Sentence examples for shipping agent from inspiring English sources

He started out as a shipping agent.

Thomas Balfour, a shipping agent, takes center stage, becomes the mind of the story.

When she couldn't get through, she called a shipping agent who knew the ship's owner.

Despite a small fine issued to the shipping agent, none of the key players were prosecuted.

Keen to pare costs, he chose an unreliable shipping agent and the cheapest available destination, Quebec.

Mr. Walker was born on July 4 , 1918 in Singapore, where his father was a shipping agent.

They were bank clerks and shipping agents and teachers.

A century or so ago, some names were simplified by shipping agents as immigrants boarded ships in Europe.

Loading at Iraq's Persian Gulf terminals fell to 41,000 barrels an hour, from about 80,000 barrels, shipping agents said.

And neither captains nor shipping agents nor boarding house runners were in the habit of searching among its guests for either able seamen or raw material.

The process was even quicker a century ago, when European shipping agents simplified the names of many settlers boarding barges westward.