Logistics group DHL placed the order for the 777 freighters and acquired purchase rights for seven more freighters, the U.S planemaker said.
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Boeing also forecast demand for 930 new freighters and 1,440 converted freighters on the back of a projected 4.2 percent annual growth in cargo traffic.
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The new airplanes, Boeing's 767 and 777 freighters, have a list price of $6.6 billion, said Boeing, which has sold more than 50 widebody freighters so far this year, including the latest order.
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Packages addressed to various freighters are stacked inside the door.
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Dispatchers track the movements of freighters by computer and radio.
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Even before the first displays took to the skies over a sun-baked southern England, the U.S. planemaker said DHL had placed an order for 14 777 freighters, and purchase rights for seven additional freighters.
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Passenger jets often get recycled as freighters after years in service.
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Like many freighters around the world, it also occasionally carries people.
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However, two of the four freighters are currently grounded following accidents.
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Etihad told Reuters it has removed its Airbus cargo planes, five A330 Freighters, from its fleet schedule for commercial reasons and that it had opted to operate a cargo plane fleet of all-Boeing 777 Freighters.
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Heavily armed freighters, remnants of the traitor's fleet, circle in defensive formation.
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N), has ordered 24 medium and large freighters from Boeing Co (BA.
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That's forced smugglers to start moving drugs through ocean freighters, experts say.
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Air France, KLM and the Martinair cargo unit all also have 747 freighters.
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BK) have completely stopped operating freighters, as has British Airways-owner IAG (ICAG.
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Sometimes they appear like shadows moving among immense freighters resembling bright Christmas trees.
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Maybe they think I'm a pirate looking to raid the freighters for precious resources.
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The airline also agreed to order two wide-body freighters from the U.S. planemaker.
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Thousand-foot freighters scramble to make final deliveries of iron ore to steel mills.
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The freighters have been modified, the official said, with large areas of their decks removed.
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The salt is stored in the open air before it's loaded into freighters and shipped.
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Boeing has 23 current orders for the plane, including 11 freighters and 12 passenger models.
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Designs for such vehicles pop up from time to time, and might make effective freighters.
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The airline has also agreed to order two wide-body freighters from the U.S. planemaker.
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Azerbaijan Airlines announced an order for five Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner jets and two freighters.
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Still, freighters have struggled to navigate waterways, sometimes enduring long waits for an icebreaker's assistance.
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Shipowners have been ordering larger and larger freighters and container ships in the past decade.
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UPS also ordered up four new Boeing 767 freighters, and is converting three other passenger aircraft.
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Boeing does still produce versions of the 767 that serve as military refueling tankers and freighters.
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It has grounded two McDonnell Douglas MD203 freighters this year and has been reviewing its fleet.
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Separately, UPS placed an order for 14 747-8 freighters, easing doubts about that aircraft's future.
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We&aposve seen the satellite pictures with the oil freighters on the high seas and so forth.
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Dedicated freighters must also compete with increasing amounts of cargo shipped in the belly of passenger jets.
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Atlas Air Worldwide has been operating Boeing 767 freighters on behalf of Amazon following a 2016 deal.
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Base-building and freighters, which are effectively space-borne bases, let you pick and choose your home.
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Following that, Ethiopian Airlines doubled a previous commitment to Boeing and will now buy four 249.5 freighters.
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With only dedicated freighters to do the work, shipping costs have nearly doubled, compared with typical rates.
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It announced a deal with GE Capital Aviation Services for 10 converted freighters based on the 737-800.
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Because the freighters are fashioned from previously delivered passenger jets, they do not count as official new orders.
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The passenger jets would be converted to freighters, and it seemed likely Amazon would be the main customer.
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The ore starts in mines in the Upper Midwest and travels across Lake Superior on thousand-foot freighters.
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According to the latest UN assessment, freighters carry 10.7 billion tons of cargo across the oceans every year.
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Water taxis coexist with freighters, and cruise ships are so close I can see into passengers' cabins. 2.
