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During WWI, Monnet worked in London organizing allied shipping with British, American, and Italian counterparts.
As China becomes an even greater economic power, it will become increasingly dependent on shipping routes for its imports of energy, other inputs, and goods.
In the heady first months after it came to power, the Bush administration laid out a bold new vision that gave India – a rising Asian democracy on China’s border, proximate to the shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean and to the epicenter of Islamist terrorism – a starring role in US foreign policy.
The European Space Agency announced in September 2007 that satellite photos showed that the Northwest Passage appeared clear of ice for shipping for the first time ever, and that the Northeast Passage is almost clear.
As a result, shipping freight across the country is a logistical nightmare.
Pollution from Hong Kong’s own power generation plants, growing number of vehicles, and burgeoning shipping industry can certainly be reduced.
Just a few years ago, the encroachment of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing vessels sparked a wave of piracy in Somalia that cost the global maritime shipping industry billions of dollars in lost revenue.
China originally assumed that Tung, a shipping tycoon educated in England who was well known among elites in Hong Kong and Western capitals, would be an ideal successor to the last British governor, Chris Patten.
Today, freight transport from China to Europe via rail takes less than half as long as shipping.
It now pays for nature to stay, as the locals earn their neo-traditional living by ranching oxygen traded on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), and through shipping certified timber and organic palm-hearts to Chile and Europe.
From Kabul to Pristina, from Ramallah to Kinshasa, the EU is monitoring borders, overseeing peace agreements, training police forces, building up criminal justice systems and protecting shipping from pirate attacks.
Also vital to the new strategy are two prospective modern-day Silk Roads: an overland route through Central Asia to the Black Sea and a “Maritime Silk Road” by which shipping will pass from the South China Sea, through the Strait of Malacca, across the Indian Ocean to East Africa, and from there through the Red Sea into the eastern Mediterranean.
The economic benefits of such a strategy for Senegal are potentially vast: new industries in mineral processing, transport, and shipping, bringing higher-value-added employment; budget revenues from transit fees for minerals exports and pipelines; and improved infrastructure connecting the country’s rural heartland to Dakar and the coast.
Moreover, India abuts crucial global shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean.
The assumption that the price of mailing a letter or shipping a package should remain constant throughout the year is ripe to be challenged.
China has been an enormous beneficiary of this system, and its rise would have been unthinkable without the US-led free-trade system and globalization process, access to US markets, and global shipping lanes secured by the US Navy.
Even that understates the impact of energy on measured inflation, because lower gasoline prices reduce shipping costs, lowering a wide range of prices.
A shift from competition in crude to competition in petroleum products would have a profound effect on global oil markets and related industries, like shipping.
London banks underwrote most of the world’s trade;Lloyds provided insurance for the world’s shipping.
The International Maritime Organization is pursuing similar goals for shipping.
Alternative shipping fuels exist.
As Arctic ice recedes, new shipping lanes will open to larger vessels, bearing the flags of a larger number of states, making HFO regulations even more important.
The Arctic Council has warned that more shipping traffic will increase the risk of catastrophic oil spills.
Other shipping companies have highlighted the need for regulations to maintain a level playing field.
The initiative brings together shipping operators, polar explorers, NGOs, communities, and businesses to back an HFO phase-out, ahead of any increase in Arctic shipping, while urging the broader shipping industry to switch to alternative fuels.
The “world factory” could not have been built without the second pillar: the “China infrastructure network,” installed and operated mostly by vertically integrated state-owned enterprises in logistics, energy, roads, telecoms, shipping, and ports.
Better yet, the shop may be able to reuse the materials in your broken part – saving the costs and environmental burden of throwing things away, shipping them somewhere, and so forth.
China’s insistence that it has no intention to disrupt commercial shipping or flight lanes should be believed; to do otherwise would be to cut off its nose to spite its face.
These littorals harbor most of the country’s wealth and allow it to tap into the global market via a dense bundle of shipping lines.
For example, the navy is already protecting shipping lanes from pirates in the Gulf of Aden, and a Chinese warship was dispatched in the Mediterranean to oversee the evacuation of citizens from Libya.
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