Thompson opens with almost thirty seconds of distorted guitar run through echo and tremolo, making it sound a bit like a small tanker docking several miles away.
With the tanker docked in the United Arab Emirates, the owner, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, and port officials puzzled over what had shattered windows on the vessel, knocked off a lifeboat and punched a dent into its hull.
SOME time in 2014 natural gas will be condensed into liquid and loaded onto a tanker docked in Kitimat, on Canada's Pacific coast, about 650km (400 miles) north-west of Vancouver.
Moosa Murad, general manager of the Port of Fujairah, where the tanker docked on Wednesday, told Reuters that he suspected that the ship had been involved in a collision, perhaps with a submarine or sea mine, but added, "We don't know what it was".
"The Point, " as locals call it, has a half-mile pier jutting out into the San Francisco Bay, where 600-ton tankers dock every day to fuel the refinery, one of California's leading producers of greenhouse gases.
Oil companies had combined to form the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. inorder to transfer the North Slope oil to tankers docked at Valdez.
To help move gasoline faster to customers, Mr. Cuomo said he was waiving a requirement that fuel tankers docking in New York register and pay a tax before unloading.
Profits at Wales' largest port have fallen by half after a big reduction in the number of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers docking there.
On Friday, the militants said they had remotely detonated a bomb on a fuel tanker ship docked at Port Harcourt.
As the 58-year-old tanker Caloosahatchee docked in Hartlepool, protesters held placards saying: "Hartlepool is my home, not America's dustbin".