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Separately, UPS (UPS) placed an order for 14 747-8 freighters, easing doubts about that aircraft's future. Amazon.
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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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The freighters that set sail after the 10th are nearing America's shores, with many set to arrive next week.
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FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Qatar Airways has finalized an order to buy five 777 freighters from U.S. planemaker Boeing (BA.
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General Electric's aircraft leasing unit will rent 15 converted Boeing 20203-800 freighters to Amazon Air, the retailer said.
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One of the 767 freighters flying for Amazon crashed near Houston in February, killing the three people on board.
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The article also gave outdated figures for the average ton-mile per gallon rate of freighters, trains and trucks.
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The little boat's ZIP code, 48222, is reserved for mail addressed to the freighters that ply the Great Lakes.
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A Brookings report even noted that human-trafficking on ocean freighters is likely if Trump continues his border crackdown.
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Over the centuries, thousands of passenger liners, schooners, freighters and other vessels have been lost along its jagged coast.
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If there's any display that can be likened to an Imperial Star Destroyer looming over minuscule freighters, it's this.
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IAI, a market leader in converting passenger planes into freighters, declined to say how many companies operate these planes.
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Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd said it had taken four 737 freighters out of service pending further guidance from IAI.
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IAI had converted the four 737-300 planes from passenger jets to freighters for the Australian airline in 2006.
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Cosco, a Chinese shipping giant, dropped its study of nuclear freighters after the reactor meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011.
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The Abu Dhabi-based airline is considering selling or leasing the Airbus freighters, a source familiar with the matter said.
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Amazon expects to have 50 of the widebody freighters flying for it by the end of 2020, a spokeswoman said.
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Around half of air cargo is carried in the bellies of passenger jets, with the remainder flown on dedicated freighters.
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UPS last year ordered 14 747-8 freighters, and a and air freight could keep them full in the future.
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Along with a provisional commitment to buy two large freighters, the deal added another $2320 billion to Boeing's order book.
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The past few years have seen a remarkable evolution in Amazon&aposs logistics network spanning rail, trucking, and ocean freighters.
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Separately, Bloomberg reported that Russian cargo carrier Volga-Dneper had placed more than 10 firm orders for Boeing 747 freighters.
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As Vox's Matthew Yglesias explains, it means shipping to Puerto Rico is more costly because there's little competition among freighters.
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Recent surveillance has shown some of those freighters moving in and out of Iranian ports in recent days, the official added.
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Amazon has begun shipping products from Chinese merchant partners to its U.S. warehouses via ocean freighters, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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The channel, called Government Cut, is used by cruise ships and freighters to head into and out of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Boeing has announced it is to sell four cargo freighters to Ethiopian Airlines at a total list price of $1.3 billion.
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Workers filled three giant freighters to the gills with steel, and a fourth ferried the membrane that serves as the roof.
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About half of the air cargo carried worldwide normally flies in the belly of passenger jets rather than in dedicated freighters.
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About half of the air cargo carried worldwide normally flies in the belly of passenger jets rather than in dedicated freighters.
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However, al-Hinai is optimistic, partly because the airline does not operate dedicated freighters, unlike much of its Middle Eastern competition.
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The European planemaker said the world's fleet of passenger jets and freighters would more than double to 2380,2747 aircraft by 2380.
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The company, a subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide has been operating Boeing 767 freighters on behalf of Amazon following a 2016 deal.
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Boeing said Ethiopian had signed a commitment to buy two 22025 freighters in an order valued at $2140 million at list prices.
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And if pilotless freighters proved safe, in a world in which self-driving cars had also become commonplace, passengers' attitudes might change.
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BOEING * ASL orders 10 26.3-25 converted freighters, worth about $2787 billion at list prices, and agrees purchase rights for 29 more.
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The CF6 engine is used on current Boeing 767 freighters and the KC-46 tanker used to refuel military planes in flight.
