Instead of a human-paced view of a freighter, Dead Slow Ahead takes a freighter-pace view of humans.
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While many airlines have dedicated freighter aircraft that serve cargo functions, IATA says the shipments carried day-to-day are split evenly between freighter and passenger flights.
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Some, like the A330 freighter, would no longer be delivered.
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Its only cargo plane on order is a 777 Freighter.
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The freighter sailed from Bandar Abbas port in Iran's south.
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Very quickly the freighter would be packed liked an Indonesian ferry.
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Boarding a freighter in San Francisco, he headed to Hong Kong.
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More than a used Corellian YT-1300 freighter, that's for sure.
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We watched an oceangoing freighter pass out into the North Sea.
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Paul J. Martin, a 1863-foot freighter steaming up the Detroit River.
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Instead, Hal remained silent, allowing us to drift away from the freighter.
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And a Chinese freighter designed, ironically, to carry coal, launched in December.
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Bloomberg News reported this week that the planemaker could introduce a freighter version.
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The arrival is a homecoming of sorts for the World War II freighter.
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He had boarded a Nigerian freighter in the neighboring country of Sierra Leone.
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Large U.S. airlines, unlike some foreign carriers, don't operate a dedicated freighter aircraft.
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The freighter took Aldi to Japan where the consulate officials arranged his return home.
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Oftentimes shipments carried day-to-day are evenly split between freighter and passenger flights.
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Launched in November 2014, the BelugaXL program is based on an A330-200 Freighter.
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SI) cargo division, which has cut its freighter fleet down to nine Boeing (BA.
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We'd tracked down a freighter fifteen miles off the coast of Virginia, steaming east.
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The Iranian tanker, the Sanchi, collided with a Chinese grain-carrying freighter on Jan.
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It had sailed from Africa aboard a Dutch freighter with other animals and birds.
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One of the best is the one I used, New Zealand-based Freighter Travel.
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It was situated upon a long, bowed base that resembled the hull of a freighter.
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Like sexy-zombie-sailor-lady chasing you around an abandoned WWII freighter levels of weird.
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The Americans wanted to send officials to inspect the dilapidated freighter and its illicit cargo.
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The oil tanker, registered in Panama, collided with a bulk freighter registered in Hong Kong.
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Five new transporter planes, based on the freighter version of Airbus' A330-200,will be built.
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Five new transporter planes, based on the freighter version of Airbus' A20503-200,will be built.
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China also stepped up pressure by barring a North Korean freighter from one of its ports.
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Unlike the 22024, Europe's superjumbo does not have a freighter version to help absorb slack demand.
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Thus far Lucasfilm has it shut up tighter than a smuggling compartment on a Corellian freighter.
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Once I even come across an entire freighter, cracked in half, resting on the sea floor.
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Airbus, which had hoped to sell a freighter version of its A380 superjumbo, abandoned its plans.
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"Having a freighter program also opens a greater perspective for the second-hand market," he added.
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LATAM has responded by cutting its use of freighter planes to focus on belly-hold cargo.
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Airbus has put on hold its plan to launch a freighter version of its A380 superjumbo.
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I'd been waiting 20 minutes for my ride — a 740-foot freighter called the Algoma Equinox.
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In 1981, a Panamanian freighter called the Primrose got stranded on the reefs surrounding the island.
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A Swedish freighter accidentally knocked her turret off and she sank with all hands in 22.
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Take Rey and Finn's escape from Jakku aboard a certain smuggler-turned-Rebel hero's freighter, for instance.
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The result is a beautiful, fully functional family home that happens to look like an old freighter.
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Their capsized vessel was found by a freighter 100 miles of the coast of Bermuda last month.
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Only the freighter version remains in production, at a rate of just one plane every two months.
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The other, an aging freighter, was emblazoned with the red, white and blue flag of North Korea.
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When the cutter drew closer, Commander Stone's crew told the freighter its plan over a crackly radio.
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The freighter crashed directly into Commander Benson's stateroom, ripping open a huge hole and trapping him inside.
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They were packed in 661 crates and transported across the Atlantic by the freighter SS Concordia Star.
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Googling how ordinary people can travel on a cargo ship, my searches led me to Freighter Travel.
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If you're standing in the middle of Ganesha City, you should be able to jetpack over to your fighter, then dock the fighter in your freighter, then fly the freighter up out of the atmosphere and on to another planet or system — all without ever hitting a load screen.
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Crewmembers of a Norwegian freighter recovered the capsized boat about 100 miles off the Bermuda coast in March.
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BOEING SALES CHIEF SAYS "NATURAL PROGRESSION" TO CONSIDER A 777X FREIGHTER, NO TIMELINE BUT SAYS "WE'LL GET THERE"
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Demand for that plane has also dipped sharply but it has found a new role as a freighter.
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As Reuters reports, the tanker, named Sanchi, collided with a Hong Kong-registered freighter off China's eastern coast.
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ST Aerospace is stepping up passenger-to-freighter conversions and has launched seat-manufacturing and aircraft leasing businesses.
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IAG, the owner of British Airways, now looks prescient for having got rid of its freighter fleet altogether.
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Tensions between Earth, Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance heat up after the destruction of a water freighter.
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Running throughout the series' 12 issues is a story-within-the-story called Tales from the Black Freighter.
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He'd "picked up a blue ticket," he said, and would likely be on a freighter to Ireland, himself.
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An official report released on Thursday contained dramatic accounts of what happened when the freighter hit the Fitzgerald.
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The skull is also in the comics and is again a direct reference to the "Black Freighter" series.
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The Burns Harbor, a freighter, traveled through the Soo Locks early Friday on its way toward Lake Superior.
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In August 2001, the Howard government refused permission for the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa to enter Australian waters.
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The problem was discovered when some used passenger planes were being stripped down for conversion to freighter jets.
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And then, around hours six or seven, you get introduced to freighters and you get given your freighter.
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Researchers also are mapping and documenting other shipwrecks, including the freighter Dorothy Windermote, which also sunk off San Francisco.
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But with an estimated price tag of $62 million, it promises to be far more luxurious than a freighter.
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The tanker had been adrift and ablaze after crashing into the freighter CF Crystal (IMO:9497050) on Jan. 6.
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The migrants drowned after their dinghy collided with a freighter off the Greek island of Lesbos in September 2015.
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In 1996, Cuban officials turned over to the United States 6 tons of cocaine seized from a Colombian freighter.
