Sentences with phrase «in ocean shipping»

Hybrid Tug Tugboats may look like something out of another era, but they play an essential role in ocean shipping as they push, pull, and prod large vessels into (and back out of) the tight quarters of a port.

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In 2010 she hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on freighter ships to the United States, where she worked with the 5 Gyres Institute in California on the first ever comprehensive study of plastic in the world's oceanIn 2010 she hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on freighter ships to the United States, where she worked with the 5 Gyres Institute in California on the first ever comprehensive study of plastic in the world's oceanin California on the first ever comprehensive study of plastic in the world's oceanin the world's oceans.

Damn the American consumer who dares to pay for such frivolities, never mind the fact that we spend more than $ 10 billion a year on bottles of stuff that otherwise flows freely from our taps — and one of the most popular brands ships its product in from a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean.

The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is no longer reserved for bombarding the bejesus out of ISIS militants in Syria from the cover of the war - torn country's rolling deserts: Marine Corps officials are experimenting with firing the guided artillery system from the deck of an amphibious ship in the middle of the ocean.

Two touched down on land, and the plan for the third was for it to settle back on an unmanned drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Rolls - Royce envisions a future shipping command center, equipped with a highly advanced AI system that can manage all freight ships in the ocean.

The Navy is also renovating hangers and infrastructure in Iceland as part of a project to house P - 8s there for patrols over the Greenland - Iceland - UK gap, a choke point for ships moving between the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans — though those plans don't necessarily include reestablishing a permanent presence there.

COSCO Shipping is a product of a state - driven merger between China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company and China Shipping Group, previously ranked sixth and seventh largest respectively in terms of the world's largest container shipping fleets.

The mission will launch using a Falcon 9 rocket, which will return to land on the SpaceX autonomous ship in the Atlantic Ocean about 8 minutes after liftoff.

The ship has spent most of its life in dock, but has been deployed on several disaster relief missions in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and floods in 2010 and 2011.

Not only can cruise ships generate the same amount of sulfur dioxide fumes as 13.1 million cars in a day, but they also dump boatloads of noxious bilge water into the ocean.

This is in contrast to other, sunnier reports on Arctic melt, which detail the possible «good» this melt will have — opening up shipping lanes, increasing fishing, and even allowing us to access minerals, natural gas, and oil in the ocean bed.

Once the pressure in and outside the ship match, the hatch will lift off open, and they can swim out of a fully filled chamber into open ocean.»

This photo shows the used, roughly 140 - foot - tall Falcon 9 rocket booster landing on a drone ship in the ocean.

But its advantage only holds up as long as the supply chains are in China and shipping raw materials and finished goods over the oceans remains cost - effective.

During that mission, a Dragon resupply ship will launch toward the station, and SpaceX will also attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on an «autonomous spaceport drone ship» in the Atlantic Ocean.

John Newton a captain on a slave ship, transformed by prayer and prayer alone mid ocean in the very act of transporting human cargo.

Mostly, folks in other parts of the world are too busy working and taking care of their own families to feel any sense of guilt for not shipping dollars across the ocean to folks whom they have never met.

Maybe it's just me, but I find it odd that people blindly believe all of the stories in the bible, considering they were written / created by people who thought the world was flat and sea monsters swallowed ships in the ocean.

Who had taken their freedom from them and cast them in chains to be shipped across the ocean in the foul - smelling, dank, hot hold of a ship?

Table grapes are also shipped worldwide by ocean freight to customers in Asia, New Zealand and Australia, Wayde Kirschenman notes.

It's basically a 5 - star resort on a ship, in the middle of the ocean.

Wellard's latest ship, the Ocean Shearer, was built in China for about $ US90 million.

Ocean Beauty was faced with the Seafood Processing industry in Alaska's unique requirements when it comes to boxing and shipping the fish.

Each day at 1 pm at Edinburgh's iconic Castle a large gun sounds in a tradition dating back to 1861 when it allowed ships nearby to set the maritime clocks they needed to navigate the world's oceans and deliver renowned Scottish products.

The largest ship to homeport year - round in Miami, Norwegian Getaway boasts 28 dining options, including seafood restaurant Ocean Blue by famed New York Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian and a branch of Carlo's Bake Shop by Buddy Valastro, star of the TLC series «Cake Boss.»

