Unknown to mission controllers, a secret piece of cargo had been stowed on board.
This may help remind baggage handlers that your pet has a name and isn't just another piece of cargo.
"It felt slightly perverse to take people who have travelled for months, being shipped around in the back of lorries like a piece of cargo, and put them in shipping containers," he says.
Your job might be to attach the harnesses to the cargo, maneuver one of the four deck-mounted cranes from inside the operator's cab, or figure out where each piece of cargo should be placed so that the ship doesn't tip over.
In an attempt to assuage fears over the state of air cargo security, the Freight Transport Association said that every piece of cargo undergoes a form of security before it flies in the UK, from x-ray scanning to sniffer dog inspection and hand searches.
FOR now, the authorities are exploring ways to make sure that weapons -- and suspected terrorists -- are kept from containers at the port of origin, and they are trying to develop new technology and systems to track each piece of cargo along the way to ensure it is not tampered with.
In 1592, a British ship sank near the island of Alderney in the English Channel carrying an odd piece of cargo: a small, angular crystal.
The Zuma payload it was carrying, a mysterious classified piece of cargo for the U.S. government believed to be a spy satellite, was lost after it failed to separate from the second stage of the rocket after the first stage of the Falcon 9 separated as planned and returned to Earth.
The swing had so many parts, screws, and pieces to it, and I wanted to be sure if was safely constructed considering we would be putting a very precious piece of cargo in the swing, our newborn baby.
On board the Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk sent hurtling towards the sun, aiming for a long, leisurely Earth-Mars orbit, there were a few pieces of miscellaneous cargo.
