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The vessel is carrying 77, 000 tons of iron ore from Canada to China, he said.
CNN: Turkish ship 'distressed' in pirate waters
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The supply vessel was carrying 45, 000 litres of red diesel and 78, 000 litres of lubricating oil on board.
BBC: Ship refloating plan launched
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Ed stopped his crying and suddenly shivered, as if a nameless vessel, carrying his own corpse, had just passed.
NEWYORKER: After the Movie
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The vessel was carrying more than 4, 200 people, including 3, 100 passengers, and conditions became unsanitary as human waste overflowed into public spaces on the ship.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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The vessel was carrying nearly three times its recommended limit of 74 passengers, including many indigenous tribal palm oil and timber workers returning to their home villages for a harvest festival holiday, said Bakar Sibau, a district police chief in Malaysia's Sarawak state.
NPR: Ferry Capsizes In Malaysian River, 21 Missing
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The vessel, which was carrying food aid, was seized by the four pirates in April 2009.
BBC: Somali man pleads guilty to seizing US merchant ship
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The pirates have taken the vessel, which was carrying coal from South Africa to India, to the Somali port of Hobyo.
ECONOMIST: A hijack dilemma for China
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Patients are injected with the drug, and then have a catheter carrying an optical fibre threaded into the vessel to be treated.
ECONOMIST: Medicinal light-swords
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For the moment, though, European and American security experts are more interested in another matter: what cargo a Russian vessel, Arctic Sea, was carrying when it vanished in closely monitored European waters, why a journalist who alerted the world to its disappearance had to flee Russia and why Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, paid an urgent and secret visit to Moscow just a few days later.
ECONOMIST: Russia's political leaders
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Borge Nakken, who is in charge of technology and development at Farstad, expects Far Solitaire to use about 40% less fuel than a conventional vessel of the same size that is carrying out similar tasks.
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