With more than 800 aircraft, NetJets operates the largest private aviation fleet in the world.
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Such flexibility is possible because the Navy operates a forward-deployed fleet around the world that can be relocated without regard to political boundaries as threat conditions change.
Electric cars will boom as we replace our fleet all over the world.
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The world boasts a fleet of more than 50, 000 cargo-carrying vessels, according to the International Maritime Organization.
The world's fleet of 480 crude carriers holds 960 million barrels.
Both British Airways (BA) and Air France, which operate the world's fleet of Concordes, have said their supersonic service will resume once the jets are authorised to fly.
The traffic jam is hardly surprising considering that the world's fleet of superyachts has ballooned in the past five years by 25 percent, to around 4, 600, according to Marina Projects, a U.K. consultancy firm.
You just have to assume modest rationality in keeping the world's existing fleet of 437 nuclear reactors operating.
His Oslo-based Frontline operates 62 crude oil carriers, the world's largest fleet, with a total capacity of 110 million bbl.
Martin Evans, an external research fellow at University of Glamorgan Business School, says the world's aircraft fleet is expected to double in the next 20 years.
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But the world's container fleet capacity is expected to grow by 9.5% this year alone, as Maersk and others receive the ships they ordered years ago.
The report, "Assessment of the World's Fishing Fleet 1991-1997, " was authored by Chris Newton and John Fitzpatrick, former senior managers of the fisheries department of the FAO.
By his early thirties he successfully led a fleet of experimental new weapons in World War I - submarines - earning the Distinguished Service Order with two bars.
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The problem extends beyond Brazil, with economic forecasts showing the majority of global growth in auto sales taking place in emerging-market nations as the world's auto fleet doubles to 1.5 billion by 2020.
And, unhindered by airport curfews in Dubai and flying mainly long-haul routes, Emirates has one of the world's highest fleet-utilisation rates: its jets are in the air for about 18 hours a day.
The world's total fleet of 50 Boeing 787s has been grounded since Jan. 16 as Boeing and investigators tried to figure out why one aircraft battery caught fire and another smoldered, forcing an emergency landing.
News of the World was the first British Fleet Street newspaper Rupert Murdoch bought, in 1969, as he began to propel himself from Australian newspaper proprietor to international media magnate.
What is alarming, said Greenpeace in the report made public Tuesday, is that in the face of such depletion, the world's industrial fishing fleet has increased 22 percent since 1991.
"New Zealand has the oldest, dirtiest and least efficient car fleet in the whole of the developed world, " said Jeannette Fitzsimons, co-leader of the Green Party, which is a member of the coalition government.
For the Maldives, a group of coral atolls in the Indian Ocean, linked by small boats and the world's second-largest fleet of Twin-Otter seaplanes, competition looks a rather different issue than it might do in New Jersey.
The family shipping business, co-owned with his brother Eyal -- who is based in Monaco -- runs the largest fleet of British-flagged ships in the world, and there is a wing at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich named after their father Sammy.
FedEx ( FDX - news - people ), no doubt it spends enormous sums on airplanes, but its major assets are the supreme intellects in its employ whose operational brilliance enables its fleet of planes to deliver packages around the world.
Also competing were two examples of the 12-meter class that dominated the America's Cup competition in the decades after World War II and an entire fleet of 6-meters--aristocratic racing machines that have been the favorites of such yachtsmen as the kings of Spain, Denmark and Norway.
Greece has 3, 800-plus ships of 1, 000 tons or more, the largest fleet in Europe and the fifth largest in the world.
It has the largest fleet of natural gas-powered buses in the world.
On August 5th Chile's CSAV, which runs the world's eighth-largest container fleet, became the first shipper to make a container-derivative trade (with Morgan Stanley).
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The new chairman, Admiral James "Ace" Lyons, Jr. is the former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the largest single military command in the world.
Admiral Lyons was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (the largest single military command in the world), senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations, and deputy chief of naval operations, where he was principal adviser on all Joint Chiefs of Staff matters.
James "Ace" Lyons, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (the largest single military command in the world), senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations and was deputy chief of naval operations, where he was principal adviser on all Joint Chiefs of Staff matters.
The compass was also invented in China, and records exist of how a great fleet was sent under the command of Admiral Zheng He in the early 15th century to show the Chinese imperial flag in the ports of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, a fleet said to be the largest seen in the world up to that time.
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