We have a 90-acre industrial terminal in Houston, which is the busiest project cargo terminal in the United States.

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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.

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"It smells like a dead body, " the customs officer told me, as we opened a crate of smuggled ivory in the cargo terminal at Bangkok airport earlier this year.

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Cargo was delayed at the terminal resulting in a backlog of thousands of containers.

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At the end of 2012, Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom sent a 66, 000-tonne cargo of LNG from Statoil's Hammerfest terminal in Norway to the Japanese port of Tobata between November 7 and December 5.

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Most unprepared of all was chief air-cargo operator HACTL, which was forced to stop processing freight at its spanking new Super Terminal 1.

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