{"id":245265,"date":"2004-04-15T12:11:48","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T16:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/04\/shipping-companies-merge"},"modified":"2004-04-15T12:11:48","modified_gmt":"2004-04-15T16:11:48","slug":"shipping-companies-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/04\/shipping-companies-merge","title":{"rendered":"Shipping Companies Merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two companies together, United Shipping and Tanja Enterprises have become  by far the country&#8217;s largest maritime service entity. Talks between the two of joining forces had been ongoing for about six months prior to the solidification of yesterday&#8217;s agreement.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nPresident and CEO of Tanja Enterprises Jackson L. Ritchie, said he is very pleased to see the two companies come together as United Shipping is a very old and reputable Bahamian company with a &#8216;book of clients&#8217; that have been loyal to it for decades.<br \/>\n<P><B>Mindell Small, The Nassau Guardian<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The merger of two major shipping firms in the country was sealed Wednesday during a press conference at United Shipping Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}