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Around 278 percent of the cargo transported by ship in Germany travels the Rhine, which many freighters have had to stop plying.
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The shipyards in Nantes stopped loading and unloading freighters, and work in much of the car manufacturing and aeronautics industries also ceased.
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In Australia, after hauling hundreds of thousands of tons of iron ore to China, returning freighters can face a 14-day quarantine.
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Commerzbank lent heavily to the shipping industry just before it ran into a deep recession caused by a worldwide oversupply of freighters.
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But slicing up huge oil tankers or freighters on beaches releases oil, heavy metals, dioxins, asbestos and other toxic chemicals into the sea.
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Because it takes about three weeks for ocean freighters to make the journey, it will be June before the pain is truly felt.
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Although it's all simulated on this model using hand cranks, adjustable platforms, and tiny versions of the massive freighters that usually pass through.
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After a few disorienting minutes of traveling through the wormhole, my ship materializes amid a cluster of other ships, mostly large-scale freighters.
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Boeing has 99 firm orders for 767s, 61 of them freighters and 38 of them military tankers, a spokesman for the company said.
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Drayage is the short-term movement that takes containers from ocean freighters to trucks and trains — and then to your home or store.
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Tugboats tow freighters, ferries and yachts to repair yards like the century-old RMK Merrill-Stevens, which is undergoing a $30 million renovation.
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But production constraints — such as a limited number of refrigerated ocean freighters — will limit the extent to which other meats can fill the gap.
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Even so, airlines operating freighters are being squeezed into such niches by the expansion of integrated logistics businesses such as DHL, FedEx and UPS.
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UPS last year ordered 14 747-8 freighters, and a surge in e-commerce and air freight could keep them full in the future.
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Amazon is set to spend more than $3 billion this year on its burgeoning transportation network of planes, ocean freighters, vans, trucks, and more.
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Ethiopian also ordered two Boeing 777 Freighters, and exercised options for two more, Chief Executive Tewolde Gebremariam said at a Dubai Airshow press conference.
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Deadly collisions among large commercial ships have become extremely rare, even though large freighters and tankers vastly outnumber naval vessels on the high seas.
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Qatar Airways said that the 777 Freighters' long range and payload capabilities would help it reduce costs by requiring less stops and shortening delivery times.
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An attempt to make room for new freighters has caused widespread damage to a portion of the Miami area's fragile reef, a federal report says.
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Singapore Technologies Engineering's ST Aerospace demonstrated to delegates how a cockpit could be modified for one pilot when the firm converts passenger jets to freighters.
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There are four locks on the American side of the border, but only two are still used and only this one can accommodate large freighters.
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In Northern Michigan, two freighters got stranded in the icy St. Marys River and had to be freed by American and Canadian Coast Guard ships.
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In the past, pirates have hit just about anything that floated: yachts, freighters, dhows, sailboats, mammoth oil tankers — even an American naval ship, by mistake.
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Airbus first studied using the Mobile site for a proposed tanker for the U.S. Air Force, sweetening the bid with an offer to build commercial freighters.
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Boeing had said it expected to add the Air Force One jets to its backlog, which currently numbers 20 planes - five passenger models and 15 freighters.
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For the 58,000-ton bulk freighters that Chinese shipyards were churning out, prices have plunged from nearly $30 million in 2013 to just $16 million now.
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Both FedEx and UPS ordered billions of dollars worth of Boeing freighters earlier this year in a move to modernize their fleets and meet rising demand.
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As Siberia's summer is so short, freighters must be kept moving while the river, whose 4,63 km (2,735 miles) carry the region's economic lifeblood, is navigable.
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Last August, for instance, Midex, at one point the largest all-cargo airline in the Middle East with a ten-strong fleet of freighters, closed down.
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China's space program must still master launching cargo and fuel via space freighters and recycling air and water for extended manned missions, state media have said.
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Earlier this month, Trump touted Qatar Airways' purchase of five freighters made by Boeing and its use of General Electric engines to power the new planes.
