11.   The French navy also is sending a ship loaded with trucks and equipment to help reopen communication lines as well as construction materials.

12.   The ship had been loading ilmenite, a metal mined in Sri Lanka.

13.   The statement said the NSC had information an unidentified ship loaded the weapons and new bank notes in Hong Kong late last month.

14.   Unusan said it was against international maritime rules to allow ships loaded with explosives to sail into the Bosporus waterway.

15.   A ship loaded with tanks, helicopters, machine guns and ammunition together with other military equipment docked in neighbouring Croatia last week but then pulled out last Saturday.

16.   Bangkok on Monday rejected a US request to anchor ships loaded with military materiel in the Gulf of Thailand on grounds that it might be misperceived by neighboring countries.