11.   Officials waited until Sunday to transfer the passengers after determining the freighter was in no danger of sinking.

12.   Roberts said the freighter was similar to another used for illegal alien smuggling.

13.   The freighter is to be held during the investigation, which will last several weeks, Samante said.

14.   The freighter was overloaded and was in danger of sinking.

15.   The freighter is due to arrive at Kunashiri Island later in the day and Shikotan Island on Thursday.

16.   The freighter was en route from Elizabeth, N.J., to San Juan.

17.   The freighter was an English Welsh and Scottish Railways train, traveling from Milan to England, which stops at Calais on the French side of the Channel Tunnel.

18.   The Nigerian freighter was full of looted U.N. vehicles, computers and office equipment, she said.

19.   Freighters are increasingly rare, but cruise ships pass by more frequently now.

20.   The freighter had been on a Bangkok-Taipei flight.