The huge plan, regarded as the Holy Grail of Titanic memorabilia, shows the intricate detail of the ship - from the location of the squash court, to the Turkish baths to the first-class lavatories.
Most think of Marco Polo as Venetian, but although he set off from the Italian city for his great Asian odyssey, and lived there later in life, evidence points to his origins in a ship-building family from here, the coast of Dalmatia.
Fourteen containers made the six-week ship journey from Hamburg to Osaka this year, with the historical carousel and its hand-painted wooden horses the biggest item transported.
The new nation was a seafaring one, amassing great wealth from ship-building, whaling, fishing and maritime trade.
Earlier they had given a legal notice to the government to stop the asbestos-lined ship from being imported.
When the Alcubierre-driven ship decelerates from superluminal speed, the particles its bubble has gathered are released in energetic outbursts.
Very occasionally inspectors have prevented a single passenger ship from operating - on two or three occasions in the last 20 years.
But the Oil Pollution Act bans the U.S.-built ship from Alaskan waters.
This argument has some merit, mainly because price pressure clearly comes from the ability to ship steel from low-cost developing countries to more mature economies.
"Today is full of mixed emotion for all of us as it is likely to be the last new-build ship delivered from Harland and Wolff in the immediate future, " he said.
Having grown up in the old economy, DoveBid also has the know-how to offer all sorts of ancillary services, such as evaluating assets for buyers and helping them to work out how to ship heavy factory-equipment from, say, Chicago to Shanghai.
In contrast to the current business model, where the ship-breakers buy the vessels from the owners outright and then sell the salvaged bits themselves, Ecodock is offering to split the proceeds with shipowners.
It's a ship that brings containers from Canada to Liverpool - it's quite a sizeable ship - it's about 210m long and it's about to swing to go through a passage way in order to gain access to the lock.
The dock-landing ship, the USS Portland, recently returned from a three-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Venezuelan authorities this morning released the U.S.-flagged cargo ship Ocean Atlas from two weeks of detention on suspicion of arms trafficking.
FORBES: Venezuela Frees U.S. Ship And Crew After Smuggling Investigation
As St Paul's - and the wider church - had in recent days appeared like a rudderless ship battered by storms beyond its control - there was silence from Lambeth Palace.
Its long reach would have enabled the warships launching it to stay far away from the shore, reducing the threat from enemy anti-ship missiles.
FORBES: Marines Fight For Crucial Vehicle As Budget Cuts Loom
In 1839, 53 African-born slaves on a ship bound from one Cuban sugar plantation to another attacked their captors, killing all but two, spared to help them sail back to Africa.
The other is a drop-ship website where products may come from various locations and arrive at your door with a shipping service like FedEx or UPS. Both may charge a fee for these services in addition to shipping and handling costs.
Iron-eating microbes are steadily breaking down the actual sunken ship, but the pieces already culled from the wreck's 13-mile debris field are "spectacular, " said John Joslyn, the owner of a pair of Titanic theme museums in Missouri and Tennessee who helped to fund the first salvaging expedition in 1987.
Everything has changed from 1995, put it on a CD-ROM, ship it in a box to the store and wait till you ever hear from a customer.
FORBES: Heidi Roizen: On Venture Capital And Friction-Free Channels
Five sailors from Devonport-based HMS Sutherland have set off on foot from Scotland to race their ship back to Plymouth.
Most egregious, though, are the boxloads of special favours for industries from timber producers to cruise-ship owners.
You have to wonder if Samsung might spin-off their Apple-like beast from within the mother ship to unlock value.
After a few minutes, a gaggle of about 20 English tourists arrive - khaki-shorted and fresh off the cruise ship from Barbados.
Since 2004 CHEP has provided rent-free pallets to Wal-Mart (retailers use them to ship goods from their warehouses) and some other big customers.
Niantic Labs, after all, takes its name from a 120-foot sailing ship that arrived in San Francisco 160 years ago for the Gold Rush.
Other pieces include white ceramic dishes stamped with the ship's red "White Star Line" logo and leather handbags that some of the ship's pursers stuffed with money from safe-deposit boxes.
He has been criticised over a scandal on a military training ship which led to a mutiny - bringing the charge from opponents that his defence ministry is out of control.
Now at the helm of Overseas Shipholding Group in New York City, the second-largest publicly traded shipping company (after Teekay Shipping) with a 90-ship fleet, Arntzen learned a valuable lesson from being a lender.
应用推荐