Sentence examples for the first container from inspiring English sources

Over the summer, a Maersk vessel loaded with Russian fish became the first container vessel to complete an Arctic sea route that Moscow is planning as part of an Arctic superhighway.

IT Schools Africa sent the first container of 480 refurbished and recycled computers this week, but many more computers will be needed to complete the project; the aim is to recycle 10,000 in total.

THE first container ship was an elderly oil tanker, the Ideal X, whose deck had been strengthened to accommodate 58 well-filled boxes each some 30ft (9 metres) long.

It took all this time, but the first container of Mr. Eek's furniture has just arrived: dining and coffee tables, chairs, cabinets, stools, even a handsome scrap-wood wastebasket.

Maersk, the Danish shipping company, in August sent the first container vessel through the previously frozen route, starting from the Russian city of Vladivostok and arriving safely with its cargo of frozen fish in St Petersburg after a 37-day voyage.

TOTE, a shipping company, has ordered the first container ships built to run on liquefied natural gas.Between a NOC and hard placeFilling up with natural gas is sure to spread as fracking and other new production techniques pick up beyond America; using gas to drive vehicles will in many cases be easier than liquefying it for export or putting it into pipelines.

He said the first containers of hardware leaving Afghanistan had been driven into Pakistan just in the past few days.

The first containers specifically designed for aquatic specimens were the strictly functional open-air tanks used by the Romans to preserve and fatten fish for market.

Eventually, the UN team in Damascus confirmed that the first containers had been stowed inside the Danish Ark Futura and were "heading towards international waters as we speak".

If further tastes were needed, the third container held pickles.

Its fat, puffy grains were meant to absorb the curry in the second container.