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'The Worst Is Over' for Container Lines

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发表于 6-9-2012 10:07:57 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
Shipping  | A Fragile Truce. Container lines make peace after a bloody price war. Can it last?  Economist, June 9, 2012.
http://www.economist.com/node/21556632
(Euro-storms ahead)

Note:
(a) The article states, "Two of the biggest [container] lines, MSC of Switzerland and France’s CMA CGM, bunked up together."

For "bunk up," see bunk (up) together
: "[for two or more people] to share a bed, a bedroom, or a tent. <Shall we bunk together? My tent is big and you can bunk up with me>"
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs, 2002.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/bunk+together

(b) clubby (adj): "characteristic of a club or club members: as [:] displaying friendliness especially to other members of the same social group : SOCIABLE"
www.m-w.com
(c) Costamare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costamare(Headquarters  Athens; founded in 1975 by captain Vassilis C Constantakopoulos)

So Constamare was made of the first two syllables of founder's surname, plus Latin mare sea.

(d) MiISC Berhad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISC_Berhad
(MISC Berhad was incorporated in 1968 as Malaysia International Shipping Corporation Berhad and is the leading international shipping line of Malaysia; Headquarters  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
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