Sentence examples for shipping worlds from inspiring English sources

According to GEOS, a French firm, the insurgents who make pirate-like attacks on shipping in Nigeria's Delta region are very well armed and informed about targets, through contacts in the oil and shipping worlds.

But the central issue was slavery, which drove the Southern economy (and enriched more than a few Northerners in the financing and shipping worlds).

His career would take him to chief executive positions in the shipping world at States Marine Isthmian, Prudential Grace, Marchessini and Reefer Express Lines.

An early leader in the development of dry cargo grain shipment, he was widely respected in the international shipping world for the duration of his 50 year career.

Dara's simple goal at the outset is to talk to the pirates, to "get their side, the entire shipping world against them," as she puts it.

He said "flag of convenience" countries such as the Bahamas – as they're called in the shipping world – shouldn't be left to conduct these kinds of investigations.

Dan Houston, editor at classicsailor.com, said the shipping world was a major polluter that had been slow to clean up its act.

But, despite these concerns, the shipping world has not yet been subject to the same level of scrutiny as other polluting industries.

Lloyd's Register of Shipping, world's first and largest ship-classification society, begun in 1760 as a registry for ships likely to be insured by marine insurance underwriters meeting at Lloyd's coffeehouse in London.

Last week, the shipping world was shaken when the Mediterranean Shipping Company, based in Geneva, chartered a container ship for a year at a rate of $11,500 a day, 18percentt lower than similar deals just a week earlier.

And San Francisco startup Fleet is building the "Expedia of the commercial shipping world" after launching its rate and review platform for shipping providers last week.