Sentence examples for shipping officials from inspiring English sources

Preventing commercial shippers from paying ransoms is almost impossible, he said, because shipping officials are determined to avoid violence.

Shipping officials estimate that more than 150 freighters are nearing their destinations or idling off the coast.

Shipping officials said Thursday that they were examining the hull of a Japanese oil tanker that was mysteriously damaged this week as it traversed a strategically vital waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.

Commercial shipping officials say that Somali pirates alone cause an additional $5 billion a year in expenses for insurance and security, with piracy in other regions adding billions more to the cost.

As far as I know, Russian shipping officials confronted with the mystery have either denied rumours or referred generally to the Lenin operating as usual convoying freighters between Arctic ports.

Originally known as the Chinese gooseberry, it was renamed by its original American purveyor, Frieda Caplan, at the suggestion of a shipping official, who said that the gooseberry's furry rind reminded him of New Zealand's national bird.

At 7 50 p.m., she was reported missing to ship officials, said AnneMarie Mathews, a spokeswoman for the cruise company, Norwegian Cruise Line.

As for the Japanese ship, officials in the port city of Xiamen in Fujian Province said Friday that they had found "abnormal" radiation readings on the vessel, Xinhua, the state news agency, said.

A6 No Trace of Indonesian Ship Officials said strong currents might have swept away a ship with nearly 500 villagers fleeing a massacre in the Maluku islands of Indonesia.

The body of water stretching from Biscayne National Park to the Tortugas, 3,000 square nautical miles, is the first area designated in the United States to protect the reefs from anchoring, grounding and collisions from passing ships, officials from the Commerce Department said.

Sea ice conditions in the Antarctic are likely to delay plans to take passengers off an ice-bound ship, officials say.