Four hundred containers carrying building materials have been transported along the Manchester Ship Canal from Liverpool using barges.

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Officers have searched Manchester Ship Canal near Victoria Warehouse in Trafford where Indian student Souvik Pal, 19, was last seen.

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Liverpool, the loser, retaliated by charging enormous dock dues on Manchester's cotton imports, so Manchester built a ship canal to by-pass Liverpool.

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