Go see the Staten Island Yankees play right by the ferry terminal and the passing of the big freighters just behind the outfield wall will net you five more.
I was watching the big freighters go by out on the middle of Lake Huron, and I just got to thinking about the lives of the people that work on those boats.
Now, for the first time in 40 years, and just as the US reaffirms its commitment to crack down on greenhouse gas emissions, oil producers will be allowed to ship their carbon to foreign countries on big freighters, where it will likely burn with less oversight and fewer environmental laws than it would be subject to in the US.
To date, these costs have been covered by Europe's deliveries of cargo to the platform using its big robotic freighter known as the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV).
The world's tonnage of large freighters is climbing by more than 10 percent a year, with 1,650 large freighters for bulk commodities expected to emerge from shipyards this year alone.
Malcom Purcell McLean, an entrepreneur who started as a truck driver and reinvented worldwide shipping 45 years ago when he hefted big loaded trailers into freighter holds, died Friday at his home on the East Side of Manhattan.
The Boeing Company said Thursday that it would delay delivery of the 747-8 freitster, its biggest commercial jet, until mid-2011 from the fourth quarter of 2010.
Airbus and Boeing, the world's leading big-jet manufacturers, both expect freighter fleets to double over that period.The growth of air freight over the past 20 years has provided an extra boost for Boeing and Airbus, which both registered record-breaking orders of over 1,000 aircraft a piece last year.
Gibbons suggested a pirate theme, and Moore agreed in part because he is "a big Bertolt Brecht fan": the Black Freighter alludes to the song "Seeräuberjenny" ("Pirate Jenny") from Brecht's Threepenny Opera.
