To: Ilaine who wrote (45049 ) 9/18/2002 4:14:02 PM From: Bilow Respond to Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "MSC has over 100 vessels. Some of them are at sea. Neither you nor I know what they are doing, but we know for a fact that some of them will always be busy carrying this and that all over the world, because we have military stationed all over the world, from Alaska to Antarctica. "But this is quite the retreat from your earlier position, which was that the hiring of foreign cargo ships by the MSC was an indication that the MSC had run out of its home grown capability. MSC Fast Sealift ro-ro vessels carry around 26000 long tons deadweight tonnage, but that's everything, including the passengers and fuel. Big suckers. Almost as big as an aircraft carrier.So the fact that they need to charter MORE vessels should tell you something. Tells me something, anyway . #reply-18002585I already told you what it would take to convince me that the Pentagon hasn't taken more MSC vessels out of mothballs. Call MSC up and ask them. "I don't need to call them up because their situation is public knowledge. It's all over the web, for God's sake. Instead of reading in Debka about how the MSC chartered some 3,000 ton ship you'd be reading in Debka (and everywhere else) that the President had secretly activated the RRF.
