Baltimore plans explosive end for collapsed bridge to free trapped box ship
The task force working on the restoration of full access to the port of Baltimore ...
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By Mike Wackett
One man died at the weekend after 35 people, including 13 children, were heard “screaming” inside a shipping container at the UK port of Tilbury.
It is a very sad story that has refocused the industry on how desperate people must be to buy an illegal passage to the west and risk their lives to stowaway in a sealed freight container.
Their container may remain for several days on a quayside and, potentially, weeks deep in the hold of a ship before ...
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