Word: cargo
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...idea that pilots can carry guns in the cockpit, some security experts and pilots are raising a new concern: What about guns not in the cockpit? The Transportation Security Administration demands that when pilots are passengers, their guns be placed in a lockbox and checked into the cargo hold--fully loaded. This flies in the face of the usual law-enforcement practice of not separating man and gun--as well as a 22-year-old aviation-safety regulation that requires all weapons to be unloaded when put into the baggage compartment. Some baggage handlers are reportedly refusing to touch...
...Boston could lose freight traffic to other nearby ports that have ship-to-rail connections, said Shaun Keefe, who is Vice President of Romar Transportation Systems, Inc. in Allston, a trucking company which transports cargo to and from CSX rails...
...dream of experiencing the life of the sea endured. So when a friend from my youth told me she was shipping out on a cargo boat and invited me to join her, I leapt at the chance. Davien, a native Manhattanite, was taking a sabbatical from a successful career in the entertainment industry to launch a new chapter of her life, aboard a 197-meter cargo ship. She embarked in Brooklyn and cruised halfway around the world, tracing the route her grandfather, a sea captain, followed 80 years ago. She hooked up with me in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, where...
...Pisa; the length from bow to stern is two proverbial American football fields, including the end zones. Davien and I were the only noncrew passengers aboard (supernumeraries, in the lingo of the sea), so we had a vast expanse of tranquil time and space at our disposal. On a cargo ship the entertainment is the ship and the sea?and the self. I've never had so much personal time. For anyone who is at all serious about reading or writing, traveling aboard a cargo ship such as the Ingrid Oldendorff is a dreamlike interlude of heavenly peace on earth...
...Most cargo ships that accept passengers have room for two to eight people; the Ingrid Oldendorff has a family suite, a living room and two sleeper cabins, each with its own head and shower en suite. Our cabin wasn't superluxurious, but it was as comfortable as most of the cruise-ship accommodations I've seen, attractively furnished and fitted out with a little fridge and a stereo. Davien and I swapped off using the lone desk, which had an inspiring view of containers piled high (and the sea beyond), until I discovered a boardroom by the captain's office...