The world boasts a fleet of more than 50, 000 cargo-carrying vessels, according to the International Maritime Organization.
The world's fleet of 480 crude carriers holds 960 million barrels.
Both British Airways (BA) and Air France, which operate the world's fleet of Concordes, have said their supersonic service will resume once the jets are authorised to fly.
The traffic jam is hardly surprising considering that the world's fleet of superyachts has ballooned in the past five years by 25 percent, to around 4, 600, according to Marina Projects, a U.K. consultancy firm.
You just have to assume modest rationality in keeping the world's existing fleet of 437 nuclear reactors operating.
His Oslo-based Frontline operates 62 crude oil carriers, the world's largest fleet, with a total capacity of 110 million bbl.
Martin Evans, an external research fellow at University of Glamorgan Business School, says the world's aircraft fleet is expected to double in the next 20 years.
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But the world's container fleet capacity is expected to grow by 9.5% this year alone, as Maersk and others receive the ships they ordered years ago.
The report, "Assessment of the World's Fishing Fleet 1991-1997, " was authored by Chris Newton and John Fitzpatrick, former senior managers of the fisheries department of the FAO.
The problem extends beyond Brazil, with economic forecasts showing the majority of global growth in auto sales taking place in emerging-market nations as the world's auto fleet doubles to 1.5 billion by 2020.
And, unhindered by airport curfews in Dubai and flying mainly long-haul routes, Emirates has one of the world's highest fleet-utilisation rates: its jets are in the air for about 18 hours a day.
The world's total fleet of 50 Boeing 787s has been grounded since Jan. 16 as Boeing and investigators tried to figure out why one aircraft battery caught fire and another smoldered, forcing an emergency landing.
With more than 800 aircraft, NetJets operates the largest private aviation fleet in the world.
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Such flexibility is possible because the Navy operates a forward-deployed fleet around the world that can be relocated without regard to political boundaries as threat conditions change.
News of the World was the first British Fleet Street newspaper Rupert Murdoch bought, in 1969, as he began to propel himself from Australian newspaper proprietor to international media magnate.
What is alarming, said Greenpeace in the report made public Tuesday, is that in the face of such depletion, the world's industrial fishing fleet has increased 22 percent since 1991.
Electric cars will boom as we replace our fleet all over the world.
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For the Maldives, a group of coral atolls in the Indian Ocean, linked by small boats and the world's second-largest fleet of Twin-Otter seaplanes, competition looks a rather different issue than it might do in New Jersey.
Also competing were two examples of the 12-meter class that dominated the America's Cup competition in the decades after World War II and an entire fleet of 6-meters--aristocratic racing machines that have been the favorites of such yachtsmen as the kings of Spain, Denmark and Norway.
On August 5th Chile's CSAV, which runs the world's eighth-largest container fleet, became the first shipper to make a container-derivative trade (with Morgan Stanley).
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Beatpower just announced its existence to the world today and it's brought a fleet of speakers to help celebrate.
Two hundred years ago, New Bedford put itself on the world map with its investment in a whaling fleet.
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Wal-Mart and its suppliers cut the world's biggest civilian heavy-truck fleet's diesel use per ton-mile by 38 percent in 2004-08 and aim to halve it by 2015.
By his early thirties he successfully led a fleet of experimental new weapons in World War I - submarines - earning the Distinguished Service Order with two bars.
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Colombia's National Police has world-class surveillance technology and a huge helicopter fleet to fight drugs, but is less good at dealing with ordinary crime.
Delta already operates the world's largest Wi-Fi-equipped fleet of aircraft with more than 3, 000 flights daily, including its entire fleet of 550 domestic mainline aircraft.
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"New Zealand has the oldest, dirtiest and least efficient car fleet in the whole of the developed world, " said Jeannette Fitzsimons, co-leader of the Green Party, which is a member of the coalition government.
He agreed that Iran could open talks on membership of the World Trade Organisation and import spare parts for its ageing fleet of civilian aircraft.
The family shipping business, co-owned with his brother Eyal -- who is based in Monaco -- runs the largest fleet of British-flagged ships in the world, and there is a wing at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich named after their father Sammy.
For starters, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says the global fishing fleet is 2.5 times bigger than "what the oceans can sustainably support" - i.e. there are too many boats catching too many fish, and not giving fish stocks enough time to replenish them.
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