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The Dream Chaser freighter also includes a detachable piggyback cargo module that will be discarded during atmospheric re-entry.
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The authorities in Germany are watching for oil leaks from a freighter that ran aground in the North Sea.
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An oceangoing freighter was driven far inland, crushing houses as its steel hull floated imperviously through ceilings and walls.
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Twelve years later, Saria earns around $110,0003 a year as a first officer flying Boeing 747 cargo freighter airplanes.
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The Panamanian-flagged vessel collided with the CF Crystal, a Hong Kong-registered bulk freighter, around 33 p.m. Jan.
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All 21 Chinese crew on board the Hong Kong-registered freighter the CF-Crystal were rescued, the ministry said.
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All 21 Chinese crew on board the Hong-Kong registered freighter the CF-Crystal were rescued, the ministry said.
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The U.S. firm has struck a deal with DHL to supply the logistics group with 14 777 freighter planes.
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This Han Solo's Corellian inspired freighter model has the astonishing detail that will excite Star Wars fans of any age.
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Other orders came from China Airlines and Qatar Airways who bought six and five respectively of Boeing's 777 freighter model.
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I hop into my freighter, fill the engine with as much fuel as it can handle, and just keep jumping.
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The freighter, which was carrying U.S. grain, experienced little damage, and all 21 of its crew members have been rescued.
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The Nodong is able to strike South Korea and Japan or, if launched off a freighter, even the United States.
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Sales of the latest freighter version of Boeing's jumbo, the 747-8F, have disappointed since it entered service in 2011.
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To meet that demand, the aircraft manufacturer expects the world freighter fleet to expand over 70 percent to 3,260 planes.
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The freighter, customized with an image of a giant panda emblazoned on its side, took off just before 2 p.m.
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Is that a reference to "Tales of the Black Freighter" [a comic within the "Watchmen" comic, whose two narratives intertwine]?
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Lufthansa Cargo, the freight arm of Lufthansa, currently runs a fleet of 12 MD-11 and 5 777F freighter planes.
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This is in addition to the fleet of 50 Boeing 767 freighter aircraft Amazon has been building up since 2016.
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Freighter fleets are also increasingly competing with passenger planes as new planes offer more space in their holds for cargo.
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It sank in 1960 after a far larger freighter, the Green Bay, smashed into it in Lower New York Bay.
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The Panamanian-flagged tanker, the Sanchi, collided with the CF Crystal, a Hong Kong-registered bulk freighter, around 8 p.m.
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The day's first mission: Guide their ship through the locks to free a hulking westbound freighter marooned on the ice.
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Austin: Sean, am I going to get killed by pirates, by human player pirates who hate me and my freighter?
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A Russian navy intelligence ship sank Thursday morning off the coast of Turkey after colliding with a freighter carrying livestock.
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Over the weekend, Carman was found drifting on a life raft about 100 nautical miles from Martha's Vineyard by a freighter.
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Over the weekend, Carman was found drifting on a life raft by a freighter about 100 nautical miles from Martha's Vineyard.
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Passenger planes normally carry about half the world's air cargo in their bellies, with the remainder hauled in dedicated freighter planes.
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As a freighter approaches, the gates swing open and the boat wiggles its way in, often with little room to spare.
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It was written in 1962 and set aboard a luxury freighter that is hijacked by pirates smuggling a tactical nuclear weapon.
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The Kalischers took a French freighter from Marseille to Casablanca, Morocco, where they boarded another ship bound for Bermuda and Baltimore.
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Experts estimated it may have been carrying about 1,000 tonnes at the time it collided with the CF Crystal grain freighter.
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How did radar officers on the bridge and in the combat information center below fail to detect the freighter closing in?
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Prosecutors said he had steered the fishing boat into a Portuguese freighter, the King Jacob, off the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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The young company currently has a fleet of three freighter aircraft, which it intends to build out to 18 by 2021.
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Booking through a company called Freighter Travel, I sailed aboard the Amerigo Vespucci for eight days, from Malaysia to Hong Kong.
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The crew, who had been awake for over 19 hours continuously, overbanked the Douglas DC-8-61 freighter, lost control, and crashed.
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But before the conversation goes any further, a pair of TIE Fighters come screaming in, spitting green blasterfire at the parked freighter.
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Boeing did announce General Electric's aircraft leasing division, GECAS, will convert a previous order of 10 737-900 planes into freighter models.
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The tanker Sanchi (IMO:9356608) had been adrift and ablaze after crashing into the freighter CF Crystal (IMO:9497050) on Jan. 13.
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It was a training mission; the hijackers on board the freighter were actors, and the rounds in our assault rifles were paint.
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Waves that flattened along the skin of the ship were re-forming perfectly in its wake, as if the freighter weren't there.
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The batteries travelled to the ISS from Japan in mid-December, following a very pretty night launch aboard the Kounotori 6 freighter.
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When the freighter neared, Ward and O'Hara alerted the police and the ship's crew that they were carrying out a peaceful protest.
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The tanker, the Sanchi, was carrying 136,000 tons of highly flammable fuel oil when it crashed into a freighter on Jan. 6.
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Monday's accident came two months after seven sailors died when another guided-missile destroyer, the Fitzgerald, collided with a freighter off Japan.
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With the assistance of Russian officials, the men stowed away aboard the freighter Baikal, using visitor's passes supplied by the Soviet Embassy.
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The tanker Sanchi (IMO:25) had been adrift and ablaze after crashing into the freighter CF Crystal (IMO:13) on Jan. 21.
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The large tanker Sanchi (IMO:9356608) sank on Sunday after crashing into the freighter CF Crystal (IMO:9497050) and drifting ablaze for days.
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The 777 Freighter can fly 4,900 nautical miles (9,070 kilometres) with a payload of 112 U.S. tons (102 metric tonnes), the statement said.
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Having a base and a freighter seemed like good ideas at the time, but now I'm starting to feel bogged down by responsibility.
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We do not know what actions, if any, were taken by the crew of the freighter to either cause or avoid this tragedy.
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For instance, the vessel is a YT-1300 Corellian light freighter, designed by the Corellian Engineering Corporation on Solo's home planet of Corellia.
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After his laborer father was nearly lynched, the young man fled, and eventually stowed away on a freighter that deposited him in Scotland.
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Mail — and anything else a ship might need — must be delivered on the fly, while the mail boat and the freighter are moving.
