51.  His Republican counterpart, Gov. Jim Gilmore of Virginia, was on the opposite coast, at a ribbon-cutting at a shipping company in Norfolk.

52.  Hyundai will bid later this month at an auction where state-owned Korea Gas Corp. will place orders for seven LNG carriers to four shipping companies.

53.  Huey signed a one-year agreement to work in Atlanta when he was transferred here by a shipping company.

54.  If the companies apply for licenses, it would be the first attempt by foreign shipping companies to move into Japanese freight operations, Itazaki said.

55.  If they did not get better, the responsibility fell on shipping companies to ship immigrants back at company expense.

56.  In fact, American shipping companies never backed the premise behind the talks.

57.  In order to accommodate U.S. exports to the island, shipping companies would have to be willing to change their freighter schedules.

58.  In most cases, she said, officials do not believe that the shipping companies are knowing accomplices.

59.  In the accord Friday, Japan agreed that all shipping companies will be permitted to go through the government to deal directly with port operators.

60.  Investors did not register concern over the widening strike, pushing shipping company shares higher.