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The hundred or so freighters that make up the Westcott's customers each carry millions of dollars' worth of commodities like coal, iron ore, grain and limestone.
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Amazon also building out its own e-commerce network of planes, trucks, delivery vans, trains, and ocean freighters that now delivers the majority of Amazon's packages.
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It has already grounded two MD11 freighters in response to lower market demand, leaving it with five Boeing 777F and 12 MD-11 planes in service.
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With countless ferries, freighters, and tankers sailing across it every day, the North Sea is home to one of the busiest shipping routes in the world.
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An armada of small fishing boats and hulking freighters, their bottoms red and rusting, lay as if dazed on the flat, oily surface of Mumbai Harbor.
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Another major difference: Almost all tankers have double hulls, as do about a third of dry-bulk freighters, which carry cargos like corn and iron ore.
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Later on Thursday, UPS credited the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act when announcing its purchase of 18 aircraft: 14 747 planes and four Boeing 767 freighters.
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In Australia, after hauling hundreds of thousands of tons of iron ore to China, returning freighters can face a 14-day quarantine before being able to reload.
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Added to that were deals with GECAS for ten 737-800 converted freighters and a commitment by Air lease Corporation to buy 43 wide body 787 Dreamliners.
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Both FedEx and UPS ordered billions of dollars worth of Boeing Co freighters earlier this year in a move to modernize their fleets and meet rising demand.
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We see its digitized inhabitants only rarely, as the core experience thrives hulking interstellar freighters wafting before nebulae or, sometimes, headline-grabbing battles involving thousands of players.
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SCL and SCT said in a separate statement that they would no longer have Swiss-flagged vessels after the sale of eight freighters and four chemical tankers.
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There, three armed men stare at a 750-foot stretch of placid, blue-green water waiting to lift 33,000-ton freighters up along the St. Lawrence Seaway.
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Huge freighters scramble to make deliveries before the Soo Locks, which connect Lake Superior to points south and east, shut down for the coldest stretch of winter.
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In the New York of Egan's novel, freighters are docked the length of the West Side piers and battleships are being built in the Brooklyn Naval Yards.
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N) 737 jets converted to freighters by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to comply with loading restrictions and use additional straps when needed before they can resume flying.
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N) 737 jets converted to freighters by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to comply with loading restrictions and use additional straps when needed before they can resume flying.
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"Cargo, far from being a drag, is now back as a profit contributor, even for freighters," Andrew Herdman, director general at the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines.
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This lease, along with five other jet leases announced earlier this year, means Amazo (AMZN)will have 70 freighters in its fleet by 2021, according to the company.
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What it is: Flexport is a freight forwarding platform that gives shippers visibility and control over their products' movements as it's carried through ocean, air, and road freighters.
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Boeing said lessor BBAM had commissioned the planemaker to convert three 737-800 passenger jets to freighters to serve the growing e-commerce market and express air cargo.
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"Markets linked to Asia will lead all other international markets in average air cargo growth," Boeing said, citing a need by 2035 for 550 large, 747-size freighters.
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Ethiopian ordered two Boeing 777 freighters, and exercised options for a further two, in a deal worth $1.3 billion at list prices, at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday.
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Cathay also noted that yields for air cargo rose for the first time since 2011 and said that it had leased two dedicated 747-8 freighters in June.
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Bravo joins ASL Aviation, an Irish aviation services company, which announced plans to buy 1003 of the freighters at the same air show in 2014, and another undisclosed customer.
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At the same time, Amazon has been moving other parts of its logistics operations in-house as it grows a network of planes, trucks, vans, and even ocean freighters.
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Great Lakes freighters are unique in that almost all passenger tickets are sold through nonprofit fund-raisers — mostly to benefit shipping museums — so booking a room is not easy.
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The sales represent the next chapter in the 747's long history, as the jumbo jets face retirement among passenger carriers, though they are still used as air freighters.