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This is likely a reference to "Tales of the Black Freighter," a fictional comic within the "Watchmen" comic about a ghost pirate ship.
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The Sanchi may have been carrying about 1,000 tonnes by the time it hit the grain freighter, according to bunker fuel traders' estimates.
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The Sanchi sank on January 14 after colliding with a Hong Kong-registered freighter in the East China Sea, spawning four giant oil spills.
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Amazon signed a five- to seven-year lease with Ohio-based Air Transport Services Group for twenty Boeing 767 freighter aircraft, the company says.
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Still, the 747's extended lifespan could be tempered by U.S.-China trade tensions and concerns about a broader economic slowdown threatening freighter demand.
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Though planemakers continue to enjoy strong demand for passenger aircraft, weak sales of cargo planes are forcing them to re-examine their freighter programmes.
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Thus Menachem Begin's rationale, in 1503, for granting political asylum to 66 Vietnamese refugees rescued by an Israeli freighter in the South China Sea.
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Those assumptions now appear unlikely to materialize, the company said, meaning fewer 747-8 freighter aircraft are likely to be produced in the future.
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Members of the crew admitted that more than a dozen smaller ships piled the freighter with cocaine by coming back and forth from Peru.
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The deal came about a month after BOC Aviation bought two Boeing 747-8 freighter aircraft for an aggregate list price of $758.2 million.
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The company on Thursday said it had booked four orders for its 747-523 freighter, the first sales of the year for the plane.
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A Boeing 777-200 that can carry 332 people has about 44,000 pounds of cargo capacity, compared with 125,000 pounds for the freighter version.
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Shipyards around the country have run into labor shortages, said Tim Huxley, the chief executive of Mandarin Shipping, a Hong Kong freighter shipping company.
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Sydney Lanier Bridge Deaths: 10 Where: Brunswick, Georgia When: November 7, 1972 A freighter collided with a drawbridge, sending cars into the Brunswick River.
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The government said that all 21 crew members of the bulk freighter had been rescued, while the 32 missing were from the oil tanker.
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Tarapore said the firm would look at the Airbus A320neo and A350-900, Boeing's 737 MAX, 787-553 and 777 freighter, and ATR's 72-600.
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In August 22, Australia denied Norwegian freighter Tampa entrance to its waters, after the ship rescued 2000 asylum seekers from a sinking Indonesian fishing boat.
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At 5:51pm ET on July 9, a Progress 70 supply freighter blasted off aboard a Soyuz-2 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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While the entire crew of the CF Crystal freighter was rescued, Sanchi's 32-person crew is considered dead and only a few bodies were recovered.
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Crewmembers of a Norwegian freighter hoisted the boat onto the ship's deck and soon found the iPhone and other personal effects in a locked compartment.
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On September 25, Nathan Carman was found adrift in the life raft by a Chinese freighter about 100 nautical miles south of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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So my expectations were grounded like a light freighter that's just negotiated a particularly harrowing chase through an asteroid belt (is that an apt analogy?).
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A freighter carries 2800 ton-miles per gallon on average, not 8003; a train carries 2800, not 2698; and a truck carries 24637, not 59.
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A freighter carries 576 ton-miles per gallon on average, not 514; a train carries 413, not 202; and a truck carries 155, not 59.
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For how quickly Chronicle could actually move to experiment on projects, "You're a giant freighter on the ocean; you're not a sports car," they added.
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The accident early Monday followed one in June, when the USS Fitzgerald guided missile destroyer collided with a freighter in Japanese waters, killing seven sailors.
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Already, it said, it has run "social trials" and testing using fixed-route public buses and freighter trucks that make use of autonomous driving tech.
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"We're not at an absolute crisis point," she added, noting that freighter aircraft are doing their best to get goods into and out of countries.
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At least one person has been found dead after an Iranian oil tanker collided with a Chinese freighter in the East China Sea on Saturday.
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"Brian has completely turned a freighter around regarding America's Iran policy, both literally and figuratively," Hammond, the top official in Tillerson's State Department, told me.
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The Sanchi may have been carrying about 1,000 tonnes by the time it hit the grain freighter CF Crystal, according to bunker fuel traders' estimates.
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In March, Stephanos' 19-foot Seacraft boat was spotted about 100 miles off the coast of Bermuda by the crew the Edda Fjord, a Norwegian freighter.
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FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Bravo Industries LLC, a Brazil-based logistics firm, has agreed to buy 10 LM-100J commercial freighter aircraft from Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.
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The problem was discovered when some used passenger jets were being stripped down for conversion to freighter jets, according to a person familiar with the problem.
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"This freighter is the right aircraft for our long-term requirements," Peter Baumgartner, the chief executive of Etihad's airline operations, said in an email to Reuters.
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The accident early on Monday followed one in June, when the USS Fitzgerald guided missile destroyer collided with a freighter in Japanese waters, killing seven sailors.
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I don't want to get too into Shea's deeper links from the comic just yet, but Black Freighter isn't his only contribution to the earlier story.
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LAN Cargo moved the moon and stars tosafely transport 2,000 Magellan sheep from Chile to Ecuadorin specially equipped freighter aircraft, with 670 sheep on each flight.
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Gerber said on Tuesday his freighter fleet was the right size for now but predicted more consolidation, partnerships and joint ventures were likely for the industry.
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Shipowners want to make as many trips as possible, but no one wants their freighter stranded on the wrong side of the locks for the winter.
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The Philippines said on Saturday it had seized a North Korean freighter that was covered by harsher United Nations sanctions against Pyongyang over its nuclear program.
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It collided with the freighter CF Crystal that was carrying grain from the United States about 160 nautical miles (184 km) off China's coast near Shanghai.
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One of the most exciting moments I had in the last few days was stumbling on a crashed freighter, a massive spaceship with hidden loot to uncover.
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What first-time feature director Mauro Herce set out to do seems straightforward, almost clinical: document the journey of an enormous shipping freighter across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Freighter planes arrive throughout the night at a dedicated terminal for DHL, a German logistics giant, to be serviced by an army of fluorescent-yellow-clad workers.
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The airline expects its freighter fleet to cover 60 cities by FY2019, and plans to grow this to 150 destinations across India, Asia and Europe by 2022.
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A passing freighter found the younger Carman alive in a life raft on Saturday, within the search area Petty Officer Nicole Groll outlined to reporters on Monday.
