Cargo

peacefully get the British ships carrying tea to sail back to Britain. However after several back and forth conversations with the ships captains it was discovered that there was no way for the ships to bring their cargo back to Britain. They were forced by customs law to deliver their cargo and be done. This is what made Adams and the rest of the committee to resort to what is now known as The Boston Tea Party. Samuel Adams and the Boston Committee of Correspondence was yet another massively…

in trucking-related jobs with over 2 million tractor trailers hitting the roadways each year logging in almost 450 billion miles annually. Trucks account for 70 percent of freight transported in the United States with several trillion dollars of cargo being delivered in North America year in and year out. OSHA reports that an average of 475,000 large trucks are involved in accidents each year causing over 5,000 deaths and 142,000 injuries with a quarter belonging to the drivers of the trucks.…

So what of the Dutch impact in the Transatlantic slave trade? After all, they are only fifth in all-time slave trafficking and the other countries dwarf their numbers by well over 500,000. Nevertheless, a consensus among historians agree that the Dutch economy would not be what it is was without the impact of the slave trade. “The early modern Dutch economy probably had the largest per capita income in the early modern Europe and was able to harness labor resources and expertise from a…

difficulty. The US relied heavily on the merchant fleet from December 7th until Japan finally surrendered August 15, 1945. The need for supplies such as; food, fuel, vehicles, ammunition, and spare parts. During the war 268,252,000 long tons of cargo left United States…

example of how a policy shift can produce significant changes in the economic health of an industry, and how its structure may be changed. A regulatory board set up in 1887, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), developed in energy to control cargo rates, direct mergers, and acquisitions, and manage rivalry between the modes by averting proprietorship in various modes. The issue with the railroad industry was that they were losing business by the center of the twentieth Century. The…

In the 15 century Europe started to trade with places farther away and with places they never traded with before. The Europeans had many motivations for transoceanic trade and also they made some innovations that allowed them to travel further. Some of the motivations included that they seeked new sources of wealth and they wanted to convert non-christians around the world to the catholic religion and some of the innovations they made are the sextant and new triangular sails that were stronger…

When Ancient Rome was at its peak, Romans were expanding their power all throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. Their territory stretched from England, all the way to Africa. In order to keep control of their growing empire, the Romans had to adapt and use their geography to their advantage. Two ways they did this were setting up trade routes and a road system. One of the first ways Romans adapted to their geography was to establish an exceedingly large trade route system over the Mediterranean…

explosive device (IED) containing Semtex, a plastic explosive, and a timing device hidden in checked luggage. FAA regulations of screening checked bags with X-ray technology were ignored, allowing the IED device on board with checked luggage in the cargo hold. The suspects, who were Libyan intelligence agents and employed by Libyan Arab Airlines in Malta, slipped the suitcase with the IED aboard an Air Malta flight headed from Malta to Frankfurt, Germany. The unaccompanied bag was thought to…

were forcibly taken to the Americas as slaves. It all began with the European vessels that would take goods to Africa, in exchange for slaves. Also known as the Trans-Atlantic slave trade in which ships would sail to the Americas with the Africansas cargo. This journey would take roughly around four…

at the inactive drone forcing his emotions under control. A sad reality hit. He still needed their help. He lifted the drone into his lap, opened the control panel and retrieved two messenger drones and three small devices. He closed the drone’s cargo hold and re-activated the larger…