The USNS Rappahannock, a fuel resupply ship, fired on what two U.S. officials called a "small, white pleasure craft" 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Dubai port of Jebel Ali.
This makes it hard to ship fuel easily from state to state, and contributes to local shortages.
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For shipping, alleviating glass bottles significantly reduces the weight and the shape allows the wine to be packed more efficiently which results in a reduced amount of fuel needed to ship the wines.
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Either they are serious about affording the public and our country with the means to counter enemy attacks whether undertaken with fuel trucks, ship-borne containers, commercial airliners, crop-dusters or missiles or they are not.
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Either they are serious about affording the public and our country with the means to counter enemy attacks -- whether undertaken with fuel trucks, ship-borne containers, commercial airliners, crop-dusters or missiles -- or they are not.
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It has suspended plans to ship uranium fuel for the reactor, ostensibly because of late payments by Iran.
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Fuel that makes energy to ship goods, or make electric for homes and manufacturing.
Officials and environmentalists have expressed concern that the ship's fuel, at full load at the start of the cruise, could spill into the sea.
Ironically, the accident happened only one day before a ship carrying nuclear fuel made up of mixed uranium and plutonium docked in Japan, surrounded by coast guard vessels and greeted by demonstrators.
Mr Powell won agreement from the Turks to ship food, fuel and humanitarian aid across their border into northern Iraq, and he seems to have succeeded in restraining the Turks from invading Iraq themselves.
According to FARS, Tehran had proposed at a previous meeting in Baghdad that it would stop production, close the Fordow facility where the work is carried out, and ship its purified fuel out of the country.
Complete speculation, but if margins for jet fuel are so good that an airline wants to get into the refining business, it might make sense for Catsimatidis to ship in jet fuel from elsewhere and stockpile it at the terminal.
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Greenpeace activists tried, and failed, to stop a ship carrying reprocessed nuclear fuel through the Panama Canal .
"The bigger the ship the lower the fuel consumption, that's one thing, " said Thomas Riber Knudsen, Asia Pacific CEO of shipping line Maersk.
The Navy will spend three years and tens of millions of dollars removing the ship's radioactive fuel and reactors before cutting it into scrap.
The average ship burns about 5 metric tons of fuel each day in port.
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said the fire started with a leak in a fuel-oil return line running from one of the ship's engines.
That includes such diverse items as civilian pay, ship maintenance, facilities upkeep, professional training and jet fuel.
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Italian Environment Minister Corrado Clini said there was evidence that liquid was leaking from the ship, but he could not confirm whether the fluid was fuel.
Moving, assembling and testing ordnance, purifying and storing fuel, organizing the flight deck, mission planning, safely navigating the ship, preparing food, training and performing maintenance on important ship and aircraft systems go on around the clock.
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Third, it has targeted a South Korean refuelling ship, the Sun Laurel, so as to starve the fleet of fuel.
The idea was for Iran to ship 1, 200kg of its low-enriched uranium overseas to produce fuel for a research reactor, thus leaving the country for a while with too small a stockpile with which to make a bomb.
Now toys are unlimited, they can arrive ahead of the main ship be deployed and ready, the Sea Axe can also carry supplies of fuel etc.
Ship operators who lease most of their ships only have one easy option to save fuel: slow steaming.
Ship operators who own more of their ships will therefore have an advantage in terms of reducing fuel use.
Only last week, Ukrainian customs officials seized a Russian cargo ship bound for Libya and carrying a multilaterally-controlled chemical used in the production of rocket fuel.
His ship, the Terra Nova, sailed from the city's docks laden with Welsh coal, fuel, and supplies.
This creates a split-incentive, because the ship owner (who would pay for the upgrades) does not get the benefit of savings on fuel consumption.
The Voyager was loaded with high-octane fuel and ammunition when it was hit - the survivors of the attack worked with extraordinary bravery to save the ship and rescue their injured shipmates from the flames.
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