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Another platform-heavy sequence has you climbing through the hull of a rusted freighter as it repeatedly tips on its side, reverts in time, and tips again.
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In June, 2016, a major expansion of the canal was completed, and the first ship through was an enormous Chinese freighter, designed to fit the new dimensions.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads An artist residency hosted on a freighter crossing the Pacific Ocean has turned into a bizarre existential art piece in itself.
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And the wreck of De Hoop, a Dutch freighter that sank after an explosion in 1895 and is normally submerged, now lies exposed on the Rhine's banks.
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The temple was dismantled in Egypt, packed into crates and placed aboard the Concordia Star freighter for the trip across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City.
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This week's stranding is "clearly not related to" a capsized freighter in St. Simons Sound, more than 30 miles away, DNR senior wildlife biologist Clay George said.
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The trip, which can take a full day depending on traffic, requires the careful choreography of skilled freighter pilots, tugboats, and the immense doors that separate each lock.
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In January 2018, the Iranian oil tanker Sanchi struck the Chinese freighter CF Crystal 257 kilometers (160 miles) off the coast of Shanghai in the East China Sea.
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The Coast Guard said the man, whose name was not given, was picked up on April 26 by a Panamanian freighter about 2,150 miles southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.
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"Obviously the lack of belly space means everything goes on main deck," she said, in reference to how cargo is carried in passenger planes compared with freighter aircraft.
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At New York Toy Fair, we got a sneak peek of the famed space freighter as we'll see it in Solo, back when it belonged to Lando Calrissian.
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Workers on Wednesday attached the first of two towing ships to the freighter with a 1.5-km towline, Germany's Central Command for Maritime Emergencies said in a statement.
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Freighter fleets are also increasingly competing with the belly space in passenger planes, as travel demand booms and new planes provide more space in their holds for cargo.
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It collided with the freighter CF Crystal (IMO:9497050) that was carrying grain from the United States about 160 nautical miles (184 km) off China's coast near Shanghai.
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In the 1960s, the United States Army installed a nuclear reactor inside the hull of a World War II freighter to provide electricity for the Panama Canal Zone.
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About half of all air cargo carried worldwide normally flies in passenger jets but the grounding of those planes due to the coronavirus outbreak is driving freighter demand.
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They went out on a freighter from Gioia Tauro, a port on the Tyrrhenian Sea that has long been notorious as a Mafia-run conduit for cocaine trafficking.
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Even with cargo at one-third of its usual weight, his 282-foot freighter Rex-Rheni — the King Rhine — would have only inches of water under its hull.
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Dear Diary: In December 1979, I returned home to New York as the only passenger on a Brazilian freighter after a 13-month stay in Rio de Janeiro.
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Since it&aposs based on the Airbus A330-200F freighter, the BelugaXL is larger, with greater cargo capacity, and is expected to deliver superior performance than its predecessor.
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After graduating in 1940 with a degree in economics and journalism, he joined the merchant marine, serving on a freighter that transported war matériel across the North Atlantic.
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The announcement followed the release of a harrowing preliminary report on the collision between the destroyer Fitzgerald and a freighter that killed seven people aboard the American ship.
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In 1939, while working as an editor at a socialist magazine in Durban, he found work as a stoker aboard a freighter and made his way to London.
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DeAndre Jordan A regulation freighter foghorn he can mount in his bedroom to blast wistfully, forcefully, every morning to remind him of his old home on Venice Beach.
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Eight months later, however, crewmembers aboard a Norwegian freighter spotted Stephanos' 19-foot Seacraft boat overturned and floating in a shipping channel about 100 miles off the Bermuda coast.
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The video in question is the Wednesday launch of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket, carrying a Cygnus cargo freighter destined for the International Space Station, done in conjunction with NASA.
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The freighter arrived Thursday in Subic Bay, on the west of the Philippines' main island of Luzon, from Indonesia with a load of palm kernels, according to state news.
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It will be first class treatment for the four-legged stars of the show, with 550 horses arriving on a specially designed Boeing 777 freighter aircraft in customized stalls.
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A combined force of helicopters, C-130s, and pararescuemen lifted 23 crew off that ship, the helos spending over 14 hours hovering over the listing funhouse of a freighter.
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The crash has raised questions about the safety record of Navy ships, coming just two months after another Navy destroyer collided with a freighter off Japan, killing seven sailors.
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McAllister confirmed Boeing is looking at reviving the passenger version of the 767, which is currently offered as a freighter or tanker, but stressed this was "only a study".
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The jumbo Turkish freighter slammed into the village of Dacha-Suu on the outskirts of Bishkek, killing 37 people and destroying at least 15 houses, Kyrgyzstan's emergency situations ministry said.
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NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Thursday that it had booked four orders for its 747-8 freighter, the first sales of the year for the plane.
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The giant oil tanker burned for over a week after it collided with a Hong Kong-registered freighter in the East China Sea, about 160 miles (260 km) from Shanghai.
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PARIS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - ATR, the world's largest maker of turboprop planes, announced on Wednesday an order from FedEx Express for up to 50 of its 72-600F freighter planes.
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On Memorial Day weekend, Mr. Hogan received a call from the American Mariner, an American Steamship Company freighter, asking for $3,000 worth of provisions to be delivered the next day.
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The report attributes the collision to failure to maneuver the ship away from the approaching freighter, failure to sound the danger signal and failure to try to contact the Crystal.
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In 1952, while living on the Lower East Side as an N.Y.U. student, he grew restless for the sea and joined the crew of a Norwegian freighter bound for Manila.
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The crash occurred just two months after the deadly collision of another ship from the Navy's Seventh Fleet, the destroyer Fitzgerald, which hit a freighter off the coast of Japan.
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It turns out, the ill-fated freighter is at the bottom of the ocean about 35 miles from St. Augustine, Florida, according to scientists, who say they've identified the ship.
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It could also spell the end for Boeing's struggling 22040-8 passenger jet and freighter and force the U.S. planemaker to upgrade at least one of its two smaller freighters.
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There have been recent reports of North Korean coal shipments being blocked at the Chinese border, and China also barred a North Korean freighter from entering one of its ports.
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But just a few months later, the Russian cargo freighter Progress collided with one of the Mir modules and punctured a hole in the space station, causing it to begin depressurizing.
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The freighter had set sail from the Iranian Gulf port of Bandar Abbas and stopped off in Hamburg, Germany and Valencia, Spain before reaching the Italian port of Genoa on Oct.
