Word: cargoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 250 giant ferries carry cargo and passengers between the British coast and half a dozen ports in France, Belgium and Holland. The vessels have sometimes been criticized by safety experts, who say that the open holding bays for cars and trucks make the ships very unstable if they are flooded. Before the Herald disaster, there had been six ferry accidents in the English Channel region in the past five years, causing ten deaths. But British Shipping Minister Lord Brabazon insisted that the "ferries have a very good safety record. There are more than 200 crossings every day with very...
...Philippine cargo ship Balsa 24 was plowing through the turbulent waters of the North Atlantic last week when it encountered a violent storm. Lashed by pelting rain and battered by 35-to-50-knot winds and 50-ft. waves, the vessel foundered 1,120 miles east of New York. Its 19-member crew frantically radioed an SOS, then clambered into a lifeboat...
Work for Begun consisted of knotting the rope into cargo nets, a job chosen mainly for its monotony. "The norm was eight nets a day, and those who met the norm might get one or two rubles a month to spend on sugar or fat from the prison store." Begun says he never made more than one net a day. "To do no work at all is extremely provocative, and punishment is severe. To do a single net is another matter. I did only one a day as a matter of principle...
Belgian television, quoting the Zeebrugge port authority, said the ferry's cargo doors had not closed properly, letting water into the hold containing cars and trucks...
Kipervarg expects the space shuttle program will expand and become more specialized. Different shuttles would be adapted for cargo carrying, passenger transportation or special tasks in space...