Sentence examples for container cargoes from inspiring English sources

I zoomed up a level, and looked at thousands of container cargoes as they moved around the planet.

Smuggling methods are varied, with drugs being carried in container cargoes, cruise ships, fishing boats, yachts and aircraft.

Zeebrugge subsequently grew into a bustling port handling regular and container cargoes, as well as ferries bound to and from Britain.

"We had an instance in which 25 extremists, as they were described, jumped on ships outside of the United States, hid in the container cargoes until they got to the United States and then disembarked," the lawmaker, Senator Bob Graham, a Florida Democrat, said in an interview on CNN.

West Coast ports handle more than two-thirds of U.S. retail container cargoes, including the vast majority of goods imported from Asia, with total volumes of around 20 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) a year.

Nevertheless, it is not easy for container ports to have sufficient container cargo volumes to justify the massive investments.

In Chinese ports, total cargo handled in the first 10 months of last year rose 7 percent from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Transport and Communications, although container cargo fell 7.1 percent.

This essayistic, political documentary follows container cargo aboard ships, barges, trains and trucks, listening to workers, engineers, planners, politicians, an those marginalized by the global transport system.

Last year, Pusan handled in five days the entire container cargo handled in one year by Vostochnyy, Russia's busiest Pacific port.

But the Tokyo Bay ports of Tokyo and Yokohama are normally Japan's two busiest, representing as much as 40 percent of the nation's foreign container cargo.

The two ports, which account for 40% of America's imported container cargo, are locked into complex supply chains that extend across the country.