In March 1996, a China Ocean Shipping cargo ship docked in Oakland, Calif.

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The P-3 aircraft are equipped with optical sensors and cameras that can survey broad areas of ocean and allow monitoring of unusual shipping traffic.

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One of the ironies of Kirtsaeng is that it involves shipping copyrighted works across an ocean in paper form, an approach more typical of the last century than the present one.

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All of the conflicts in this tinderbox, which controls shipping lanes from the Indian Ocean into the Red Sea, can potentially give rise to regional, and indeed global conflagrations between competing regional actors and global powers.

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Exhaust gases from shipping already brighten clouds over various bits of the ocean, and in so doing are thought to cool the Earth appreciably.

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Air shipping typically costs two to five times more than ocean freight, but prices are more reasonable for small devices like iPhones and iPods than, say, flat-screen TVs.

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The Bush administration is urging the Senate to consent this summer to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the complex and sprawling treaty that governs shipping, navigation, mining, fishing and other ocean activities.

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Nexus is believed to have been formed three years ago as shipping companies grew more concerned about the rise in pirate attacks in the Red Sea and Arabian Ocean waters, especially off of Somalia and Yemen.

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