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But demand for freighters to keep medical and other supplies moving has hit a record as passenger jets are grounded due to the spread of the coronavirus, IATA said.
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Sun Country Airlines, a small, Minneapolis-based leisure carrier, said late Tuesday it will start flying a fleet of 10 converted Boeing 737-800 freighters in the second quarter.
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Airbus said it now expects airlines and leasing companies to take delivery of 2350,223 new passenger jets and freighters over the next two decades compared to 222,24 previously forecast.
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Airbus said it now expects airlines and leasing companies to take delivery of 222,24 new passenger jets and freighters over the next two decades compared to 203,220 previously forecast.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Taiwan's China Airlines Ltd has provisionally ordered up to six Boeing Co 777 freighters, the companies said on Wednesday, as the carrier attempts to modernize its cargo fleet.
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Amazon made its debut at the Paris Air Show this week, showing off one of the converted Boeing 737 freighters, painted light blue and nestled among passenger carriers' new airliners.
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The 20-year rolling forecast for airplane deliveries, which includes 733 freighters, was up from 33,070 aircraft a year ago as a further year of strong deliveries gets swept in.
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FARNBOROUGH, England, July 12 (Reuters) - Boeing said on Tuesday it had finalised terms for a deal under which Russian heavy cargo carrier Volga-Dnepr will acquire 20 747-8 freighters.
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His most convincing suggestion is that we should close the seaway to all overseas freighters, those oceangoing ships nicknamed "salties," which inadvertently smuggle invasive species in their bilge-water tanks.
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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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The U.S. planemaker however said on Tuesday it had finalised terms for Russia's Volga-Dnepr to take 20 747-8 freighters, including four that had already been built and lacked buyers.
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You'll be able to build bases, own massive freighters that function like mobile bases, teleport to your personal points of interest in the galaxy, establish farms, hire alien assistants and more.
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The U.S. planemaker however said on Tuesday it had finalised terms for Russia's Volga-Dnepr to take 20 747-8 freighters, including four that had already been built and lacked buyers.
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But that amounts to about $6 trillion worth of goods every year - more than 35% of global trade by value, according to data from Boeing Co, the biggest manufacturer of freighters.
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Like rival wind developers, Orsted now uses bigger turbines, which are cheaper to build and maintain than a larger number of small ones (and uses purpose-built vessels, not banana freighters).
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In the past, pirates have attacked just about anything that was floating off the coast of Somalia: dhows, freighters, sailboats, yachts, mammoth oil tankers — even, by mistake, an American naval ship.
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China's need for new and replacement planes between now and 2038 are broken down by Boeing's analysts into 5,960 single-aisle jets, 1,780 widebody planes, 83 freighters, and 120 regional jets.
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The same airline however said it intended to order up to six Boeing 777 freighters to modernize its cargo fleet as it launches operations from Taipei to North America and Europe.
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At least two other ships on the list of barred freighters are now sailing away after being anchored off Chinese ports, ship tracking data on the Reuters Eikon terminal showed on Tuesday.
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Quadex Power Core Gray, circular and suitable for installation in YT-1300 light freighters like the Millennium Falcon, the Quadex power core, the ship&aposs main source of power, is pure fiction.
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UPS ordered 14 more 2747-29 freighters in 21969, a lifeline that helps ease doubts over the future of the jumbo, which looks set to outlive its European competitor, Airbus SE's A21970.
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The Northeast Corridor hosts not only Amtrak coaches and high-speed trains but also long freighters and smaller commuter trains (the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or Septa, and New Jersey Transit trains).
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And recently, the giant retailer has managed to wrest away a large portion of its deliveries from the USPS to its own internal network of planes, trucks, trains, vans, and ocean freighters.
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The biggest passenger jets ever built — which are set to continue flying for years to come — commercial freighters and military transport planes continue to reach new heights (and lengths, wingspans, and weights).
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Boeing would have to sell more 777 freighters to avoid a slowdown in output caused by 777X delays, but Muilenburg pointed to what he called "strong demand signals" despite global trade tensions.
