Sentence examples for some shipowners from inspiring English sources

Cardboard cutouts are even used by some shipowners to imitate crew silhouettes.For all that, the odds strongly favour attackers.

Some, as they scramble to muster capital to meet tougher reserve requirements demanded by European banking regulators, have even tried to raise money by asking some shipowners to prepay loans in exchange for a discount.

Some shipowners said payments had resumed.Still thinking about itAt an annual symposium of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Ben Bernanke again committed the Federal Reserve to taking further action if the American economy deteriorated.

That said, some shipowners are said to be negotiating with builders to convert orders for their now unwanted bulkers into ones for tankers, which will bring more supply into the market for those vessels.The picture with container ships, which shift manufactured goods, is more complex.

He is planning to raise $114m via a "blank-cheque" IPO increasingly fashionable on Wall Street whereby he would sell shares in a shell company with a view to taking advantage of some as yet unspecified future opportunity.Stormy weather ahead?The uninspiring track record of some shipowners is but a squall compared with the storms that may be gathering over the horizon.

Now, says Simon Bennett, its spokesman, perhaps 20% of all ships passing through the risky parts of the Indian Ocean have armed guards aboard typically retired marines or the like.In recruiting armed security men, some shipowners have defied the laws of the countries where their vessels are registered.

Today, shipowners are forking over some $400 million a year to cover themselves against a roughly 1% chance that their vessel will be attacked (200 attacks out of 20,000 annual voyages through the region).

Some argue that there is a moral duty on shipowners to pay the hijackers as little as possible.

A NATO commander has predicted that, with the end of the south-west monsoon season, pirate attacks will only increase in the coming months.Until February the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), which represents the world's merchant shipowners, opposed the use of armed guards even as some members were discreetly hiring them.

The shipowners have declared a lockout, in consequence of which some 30,000 men are thrown out of work.

"We know some places are screening for radioactivity," said Arthur Bowring, managing director of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association, one of the largest associations of its kind.