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  2. Haijin - Wikipedia

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    Hanyu Pinyin. Bìguān Suǒguó. The Haijin (海禁) or sea ban were a series of related isolationist policies in China restricting private maritime trading and coastal settlement during most of the Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty. The policy introduced by the Ming founder Zhu Yuanzhang significantly hampered the growth of China's domestic ...

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    A strike would hit 36 ports that handle about one-half of U.S. ocean imports. That could affect availability of a range of goods from bananas to clothing to cars shipped via container, while ...

  4. Transportation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The largest percentage of US freight is carried by trucks (60%), followed by pipelines (18%), rail (10%), ship (8%), and air (0.01%). [10] Other modes of transportation, such as parcels and intermodal freight accounted for about 3% of the remainder. Air freight is commonly used only for perishables and premium express shipments.

  5. Bab-el-Mandeb - Wikipedia

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    The Bab-el-Mandeb (Arabic: باب المندب, lit.'Gate of Lamentation', [ 1 ] Tigrinya: ባብ ኣል ማንዳብ), the Gate of Grief or the Gate of Tears, [ 2 ] is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. It connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and by extension the Indian Ocean.

  6. Intermodal container - Wikipedia

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    Intermodal container. A 40-foot-long (12.2 m) shipping container. Each of its eight corners has an essential corner casting for hoisting, stacking, and securing. Containers stacked on a large ship. An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and ...

  7. Baltic Dry Index - Wikipedia

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    Baltic Dry Index 1985 - 2022. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is a shipping freight-cost index issued daily by the London -based Baltic Exchange. The BDI is a composite of the Capesize, Panamax and Supramax timecharter averages. It is reported around the world as a proxy for dry bulk shipping stocks as well as a general shipping market bellwether.

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