There is no other locale in the country that has more transportation infrastructure available to sea port facilities.

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Nearly all Antarctic tourism is sea-based, meaning that your transportation, meals and accommodation are combined in one neat package (your ship), so that no infrastructure has to be built ashore in Antarctica's delicate environment.

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Safety is essential to any transportation system whether on land, sea or air, and space shuttles are a vivid example of that axiom.

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"We need to recognize the reality of rising sea levels and extreme weather events, " Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said at a news conference in front of an aging electrical substation that was flooded by Sandy last October.

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In the late 1990s, another company, Aquarius Water Trading and Transportation, towed water in bags in the Aegean Sea.

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