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The sale and purchase of ship is an important aspect of the shipping industry. It may involve large amounts of money and requires brokers to possess knowledge of types of vessels and their function, knowledge of maritime law, as well experience in bargaining .
NATCO Group was a medium-sized company based in Houston, Texas, officially founded in 1988 but essentially the successor of the National Tank Company which was founded in 1926; it manufactured equipment for separating oil, natural gas and water from one another, which is used in most oil-producing regions of the world.
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Kirby Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas is the largest tank barge operator in the United States, transporting bulk liquid products throughout the Mississippi River System, on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, along all three U.S. Coasts, and in Alaska and Hawaii.
The Houston Ship Channel, in Houston, Texas, is part of the Port of Houston, one of the busiest seaports in the world. [1] The channel is the conduit for ocean-going vessels between Houston-area terminals and the Gulf of Mexico , and it serves an increasing volume of inland barge traffic.
It was founded in 1910 as the Aluminium Plant & Vessel Company Limited, fabricating equipment for breweries and vegetable oil in Wandsworth. [1] [2] In the 1950s it moved to Crawley and expanded considerably, under the name A.P.V. Co. Ltd. [2] In 1967 it acquired Kestner Evaporator and Engineering Co, another major process plant manufacturer.
Operating as Houston Refining, LP, LyondellBasell's Houston refinery is a 268,000-barrel-per-day (42,600 m 3 /d) refinery located on the Texas Gulf Coast in Houston that occupies 700 acres (2.8 km 2) along the Houston Ship Channel.
The Atlantic triangular trade formed a major component of the colonial American economy, involving Europe, Africa and the Americas.The primary component of the transatlantic triangular trade consisted of slave ships from Europe sailing to Africa loaded with manufactured goods; once the ships arrived at African shores, the European slavers would exchange the goods aboard their ships for ...