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shipping

noun as in ships

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noun as in transportation

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Startups from Silicon Valley to Europe and beyond are racing to develop cheap, reliable systems to counter hostile drones appearing over airports and global shipping lanes far from the battlefield in Ukraine.

One intriguing idea is that a recent change to shipping fuels might be contributing to the warming.

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"Very quickly, most shipping companies decided to redirect all their vessels, where possible, around South Africa rather than transiting through the Red Sea."

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This week we warned that a United Nations agency you’ve never heard of was about to impose the first global carbon tax—on shipping.

Now, however, those policies are proving harder to sustain as return volumes and the costs of reverse logistics, shipping and restocking grow,” the report continued.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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