAAF) and Royal Air Force (RAF); and

Oia, Greece

However, the arrival of steam and the concentration of shipping at Piraeus caused the town's seagoing trade to collapse, and agriculture also diminished as increasing emigration took place, especially to Piraeus and Laurium.

Oswald Sanderson

After leaving the family busienss he became Managing Director at Thomas Wilson Sons & Co. from 1901, until its sale to Ellerman Lines in 1916, when Charles and Arthur Wilson brought him into the previously exclusively family run business.

Otterspool Promenade

It is notable for the excellent views it gives of shipping in the Mersey and over the river to the Wirral.

PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes

As of November 1988, IBM was shipping a workstation version of the System/370 hardware intended to run IBM's VM/SP operating system.

Port of Melbourne Corporation

Dredging and dock construction began in 1880, with the canal opening to shipping in 1886, Victoria Dock opening in 1896 and dock-work and continuing into the 1920s.

Robert Michael Dow Jr.

On December 2, 2010, Judge Dow ruled against five states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), stating that five Chicago-area shipping locks will stay open despite the risk that Lake Michigan Asian carp pose to the multi-billion dollar fishing industry, saying not enough evidence was presented that indicated the danger was truly imminent.

Schnellkampfgeschwader 210

By the time the unit was re-designated I. Gruppe, Schnellkampfgeschwader 210 in April 1941 the unit was based at Abbeville, undertaking missions against shipping and land-based targets.

ShipWorks

It is a multi-carrier shipping software that integrates with over 40 online sales and marketplace systems including eBay, PayPal, Amazon, and Yahoo.

SS Beljeanne

In March 1964, Beljeanne was sold to Bacong Shipping Co SA, Panama City, Panama and renamed Southern Cross.

Union Steamship Company

It developed various non-transport interests, became known as the Union Company, and ceased shipping operations in 2000.

Wave-class oiler

Thirteen of the 20 of the ships were initially built for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), which assigned them to be operated by various merchant shipping lines.

Wilderness State Park

Four separate Lake Michigan lighthouses, Grays Reef, Skillagalee Island, Waugoshance, and White Shoal, warn shipping from the dangerous reefs and shoals of Waugoshance Point.


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