ship
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The Guinea-Bissau-flagged ship was hit by Russian cruise missiles on Sunday, the Ukrainian Air Force said, causing a fire.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Northumbria Police said it was called to South Shields Port of Tyne at 13:00 BST after "it was reported that, for reasons yet to be established, a ship had collided with a crane".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Tied to the mast of his ship as he and his crew pass the singing sirens, adorned on the jagged rocks at sea, Odysseus screams out with pain and desire.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
A drone struck a ship off the port in Iraq's southern province of Basra, a security official told AFP, while the country's oil ministry said an unspecified object had fallen near a tanker.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Above me the thud and scrape of thirty-plus men shoving barrels of tea around was almost deafening and the interior of the ship had an overpowering musty smell that made my stomach roll a little.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Without that labor force, he said, contaminated goods can keep being shipped.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Meta says it hasn’t yet shipped the feature to consumers and no final decision on whether to do so has been made.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Around 122,000 more cars were shipped than in the same quarter a year earlier, buoyed by new or refreshed products and powertrain offerings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The ingredients would then be shipped by air or sea to Mexico, according to Enrique.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Guests at the Crawford House could choose among nine daily newspapers from New York and Boston, shipped in specially.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Qatar has floated the idea of a 10-day ceasefire and an end to restrictions on shipping in the strategic waterway, mediators said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
That threat could introduce more turmoil into the global economy, as the waterway in question, the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, is an important shipping route for oil and natural gas.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
On Sunday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on countries around the world to share the burden of protecting global shipping.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
The US strikes, on the eighth successive night of attacks, were "designed to further degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz", Centcom said.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
It looked like a shipping crate, not a proper coffin for a head of state.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
