Sentences with phrase «cargo ships»

Here are the numbers for cargo ships as given by here:

The cargo ships use a dirty tar like sludge called bunker fuel that was commonly used prior to WWII.

While cars have gotten the worlds attention (and increased the price of cars all the while), what hasn't gotten the attention is the worlds cargo ships.

The largest cargo ships produce 10 times that.

Their findings — based on analyzing automatic identification signals, which show movements of krill trawlers, and cargo and tanker vessels — found vessels that appeared to be transferring catch at sea to large refrigerated cargo ships, a practice called transshipment that has raised concerns about illegal fishing elsewhere.

Friends of the Earth has won regional, national and international limits on air, water and oil pollution from cruise ships, cargo ships, oil tankers, ferries and recreational water craft.

They are called the Ice Patrol and the unit consists of ship navigators and pilots who fly across the south of this vast island to monitor the movement of icebergs, to prevent collisions with cargo ships navigating in the waters around Greenland.

Furthermore, oil powered cargo ships often float idle for days or even weeks before they can enter a port or leave it, which makes the relative unpredictability of sailboats less problematic.

Furthermore, just like cargo ships, cargo trains already have unreliable schedules because they often sit stationary in train - yards for days, waiting to become fully loaded.

There are many actions which can be taken to reduce, but not eliminate, the risk of alien species invasions, such as the treatment of ballast water in cargo ships and wood products, strict quarantine applied to crop and horticultural products, and embargos on the trade and deliberate introduction of known invader species.

I heard wind used to push cargo ships across the great oceans with no fossil fuel at all.

This is the standard marine fuel for cargo ships, tankers and large cruise ships and a key source of black carbon.

The refineries, cargo ships, diesel trucks and factories clustered near the ports generate enough toxic air pollution to put the risk of cancer near Melissa and Mary's house 20 percent higher than the average for the south coast of California.

Until then, cargo ships carrying ore, coal, fertilizer and grain, as well as supertankers carrying crude oil and liquid natural gas, will travel back and forth between Europe and the Far East.

It's been only four years since two German cargo ships used the polar shipping route for the first time.

There should be the ocean going equivalent of an MOT for cargo ships, oil tankers and cruise liners.

«The liners pollute, but the road traffic that they and the cargo ships generate is also huge,» he adds.

We are now seeing more, bigger liners but also very large bulk cargo ships.»

In this age of relentlessly expanding global commerce, Panama has been planning ahead, and is investing billions of dollars in supersizing the canal (photo gallery here) to allow the passage of the new breed of supersized cargo ships.

What is the percentage of the containers on those 15 cargo ships tat carry 15,000 of them belong to the company with tat star in the name and why hasn't the American people been told tat those 15 ships emit as much pollution as 760 MILLION automobiles.

Cai says that, during that time, while the northern hemisphere has been well sampled by cargo ships and projects led by wealthy countries north of the equator, very few direct measurements have been taken in the south.

Here are two more examples, involving sails on cargo ships and a proposal to legalize farming of hemp, a plant that was once a big crop in the United States, was banned because the industrial variety (very different than the plants grown to smoke) still has a trace of the compounds that give marijuana its punch.

We already wrote about some studies by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Colorado, Boulder, that showed that cargo ships emitted about as much air pollution as half the world's cars, and that sounded like a lot, but if the Guardian is right, this was widely over-optimistic.

The use of sails on cargo ships is a great idea.

The most polluting cargo ships would then be sent to developing nation shipping lanes and air - pollution in the poorest countries - which already have it bad - could actually increase.

Here we can see that the primary concern with shipping is air - pollution («US academic research which showed that pollution from the world's 90,000 cargo ships leads to 60,000 deaths a year in the US alone and costs up to $ 330bn per year in health costs from lung and heart diseases»).

One way to reduce the exposure to soot for people living close to ports would be to figure out a way to make cargo ships much cleaner (see «Just 15 of the world's biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the world's 760m cars»).

Photo: Flickr, CCPollution MachinesBig cargo ships are basically air pollution machines.

Basically, this is just cargo ships playing catch up with most other machinery and vehicles that are on ground.

It must have been a consequence of the incessant parade of container and cargo ships plying the Red Sea.

With «Cargo Cult,» (2005) Bedia refers to a phenomenon which occurred amongst cultures in the South Pacific when they became dependent upon provisions carried by cargo ships, chiefly American, during World War II, and stopped producing their own products.

The artist showcases a broad range of vessel types, from cigarette boats, catamarans and cruise liners to ragged fishing skiffs and timeworn cargo ships, all taking place directly above the viewer.

Since the video project Saphir (2006), her visual repertoire has frequently included images of the sea, harbors and cargo ships, as the means by which people and things are transited from place to place.

The industrial practice of taking cargo ships apart piece by piece has been memorably chronicled by Edward Burtynsky, but Ahmed's images are less didactic and more replete with pictorial complexity.

In the spring of 1942, shortly after the United States entered World War II, one of the nation's largest ship builders, W.A. Bechtel Co., received an urgent telegram from the U.S. Maritime Commission requesting the construction of six cargo ships.

In the distance, their quarry - cargo ships - is represented by blocky shapes squatting on the ocean's horizon.

French painter, Stéphane Joannes» large oil on canvas paintings depict solitary cargo ships surrounded by the vast sky and water.

His collection, entitled «TANKERS», features large horizontal paintings of cargo ships that border on abstraction.

Twenty - Three Days at Sea grants selected emerging visual artists passage aboard cargo ships sailing from Vancouver, Canada to Shanghai.

«The Short and the Long of It» is a multi-part installation based on an event that is mostly absent from official histories: the failed passage of 14 international cargo ships through the Suez Canal on 5 June 1967.

It features a broad range of vessel types, from cigarette boats, catamarans and cruise liners to ragged fishing skiffs and timeworn cargo ships.

Ancel reveals that the game will have all kinds of ships for players to use and explore, ranging from one - man ships perfect for agile dogfights to huge aerospace cargo ships.

In a galaxy full of badass starfighters, impossibly complex explorers, massive cargo ships and rough - and - ready miners, is there room for some simplicity?

Your job is to simply defend the cargo ships that you have been charged with escorting from wave after wave of enemy combatants.

The supplies that the cargo ships are transporting are vital to the many colonies that they are going to if humanity is going to be able to defend itself while continuing its expansion across the galaxy.

You'll compete with attending guests in a variety of petrolhead events, from simple first - to - the - finish races to stunt jumps through cargo ships and multi-hour-long endurance tests.

It can make capital ships, star fighters, cargo ships, land vehicles, etc..

As you stare a few huge cargo ships warp into view.

Attacking cargo ships can naturally be a little hit or miss in terms of loot, but naturally you can then hurtle over to a space station and sell your pirated goods, because apparently nobody was looking out the window when you were busy shooting stuff up.

Out in space combat is much the same; you can opt to attack some of the massive cargo ships at which point they'll open fire and you'll have to deal with some fighters, or you might encounter pirates gunning for your resources or attacking other vessels.