Sentence examples for shipments by train from inspiring English sources
Or he could reject the XL pipeline on two national security grounds: its contribution to global warming and the dangers of leaks, explosions; and he could stop the virtual pipeline of dangerous tar sands and fracked oil shipments by train and waterway by insisting immediately on safe puncture-proof tanks.
With little fanfare, this sleepy port has been quietly transformed into a major hub for oil shipments by trains from North Dakota and a key supplier to refiners on the East Coast.
Outside are several plants where coal is prepared for shipment by train.
OTTAWA — The increased shipment of oil by train in North America has revived investor interest in the once sleepy rail industry.
Rapid proliferation of oil-by-train shipments started more than three years ago to get oil to markets as pipeline infrastructure lagged booming production in remote places such as North Dakota, as well as Canada's oil sands.
The so-called Friendship Bridge between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan opened yesterday, and a first shipment of grain and medicine was sent across by train, heading for the refugee camps.
Despite the poor state of the relationship, the United States went to lengths to thank the Uzbek government for its cooperation on nuclear nonproliferation, as it did Russia and Kazakhstan, which allowed the shipment of the spent fuel across its territory by train.
About half of Ron's soybean and some of his corn is trucked to the railhead then by train to the Pacific Northwest for shipment to China, where it goes to satisfy China's unquenchable appetite for feed for its burgeoning livestock industry.
As an example, it says, it can truck a shipment from a Procter & Gamble plant in Delaware on the east coast to a rail freight terminal in Pennsylvania, then transport it by train to Chicago, where it is switched to another train to California, and for the last 100 miles by road truck – again to a Walmart store.
IF ALL goes to plan, by 2012 the first shipments of copper from Toromocho, a mine in the Peruvian Andes, will be sent by train and truck to a new $70m wharf in the port of Callao.
