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...abroad. But even with this aid, few shippers can afford the required down payment of 25% on new vessels. Foreign competition has grown so large that the U.S. fleet in operation represents only 10% of the world's merchant ships. Operating costs are also high. An American freighter with a 51-man crew has a monthly payroll of $20,800 v. $4,700 for a British crew...
...Evanghelos, I, her granddaughters Dimitra, Maria and Spiridoula−were driven across the mountains for five days and most of four nights. For close to a year they were herded from camp to camp, between Albania and Yugoslavia. At last they were thrown into the hold of a Russian freighter. "Like so many animals." said Alexandra Moschou...
...Live at Peace. Once when the freighter tied up at a wharf at one port, young Christopher managed to steal a look out of the fetid hold. The ship was in a British harbor, but no Britons were permitted aboard to see the human cargo she was carrying. In the face of the Communist guards, the Greek prisoners kept quiet. Soon afterward the freighter tied up at a Polish port, and the human cattle were transferred from its hold to sealed railway boxcars. Dragged, pushed and prodded from town to town over many months, the Moschou family were finally settled...
Standing on a dock edging the black Caroni River one day last week, Venezuela's President Marcos Perez Jimenez pressed a button, started a conveyer belt, and sent baseball-sized chunks of iron ore tumbling into the hold of a Swedish freighter. When the ship was properly "topped off," her hatchcovers were closed and she steamed downstream with the first cargo of ore for the U.S. from the steel-hungry 20th century's greatest ore find, Cerro Bolivar...
...British freighter Nigelock, a converted wartime corvette loaded with fruit and vegetables, steamed through the China Sea one velvet night last week, outward bound from Communist Shanghai to Communist Amoy. At-first light, a gunboat appeared on the port bow and ordered the Britisher to heave to. Not me, said Nigelock's captain, and rang for full steam ahead. His radio crackled an S O S to the British destroyer Cockade, on patrol in the Formosa strait...