51.   IAEA regulations refer to the container holds where the nuclear material is stored, but do not mention any other requirements for the transport ships.

52.   A French navy transport ship is due to arrive in Beirut on Friday carrying aid supplies to Lebanon following the recent Israeli bombardments, the defence ministry said Thursday.

53.   A second detachment is due to leave later in the day on the Samos transport ship, the agency said.

54.   A third destroyer was refurbished into a transport ship.

55.   A transport ship will also take part.

56.   The transport ship brushed the side of its naval escort vessel that was trying to tow it, scaring many journalists on board.

57.   Vietnam has launched a military transport ship from its northern Ha Long shipyard to be used in the disputed Spratly area, the communist party newspaper Nhan Dan said.

58.   Simmons recalled spending D-Day shuttling between the transport ships offshore and the stretch of landing strip code-named sector Gold.

59.   The British nuclear transport ship Pacific Pintail arrived last week at the nuclear reactor port of Takahama, Fukui prefecture on the coast of the Sea of Japan.