As the center has grown, marine energy companies, including environmental consulting firms and shipping contractors, have set up shop here.
Nobody at Halliburton, which relied in part on outside shipping contractors, noticed that it was missing until February 7th.
Maersk Line, based in Norfolk, Va., is one of the Defense Department's main shipping contractors, though the ship was not under contract with the department at the time of the hijacking, a military spokesman said.
It requires lots of working capital, steady supplies of raw materials, sophisticated manufacturing facilities, reliable shipping contractors and wholesale distributors, the all-important marketing arms and access to retail franchises for maximum market penetration.
There is no U.S. military-provided security for the transport of the cargo; shipping contractors provide their own security.
They can become a virtual micro-factory, able to design and sell goods without any infrastructure or even inventory; products can be assembled and drop-shipped by contractors who serve hundreds of such customers simultaneously.... ......Three guys with laptops" used to describe a Web startup.
The concentrate is made in company facilities, then shipped to contractors who fill the cans.
The concentrate is shipped to contractors, who fill 100 million cans a year.
Issues of concern are shipping, storage, handling, and manufacturer and contractor qualification.
FEMA and its contractors shipped about 203,000 mobile homes, travel trailers and other models to victims of the two hurricanes, which destroyed more than 300,000 homes in 2005 and displaced about 700,000 people.
