We have over 100 large vessels that are skimming offshore in and around the surface area above the well.
The reason so many large vessels meet unhappy ends in the Aleutians has to do with the geography of international shipping.
Rates recovered strongly in June, according to ICAP, partly because large vessels were in demand for storage, as oil companies waited for crude prices to strengthen.
Mr Fox said the trust was also looking into clearing silt in the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, which would allow access to the docks for large vessels.
Money has been invested in Belfast Harbour to ensure it can cope with the increasingly large vessels sailing into the city, including the latest arrival, the 113, 000-tons Emerald Princess.
These large vessels have been largely kept in business by governmental subsidies, say non-governmental organizations like the WWF which has been urging the World Trade Organization (WTO) to do something about them.
An estimated 3, 100 large vessels thread between the islands each year on their way west, and a similar number travel the eastward route across the North Pacific just south of the Aleutians.
Very large tour vessels (those carrying more than 500 passengers) are not allowed to take passengers ashore, so their trips are known as "cruise-only".
In addition to calling for a 50 percent reduction in the capacity of the industrial fishing fleet, Greenpeace seeks the elimination of government subsidies and a moratorium on the construction of large fishing vessels.
According to recent U.N. estimates, only 10 percent of the 15 million fishers are employed on large-scale fishing vessels.
But in less than 20 years more than half of the world's ocean-going cargo vessels may be too large to pass through the canal's locks.
Rough seas were preventing fishing boats coming in to harbour and the lifeboat began escorting vessels to safety, but was battered by large waves.
MSRC's capabilities include a significant inventory of vessels, equipment and trained personnel, complemented by a large contractor work force.
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.
Female officers now serve on large submarines, and the Navy has plans to add female enlisted personnel on those vessels.
Are there -- some of these smaller vessels have radios on them, have we done an effective inventory of which ones are large enough and have enough trained personnel that they can actually lay boom or they can engage in skimming?
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