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Vo was born in Vietnam in 1975; his family fled the country by boat when he was four and relocated to Copenhagen, after being rescued at sea by a Danish freighter.
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The agreements announced on Tuesday included landing gear exchange deals with Japan's ANA Holdings Inc and Malaysia Airlines and an order from cargo group DHL for a 767-300ER converted freighter.
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Two bags, filled with six cans of Planters mixed nuts and seven boxes of K-Cup coffee, were quickly tied on by the Westcott's deck hand and hoisted aboard the freighter.
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A Sea Shepherd vessel was denied Russian permission to pursue the freighter through the Northern Sea Route, an increasingly ice-free stretch of the Arctic Ocean that hugs the Russian coast.
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In 2015, Department of Homeland Security officials in Houston, acting on intelligence from their Peruvian counterparts, seized 1,770 metric tons of Amazon rain forest wood they found in a rusty freighter.
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Earlier the captain of the freighter said the Greek coast guard had opened fire on his vessel after he refused an order to dock at a port in the Aegean Sea.
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"There is more work to do....There is a lot of demand for the 777 freighter and we have been pretty active in that marketspace and talking to several customers," he said.
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The thousands of dropped flights have already slashed "belly cargo" capacity in airliner holds, with operators like Lufthansa also scaling back freighter services in response to crew health concerns and uncertain demand.
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Created by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, the original Firefly series was set hundreds of years in the future, and it followed the crew of a space freighter called Serenity.
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A second vessel, a freighter with a crew of nine, was also being evacuated nearby after suffering engine failure, diverting helicopters and thus delaying the cruise ship airlift, the rescue center added.
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There are fighter-sized spaceships that are great for localized scouting, high-speed combat, and the like, and then there are freighter-sized ships that serve as more of a mobile home.
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Analysts used to think there was a case for a further update to the 747 freighter, to replace planes that will be retired in the 2020s—but now there is much scepticism.
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The 747 freighter, prized for a hinged nose that allows large cargo to be loaded at the front, is Boeing's second-most expensive commercial jet, with a list price of $379.1 million.
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In the original series, global warming has happened—in a big way—and the comic revolves around a cast of ex-environmentalists on a huge freighter trying to find their sister ship.
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The Foundation Update (version 1.1), as it's called, focuses on allowing players to make more of a mark on the universe by building a home base and purchasing a large space freighter.
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It was installed during the conversion from a passenger plane to a freighter, not while the aircraft was manufactured, so it is not part of the flight critical systems on the plane.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An Iranian oil tanker collided with a grain freighter in the East China Sea over the weekend, erupting in fire and leaving its entire crew of 32 dead or missing.
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It's not clear how many people were on board, but the freighter had seating for 10 -- including two pilots, two observers and six additional passengers, according to a description on the airline's website.
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Yang admitted as part of his plea bargain that the smuggled items were transported from China by freighter inside shipping containers and placed on display at the 2015 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show.
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The company oversees a massive warehouse, air hub, and cargo freighter logistics network in addition to its growing network of Flex personal delivery drivers, which are employed using an Uber-like contract model.
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Recovered by the crew of a Norwegian freighter 100 miles off the Bermuda coast, the boat arrived in Port Everglades late Sunday, transported in a shipping container on the USA-registered Yorktown Express.
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McAllister confirmed reports that Boeing is considering bringing back the passenger version of that aircraft, which is currently offered as a freighter or tanker, but said this was "only a study" for now.
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Since most ship controls are now electronic and practically no muscle is required, it takes about the same number of crew members to operate a medium-size freighter as a very large one.
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It also raised questions about the safety record of Navy ships, since the incident came just two months after seven people were killed when another Navy destroyer collided with a freighter off Japan.
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It immediately raised questions about the training and safety record of Navy ships, happening just two months after another Navy destroyer, the Fitzgerald, collided with a freighter off Japan, killing seven American sailors.
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Sunshine Skyway BridgeDeaths: 27 Where: Outside St. Petersburg, Florida When: May 21972, 1980 A freighter struck the bridge during a thunderstorm, sending a bus, six cars and a pickup truck into the bay.
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Moscow's crew has since boarded Kiev's two warships and one tugboat, detaining more than 20 sailors, and even placed a freighter ship length-wise along the only entrance in and out of the strait.
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During his re-election campaign in 2001, Mr Howard seized on the case of a Norwegian freighter that had rescued would-be asylum-seekers from a sinking smuggler's vessel on its way to Australia.
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The backdrop: About a dozen sailors are facing punishment for the June collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a freighter off the coast of Japan, and some will be relieved from duty, per USAToday.
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But plans to tow the freighter free during high tide on Monday were being revised after officials determined the waters were too shallow for the ship that would have done the towing, Friedrich said.
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The freighter, with a crew of 11, was en route from the Syrian port of Latakia to Benghazi when it was intercepted by Greek authorities off the southeastern coast of Crete on Dec. 5.
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And shipments seized later were even bigger — including a load of hashish aboard the freighter Aberdeen, boarded in the summer of 2014, that was estimated to be worth €420 million — or about $472 million.
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Unlike with the Boeing 747, the A380 freighter never came to fruition, so Airbus won't be able to subsist on sales of a cargo variant while it waits for passenger-plane sales to rebound.
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Specialty travel agencies like Maris and A la Carte Freighter Travel book trans-Atlantic and around-the-world trips, and others like ZIM Integrated Shipping Services take applications for artist residencies on their ships.
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In 2150 the world's first such electricity generators were erected there and, 210 years later, the first large-scale offshore wind farm, built with the help of a freighter previously employed to ferry bananas.
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There are dusky ocean horizon shots that register nearly as beautifully as a Turner painting, and the workers' fluorescent orange jumpsuits add to an otherworldly feeling against the Atlantic nights on the bloodless freighter.
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At that point, the crew focused on the northwest corner of the island near the S.S. Norwich City, a British freighter that ran aground on the island in 1929, eight years before Earhart's disappearance.
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In March, the boys' boat and multiple personal effects, including the phone, were recovered by the crew of a Norwegian freighter, capsized and floating in a shipping channel about 100 miles off the Bermuda coast.
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The discovery on Sunday led the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe to impound the aircraft, an unmarked chartered MD11 freighter owned by Western Global Airlines, a well-established international cargo carrier based in Estero, Fla.
