reefer

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Our study reveals that AIS disabling near exclusive economic zones and loitering reefers is a risk factor for unauthorized fishing and transshipments.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2023

As a result of the Chinese tariffs, along with the Covid-19 crisis there, refrigerated shipping containers, or reefers, have been stuck in China, without the trade business that would keep them circulating throughout the world.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2020

Containers including reefers move about $4 trillion worth of cargo annually.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2018

“First of all, submarines have refrigerators called reefers and they hold enough meat and other perishables for 60- to 80-day missions,” wrote Gary Cogdell.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2016

Colonel Sterett, who's fa'rly careful about what he says, reefers to Peets in his Daily Coyote as a 'intellectchooal giant,' an' thar ain't no record of any scoffer comin' squanderin' along to contradict.

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by Dunton, W. Herbert