Product moving in containers on ocean vessels represents the majority of commerce among U.S. companies and their trading partners around the world.
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In addition, he says, investment is needed in research and development to take the industry to the next level to build bigger ocean-going vessels.
One of the biggest culprits yet to be addressed is actually ocean-going vessels, which are not held to the same diesel fuel emission standards as land-locked methods of transportation.
While oil does not damage ocean-going vessels, it will cling to their hulls, and it is illegal for ships to enter U.S. ports or waterways if they will contaminate the waters.
Whereas the current limit on sulfur emissions in diesel fuel allowed in the United States is 15 parts per million, the diesel fuel coming in from ocean-going vessels emits 45, 000 parts per million!
Three other fishing vessels - Ocean Trust, Santa Maria and Silver Dawn - had also headed to the scene to offer assistance.
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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.
Rather, she is the most exclusive member of an exclusive club of so-called mega-yachts, giant motorized vessels that have more in common with ocean liners than with traditional yachts.
Recently a South African education sailing ship, Lady Amber, has been enlisted to deploy the Argo floats in parts of the Southern Indian Ocean which are otherwise seldom visited by research or cargo vessels.
The ultimate goal is a global program to facilitate, coordinate and ramp up the efficient, cost effective ocean and atmospheric information collection by a growing number and range of vessels and platforms.
The world has never seen their like:huge, lightweight vessels sporting lots of sail, plus all the comforts of an ocean liner.
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.
The 12-year-old Ocean Atlas is one of a very small number of U.S.-flagged heavy-lift vessels.
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