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Boeing Commercial Airplanes President & Chief Executive Kevin McAllister said at a news conference a decision would be made at a later date on whether the Central Asian carrier opts for the 747 or 777 freighter.
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The stricken tanker, called the Sanchi (IMO:1603), which had been adrift and on fire following the accident with the freighter CF Crystal, had "suddenly ignited" around noon (0400 GMT), China Central Television (CCTV) said.
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SINGAPORE/MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines Coast Guard has banned a North Korean freighter from leaving port until safety deficiencies, found during a security and safety inspection of the vessel, are rectified, officials said on Friday.
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"Once again, faced with citizen mobilization and our legal action, a Saudi freighter had to give up loading French weapons, this time in Fos-sur-Mer," Nathalie Seff of ACAT-France said in a statement.
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As an example of its capability, the Air Force proudly points to the example of the July 2006 rescue of the Cougar Ace, a Singaporean-flagged freighter that ran into trouble in the Aleutian Islands.
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Freighter aircraft, which are dedicated to the transport of goods, are being mobilized to make up the capacity shortfall, but freight rates have increased significantly in the face of rising demand, McLernon told CNN Business.
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It came from a 75-foot, 170-ton British coal freighter called the Betsy, which British troops scuttled in 1781, along with several other ships to create a barrier just before the Battle of Yorktown.
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It seems that MASS MoCA's Building 6, which happens to be the shape and size of a very large freighter, will only help the museum to surge forward with its goals of play and experimentation.
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Cetywa Powell, a reader in Los Angeles, shared a photo she captured in July of a remnant of the Dominator, a freighter that slammed into the Palos Verdes Peninsula south of Los Angeles in 1961.
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Were lookouts on watch scanning the seas for other ships and, if so, why did they not see the 25-foot freighter, the ACX Crystal, stacked with more than 218,000 containers, bearing on the destroyer?
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Aided by a local pacifist group and hounded by United States and Japanese military police, the fugitives sneaked aboard a Siberia-bound Russian freighter and were later taken to Moscow by hard-drinking K.G.B. agents.
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Crewmembers of the Edda Fjord, a Norwegian freighter, spotted Stephanos's 19-foot Seacraft capsized and floating in a shipping channel about 100 miles off the Bermuda coast last month, nearly nine months after the boys vanished.
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"Yesterday the first freighter set off for Japan with no clarity about customs arrangements when it arrives," said Clark, before admitting that FTA's with Japan and South Korea won't be complete ready in time for Brexit.
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One of the most action-packed and, yes, funniest scenes in Star Wars: Episode VII is Hans Solo, Chewbacca, Rey and Finn's escape from the insane, octopus-like Rathtar's while on board Solo's freighter, the Eravana.
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That has proved deadly this summer in crowded waters like those near Singapore and Tokyo, where another United States warship, the Fitzgerald, was struck by a cargo freighter under a waning crescent moon on June 17.
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Other notable deals for Boeing include Volga DPNER's commitment to buy 34 freighter planes, DHL's deal to buy 11 freighters and an almost $10 billion contract for Air Lease Corp to buy 78 new Boeing aircraft.
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The Panama-flagged SANCHI was carrying 136,000 tons -- around 42 million US gallons, or a million barrels -- of oil from Iran to South Korea when it collided with the Hong Kong-registered freighter, the CF Crystal.
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The Sanchi was carrying 136,000 tons -- around one million barrels -- of oil from Iran to South Korea when it collided with the Hong Kong-registered CF Crystal freighter in the East China Sea on January 7.
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The Sanchi was carrying 136,000 tons -- around 1 million barrels -- of oil from Iran to South Korea when it collided with the Hong Kong-registered CF Crystal freighter in the East China Sea on January 7.
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The worst disaster came in April of that year when a fishing vessel designed for a crew of only about 218 capsized, killing at least 22015 refugees onboard after the boat collided with a Portuguese freighter.
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A Greek-flagged tanker and a Panama-flagged freighter in the area were heading to the location, about 80 nautical miles south of Crete and 15 nautical miles within Libyan waters, coastguard spokesman Nikos Lagkadianos told Reuters.
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In a pair of letters to the captain of the freighter that saved his life after days at sea, Nathan Carman wrote that if his mother is lost, he will be "alone in the world," PEOPLE confirms.
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"We're undertaking this rare task to get our customers and our aircraft on their way as soon as possible — rather than shipping this engine across by boat or chartering a freighter aircraft," Qantas said in a statement.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A committee investigating a collision between an Iranian tanker and a Chinese freighter has come to diverging conclusions over the causes of the worst oil ship disaster in decades, Iran's state television reported on Saturday.
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The deadliest recent accident on the Danube was the collision of a passenger boat with a freighter in southern Romania that claimed more than 200 lives in 1989, according to Folyamihajo, a specialist shipping website in Hungary.
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ANKARA, July 3 (Reuters) - Turkey strongly condemned the Greek coastguard on Monday for firing on a Turkish freighter in the Aegean Sea and called it an "disproportionate" act that disregarded the most basic right of human life.
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ANKARA/ATHENS (Reuters) - The captain of a Turkish freighter said on Monday that the Greek coast guard had fired on his vessel after he refused an order to dock at a port on the Greek island of Rhodes.
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On Tuesday, pirates approached and opened fire at the Hong Kong-flagged MV KSL freighter 340 nautical miles off Somalia, but private security guards aboard the ship acted quickly to foil the attack, EUNAVOR said in a statement.
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The Philippine government has impounded a North Korean freighter, the Jin Teng, in Subic Bay and plans to deport its crew, presidential spokesman Manuel Quezon III said in a radio interview, according to the official Philippines News Agency.
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Tensions may bubble up again in the coming weeks with the publication of a United Nations report that contains new information about the cargo of a rusty North Korean freighter intercepted off the coast of Egypt in 2016.
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At least 800 people are believed to have died in the capsizing of the vessel on April 18, 2015, when the boat, crammed with migrants, collided with a Portuguese freighter ship that had been called to its aid.
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This marks the first time American is operating cargo-only flights since 1984, when it retired its last 747 freighter (one of those retired planes, by the way, was then modified to carry NASA's shuttle on its back).
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And the Navy plans to relieve of duty the two top officers and the senior enlisted sailor of the Fitzgerald — the U.S. destroyer that collided with a freighter off the coast of Japan in June, killing seven sailors.
