Sentence examples for metal cargo from inspiring English sources

Huge metal cargo containers are moved through the nation's ports in volumes that are dizzying.

But Mr. Browne said Sergeant Bales had considered the posting "grueling," noting that the soldiers lived in metal cargo containers.

The large metal cargo door swung wide to reveal a small mudroom inside the corrugated walls, and beyond that an expansive living room, kitchen and small bathroom.

And so were her other neighbors' businesses, dozens of vendors of everything from used balalaikas to badminton birdies who have been operating a colorful, if messy, bazaar out of metal cargo containers for more than 20 years.

If anything, the smugglers have gotten more creative, sometimes ferrying illegal immigrants via metal cargo containers, a method highlighted by the discovery in Seattle recently of 15 emaciated stowaways.

The inspectors, they said, will be provided with radiation monitors, chemical detectors and other equipment to inspect "high risk" metal cargo containers before they are placed on ships bound for the United States.

A forklift operator was crushed to death yesterday at a construction site in Staten Island after he tried to lift a large metal cargo-container and his hoist tipped over, the police said yesterday.

Then it's into 5-foot-high metal airport cargo containers and onto yet another truck for the half-hour drive to the Hong Kong airport's cargo loading facility.

Unlike the Iraq war, in which international companies brought in supplies, in Afghanistan the military outsourced its overland-logistics chain to local contractors, whose jingle trucks, so called because of their colorful, tinkling metal decorations, hauled cargo to bases across the country's remote and increasingly dangerous terrain.

A minute later a stroller is sent down a circular metal chute and the cargo door is opened once again.

The vessels were transporting wine from Italy, prized fish sauce from Spain and North Africa, and a cargo of metal ingots from Italy, possibly to be used in the construction of statues or weaponry.