It takes three weeks to ship raw materials in from China with all shipments going via Singapore.

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Its location gave them refuge from the northern sea storms and access to the ship building materials found in Ireland's dense forest.

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The power in Iceland to do this is so cheap that it is economical for companies like Alcoa and Alcan to ship the raw materials all the way to Iceland and then ship the final product out it to its customers.

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This ship was carrying building materials, medicinal drugs and 700 cases of scotch whiskey to Venezuela when she went down in 1943.

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Spectrometers on the "chase planes" picked up in this light shower the signatures of the various materials in the ship burning off.

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Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that the United States would not forcibly board a North Korean ship but, in accordance with a recent U.N. resolution, would request permission to search the ship or press any port the ship docks in to inspect it for illegal materials.

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Four hundred containers carrying building materials have been transported along the Manchester Ship Canal from Liverpool using barges.

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The resolution provides new guidance to states regarding ship interdiction, cargo inspections, and the seizure and disposal of prohibited materials.

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And here's one of the best things about energy efficiency -- it turns out that energy-efficient windows or insulation, those things are products that are almost exclusively manufactured right here in the United States of America. (Applause.) It's very hard to ship windows from China. (Laughter.) So a lot of these materials are made right here in America.

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