There are primarily three sizes of containers to consider when shipping your household goods as an FCL (Full Container Load): 20' Standard (STD), 40' Standard (STD), and 40' High Cube (HC). The standard sizes have identical width and height dimensions and are differentiated by their length. The 40'High Cube has the same width and length of the 40'STD but has an additional foot of height. The 20'STD holds a maximum volume of 1,172 cubic feet, the...more
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Reading News paper or seating in front of TV or computer in morning with a cup of steamed tea in a hand; enjoying tea while chit-chatting with friends and even while working in the office are some moments which are inseparable parts of many of ours life. In 2737 B.C. the tea leaves accidentally blew in the pot of boiling water of China's second emperor, Shen Nung and the story of this refreshing drink goes on. In China, it's in demand as a medicinal beverage since beginning. It is the drink, which is popular around the world as the most refreshing beverage. India is among the largest tea producers, exporters as well as the consumers of the world. Best sell offers available at b2b portal for production of tea and related to Indian producers, exporters. Here we can take pride as India accounts for 31% of global tea production. It's the industry where India has hold leadership over past 150 years. Tea in India has been cultivated in the parts of northern and southern India. India is producing both the highest & lowest quality tea. Darjeeling tea is considered as the world's finest tea. Thus this tea is largely exported from India. The tea industry is the largest export industry of...more
It's hard not to notice that the markets have completely forgotten about fundamentals and instead are trying to bring "irrational exuberance" back into style. Raging bull markets that have lasted for years and years with one bubble after another, and a year of economic slump is just too much for everyone to handle. Instead of markets moving up on...more
Election campaigns are in high gear right now and everyone has an opinion on just about everything when it comes to which candidate would be better for who and what. I lost faith in the common sense of the average voter, not just in the United States but pretty much across the world. What I am finding very curious, is the possibility that many...more
If an economic sink hole brought on by creative financing and lax regulatory controls weren't enough, there's nothing like straight forward criminal actions to really paralyze investors. As a fund manager of an extremely transparent fund, there is nothing that brings out more fury in me than a few bad apples scaring people to a point of not even wanting to put their hand in the barrel. Sure Madoff is the poster child, but there are a host of others that have created schemes of the Ponzi sort that are equally as devastating to the people invested in them. Now Stanford Financial is being accused of misrepresenting the safety and security of their C.D. offering while also providing returns that the SEC is called in its filing "improbable if not impossible". In other words, they are saying it's fraud. In the midst of all this fraud, we are seeing fingers pointing the blame at every government regulatory body possible; we are hearing a battle cry for some sort of protection through regulation. I do believe that the creators of these fraudulent schemes should meet the firing squad, but it's important to understand that the people investing in these schemes really didn't understand the...more
Though there seems to be an endless supply of other shoes to drop into the current economic chasm, there seems to be a general consensus that commercial real estate is going to take a significant hit. The shoe that could end up kicking commercial...more
Recently I spoke with my co-managing partner Michael Facchini, of Regent Global Funds, an alternative investment fund, at an Institutional Investor conference on Distressed Real Estate in New York City. The folks at Institutional Investor did a...more
It's time to address one of the most incredible misconceptions in the current environment around real estate lending, which is the idea that all real estate lending is high risk. I hear this often and I understand where it's coming from since it...more
With economies in complete disarray on a global basis, one of the few bright spots has been the massive correction in oil. It was widely speculated that oil was in a bubble and that speculation turned into a stark reality with oil dropping below 50%...more
Everyone needs to consider their investments in corporations that have been using job cuts as an alternative to growth, and in essence keeping their bottom line in shape. With the economy in a recession, it's that time again for large corporations to...more
With the absolute implosion of global financial markets, the investment world is learning that alternative investments need to be private. I don't think there has ever been a better illustration of a "pull down" effect within the last 70 years. It...more