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SINGAPORE, June 19 (Reuters) - Taiwan's China Airlines Ltd has provisionally ordered up to six Boeing Co 777 freighters, the companies said on Wednesday, as the carrier attempts to modernise its cargo fleet.
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The two companies have collaborated on projects for decades and have been in talks since last year on a partnership for planes with 22019 to more than 2150 seats and for freighters.
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Qantas said it would use some domestic passenger aircraft for freight-only flights to replace lost capacity from regular scheduled services and its fleet of freighters would continue to be fully utilised.
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One of the longest dry spells on record has left parts of the Rhine at record-low levels for months, forcing freighters to reduce their cargo or stop plying the river altogether.
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It means Amazon, which now operates its own freighters and cargo planes, is accelerating its push to own the entire logistics chain and end its relationship with companies like FedEx and UPS.
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LE BOURGET, France (Reuters) - Qatar Airways is buying five new 777F Boeing Co freighters as it works to increase its footprint around the world, the airline said on Wednesday at the Paris Airshow.
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On the eve of the show, the world's second-largest domestic cargo airline, United Parcel Service, handed Boeing a lifeline order for 22018 more 24.5-8 freighters, easing doubts over the jumbo's future.
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DUBAI, April 10 (Reuters) - Qatar Airways signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Boeing on Tuesday to buy five 777 freighters, worth $1.7 billion at list prices, the airline said in a statement.
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The 1920 law, which applies to all US ports, requires that all goods shipped to or from the island be handled by American ships, to the deliberate exclusion of lower-cost foreign freighters.
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As a boy, he spent summers with his family near the beach in New London, Connecticut, and as a young man he worked on freighters that travelled to places like Argentina and Honduras.
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Amazon&aposs biggest test yetAmazon is set to spend more than $3 billion this year on its burgeoning transportation network of planes, ocean freighters, vans, trucks, and more, Rachel Premack reported this week.
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Around half the world's air cargo normally travels in the bellies of passenger planes rather than dedicated freighters, so the cancellation of passenger flights has led to a sharp reduction in cargo capacity.
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SINGAPORE, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Tuesday that lessor BBAM had ordered three 737-800 converted freighters to serve the growing e-commerce market and express sectors of the air cargo market.
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About half of the air cargo carried globally is in the belly of passenger jets rather than in dedicated freighters, and the flight cuts have made the Chinese market more dependent on freight haulers.
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Amazon on Tuesday said it will add more than a dozen air freighters to its fast-growing air cargo arm, the e-commerce giant's latest push to tighten control over its own logistics network.
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Worried about the security of food and energy supplies during wartime, Switzerland launched its high seas fleet in 1941, putting Swiss flags on tankers and freighters it could call on at times of need.
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Russian airline Volga Dnepr committed to buying Boeing freighters worth $1303 billion at list prices, while U.S. leasing company Air Lease Corp committed to buying as many as 2130 Boeing aircraft worth $22 billion.
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After World War I, he worked on freighters before settling in New York, where he took various jobs, including as an X-ray technician, before opening a beauty salon with a studio in the back.
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At the eastern entrance to the Kiel Canal (the world's busiest artificial waterway, connecting the Baltic and North seas), only one of the four Wilhelmine locks is in operation, leaving freighters queuing to get through.
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On the first day of the show, Airbus announced numerous sales for more than 303 jets, while Boeing was left with no sales announcements — only a deal to convert some older passenger jets into freighters.
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LE BOURGET, France, June 19 (Reuters) - Qatar Airways is buying five new 777F Boeing Co freighters as it works to increase its footprint around the world, the airline said on Wednesday at the Paris Airshow.
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On the logistics side, Amazon has for years been building out a network of delivery workers, fulfillment centers, trucks, cargo planes, and freighters to move products from manufacturers to customers at speeds once thought impossible.
