Sentence examples for container bound for from inspiring English sources

On Sunday the Hong Kong police found 12 mainland Chinese stowaways in a shipping container bound for the United States.

Robert Bonner, the Customs Service commissioner, noted in a recent speech that in October Italian authorities found a suspected Al Qaeda operative locked in a shipping container bound for Canada.

Hong Kong customs agents discovered 26 illegal Chinese migrants today, hidden in a shipping container bound for Long Beach, Calif., after they detected carbon dioxide gas emanating from the container.

A container bound for Bangkok, filled with fish, French cheeses, foie gras, many types of berries and a large white truffle worth $4,000, was stranded at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris last week, according to Nuntiya Hameunggull, general manager of Gourmet Onewww.gourmet-one.com/ Gourmet One's Web site, a food distributor.

In October 2001, only weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, the authorities in an Italian seaport discovered an Egyptian man suspected of Qaeda membership hiding in a shipping container bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia; airport maps and security passes were also found in the container, which he had outfitted with a bed and bathroom.

He said a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, stolen from Lakeport, Calif., in 1982, was found in a shipping container bound for Australia at the Port of Los Angeles in February.

It was carrying cars and containers bound for Senegal.

Last week in Elkridge, an inspector from a Chinese company studied bales of paper being loaded into shipping containers bound for the port of Baltimore and, eventually, Asia.

Any government capable of developing nuclear weapons would only have to pack bombs into shipping containers bound for major American cities.

The terminal operator normally demands all containers bound for an incoming vessel to be ready in the terminal before its arrival.

In 2002, in a Sisyphean scheme straight out of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, Witte decided to pack up six of his most popular rides – Baby Flight, Butterfly, Flying Carpet, Fun Express, Jet Star and Spider – into 20 shipping containers bound for Peru: a friend of a friend had told them that Lima was crying out for another Spreepark.