It had 30 ships sailing each week from ports around the globe with about 3, 000 passengers per ship.

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Those companies each ship hundreds of millions of units per year, but they have loyal suppliers like Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm that were not easy to displace.

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Indeed, updates for TF2 ship nearly weekly, if not multiple times per week.

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He's even discussed reversing the flow of an 800, 000-barrel-per-day pipeline across Panama in order to make it easier to ship Venezuelan crude to Asia.

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The ship drifted into U.S. waters over the weekend, traveling about a mile per hour and making its way toward the rich fishing waters of the Gulf of Alaska, Mosley said.

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Carnival's website puts the ship's capacity at 3, 646 passengers, but that's based on only two people per cabin, and some cabins hold more, Gulliksen explained.

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