In a classic case of a red-ocean business, too many providers are scrabbling over the same fixed audience and suffering for it.
The giant container port and free zone it has built at Salalah looks set to capture a growing share of the Indian Ocean transshipment business.
The field is ten times the size of the $80 billion ocean transport business and requires less capital.
The extent of the storm's destructive force was reflected in government briefings that addressed a sweeping range of loss that included the human toll, power failures, homes sucked into the ocean, ruined businesses, and broken infrastructure and housing that put millions of people out of work and shelter.
Our country is decaying and sinking into three oceans because business and politics are so corrupt.
Well, that's the end goal of something called the blue ocean strategy; a business theory that posits that businesses are better off looking for ways of tapping into an uncontested market space, rather than going toe-to-toe with traditional competitors.
Such ocean-based businesses could be a step on the way to true seasteads.Stepping stones to a seasteadIn 2010 a group of marine engineers produced a detailed design study for the ClubStead a floating resort city which would sit perhaps 100 nautical miles off the Californian coast, with 70 staff and 200 guests.
Indeed, tourism, fishing, and other ocean-related businesses in the four south Atlantic states contributed $14.6 billion to their economies in a single year.
(The Washington Post) Note to motorists: Driving near the ocean is risky business.
I want them to believe that from the time they get out of college until they're 45, they have to swim in the big business ocean, and I want to reward them with some sort of matching program".
We sit in on vomit-strewn ocean crossings, shady business deals in Dutch coffee houses and fatal feuds between rival logging crews razing land wrested from the native population.
