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2. United Parcel Service - Wikipedia

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   ups.com. Footnotes / references. [1][2][3][4][5] United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [6] and one of the world's ...

3. Intermodal container - Wikipedia

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   Intermodal container. A 40-foot-long (12.2 m) shipping container. Each of its eight corners has an essential corner casting for hoisting, stacking, and securing. Containers stacked on a large ship. An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and ...

4. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia

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   Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [49] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [50] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 14th most visited website in the ...

5. US Postal Service squeeze on shipping consolidators could ...

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   Show comments. The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday that it is ending discounts that shipping consolidators such as UPS and DHL use to get packages to the nation's doorsteps, in a move meant to ...

6. Oil tanker - Wikipedia

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   Rear house, full hull, midships pipeline. An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. [1] Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to refineries. [1]

7. Time zone - Wikipedia

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   Time zones of the world. A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it is convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time.