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The company has been touting the benefits of autonomous freighters for some time, but it just unveiled a bunch of concept artwork as part of a whitepaper presented at a symposium in Amsterdam last week.
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On July 28, the next big patch— No Man's Sky Next will hit, and add a full multiplayer experience, visual upgrades, better base building, and the ability to build and control a fleet of freighters.
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In May, Amazon also entered into a long-term agreement with Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc under which the company would provide cargo services to the online retailer using 20 Boeing Co 767-300 freighters.
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UPS on Thursday announced it was doubling its order for Boeing 747 freighters, giving a burst of life to the jumbo jet that several passenger airlines have retired in favor of more fuel-efficient aircraft.
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But it could unveil a number of deals favouring widebody jets where it has the upper hand against Airbus, including at least a dozen 787 aircraft for Korean Air Lines and some demand for 777 freighters.
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The airline plans to transition from its older 747 freighters to a more modern twin-engine cargo planes on high-yielding routes from Taipei to North America and Europe, China Airlines Chairman Hsieh Su-Chien said.
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The meeting also included the CEO of state-owned Qatar Airways, Akbar al-Baker, who was also at the White House last week to tout its decision in June to buy five new Boeing 777 freighters.
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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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But it could unveil a number of deals favoring widebody jets where it has the upper hand against Airbus, including at least a dozen 787 aircraft for Korean Air Lines and some demand for 777 freighters.
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The recently opened elevator, which itself weighs some 15,500 tons, can lift ships and freighters over 370 feet and is expected to increase the shipping capacity of the dam by six million tons of goods every year.
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Muilenburg noted that Boeing has recently seen new demand for larger 777 freighters, under a letter of intent from Qatar Airways for five planes and an order for two more for Japan's All Nippon Airways, or ANA.
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Brazil's Vale has commissioned a fleet of iron ore freighters that can carry 360,000 tonnes of ore from South America, double the size of typical Capesize vessels, to compete with the shorter sailing times from Australia to China.
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The company is also trying to convince the shipping companies it works with to install exhaust gas cleaning systems - known as scrubbers - and exploring the potential use of liquefied natural gas and biofuels to power freighters, Dieleman said.
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Airbus expects airlines and leasing companies to take delivery of 24.6,210 new passenger jets and freighters over the next two decades compared to 37,389 previously forecast, as airlines seek to tap into the fuel savings offered by newer jets.
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Boeing saw a small increase in demand in the cargo market, a barometer of trade and business confidence, forecasting 980 new freighters from a projected 920 a year ago, fuelled by the growth of e-commerce, particularly in China.
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Republican lawmakers emerged attributing a series of recent incidents to Iran and its proxies, including a drone attack on a Saudi pipeline, damage to four freighters in the Persian Gulf and a rocket fired near the US embassy in Baghdad.
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Amazon has a ever-growing interest in in-housing their package delivery network to cut costs and have better control over its logistics capabilities, quickly building a network of planes, trucks, trains, and ocean freighters in just a few years.
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Richard O'Kane, who was dealt an incredible winning hand before his Gato-class sub, USS Wahoo, sank two Japanese freighters in 1943, was passed from the USS Bremerton to the Olympia when the latter became the oldest fast-attack sub.
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Supplemented by a further act in 2628, the nation proved better prepared to enter World War II. When the 28500st Marine Division landed at Guadalcanal in August 6900, they did so from troopships and freighters drawn from the commercial fleet.
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He told me about his second cousin, Alfred Brenner, a Canadian pilot whose three-man crew met a convoy of 12 German merchant ships accompanied by five destroyers and took one of the freighters out with torpedoes before being shot down.
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The speedy 149-seat NYC Ferry features big picture windows and a roof deck, the views grand on both levels when passing under the majestic Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and skimming by sailboats, freighters and cruise ships in New York Harbor.
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It followed that up with a $220 billion deal for 2320 of its hot-selling single-aisle 3207 2787 MAX 2350 aircraft with U.S. aircraft leasing firm Jackson Square Aviation, while Qatar Airways finalised an order for five 350 freighters.
