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December 20, 2023
Bahamas signs joint statement condemning Houthi rebels attacks on Red Sea Shipping

THE Bahamas signed a joint statement with other countries condemning Houthi rebels in Yemen for their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.

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December 20, 2023
Shipping Giants Suspend Passage Through Red Sea

MIDDLE EAST - Major oil and shipping firms in Britain, Germany, Norway, and Belgium are suspending transit through the Red Sea due to heightened concerns. Militants in Yemen, supporting Hamas, have increased attacks on vessels heading for Israel.

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October 02, 2023
Aeropost expands with shipping services in The Bahamas

Streamlined, courier service complements existing extensive online marketplace NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Aeropost has expanded its scope of operations with the official launch of Aeropost Courier, Powered by Click to Collect Ltd., which now offers freight forwarding services and allows shoppers in The Bahamas to ship just about anything from U.S. online stores in addition to [...]

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December 08, 2010
Tropical Shipping's parent company sold

Tropical Shipping's parent company finalized a deal yesterday to sell its operations to an?Atlanta-based company for $2.4 billion, Guardian?Business can confirm. The 'jury' is still out on how the move will affect one of the largest freight businesses in this country.
International reports yesterday indicated that Nicor Inc. had agreed to sell its billion-dollar operations to AGL Resources for cas...

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July 15, 2011
UN shipping agency adopts new rules on emissions

LONDON -- The U.N. agency regulating international shipping decided Friday that the global merchant marine, which ferries most of the world's trade, must meet energy efficiency standards and cut carbon pollution.

The decision by a powerful committee of the International Maritime Organization attacks a growing source of greenhouse gases and is the first measure on climate change to apply equally...

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February 20, 2011
Shipping agent in global alliance

GAC, the global shipping, logistics and marine services provider, has strengthened its global network by signing an alliance agreement with Bahamian agency, Elnet Maritime Company, forming GAC-Elnet with effect from March 1, 2011.

Elnet Maritime Company was formed by then 28-year-old shipping veteran Elbert 'Ellie' Hepburn in 2008, after he served in a variety of managerial positions at agencies ...

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February 03, 2011
Shipping company aiming to double fleet

By DENISE MAYCOCK

Tribune Freeport Reporter

dmaycock@tribunemedia.net

FREEPORT - With 13 bulk carriers already, Bahamas-based Campbell's Shipping Company is seeking to double its fleet within the next year, a company executive said yesterday.

Jamaal Smith, assistant manning manager of Campbell's Shipping, said the vessels in their fleet represent a total of 15,000 tons or the size of two footb...

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September 09, 2010
Downtown Nassau Partnership: Shipping move will usher in new era for historic Nassau

Nassau, Bahamas - The long-awaited
transformation of historic Nassau
moved a step closer to reality this week with a single newspaper ad: a job
opening for a managing director for the Arawak Port Development Company.

"The
search for a managing director for the new shipping facility means the
long-awaited move of container shipping out of downtown Nassau is becoming
reality," said Vaughn Roberts, ...

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September 10, 2010
Downtown Nassau Partnership: Shipping move will usher in new era for historic Nassau

The long-awaited transformation of historic Nassau moved a step closer to reality this week with a single newspaper ad: a job opening for a managing director for the Arawak Port Development Company.

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December 06, 2022
Emerge event highlights need for lower cost shipping

Minister of Economic Affairs Michael Halkitis opened the two-day Emerge Grand Bahama Small Business Symposium last week, sharing the government's willingness to partner with the public and private sectors to promote and develop small businesses. Halkitis said that as November was declared National Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Month, particular focus was placed on ingenuity, ...
The pos...

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