Sentence examples for slipways from inspiring English sources
On July 28th Hapag-Lloyd, Germany's largest container-shipping company, secured a €330m ($468m) bail-out from its shareholders while it seeks up to €1.75 billion to keep it from sinking altogether.Worse, there is a huge supply of new ships on order and due off the slipways over the next four years.
Ships ordered in 2013 are starting to roll down the slipways, nonetheless, and even record Chinese imports of iron ore are not enough to soak up excess capacity.All the steel that China is making with that ore has also been hurting the shipowners, explains Crystal Chan of IHS, a research firm.
THE bare slipways of Harland & Wolff's shipyards in Belfast and the echoing halls of the Longbridge car plant in Birmingham were once the largest of their kind in the world, the birthplaces of, respectively, the Titanic and the Austin Healey sports car.
Dry docks or slipways, workshops, fitting shops, welding bays, and other special facilities, usually grouped in the vicinity of the administration offices, are part of every modern canal-maintenance system.
Iława and Ostróda in the Iława Lakeland are also popular with those who visit the area to sail along the Elbląg Canal, which employs an ingenious system of locks and slipways to link a chain of six lakes.
And it is also an efficient device for taking people to a startling viewpoint: looking directly down on the remains of the slipways where Olympic and Titanic were built.
So many worked there that at clocking off "it would take half an hour, easy" to nose your car down its mile-and-a-half slipway.
"We are trying not only to fight the last war, but also to anticipate the sources of the next one," says one senior Eurocrat.In this section Down the slipway Mutiny over the bounty Nominally cheap or really dear?
The European Union is finalising rules that will apply next year.In this section Down the slipway Mutiny over the bounty Nominally cheap or really dear?
We should have said there were only four quarters when they had all risen by 4% or more.In this section Down the slipway Mutiny over the bounty Nominally cheap or really dear?
These are cut up on the town slipway and their meat sold at dawn to housewives and local traders.
