Sentences with phrase «on tanker ships»

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Marine shipping is often done by tankers stacked with containers that get lifted off the trailer of an 18 - wheeler and stacked on the boat, typically entails international import / export business, and requires knowledge of customs regulations in general and for specific merchandise.

After wandering the seas for a month and a half, the same tanker docked at a port on the heel of Italy's boot and offloaded what the ship's documents claimed was Greek olive oil.

While it is true that small oil tankers have moved surplus oil out of Second Narrows for decades, it has never been done on this scale — or using ships that exceed the dimensions of what the Port Metro Vancouver (PMV) previously considered safe.

There's already significant shipping of oil in tankers on the coast and the government seems to be trying to stop the pipeline by tying it up in a potentially lengthy court process, Wilkinson said.

Continuing his efforts to make sure that «oil trains» passing through Buffalo and other New York communities do not derail and explode, US Sen. Chuck Schumer called on the federal government to require the oil in those tanker cars be made less volatile before it is shipped.

In a petition filed with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, AG Eric Schneiderman sought reduced limits on the vapor pressure of oil shipped in tanker cars from the Bakken hydrofrack fields of North Dakota to coastal refineries.

The Port Ambrose transfer station was to be built off of Jones Beach, and would have allowed tanker ships to load up with liquefied natural gas then distribute the gas into pipelines on Long Island.

The code would set new requirements on ship design, environmental practices and safety operations for big ships like tankers, bulk carriers and cruise ships traveling through most Antarctic and Arctic waters.

Freighters, tankers and container ships could navigate the Northwest Passage, hugging Canada's northern coast, or travel along Russia's polar shore on the Northern Sea Route, which could cut costs and time for shipments between European and Asian markets.

In 1995, the ship featured as a rusty tanker in Kevin Costner's film Waterworld, captained by a deranged pirate bent on locating the last bit of land on a world where climate change has melted the ice caps.

Next year, after Norsepower installs rotor sails on an oil tanker and a passenger cruise ship, «we'll have all of the main ship types covered,» Riski says.

Early next year, a tanker vessel owned by Maersk, the Danish transportation conglomerate, and a passenger ship owned by Viking Line will be outfitted with spinning cylinders on their decks.

In the perpendicular (east - west) direction, huge cargo ships and tankers occupy a major shipping lane on their way to or from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Kids will enjoy waving to passengers on cruise ships and navigating their own tanker through the locks (on a simulator!).

Users can adjust the toggles in order to view the map by ship type — yellow for container ships, blue for dry bulk carriers, red for oil and fuel tankers, green for gas carriers, and purple for ships transporting vehicles — or zoom in on specific regions.

Commercial shipping (which includes much more than container ships, but also cruise ships, ferries, tankers, etc.) has a dirty little secret: Its effect on air pollution.

According to Friends of the Earth, «The bunker fuel spills by the Hanjin container ship that hit a bridge in San Francisco Bay on Nov. 7 and the Russian oil tanker that broke in half during a storm in the Black Sea on Nov. 11 call attention to the harm caused by bunker fuel when it is spilled.

The last time I checked, I didn't see any tankers, but I've attached a screenshot to show how the tool tracks each ship, with information on the name of the ship, where it heading, etc..

Lummi Nation Member and commercial fisherman, on increased oil tanker ship traffic that will come with a proposed tar sands pipeline in the Pacific Northwest.

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.

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.

Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has advised shipping company Team Tankers International Ltd on a US$ 220 million senior secured credit facility.

The new pipeline would triple the amount of diluted bitumen transported through a seismically active area of the Southwest coast of British Columbia, double the oil storage tank capacity on Burnaby Mountain above heavily populated areas and dramatically increase the number of Aframax tankers required to ship the oil from Kinder Morgan's marine terminal through Burrard Inlet and coastal waters.

The Trudeau cabinet has judged that Canada - wide support for increased exports from the Alberta bitumen sands overshadows B.C. opposition to shipping dilbit via pipeline to Metro Vancouver, and by tanker through the Burrard Inlet past Stanley Park, and out the Georgia Straight to American refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

Like some giant ocean liner or oil tanker, Google is slowly turning the ship to a different heading, and now it's watch out Wikipedia and all the little «-- pedias» that are bobbing on the net.

ITT Mackay Marine (Houston, TX) 1973 — 1975 Marine Service Engineer • Repaired electronics on board freighters, tankers, and other vessels making berth and traveling through the ports of Houston and Galveston, TX • Worked effectively and successfully with radar, sonar, HF and VHF communications, radiotelegraph, and other devices • Provided relevant guidance to on - going maintenance techniques while ship is under way

It's one of the reasons why the Panama Canal is digging a wider canal alongside the present channel, so that the new cruise ships and tankers can travel from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico and on to other ports of call.