cargo-handling love

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  • Nearby, the Chinese-built deepwater port, with its neat angles, spanking-new gantry cranes, and other cargo-handling equipment, appeared charged with expectation, even as the complex stood silent and empty against the horizon, waiting for decisions from Islamabad.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • Nearby, the Chinese-built deepwater port, with its neat angles, spanking-new gantry cranes, and other cargo-handling equipment, appeared charged with expectation, even as the complex stood silent and empty against the horizon, waiting for decisions from Islamabad.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • Then there are the characters: the theatre proprietress, her animated and mute wooden puppets who used to be actors, the cargo-handling folks who live under the spans, all of these are interesting in their own right.

    REVIEW: Lord Tophet by Gregory Frost 2008

  • Supplies couldn't be flown into Port-au-Prince airport until the U.S. military had sent in airport repair and cargo-handling teams.

    Put the Pentagon in Charge 2010

  • At home, VT maintains a significant proportion of the 3,700 vehicles operated by London's Metropolitan Police and the ground-based cargo-handling fleet of 6,000 vehicles for British Airways PLC at Heathrow and Gatwick airports.

    VT signals shift to support services 2009

  • Yabran was also suspected of using his transport and cargo-handling businesses as drug and money-laundering fronts.

    Death Of An Untouchable 2008

  • Yabran profited from the sell-off of state enterprises, amassing a mail-delivery outfit, private security services, an airport cargo-handling firm and other businesses worth an estimated $600 million.

    Death Of An Untouchable 2008

  • So even if your destination has no cargo-handling capability whatsoever, you can still bring your own.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • So even if your destination has no cargo-handling capability whatsoever, you can still bring your own.

    CC-177 delivers supplies to Jamaica 2007

  • On the northern shore, barely half a mile from the Glayfield, the docks were built into the bank and out into the mudflats; two square miles of cargo-handling machinery and warehouses and quays and landing pads and caravan platforms.

    The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

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