This is then put on a container ship to England, where it is emptied and bottled.
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He said the couple were being held hostage on a Singapore-registered container ship called the Kota Wajah.
It was Ken Quinn, a second mate from the American container ship that was hijacked off Somalia in April.
On Wednesday April 8th it was confirmed that Somali gunmen had hijacked an American-operated container ship, the 17, 500 tonne Maersk Alabama.
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For example, China's development of an anti-ship ballistic missile is designed to target U.S. aircraft carriers - not some commercial container ship.
He said their captors had not officially asked for a ransom and that they were currently being held hostage on board a container ship.
In 1992, a container ship that left Hong Kong carrying tens of thousands of yellow ducks spilled into the Pacific Ocean during a violent storm.
The skipper praised the captain of the German container ship, the Hoescht Express, which rescued the seven-strong crew more than 750 miles west of Ireland.
Since it takes two years to build a container ship, freight capacity is inflexible, so small changes in demand can cause marked changes in price.
We're now standing at Seaforth dock and we're watching a container ship which is manoeuvring to leave Liverpool and probably sailing to Zeebrugge or Le Havre.
Richard Phillips reportedly offered himself as a hostage to the pirates during an attack Wednesday on the U.S.-flagged container ship Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean.
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Another container ship is travelling from Spain, laden with a further 40, 000 tonnes of salt, and a third is also heading to the UK with salt from Germany.
Down at the docks in Rotterdam, the largest port in Europe, cranes swing into action, unloading "Edith" - the world's biggest container ship, which has just come into the port.
Russia is now marketing to rogue states its Club-K missile system, designed to clandestinely convert any common container ship into a missile launch platform, while preserving the freighter's innocent appearance.
The amount of electricity needed to operate a ship in port varies from 1 to 4 Megawatts (MW) for a container ship to 5 to 10 MW for a cruise ship.
From his boat, Ridley wrote a daily blog via a solar-powered satellite phone, describing his near collision with a container ship, battles with 20-foot waves and cravings for gin and tonics.
This is exactly the spirit in which 61-year-old Captain Arne Rinnan answered the call from the Australian coastguard requesting he sail and rescue the 460 asylum-seekers now on board his container ship.
"If a nuclear attack comes, it won't be from an ICBM, but more likely in the hold of a container ship, " says Paul Leventhal, president of the Nuclear Control Institute in Washington, D.
Would the mullahs be so reckless as to hide a nuclear device in a container on a ship and set it off near one of our cities?
"The history of container shipping involves ship lines taking huge gambles, " says Marc Levinson, who points to a trend for some American and European companies to move manufacturing back from Asia.
The container that was used to ship the bikes was turned into a fully functioning bike shop.
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The truck went to the nearby Port of Seattle, where the container was put on a ship.
One recent weapon is what frog-busters are calling a "hot shower chamber, " a modified freight container used by nurseries to ship plants, with multiple heads that spray heated water onto the plants and kill any coquis that might be lurking there.
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If I were a terrorist and wanted to get a weapon of mass destruction in the United States, my method of first choice would be a ship-borne cargo container.
The GT will be traveling by cargo ship in a 40-foot container between continents, the company says.
The cartons are rectangular and easy to pack, meaning more wine can fit in one container, be it a truck or a ship, with less wasted space.
More important is Mr Watson's claim that Sotheby's has handled countless smuggled antiquities from Italy and, on a bigger scale, India where unscrupulous dealers ship off rich pickings from their cultural heritage by the container-load, aided by officials happy to overlook misuse of the diplomatic bag.
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