The second pipeline is designed to carry crude oil cargoes that dock in Kyaukpyu.
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Heavy lift cargoes are not that large of a percentage of our overall cargo mix.
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The companies that deal in cargoes that would be pollutants have to have plans in place.
China envisages exporting consumer goods aboard container ships to Europe and receiving LNG cargoes via the NSR.
But the surfeit of regasification capacity has created opportunities to divert cargoes to the most lucrative market.
The main supply of cargoes for this comes from Ex-Im Bank-financed lending to buyers of US goods.
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The cargoes its ships carry encompass economically sensitive commodities like iron ore, coal, grain, and steel products.
Just outside the Tatopani customs office, I saw for myself two impounded trucks with illegal cargoes of red sandalwood.
Who are the real owners of many of these vessels is often unclear, as is the true nature of their cargoes.
As revolutionary echoes from France made London's potentates tremble, cargoes of ex-slaves were dumped on a malarial strip of impossible land.
Up to 90 vessels a week can be seen waiting to load or unload their cargoes, more than twice the usual number.
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So cargoes of cars and car parts, tractors, cookers and washing machines still travel at about the speed of a running man.
The cargoes transported across the Mediterranean included terrified slaves and prisoners (like the apostle Paul, whose ship was smashed to pieces) as well as exotic spices.
In the business of shipping dry-bulk cargoes, mostly iron ore, coal and grain, there is not even the hint of a silver lining to the cloud.
So, with the number of ships in the world today, and the way cargo flows go, we certainly do not build our business around heavy lift cargoes.
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We expect these efficiencies will not only attract new cargoes to the rivers, but that the increased cargo will help justify revitalization of the lock and dam infrastructure.
Two cargoes have already been booked for the new ship.
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From their barrel-like structure, it is tempting to think that vaults could serve as containers for other molecules opening up into flowers when their cargoes need to be released.
At the hub port the containers can be consolidated with other cargoes bound for the same destinations, so that fewer and larger ships transport the goods more cheaply.
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American experts have visited each one in an effort to help local administrators tighten up security and reduce the chances of ships and their cargoes being used by terrorists.
China is financing ESL's new vessels, which will have improved cranes and holds for handling more complex cargoes, such as the colossal turbines needed to build Ethiopia's new hydroelectric dams.
It often moves cargoes under contract with the U.S. government or for projects financed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which requires U.S. flagged ships to carry any cargoes it has financed.
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The port authorities want to extend working hours, offering rebates to firms willing to pick up cargoes at night or on the weekend, periods which account for less than 20% of cargo movements.
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The author explains that wreckers were not so much vicious as desperately poor, and that coastal communities saw ships' cargoes as theirs for the taking because they would otherwise be consigned to rot on the seabed.
If true, this is clearly not the kind of behavior we should see from security companies that have supposedly been vetted by the U.S. Government to guard sensitive cargoes sent to and from the Persian Gulf.
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The new Dockwise Vanguard will give the firm the ability to transport even larger and heavier cargoes, including entire Floating Production Storage and Offloading units (FPSOs.) The Dockwise Vanguard is expected to be delivered toward the end of 2012.
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Taking the rail idea a step further and looking to further solve the differential equation, Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) is converting a former Virginia refinery to offload crude railcars and then shift their cargoes to ships to move crude oil along the coasts of the United States, profiting from price differentials.
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Even the shuttle will live on, in some sense, since the Space Launch System the unromantic name of the beefy rocket needed to loft astronauts and cargoes into high orbits or farther into the solar system will be built partly from recycled shuttle parts in an effort to save money and use familiar technology.
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