Shipping
Reluctant Merchants Are Embracing Amazon’s Chartered Ships This Holiday Season
By Matt Day and Spencer Soper (Bloomberg) –Most cargo ships putting into the port of Everett, Washington, brim with cement and
Monday, November 29, 2021
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Environment
Hundreds Of Dredging Rafts Illegally Mining For Gold On The Madeira River
By Bruno Kelly AUTAZES, Brazil, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Hundreds of dredging rafts operated by illegal miners have gathered in a gold rush on the Madeira
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Shipping
Amazon’s Holiday Forecast Disappoints as Labor, Supply Issues Mount
By Jeffrey Dastin and Nivedita Balu Oct 28 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc on Thursday reported a slump in profit that it expects will continue through the
Monday, October 25, 2021
Shipping
Amazon Bulks Up Shipping Capacity to Battle Holiday Season Snarls
Oct 25 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it had doubled its container processing capacity and secured more shipping storage from ocean
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Environment
Amazon and Others Commit to Using Zero-Carbon Ships By 2040
By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc and IKEA are among commercial users of container shipping that will opt for
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Maritime News
Containergeddon Drives More Retail Ship Charters
Big retail players Target, Home Depot , Costco and Dollar Tree, are chartering ships to deal with the pandemic-driven port congestion and escalating concern,
Saturday, September 4, 2021
Maritime News
Tech Giants Ask For Foreign Flag Ship Waiver In Malaysia
By Liz Lee (Reuters) Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are seeking to meet Malaysia’s prime minister to ask that foreign vessels be allowed to
Monday, February 12, 2018
Maritime News
Amazon Threat Has Maersk Racing to Stop Clients from Encroaching on Shipping Business
By Christian Wienberg and Alaric Nightingale (Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest container shipping line is trying to stop customers like
Friday, January 15, 2016
Maritime News
Amazon Enters Ocean Shipping with New Freight Forwarder Status
By Mari Saito SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s China arm has registered as an ocean freight forwarder, according to the U.S.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Blog
Amazon Founder Raises Apollo 11 F-1 Engines from Atlantic Ocean
On July 16, 1969, the world watched as the historic Apollo 11 mission took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, which of course ended
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Blog
gCaptain Now Available On The Kindle
In writing my book, Fire On The Horizon, I was surprised to find that, despite being roughly the same price, many gCaptain readers preferred the kindle edition
Friday, November 28, 2008
Uncategorized
Load Up Your Agent’s Van With Amazon Prime
You pull into anchorage, plug your EVDO Card into your laptop and immediately begin to map out the stores you need to visit once the ship is docked. We
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
gCaptain
Support gCaptain – Announcing The Gear Shop
We are happy to announce a partnership with amazon.com to bring you gCaptain’s gear shop. What is it? We have basically searched through Amazon’s
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Uncategorized
Holiday Gift Guide | Spot Globalstar Messenger – Emergency Locater
Panbo, the marine electronics blog, brings us today’s gCaptain Holiday Gift Suggestion. The unit is the SPOT Satellite Messenger & Emergency Locater
Friday, November 16, 2007
Uncategorized
Holiday Gift Guide – Tivo DVD Burner
Over the next few weeks we are going to be sharing gift ideas. So if you have a loved on who is a Captain, Mate, Engineer or just a
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