Departure and arrival dates are very likely to change because of weather conditions, cargo requirements, even strikes, so it's not for those with fixed schedules.
54000 sqft of dock space is used to store all-weather cargo and there ia a 17000 sqft warehouse for weather-critical cargoes.
Its north windows frame golden pagodas and colonial mansions; to the south weather-beaten cargo ships glide up the Yangon River.
Though weather realities and cargo capacity will always limit their utility, motorcycles and scooters move millions of people, in cities from Kampala to Keokuk, every day.
Three decades before most people began using e-mail, Cargill used a telex-based system so that the lowliest trainee could zip sensitive weather, crop or cargo information to senior officers in seconds.
But so is everything else, from the weather to the cargo manifest to the aircraft's maintenance history.
Faulty weather radar and unstable cargo contributed to the crash of a Florida National Guard plane that killed 21 people, an investigative report says.
He climbed down and explained: tramps asleep when the brakeman overhead locked the hatch in freezing weather — to protect the cargo — had been frozen to death when the car was left on a siding out of earshot.
The system helps choose the safest route to take, depending on the specific ship, the value of its cargo, and the weather conditions.
Although contracts once barred them from working in the rain, they now handle cargo in all weather.
Maritime insurance providers have very limited insight into accidents at sea — collisions, oil spills, lost cargo due to weather, spoilage and more are all outside of the realm of current data collection.
