Sentence examples for stevedoring from inspiring English sources

He decided to study for an EMBA – sponsored by his firm – because he has become a board director of a J R Rix & Sons, a company that is involved in a diverse range of activities including shipping, fuel distribution, shipbuilding, property, selling cars, caravan manufacturing, stevedoring and warehousing.

The newspaper also pointed out an overlooked trend that helped set the stage for the current outcry: U.S. companies began withdrawing decades ago from the unglamorous business of stevedoring, ceding the now-booming industry to enterprises in Asia and the Middle East.

"I'm a little disappointed that they restricted us to just handling steel," said Andrew J. Naporano Jr., the former owner of Metal Management's Newark operation, who is leading the company's move into stevedoring.

Remarks like that one, from old and young, from men calloused from lifetimes spent stevedoring to unemployed youngsters playing at open-air pool tables, reflect a perception of something frequently debated in war colleges in the United States.

Angry villagers who occupied the Pacific Fishing Company offices in the old 19th-century capital, Levuka, on the island of Ovalau, demanded the restoration of their stevedoring licences.The continued destabilisation has been clearly aimed at putting pressure on Fiji's chiefs to come up with the sort of government Mr Speight wants.

The Cocos Islands Co-operative Society Ltd., established in 1979, undertakes building maintenance and construction and provides stevedoring, interisland transport, lighter on- and off-loading, and other services.

Mr. Ward was somewhat of an unorthodox choice to lead a public authority in charge of infrastructure like airports, tunnels, bridges and shipping ports: he is the scion of an academic family who once worked for a stevedoring company; he holds a master's degree in theological studies from Harvard.

Continental Stevedoring & Terminals, one of P&O's partners, has filed a lawsuit in Miami claiming that under the sale it will become an "involuntary partner" with Dubai's government.

Before the workers started showing up for their shifts tonight, the operators organization, the Pacific Maritime Association, accused the International Longshore and Warehouse Union of conducting a "selective strike" this week against the Long Beach facility of Stevedoring Services of America, the nation's largest terminal operator.

Stevedoring Services of America was awarded a $4.8 million contract to operate the port of Umm Qasr.

Sal Catucci, the president of American Stevedoring, said he had never even heard of Montero's.