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The East India Company (EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia.
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The Six-Day War, [a] ... but Nasser closed the Straits to Israeli shipping on 22–23 May. ... The free Israeli-organized transportation, which began on June 11, 1967 ...
In 1999, Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN) purchased the Belgian shipping company Van Gend & Loos as well as Swiss freight forwarder Danzas. [citation needed] In 2001, Deutsche Post acquired a majority (51%) of DHL's shares, and the remaining 49% in 2002. The new DHL was launched by merging the old DHL, Danzas, and Securicor Omega Euro Express. [12]
A tax-free shopping retailer. Tax-free shopping (TFS) is the buying of goods in another country or state and obtaining a refund of the sales tax which has been collected by the retailer on those goods. [1] The sales tax may be variously described as a sales tax, goods and services tax (GST), value added tax (VAT), or consumption tax.
In 2021—2022, an LNG shipment from US to Europe could return a profit of $133—200 million. Shipping rates were $100,000 per day [13] even for 5-year contracts, but can vary between $60,000—250,000. [14]
Old Friends and New Fancies (1914), an early example of shipping in fanfiction. The term "shipping," derived from "relationshipping," initially emerged in the mid-1990s within the X-Files fandom to refer to the fan practice of supporting a hypothetical romantic relationship between the main protagonists, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
The next day, Hidalgo issued his call to arms in Dolores. Immediately after the Mexico City coup ousting Iturrigaray, juntas in Spain created the Supreme Central Junta of Spain and the Indies, on 25 September 1808 in Aranjuez. Its creation was a major step in the political development in the Spanish empire, once it became clear that there ...