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...first oil tankers were allowed to pass through the Suez Canal, and the modern shipping system was born. Today crude oil travels in tankers that can carry up to 4 million bbl. With daily world demand at about 85 million bbl., petroleum represents about a third of all international cargo. And even though the commodity is also measured in kiloliters (in Japan) and metric tons (in Russia), thanks to whiskey, the units are always converted to the 42-gal. barrel for trading and selling. (Watch the video "In Ecuador: Oil-Eating Mushrooms...
...worst terrorist attack in Britain's history, the deadliest assault on U.S. civilians until 9/11 and a political powder keg that roiled governments around the world. On Dec. 21, 1988, a bomb exploded in the forward cargo hold of Pan Am Flight 103, a jetliner flying from London to New York. Within less than a minute, the Boeing 747 splintered into thousands of pieces and fell 31,000 feet, smashing down in the village of Lockerbie, Scotland. The impact killed 11 villagers and destroyed 21 homes. None of the 259 people on board the aircraft survived...
...First Family's carbon footprint on this trip was hardly minimal, when you consider the big military cargo jets, Air Force One, the Marine choppers, Secret Service Suburbans, as well as dozens of rental cars and law-enforcement vehicles brought in from hundreds of miles around. The great mechanized force was on display Saturday afternoon at the West Yellowstone airport, as three helicopters preceded Obama's own Marine One, to the tarmac where Air Force One was waiting. After the national traveling White House press corps embarked from one chopper and boarded Air Force One, the President and his family...
Chevy Volt's 230 m.p.g. sounds good, but what about 60 m.p.k. or 25 kWh/100m? The array of advanced car technologies hitting the consumer marketplace has brought enough boasts, confusion and questions to fill a gas-guzzling SUV's cargo hold...
...Nick Davis, head of the English private security firm Anti-Piracy Maritime Security Solutions, told the BBC that a sinking was unlikely as the cargo would have been spotted floating in the open waters. "I strongly suspect that this is probably a commercial dispute with [the ship's] owner and a third party, and they've decided to take matters into their own hands," he said...