Freight and cargo ships, cruise liners and private yachts have all come under attack.
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The World Shipping Council estimates that approximately 675 containers are lost from cargo ships every year.
The younger Guthrie, who navigates cargo ships on the Mississippi River, said he couldn't really imagine leaving.
Cargo ships may be able to travel from Asia to North America more cheaply and efficiently, for example.
Three cargo ships, each carrying more than 2, 000 tons of sulphur, also sank in the Kerch Strait, authorities said.
But today, an unusual number of IRISL-linked cargo ships are hugging Iranian ports.
So Felixstowe has built the only berths in the UK capable of taking the next generation of cargo ships.
Out of 104 IRISL-linked cargo ships surveyed, 62 ships, or 60%, of the total sample, are currently in or near Iranian ports.
The 13 fishermen were found dead inside two Chinese cargo ships in October 2011 on the Thai side of the river.
During the Second World War, several shipyards constructed cargo ships in a fraction of the time it had formerly taken them.
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The strong winds also caused several more cargo ships to run aground.
The RRF, after the LMSR's come into service, will be reduced from 100 dry cargo ships to 65 due to an increased emphasis on prepositioning.
To the east are towering green mountains, and to the west, rare pink dolphins share the delta waters with cargo ships plying the South China trade.
As aeroplanes took over from liners, the piers became a cargo terminal, and then as cargo ships got bigger, the piers became impractical for this use.
Today, according to IHS Fairplay, 15 of those 19 cargo ships are in Iranian ports, and 13 of them have been there for well over a month.
Constructed in 1931, the engineers and architects who designed the bridge never could have imagined the size of cargo ships that would be destined for the Port.
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The largest animals on Earth, blue whales can grow up to 90 feet long, still a fraction of the size of cargo ships that can stretch 1, 200 feet.
The ships can travel 2, 000 miles in less than 48 hours, twice the speed of the Pentagon's regular cargo ships, and carry enough equipment to support about 5, 000 soldiers.
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Cargo ships like Berkey's are being forced to lighten their loads, some harbors have already been forced to close and the tourist trade is bracing for an impact as well.
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This beachside outdoor food market hums as nighthawks gather to feast with a view over the water, where the lights of cargo ships (and further south, Indonesia) can be readily seen.
Such brightening has been observed in the exhaust plumes of cargo ships for some time, but Lynn Russell, who ran the experiment, was still surprised by how much brightening the team saw.
The states also will look for agreement on the best way to regulate ballast water dumped by oceangoing cargo ships, the primary vehicle by which aquatic invasive species have reached the Great Lakes.
Officials say it would be supplied by freighters in exactly the same way that robotic cargo ships keep the International Space Station (ISS) today stocked with fuel, food, water, air, and spare parts.
Like 41 other sailors from three cargo ships anchored at the port of Kalba, in the tiny Fujairah emirate, he was left to his own devices months ago by his employers, a Dubai-based shipping company.
After their major bet on the Thilawa special economic zone south of Yangon, Japanese contractors have plans to deepen the Yangon River's estuary so that cargo ships can sail directly up to the city's shores and offload more containers of cars that are already being briskly snapped up at busy dealerships.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, whose home state of Mississippi benefits from cargo ships transiting the canal, and House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia should act promptly so that Mr. Clinton and Vice President Al Gore will be unable to point their fingers to Capitol Hill when the question is asked: Who lost the Panama Canal.
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After seeing the Baltic Dry Index drop steadily since the end of October 2010, a survey by Bloomberg showed that with approximately 200 capesizes, or cargo ships spanning more than 1, 000 feet, coming out of the shipyards this year, a surplus in vessels will lead to a glut that will produce additional pain to shipping companies.
The massive choppers are capable of moving heavy cargo from ships into Gonaives.
Now, the whales migrate through a channel of ocean that's heavily trafficked by cargo and fishing ships, earning the species a new nickname: the urban whale.
Imagine a thriving sea trade in which ships carrying cargo receive a 20% profit on the value of the goods.
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