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After the freighter ship they're on sinks in the Pacific Ocean, Pi is left stranded in a life boat with a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a female orangutan and a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The black boxes for the tanker Sanchi and the freighter CF Crystal, the two vessels that collided in the worst oil ship disaster in decades, have been opened, the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported on Wednesday.
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Shallow waters off the island had forced officials to revise initial plans to dislodge the 225-metre (742-foot) freighter, which ran aground during a storm that killed at least six people in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.
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And finally, here's an idea for an alternative vacation: a voyage on a freighter along the most traveled inland waterway in the U.S., a 2,300-mile corridor that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes and the Mississippi.
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It was one of the largest drug busts on American soil ever, and sent shockwaves in the industry after the Feds seized the massive ocean freighter, which was owned by JPMorgan and Chase, under a $40 million surety bond.
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It's the financial equivalent of putting a few boxes on a UPS freighter that's about to head out, thus paying just a sliver of the costs you'd incur if you had to find a boat and ship it yourself.
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Last week, bigger rival BOC Aviation Ltd said it bought two Boeing 747-8 freighter aircraft for an aggregate list price of $758.2 million, as the firm builds its balance sheet by investing in modern and in-demand aircraft.
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The Panama-registered tanker, Sanchi, was carrying 136,000 tons -- around 1 million barrels -- of oil from Iran to South Korea when it collided with the Hong Kong-registered CF Crystal freighter in the East China Sea on Saturday evening.
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The "Happy Land Walk" on Staten Island includes relics of a Victorian-era resort and freighter spotting, while the "Barren Island Walk" concentrates on old tarmacs at Floyd Bennet Field and the bottle-strewn Dead Horse Bay in Brooklyn.
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In another incident on January 24, a Cathay Pacific cargo plane from Anchorage, Alaska, and a UPS freighter from Shenzhen to Clark in the Philippines were 3.8 nautical miles and 800ft apart only 8003 nautical miles southwest of the airport.
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BERLIN/PRAGUE (Reuters) - Strong winds battered northern and central Europe on Sunday, killing at least six people in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, with authorities watching for oil leaks from a huge freighter that ran aground in the North Sea.
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On a visit to the port (pictured) your correspondent waves at the sailors on a Chinese naval vessel one berth along from a freighter filled with Ukrainian grain; their returning looks prompt the question of what is Mandarin for disdain.
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Having started producing more 767s to fulfill a big 2015 order from FedEx, the world's largest freight carrier, Boeing is pushing for more sales to preserve momentum and deny a home at players like UPS to the newer Airbus A330 freighter.
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Ocean Maritime Management was blacklisted by the U.N. in July 2014 after the North Korean freighter Chong Chon Gang was detained in Panama in 2013 for carrying arms, including two MiG-21 jet fighters, hidden under thousands of tonnes of sugar.
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Ken Ward and Jay O'Hara were involved in a now famous action in May 2013, when they used a 32-foot lobster boat to block a freighter carrying a load of coal to the Brayton Point power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts.
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Why am I not working month-long stints on a freighter, instead of stressing over whether or not some movies will be any good, and trying to decide which PR agency cocktail party I'll stop by before the next screening?
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The author attributes the theme of the book to a statement made by Gordon Selfridge to the effect that what the United States needed was a benevolent dictator and to chance conversations with others aboard the freighter about the world crisis.
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Because a freighter can transport a ton of cargo 576 miles on a single gallon of fuel — compared with 5143 miles by train or 155 miles by truck — shipping is often a greener way to move people and freight as well.
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This year, Amazon and the Air Transport Services Group, the parent company of ABX, announced that Amazon was leasing 20 Boeing 767 freighter aircraft to ensure that the retailer had enough capacity to ship one- and two-day deliveries for customers.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has released a North Korean freighter it seized nearly a month ago under tough new U.N. sanctions, after no contraband was found onboard and the ship was cleared by the United Nations, officials said on Friday.
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But the 72-year-old steel-hulled schooner still felt solid under foot, even as a giant Albany-bound freighter passed mere feet away, sending the boat, docked that day in Hudson, N.Y., bobbing up and down in its wake.
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Thus begins the first of many odysseys in Ayaana's life, which include sailing across the Indian Ocean on a freighter, zooming through China on bullet trains, flying to Istanbul with a classmate and making a triumphal, if complicated, return home.
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Looking Back Luckily for the crew of the freighter St. Cuthbert — and for newspaper readers in New York and Chicago — the White Star ocean liner Cymric was burrowing westward to Boston through a blinding squall on the morning of Monday, Feb.
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SYDNEY, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Qantas Airways Ltd said on Wednesday it had taken four Boeing Co 737 freighter aircraft out of service while awaiting further advice from Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) about a potential defect with a part within the cabin.
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You can build up, basically, a fleet or an armada of like up to 2150 frigates that ride along beside your freighter, and you can send them off on missions, a little bit like you would assassins in Assassins Creed.
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With a television show, he'll have more time to work with, which will likely mean that the parts that didn't make the cut in the first adaptation, such as the comic-within-the-comic Tales of the Black Freighter, could make an appearance.
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McBride bases his suspicions primarily on an as-yet-unexplained discovery on the boy's 19-foot Seacraft boat, recovered March 18 by crewmembers of a Norwegian freighter, who spotted it capsized and floating in a shipping channel 100 miles off the Bermuda coast.
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Al Baker, who spoke at an event in which he formally accepted delivery of Qatar Airways' first Boeing 747-8 freighter, disclosed plans to acquire the four 777-300 aircraft, which can accommodate up to 396 passengers depending on the seating configuration.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - BOC Aviation Ltd said on Friday it bought two Boeing 747-8 freighter aircraft for an aggregate list price of $758.2 million, as the aircraft lessor aims to build its balance sheet by investing in modern and in-demand aircraft.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Shallow waters off a North Sea island complicated efforts on Monday to dislodge a large freighter that ran aground as Germany began cleaning up after a storm that killed at least six people there and in Poland and Czech Republic.
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Science fiction has already flirted with this distinction in films like Alien, which takes place on the commercial space freighter "Nostromo," or "Moon," set on a helium-3 mining base on the lunar surface owned by a company with unorthodox employee contract terms.
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During a crimson Indian Ocean sunset at Port Hedland's Utah Point berth recently, a conveyor belt dumped iron ore into one of the seven large holds of a Chinese-owned freighter held in place by mechanical suction cups the size of minivans.
