More than 10 million cargo containers are moving across the world's oceans at any given time.
The United States' No. 1 export to China, by number of cargo containers, is scrap.
The mock-up has steel seats in typical coach, business- and first-class layouts on both decks plus replicas of the 555-passenger jet's staircases and cargo containers.
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Considerably lower than the adjoining streets, it is hemmed in on one side by a heavily used traffic bridge and by a transfer yard for cargo containers on the other.
To attract donations, BBF depends mainly on its reputation, word of mouth and occasional local publicity when one of its 200 annual cargo containers leaves the warehouse for a hot world disaster spot, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami or, a rare domestic effort, 2005's Hurricane Katrina.
One of Cornell's buy recommendations is on the Orient Express subsidiary of Bermuda-based cargo concern Sea Containers.
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.
Six of the world's 10 busiest ports are located in China, when measured in terms of cargo shipped in standard containers, or TEUs (20-foot equivalent units).
The World Shipping Council estimates that approximately 675 containers are lost from cargo ships every year.
Disparate offices have been folded into three separate groups, for bulk operations, containers, and general cargo.
The two sides co-operated effectively over the biggest upheaval in cargo transport, the introduction of standard containers in the 1960s and 1970s.
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On December 30th, 2008 twenty two containers were confiscated from an Iranian cargo ship bound for Venezuela.
They reported that on December 30th, twenty two containers were confiscated from an Iranian cargo ship bound for Venezuela.
The oxygen containers had been loaded into the forward cargo compartment of the plane by SabreTech, an outside contractor.
GDP, and the west-coast ports carry over half of the cargo that is shipped in and out of America in containers.
Sending containers through a central hub allows ships to pick up cargo at smaller ports for a variety of destinations.
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The court heard the group decided the illicit cargo needed to be something bulky but innocent so they described the containers as toys.
Essentially, almost anything up to and including containers in some cases, in our view, qualifies as project cargo because a combination of cargos is necessary to make a successful voyage.
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The same year saw a number of containers washed up in the English Channel off the Devon coast after the cargo ship MSC Napoli ran aground.
After their major bet on the Thilawa special economic zone south of Yangon, Japanese contractors have plans to deepen the Yangon River's estuary so that cargo ships can sail directly up to the city's shores and offload more containers of cars that are already being briskly snapped up at busy dealerships.
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