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Amazon has leased some Boeing 767 widebody jet freighters, and the first one unveiled Thursday in "Prime Air" colors with an Amazon arrow logo on the tail will be operated by Atlas Air, a large US airline that mostly flies cargo planes.
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Popular restaurants with intimate riverside views include Merwin's Wharf, a casual bar and grill run by the 23,000-acre Cleveland Metroparks system, and Collision Bend Brewing Company, a brewery with views of the massive iron-ore freighters that crawl down the river.
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Soon after the United States went to war with Japan and Germany, Admiral Karl Dönitz, the commander of the German submarine service, sent six U-boats to attack oil tankers and freighters in American and Canadian waters before they could head overseas.
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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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MONTREAL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Europe and the United States tried to bridge differences over emissions standards for aircraft on Sunday as global aviation leaders prepared to adopt new rules that could affect Boeing Co and Airbus Group's production of the largest jetliners and freighters.
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"Air cargo is an important part of our overall business and the introduction of these new Boeing 777 freighters will play an integral role in our long-term growth strategy," he said in a statement after the deal was announced at the Paris Airshow.
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American Airlines Group Inc said on Thursday it would use some of its grounded Boeing 777 passenger jets to move cargo between the United States and Europe, in its first scheduled cargo-only flights since 1984 when it retired the last of its 747 freighters.
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As talks with Russia to build a nuclear research center and reactor came to an unsuccessful end in 2003, Naypyidaw turned to Pyongyang for assistance and the appearance of North Korean freighters with secret cargoes in Myanmar suggested the movement of arms and military equipment, Santoro said.
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Chinese financial aid in Vanuatu has so far focused on key infrastructure development, including Luganville International Wharf, on the island of Espiritu Santo, a large 300-meter docking facility that can accommodate two mid-sized freighters, or a single large cruise ship at any one time.
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Boeing is expected to firm up at least part of a deal for up to 20 747-8 freighters from Russia's Volga Dnepr, boosting its declining jumbo jet programme, and could announce a new Asian customer for its 737 MAX 200 jet aimed at low-cost carriers.
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"You see that international trade is now at a zero growth rate, so there is an immediate impact on our cargo business," de Juniac told Reuters TV. IATA voiced concerns that trade tensions that have forced several carriers to ground air freighters could spill into the passenger market.
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U.N. economic options include an embargo on oil supplies to North Korea; a global ban on Air Koryo, its national airline; and interdiction of North Korean freighters on the high seas, a step that would go beyond an existing requirement for nations to inspect ships transiting their territory, the officials said this week.
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We can expect Amazon's CAPEX investment to continue to grow based on the three vectors above, plus they are opening a new vector as they expand their distribution business with 40 planned air freighters plus long haul and delivery truck fleets (FWIW, FedEx spends $5 billion a year on CAPEX, 10% of revenue).
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MIAMI — The large-scale dredging of Miami's port to accommodate the newest generation of freighters, an undertaking that prompted a long-running battle with environmentalists, caused widespread damage to a portion of the area's fragile and already distressed coral reef, according to a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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In the documentary, political scientist P.W. Singer notes that unrestricted submarine warfare targeting freighters and tankers was thought unconscionable at the beginning of the 20th century, but became normalized after World War II. We're in the middle of a similar transition over the ethics of drone combat, and autonomous weapons may follow the same path.
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"You see that international trade is now at a zero growth rate, so there is an immediate impact on our cargo business," de Juniac told Reuters TV. IATA voiced concerns the trade tensions, which have forced several carriers in Asia to ground or delay taking delivery of air freighters, could spill into the passenger market.
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No Man's Sky Next will introduce a spate of updates, including long-awaited full multiplayer gameplay, a visual update to improve textures and add detail, first to third-person perspective switching, unlimited base building and command freighters that allow you to create, upgrade and dispatch a fleet of ships from the comfort of your own bridge.
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