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"Global air passenger traffic growth and airplane demand remain strong, but the air cargo market recovery that began in late 2013 has stalled in recent months and slowed demand for the 747-8 Freighter," said Ray Conner, Boeing's vice chairman, in a statement.
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As its name — the Tack — suggests, the piece is tack-welded (soldered with small beads instead of thick strips), a technique that lends it a surprising delicacy, while also conjuring an aging freighter gliding gracefully, even despite its heft, across roiling seas.
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Manufacturers fear the tariff war will prematurely cut short a renaissance triggered by low natural gas prices and tax cuts, reports Ed Crooks at the FT. P.S. A freighter carrying U.S. soybeans is racing towards China to beat retaliatory tariffs, Bloomberg reports.
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Well, things got complicated when a 1941 report by medical examiner DW Hoodless deemed that the remains likely belonged to a stocky male, perhaps a castaway from the wreck of the freighter SS Norwich City, which ran aground on Nikumaroro in 1929.
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As an even more fun fact, Gamma Hydra is also referenced in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" when Lt. Saavik takes the Kobyashi Maru Scenario simulation which, of course, deals with the rescue of the disabled freighter within the Neutral Zone.
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Today, at least under normal conditions, it would be one of the smaller ones on the Rhine, where it is not unusual to see a 600-foot freighter capable of hauling 6,000 tons — when there is at least 12 feet of water.
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Kat Dennings of "2 Broke Girls" and the wrestling star John Cena provide the voices of the title characters, a former stock-car driver and her robot sidekick who drive an interstellar freighter that's a cross between a tractor-trailer and a tugboat.
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He chronicled the rescue of a grounded freighter by a lifeboat coxswain dressed as Santa Claus and the threatened destruction of a miniature outdoor village called Bekonscot because its houses, "none of them more than a few feet high," were built without permits.
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Daily charter rates for tankers and bulk freighters have plummeted more than 000 percent since early January as China buys less oil, iron ore and coal, said Tim Huxley, the chief executive of Mandarin Shipping, a Hong Kong-based freighter shipping line.
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Beijing has barred a North Korean freighter from one of its ports and blacklisted 31 vessels covered by the U.N. sanctions, but Chinese officials and experts have expressed concern that cracking down too stringently could result in disaster for the North's economy.
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As I previously explained, the process is the financial equivalent of putting a few boxes on a UPS freighter that's about to head out, thus paying just a sliver of the costs you'd incur if you had to find a boat and ship it yourself.
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Figured pulled from the database by Freightos highlighted a few key products that may fill holiday season shopping baskets at lower costs because of shipping rates, noting for example than a $2,000 Apple MacBook Pro costs $1.50 to import into the U.S. by freighter.
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A freighter found 22-year-old Nathan Carman drifting on a life raft about 100 nautical miles from Martha's Vineyard on Sunday, about two days after the Coast Guard suspended its search for Nathan and his mother, Linda Carman, 54, the Associated Press reports.
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The idea, the company said, is to reconfigure the cabin in its shop with seats it has manufactured, sign a maintenance contract with the airline and later potentially handle the plane's "end of life" with a passenger-to-freighter conversion or scrapping it for parts.
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The 747 survives mainly as a freighter and VIP transport, whereas a planned cargo version of the A380 has already been axed due to lack of interest and the sole VIP version of the A380 sold to a Saudi prince was canceled several years ago.
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PARIS (Reuters) - ATR, the world's largest maker of regional turboprop planes, on Wednesday announced an order from FedEx Express for at least 30 newly designed 72-600F freighter models, sealing its return to the lucrative U.S. market for the first time in over two decades.
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In the North Sea, authorities were monitoring the "Glory Amsterdam," a 225-metre (742-foot) freighter that foundered 2.2 km (1.36 miles) from the German island of Langeoog, for any signs of oil leaks, said Michael Friedrich, spokesman for Germany's Central Command for Maritime Emergencies.
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The story begins with the unhappy couple's being fired for "gross incompetence"; within the first quarter of the book, they're attacked by a "hideous ghoul creature," eaten by a giant fish, shipped off on a freighter full of sled dogs and mauled by a bear.
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Ultimately Bush was embarrassed into admitting the obvious fact that Arafat was a "committed terrorist," when the Palestinian Authority, in the midst of waging a terror war on Israel, was caught smuggling in a fifty-ton arsenal of weapons and explosives aboard a freighter.
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The Panama-registered tanker Sanchi was sailing from Iran to South Korea when it collided late Saturday with the Hong Kong-registered freighter CF Crystal in the East China Sea, 257 kilometers (160 miles) off the coast of Shanghai, China's Ministry of Transport said.
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On May 203, 2013, Ward and a young Quaker sailmaker named Jay O'Hara piloted a 32-foot lobster boat into the Brayton Point ship channel, dropping anchor in the path of a freighter carrying a load of West Virginia coal to the power station.
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" He also made the standard novelist's assertion that "it really doesn't matter what a writer does; the argument that you should go out and meet raw life, work on the crew of a freighter, take part in revolutions and whatnot, doesn't seem to me valid.
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China has barred a North Korean freighter from one of its ports and South Korea has announced a crackdown on individuals and companies linked to Pyongyang's weapons program, stepping up sanctions against the isolated state — though "blind faith" in sanctions is irresponsible, Beijing said late on Monday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - It may take until Friday to free the grounded freighter "Glory Amsterdam" from a sand bar near the North Sea island of Langeoog, German authorities said on Wednesday, but no holes or cracks are evident in the ship's hull to trigger an oil leak.
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But Lu is hoping that this is just the beginning, with company officials saying the ultimate aim is for several flights a week using a bigger Boeing 747 freighter that will carry not only milk, but also other fresh Tasmanian products such as salmon and abalone.
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Not just odd, but huge: When two Italian Navy warships eventually stopped the freighter, the Adam, off the Libyan coast on April 2420, 2472, agents found a terrified Syrian crew and 2591 metric tons of hashish — a stash many multiples larger than Italian officials had ever seen.
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While looking at charts last June in the Westcott's dispatch office, Garvie Crane, the chief engineer on the freighter Buffalo, explained that his ship usually stops only at mines to load and steel mills to unload, leaving him with just four or five hours in port.
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When the Westcott pulled up to the Kaye E. Barker a couple of nights later, the freighter was loaded with 25,186 gross tons of iron ore and was riding so low in the water that the mail bag could be handed up from deck to deck.
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