Occasionally cruise ships will be refurbished here, but aside from ferries, there are very few large ships being built.
The group even suggested that if large ships went faster through the whales' habitat, the chance of a collision would be lower.
Marine pilots guide large ships through dangerous and congested waters, using their expertise as shiphandlers and their in-depth understanding of local waterways.
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Given the numbers of large ships contracted for and built over the course of the past two or three years, the over-supply of space-aboard-ship is high and is rising.
The large ships will take you to the biggest ports with the most to do, like Nassau and Cozumel, while the smaller ones will allow you to visit pristine and secluded beaches in the Southern Grenadines and British Virgin Islands.
Along with a string of promises to buy a house in Lampedusa, build a golf course and plant trees (he has not yet done any of these), he did promise to send large ships to remove migrants to the mainland.
About three weeks ago the Russians were accused of dispatching two large landing ships full of marines to Tartus.
Boston's vast port nestles close to the skyscrapers of the city's financial district. 1, 500 vessels come in and out of here each month, mostly large container ships carrying gas and petroleum products.
"We should seriously consider the lessons to be learnt and, if necessary, re-examine the regulations on the safety of large passenger ships in the light of the findings of the casualty investigation, " Koji Sekimizu, secretary-general of the U.N. agency, said in a statement Monday.
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The number of TEUs (the large containers on ships: twenty-foot equivalent units) moving through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is up 23% in May year-over-year and up 26% since the beginning of the year.
In recent years, reports of ships large and small being hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates have become commonplace, with dozens of seafarers and their vessels held captive, in some cases for months.
Admiral Moore, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, claims that in case of military conflict in the Pacific, a large number of logistic ships need uninterrupted access to the canal to support deployed forces.
"Cruise ships, in large part operating outside the bounds of United States enforcement, have become the Wild West of the travel industry, and it's time to rein them in before anyone else gets hurt, " Schumer said in a statement.
Pirates typically hold the ships and crews until large ransoms are paid by the shipping companies.
"This was a vast structure which could easily have housed wood, canvas and other supplies and certainly would have been large enough to build or shelter ships in, " Prof Keay said.
Dr Wiley also helped to develop a new iPad application that gives real-time information on the location of whales across the entire East Coast of America so that ships can avoid the large gatherings of the cetaceans.
Cold-ironing is when ships at berth connect via large cables to the shore-side power grid for electricity.
They are a particular nuisance on cruise ships, often sickening a large fraction of the passengers and crew.
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It is understandable that they wanted to do something about the large tax liabilities in the wakes of their ships that had finally come in.
At the time, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said it was a "fairly common chemical" carried aboard ships which was produced in a large number of countries.
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With the completion of the New Panama Canal expected in 2014 many East Coast ports are scrambling to obtain new infrastructure large enough to handle the influx of these colossal ships.
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The Vanguard, the Blue Marlin and the rest of the Dockwise fleet are ships designed to carry other ships, drilling rigs or anything else too large or heavy to be easily transported on a conventional ship.
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Years ago, this company launched by the CEO and the Jones character began building ships, starting small and steadily growing into a very large corporation.
Typhoon jets are coming into service, a new generation of ships is being introduced and there are plans to build two large aircraft carriers.
Mr. Babits, who had been aboard the HMS Bounty replica several times and has sailed on other tall-mast ships, said he didn't understand why the ship entered the path of a large storm that everyone knew was coming.
The opto chip's speed also stands to benefit businesses that transmit large amounts of data around the globe, and the military could use it to improve navigation systems for ships and aircraft.
The crew members still under pirate control come from a number of countries, including a large section of Filipinos, with media in the Philippines reporting that 91 Filipinos are still being held in their ships.
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