Online Class Notes (Tibo)

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we only have planes. / we only operate planes but not ships
We also book containers from shipping companies. / we use third parties to send by ship / we don’t operate our own ships, we go through our partners.
Shipping is more complex.
For airplanes we have our own planes and we also cooperate with third parties for some smaller routes.

I feel the shipping time is quite long ,we heard about the Suez canal issue from the news and recently we heard from the operation team the shipping cost has increased.
It is affected by the restrictions.

I remember during Covid the shipping cost was 10 times higher than usual.
We worked to rent a ship for our customers and we did not have this experience before but we wanted to bring down the cost for our customers.

It was also difficult to book room for our customers.

Vocabulary

flood (n) overflow of water
My house got affected by the flood and all the computers got damaged by the water.

to flood (v) cause of flood / overwhelm by numbers / amount
After her accident, Clara was flooded by friendly messages wishing her a quick recovery
Company B was angry about company A flooding the market with cheap goods

to bid (v/n) offer a price / especially during an auction
He decided to big USD300 during the auction

bidding war (n) when people keep bidding higher and higher because they must get something
During Covid transport went through a bidding war

Pronunciation

guide

guard

Atlantic

promote

prompt