Ship captains needed a well-paying cargo to haul back to the Americas after having delivered sugar and tobacco to Europe.
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When the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation's research ship recently needed help getting permission from the Egyptian government to enter the Red Sea, Ludwig made several phone calls, and the mission was under way.
We got a call to pick up our bag five weeks later, but the store offered to ship it if needed.
For shipping, alleviating glass bottles significantly reduces the weight and the shape allows the wine to be packed more efficiently which results in a reduced amount of fuel needed to ship the wines.
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This will fill a needed gap in ship-to-shore communications and also provide for friends and family to be able to communicate onboard without high cost by giving direct dial capability between smartphones.
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There were no casualties but tugs were needed to tow the ship to Mahe in the Seychelles.
He asked two senior administration officials about what would happen under the treaty if the US Navy needed to board a ship on the high seas.
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By some estimates, American navy ships spend 80% of their time travelling at half speed, which requires barely one-eighth of the power needed to propel a ship at top speed.
The amount of electricity needed to operate a ship in port varies from 1 to 4 Megawatts (MW) for a container ship to 5 to 10 MW for a cruise ship.
Three additional nuclear reactors would create all of the electricity needed for operation of the ship.
This, he says, could have been prevented if a well-connected business lobby had not illegally pushed the ship back into service when it still needed vital repairs.
That way it could be made available without caveats to whichever country needed it when its main ship was in refit (a three-year job required every seven years or so).
As a result of limitations like these, he said, the Japanese craft Kaiko had limited manoeuvrability and needed a custom-built ship for spooling out the reams of heavy cable required to attach it to the ship.
It said important information was obtained following the first berthing trial "as to the precise adjustments that were needed in order for the ship to moor safely and securely in the berth and connect properly with the loading bridge".
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We also have a ship en route to the Marianas Islands to assist as needed.
It's fully equipped with sea-based missile defense systems, has long been the Navy's primary ship for the sea-based missile defense program and has the technology needed for the operation, officials said.
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At the same time, we accelerated or increased weapons programs needed to confront real and growing threats -- the Joint Strike Fighter, the Littoral Combat Ship, and more helicopters and reconnaissance support for our troops at the front.
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