So those who may think about it offshore know that the same people will be out there tomorrow, they're out there today and have been out there for last six months.
Mr. Marx and his company say he was a victim of offshore outsourcing, known as offshoring.
As production wanes, these firms are increasingly trying to export their offshore know-how.Oliver Sanderson, the main author of the Douglas-Westwood report, points out that although some limited experience has been gained from dismantling small platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, taking to bits installations on the scale of the North Sea's bigger platforms remains more or less virgin territory.
In its early life the offshore yuan (known unofficially as the CNH) was more expensive than its onshore equivalent.
Nonetheless, questions still linger about how Russian central bank funds were managed through an offshore entity known as Fimaco.
Citigroup engaged in similar transactions with Enron, relying on its offshore entity known as the Delta Energy Corporation to play the role of Mahonia.
I was put in mind of it at the weekend by a controversy – the angry arguments over the rejection by the Government of plans for a giant offshore windfarm, known as Navitus Bay.
The contents page, which documented interrogation tactics used at the CIA's secret offshore prisons known as "black sites", was published in a 2009 NYRB article by Mark Danner, US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites.
Last-mover advantage Making it in America Of penguins and politics How to make college cheaper ReprintsThis structure a Chinese-owned company in China, a foreign-owned company in China and an offshore parent is known as the "Sina" model, after the first Chinese internet company to be listed overseas.
Of course, a big part of the problem is that Mirror Image's parent company is based in the Cayman Islands, an offshore haven known more for catering to drug barons than Internet startups.
