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But elsewhere in the world, if you ask the general public what they know about shipping and how much trade is carried by sea, you will get essentially a blank face.

But if you ask them if they've heard of Maersk, I doubt you'd get the same response, even though Maersk, which is just one shipping company amongst many, has revenues pretty much on a par with Microsoft.

We traveled through five seas, two oceans, nine ports, and I learned a lot about shipping.

Now that's because shipping is very efficient.

But it also means that, in the words of a port chaplain I once met, the average seafarer you're going to find on a container ship is either tired or exhausted, because the pace of modern shipping is quite punishing for what the shipping calls its human element, a strange phrase which they don't seem to realize sounds a little bit inhuman.

Because the biggest dramatic change in shipping over the last 60 years, when most of the general public stopped noticing it, was something called an open registry, or a flag of convenience.

And at that time, there were those 544 seafarers being held hostage, and some of them were held hostage for years because of the nature of shipping and the flag of convenience.

And that's because shipping has very tight margins, and they want cheap fuel, so they use something called bunker fuel, which was described to me by someone in the tanker industry as the dregs of the refinery, or just one step up from asphalt.

And shipping is the greenest method of transport.

So shipping emissions are about three to four percent, almost the same as aviation's.

And if you put shipping emissions on a list of the countries' carbon emissions, it would come in about sixth, somewhere near Germany.

And the good news is that people are now talking about sustainable shipping.

When are we going to start talking and thinking about shipping miles as well as air miles?

And in fact, shipping has a role to play here, because shipping noise has contributed to damaging the acoustic habitats of ocean creatures.

But I also want to see shipping, and us, the general public, who know so little about it, to have a bit more scrutiny, to be a bit more transparent, to have 90 percent transparency.

From our own computer simulations, we quickly found that one meter really was the minimum viable product to be able to see the drivers of our global economy, for the first time, being able to count the ships and cars and shipping containers and trucks that move around our world on a daily basis, while conveniently still not being able to see individuals.

The global shipping economy would not be possible without African technology like this.

Sending vaccines around in a digital file, rather than stockpiling those same vaccines and shipping them out, promises to save thousands of lives.

He had a very generous refund policy, detailed T's and C's, and good shipping times.

But I would just like to draw on my own research on energy systems, on food systems, aviation and also shipping, just to say that I think there is still a small fighting chance of avoiding this two-degree dangerous climate change.

He said, "Dear James Veitch, We shall be shipping Gold to you." (Laughter) "You will earn 10% of any gold you distributes."

There's no point doing this at all unless you're shipping at least a metric ton." (Laughter) (Applause) He said, "What do you do for a living?"

We're ready for shipping as much gold as possible."

Far, far away from shipping lanes and fishing fleets, diving into these waters is a poignant reminder of what our oceans once looked like.

Economic development of landlocked countries is limited by lack of shipping infrastructure.

This has the potential to lower, at least overall, the cost, time and carbon footprint of shipping without needing runways.

She also shared with us a unique document, and it was the shipping label that sent his retinas from DC to Philadelphia.

This shipping label is like an heirloom to us now.

I mean, it's free shipping and free returns, right?

All that the consumer would need to do is obtain a mobile code, take it to the nearest shipping place to be packed and shipped, and off it goes from one buyer to the next, not the landfill.

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