shipping

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“The targeting of commercial shipping and civilian infrastructure in the region must end,” India’s foreign ministry said Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

It followed a series of skirmishes centered on U.S. efforts to enforce its blockade of Iranian ports and Tehran’s actions to keep shipping through the Strait of Hormuz bottled up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

He adds that one of his UK suppliers simply stopped shipping to the US after losing too much money in customs.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

“There are people going over to the New Zealand facilities every day, taking pictures of the Neutron progress or tracking planes, boats and shipping supplies over to Virginia,” Krieger said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Henry Laurens of South Carolina, the president of the Continental Congress for a term, had become one of America’s richest men by shipping as many as 8,000 people from Africa to America.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis