In World War II German U-boats stalked Europe-bound freighters in the nearby Gulf of Mexico.
In February the company ordered 27 Boeing 767-300er freighters to handle the surge in volume.
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And they have grown so big so fast that they bump each other like freighters maneuvering in a bathtub.
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Negotiations are on-going, but the airlines have already agreed to commit 10 Boeing 747-400 freighters to the venture, according to Reuters.
The freighters are a kind of subscription that Europe has to pay to be a member of the International Space Station "club".
One of those space freighters, a Japanese HTV-2 cargo ship, is slated to launch in just six days, NASA officials said.
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In February the company ordered 27 Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people ) 767-300er freighters to handle the surge in volume.
And Glebe Island, an industrial area in the suburb of Balmain, joined the mainland in the 1860s and now acts as a cargo storage area for freighters.
One of the freighters has been chartered by the UN World Food Programme to bring in food aid, which is the biggest earner for local transport contractors.
Moreover, the data could be useful in determining safe noise limits for other ocean-based equipment as well, ranging from offshore oil rigs to wind turbines to ocean freighters.
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Other large air freighters already flying include the Russian-built Ilyushin Il-76, the U.S.-made Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and, largest of them all, the Antonov An-225 -- also Russian.
Nothing has quite prepared you for the spectacle up close: freighters and motor junks forever plying their harbour trade and, beyond them, a Futurama cityscape rising from near vertical jungle slopes.
Officials say it would be supplied by freighters in exactly the same way that robotic cargo ships keep the International Space Station (ISS) today stocked with fuel, food, water, air, and spare parts.
The company would also buy six 777 freighters.
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Apparently, UPS was happy with the seven A300-600 freighters Airbus delivered last fall as part of a 1998 deal to provide 30 of the aircraft for use within the continental U.S. The new deal is the largest aircraft purchase in UPS's 93-year history.
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