The company now has just one loss-making cargo operation, in Chicago.

BBC: Menzies

It was however destroyed in a rushed operation of cargo recovery by commercial salvagers.

UNESCO: Underwater Cultural Heritage

He added that the gutta percha, which would have been stored as cargo, could have been released during a salvage operation.

BBC: Shipwrecked gutta percha blocks wash up in South West

Dutch coastguards have called off a search and rescue operation after the sinking of the Baltic Ace cargo ship in the North Sea.

BBC: Baltic Ace shipwreck: Dutch coastguards call off search

The Libyan cargo move was truly a spur-of-the-moment operation.

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