The seaway peaked in 1979, when 79 million metric tonnes of cargo sailed through it.
They harvest weather data from otherwise remote regions and track ships and their cargoes sailing far beyond the reach of coastal radar.
It is listed as a general cargo ship, sailing under a Moldovan flag.
The play's title is nautical slang for a glorified servant on a cargo ship sailing from Port Sudan to Japan.
Even while Elgin's cargo was sailing, to denounce him was a badge of cultural and political bona fides in certain circles.
Soon after, he signed up for the first of two stints working on cargo boats, sailing up the Mississippi, then to Europe and Africa.
American intelligence played a role in the seizure, most importantly in pinpointing the vessel from among the large numbers of traditional fishing and cargo boats sailing in and out of Yemeni waters.
The eight crew members of a cargo ship sailing from Miami to Haiti were missing and feared dead today, two days after their freighter disappeared in stormy waters off Florida, the Coast Guard said.
He flunked out of Princeton after one year, abandoned his pregnant wife, wandered to Honduras and Argentina in search of gold and prostitutes, then found a sliver of serenity as a seaman on cargo ships sailing out of New York.
For this year's Biennale, Rosalind Nashashibi, one of Beaumont's artists, is exhibiting a 30-minute film, Bachelor Machines Part 1, shot on location aboard an Italian cargo ship sailing between Italy, Portugal, England, Ireland and Sweden.
