Sentence examples for check cargo from inspiring English sources
Russia also said it would shut down its last plutonium-producing reactor.Argentina, Italy and the United Arab Emirates said they were working to install radiation detectors to check cargo for fissile material.
With 232m container movements through the world's ports each year, it is now practical to look inside only about 2% of them.America, at least, has made more progress in requiring foreign ports to allow American officials to check cargo before it sets sail for America.
Port and industry people credit the Customs Service with efficient redeployment of personnel in the attacks' aftermath, shifting many inspectors to the airport in support of federal marshals and replacing them with specialists who check cargo declarations and another group that classifies and values goods.
Mr. Kouchner has since called for an international investigation and the involvement of the European Union to check cargoes heading for Gaza.
After the war, Heffron found work at a whiskey distillery and later checked cargo on the Delaware River waterfront.
On Sunday, the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, suggested a European Union role in checking cargo on board ships heading to Gaza in return for the lifting of the blockade.
The resources needed to secure our ports, check air cargo more efficiently and improve readiness for the aftermath of a serious chemical or biological attack are just not there.
"We can check the cargo of ships heading toward Gaza -- we can do it, we want to do it, we would gladly do it," Mr. Kouchner said, according to news reports.
"The major problem on these occasions -- and the smugglers know it very well -- is that the prosecuting authorities can't stop and check a cargo ship or a big fishing ship unless there is a strong reason, as defined by international regulations," one of the officers said.
Over the long term the SARS outbreak will add friction to the cost of doing business in Asia, much as impromptu shoe checks, cargo inspections and travel jitters followed Sept. 11 in the U.S. Hotel business in Asia fell 25% from February to March.
G.E. will finish checking the cargo planes by Tuesday.
