A trip to New Delhi netted two carved teak doorways that they dismantled and, with considerable effort, shipped back home.
If the many items of weight on a ship are not distributed with considerable precision, the ship will float at unwanted angles of heel (sideways inclination) and trim (endwise inclination).
And all that carbon impact — considerable in the shipping of Apple goods thousands of miles from China — would be gone.
Qingdao is the largest in terms of tonnage handled, although Yantai, Weihai, and Longkou on the north coast of the peninsula also handle a considerable amount of shipping.
In the summer they had had considerable success and shipping losses had fallen to under 100,000 tons a month but they were still on a knife-edge.
The American military has assembled a considerable number of ships, helicopters, transport airplanes and marines in the region to assist in cyclone relief if the government of Myanmar grants approval.
The trials revealed a dangerous tendency to ship considerable amounts of water in heavy seas.
Scharnhorst was commissioned into the fleet on 9 January for sea trials, which revealed a dangerous tendency to ship considerable amounts of water in heavy seas.
While the German surface raiders which operated against Australia caused considerable disruption to merchant shipping and tied down Allied naval vessels, they did not sink many ships and only operated in Australian waters for a few short periods.
"Yes, I was sorry to miss the event, but I got caught up in a meeting on another new project," Mr. Palmer said by phone from Brisbane on Sunday, adding that the project had to do neither with mining, the cornerstone of his considerable wealth, nor with shipping, but something "completely new".
