Waybills must move openly through cargo systems so handlers can plan how to load freight.
Ten months later, in the wake of the alert over the bombs sent from Sanaa to the US through cargo firms UPS and FedEx, Mr Asiri was accused by unnamed US officials of making the devices.
Soldiers on an airborne Chinook with a bird's-eye view through the cargo sling door take advantage of a few moments "out of the war".
He points to strong October volumes at rival Neptune Orient Lines and cargo through Shanghai Port as examples.
The Americans are confident of obtaining Moscow's approval for flying troops and lethal military cargo through Russian airspace to Afghanistan.
Neptune Orient Lines ( NPTOY - news - people ) and cargo through Shanghai Port as examples.
In June 2011, the U.K. ordered UPS to temporarily stop moving air cargo through some of its U.K. facilities because of security concerns.
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The training includes climbing in through wing exits with gear, getting into cargo holds and finding which container is burning, moving hoses through planes without snags, opening doors and cargo hatches without electrical power and searching and rescuing passengers.
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Huge quantities of cargo move through them every day, much of it of uncertain character and provenance, nearly all of it inadequately monitored.
Lots of cargo comes through containers and ends up in warehouses in Dubai, he says, which are then visited by traders from across the region.
Federal prosecutors allege in the latest round of arrests that the group moved luggage through security and into cargo holds on airplanes bound for Miami, Orlando, Newark and elsewhere.
The news came as two other central Asian nations -- Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- reportedly agreed to let U.S. cargo pass through their countries on the way to Afghanistan.
Besides air drops and Pakistani delivery routes, the U.S. military can transport cargo overland through a road and rail network called the Northern Distribution Network, which brings non-lethal supplies in through Central Asia.
Home Depot, IKEA, Target and Wal-Mart all have distribution centres of more than 1m square feet (100, 000 square metres) in the Savannah area to handle cargo coming through the port, which sits at a nexus of interstate highways and railway lines that provide quick access to the south-east and Midwest.
Accra, Ghana (CNN) -- Ten people were killed Saturday after a cargo plane crashed through a fence surrounding an airport in Accra, Ghana, and slammed into a bus, municipal and national officials said.
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But the share of world sea cargo that passes through it has dropped from 5.6% in 1970 to 3.4% in 2004, according to Pablo Armuelles of the University of Panama's Institute of Canal Studies.
With Pakistan more or less closed, Russia's support has now become crucial: 20% of American cargo to Afghanistan transits through Russia and half America's troops fly over Russia.
The federal stimulus money will be put toward widening seven miles of I-215, a heavily used cargo and commuter corridor running through the city of San Bernardino.
If the ships had not been intercepted, say police, most of the gang's cargo would have been moved through an underground network to eastern Canada and then down to New York city's Chinatown.
At Quebec's Pointe-a-la-Croix, protesters on Wednesday blocked cargo transport but allowed passenger trains through.
Yet it was just a dress rehearsal, a favor from Western energy companies, to help traders at Gazprom's new London trading desk learn how to put in place agreements between buyer and seller, work out kinks in the system and go through the process of finding and negotiating for cargo and locating a home for it.
Sending containers through a central hub allows ships to pick up cargo at smaller ports for a variety of destinations.
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Later in my journey, it took 22 days on a cargo freighter to get from New Zealand through the Panama Canal and back to Philadelphia, to finish my round-the-world adventure.
"About 70 percent of all air cargo going into Iraq comes goes through Turkey, " Gates said.
But in less than 20 years more than half of the world's ocean-going cargo vessels may be too large to pass through the canal's locks.
Yet we never found out what happened to its cargo, which was unloaded and probably shipped overland through China.
Now, the whales migrate through a channel of ocean that's heavily trafficked by cargo and fishing ships, earning the species a new nickname: the urban whale.
The Sunday flight -- dubbed CRS-1 -- will have the Dragon capsule piggybacking on a Falcon 9 rocket to punch through the atmosphere while carrying more than a thousand pounds of cargo.
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We boarded the small airplane through the back ramp and saw that this aircraft was meant for cargo, not people.
"The cargo plane ... shot the runway, broke through a wall and (that) resulted in the death of 10 people who were traveling on a commercial vehicle, " Deputy Transport Minister Dzifa Attivor said.
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