Generally, however, it is stored in bulk and shipped loose, like grain, in dry-bulk ships to areas where it will be refined.
While the ships themselves are reasonably robust, the relatively fragile berthing structures might break up, setting the ship loose, possibly without power immediately available, threatening disaster.
Crammed in to the hold of a ship, loose cargo in wooden crates would be loaded and unloaded by vast crews of dockworkers.
Through his "big gun and little ship" plan, the commander wanted to turn the ships loose in the Chesapeake Bay's shallow waters and North Carolina's tidal rivers and sounds.
The French ship loosed off again, drowning out the recording.
The ominous lyrics — "Ships loosed from their moorings capsize and then they're gone/Sailors with no captains watch awhile and then move on" — are written all over the crowded set, on walls and floors and on the band members themselves.
I'm certain they know how to proceed when a ship looses power and must rely on emergency generators, which happened aboard Costa Concordia.
By that time however, Moreno's forces were already at sea: at dawn on 12 July the leading Spanish ships loosed their sails and by 12 00 the French and Spanish squadron had begun to gather at their rendezvous point off Cabrita Point at the mouth of Algeciras Bay.
The ships came loose, and were broken into small pieces".
Fans craving the latter may well scratch their heads at songs such as Ghost Ship, a loose, reggae-ish funk that stars James's bassline, an uncharacteristically laid-back Coxon, and the whistle of an emptying balloon.
Tonight his text is, appropriately, the tyrannical sea, and the ship's loose objects play an accompaniment to his petition.
