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Baltic Dry Index 1985 - 2022. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is a shipping freight-cost index issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange.The BDI is a composite of the Capesize, Panamax and Supramax timecharter averages.
In 1961 China established a state-run maritime shipping company and subsequently signed shipping agreements with many countries, laying the foundation for developing the country's ocean transport. That organization developed into the present-day China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company ( COSCO ).
The vast majority of containers moved by large, ocean-faring container ships are 20-foot (1 TEU) and 40-foot (2 TEU) ISO-standard shipping containers, with 40-foot units outnumbering 20-foot units to such an extent that the actual number of containers moved is between 55%–60% of the number of TEUs counted.
A few ships (APL since 2007, [44] Carrier53 since 2022 [45]) can carry 53 foot containers. 40 foot containers are the primary container size, making up about 90% of all container shipping and since container shipping moves 90% of the world's freight, over 80% of the world's freight moves via 40 foot containers.
The cargo steamship Derbyshire was built by Harland and Wolff in 1897, survived the First World War and was scrapped in 1931 The Bibby Line passenger ship Oxfordshire, built in 1912, serving as a hospital ship in the Second World War The cruise ship Fairstar, which was built in 1957 as the Bibby Line troopship Oxfordshire Bibby Sapphire is a diving support vessel built in 2005
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Maritime flag of Matson, Inc.. Matson, Inc., is an American shipping and navigation services company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.Founded in 1882, [2] Matson, Inc.'s subsidiary Matson Navigation Company provides ocean shipping services across the Pacific to Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Micronesia, the South Pacific, China, and Japan.
Reddit (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ t /) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members.