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Ptolemy's world map implied that Africa was part of an outer landmass, separating the Atlantic from the Indian Ocean. The early Portuguese Empire centered around the Cape Route. In 1500, Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral used the prevailing winds on the Atlantic for a volta do mar, and thereby became the first European to arrive in ...
The Indian Ocean region links in the West with the (above) area of the Arabian Sea and the African continent and in the East it borders with the Pacific Ocean. Apart from schemes in these border-areas only two TSS's are mentioned around India and Sri Lanka: off Mumbai, India, governed by the Director General Shipping, India; off Dondra Head ...
Mixed case palletizing is a real-world application variant of the 3D Bin packing problem, where the goal is to stack mixed size cases onto a pallet in such a way it optimizes the space utilization i.e., stack as many cases onto a minimum amount of pallets.
Maps of signatories for CMR Convention. The CMR Convention (full title Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road; in French Convention relative au contrat de transport international de marchandises par route) is a United Nations convention that was signed in Geneva on 19 May 1956.
Strategically, located on the main east–west global shipping lines and offering draft of about 16 m, Cochin is destined to develop as the premier gateway to southern India, [9] as also offering an alternative to Sri Lanka and Singapore for containers being transshipped for the Indian market.
Choosing packaging machinery includes an assessment of technical capabilities, labor requirements, worker safety, maintainability, serviceability, reliability ...
As of 2010, in the United Kingdom for example, the least restrictive was the tunnel carrying the A299 to the Port of Ramsgate, while the most restrictive were several tunnels in East London, including the Limehouse Link tunnel, the Rotherhithe Tunnel, the Blackwall Tunnel and the East India Dock Link Tunnel.
In the US, containerization and other advances in shipping were impeded by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), which was created in 1887 to keep railroads from using monopolist pricing and rate discrimination, but fell victim to regulatory capture. By the 1960s, ICC approval was required before any shipper could carry different items in ...