Currently all shipping and naval activity in the world takes place with the implicit consent of the US navy (in that it is capable of dominating any areas of the ocean it wishes to).

As ice melts and shipping becomes easier and at some point, oil drilling in the arctic ocean will probably increase, Having a strong military will benefit Russia.

«I remember being a student back in grade school and learning about the explorers crossing the oceans in their ships.

Scientists process cores in plastic liners before they're shipped to the International Ocean Discovery Program's core repository in Bremen, Germany, for detailed analysis this fall.

Optical sensors installed on ships, for instance, can determine ocean water color that reflects the activity of micro-algae at the bottom of the food chain and, when examined alongside satellite color observations, can support extrapolations about what's happening in a given area of ocean.

Unusually, they occurred along two straight lines in the open ocean, which coincided with two of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.

A 9.0 - magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Aleutian Islands triggered the mighty wave, which left behind up to nine shipping containers worth of ocean sediment in a sinkhole on the island of Kauai.

Its satellites were originally equipped to monitor large ships in the oceans around the world.

To measure the impact, people go out in ships and drill holes in the ocean floor, where shells of marine organisms have settled throughout geologic history.

In all likelihood, each of these crossed at least one ocean within the dark confines of a container measuring 8 by 8.5 by 20 feet, stacked with as many as 10,999 others aboard one of the 4,500 container ships in use around the worlIn all likelihood, each of these crossed at least one ocean within the dark confines of a container measuring 8 by 8.5 by 20 feet, stacked with as many as 10,999 others aboard one of the 4,500 container ships in use around the worlin use around the world.

HEU is affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and is the main base for talents cultivation in the fields of ship industry, ocean equipment and exploration, and nuclear application and scientific research.

While the shipping industry — which now has easy northern access between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — may be cheering this «natural» development, scientists worry about the impact of the resulting rise in sea levels around the world.

The university maintains strong technical knowledge in the shipping, ocean and nuclear fields.

Ocean water sops up the red so effectively that 100 feet below the sea surface only the bluish components of sunlight penetrate; a sunken ship's crimson lower keel appears black to divers since nothing can look red in the absence of red light.

The bottom map shows aerosol emissions from ships crossing routes in the Indian Ocean and South China sea from 2010.

The difference in lightning activity can't be explained by changes in the weather, according to the study's authors, who conclude that aerosol particles emitted in ship exhaust are changing how storm clouds form over the ocean.

JANUARY 1910 WAVE VS. SHIP — «Was it a last despairing protest of Old Ocean, when he lifted his giant hand in the blackness of night on January 10, and smote the Cunard liner «Lusitania» a blow which racked and splintered her lofty bridge and pilot house, 75 feet above the sea, and crushed down her forecastle deck and decks beneath, giving them a permanent depression of several inches?

Thunderstorms directly above two of the world's busiest shipping lanes are significantly more powerful than storms in areas of the ocean where ships don't travel, according to new research.

Ships burn dirtier fuels in the open ocean away from port, spewing more aerosols and creating even more lightning, Thornton said.

In recent years, buoy - based measurements, thought to be more accurate as buoy sensors are in direct contact with the ocean surface, have grown in frequency, while ship - based measurements have become less commoIn recent years, buoy - based measurements, thought to be more accurate as buoy sensors are in direct contact with the ocean surface, have grown in frequency, while ship - based measurements have become less commoin direct contact with the ocean surface, have grown in frequency, while ship - based measurements have become less commoin frequency, while ship - based measurements have become less common.

If gray whales do migrate to the ocean next door, they'll find that a lot has changed in the Atlantic since the species last plied its waters, including increased ship traffic and higher temperatures.

Hundreds of thousands of juvenile land crabs are being threatened by a fuel spill from a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean

The British ship Fairlie encountered one in the South Indian Ocean in October 1815, more than 2,000 miles west - southwest of Tambora.

The team from Imperial College London, Southampton and Liverpool universities, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (SRC), were collecting ocean - bottom seismometers aboard the NERC research ship R.R.S. James Cook as part of a larger experiment when they were alerted to the volcano erupting.