Freight and cargo ships, cruise liners and private yachts have all come under attack.
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It was a wreck of a cargo ship, running freight over Europa and the Orient.
Rail Accident Investigation Branch inspectors have made five recommendations including proper checks on freight train cargo packing.
Distrust of the GDP numbers has prompted Capital Economics, a research firm based in London, to create its own proxy of economic activity, which includes electricity output, domestic freight volumes, cargo traffic at ports, passenger transport and floor area under construction.
An IATA programme known as e-freight aims to do for cargo what e-tickets have done for passengers.
Waybills must move openly through cargo systems so handlers can plan how to load freight.
Most unprepared of all was chief air-cargo operator HACTL, which was forced to stop processing freight at its spanking new Super Terminal 1.
Pilot Air Freight, the company which carried the unusual cargo, pointed out that, apart from anything else, Mr McKinley had narrowly escaped death by having the good fortune to fly in pressurised, heated cabins.
In freight, the Japanese have agreed to let Federal Express ferry cargo to Beijing and Shanghai via Japan.
Only 78 of Boeing's new orders were for freight aircraft but that understates the industry's importance, since many cargo planes are conversions of ageing passenger planes.
Major domestic airlines have based 80 percent of their freight capacities at the Pudong airport, which now ranks No. 3 by cargo turnover, after Hong Kong and Memphis, Tennessee.
Air cargo planes are believed to receive less attention than passenger planes because of the sheer volume of freight passing through.
Proponents note that the overall cost of the project would be recouped within a few decades, as the volume of tunnel freight transport activity increased, reaching an estimated 3 percent of the world's total physical cargo or 100 million tons annually.
Moreover, continuing shift in freight traffic from air to the sea, driven by higher fuel prices is not helping the air-cargo industry at all.
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