Law Enforcement Officials: Containers

Coast Guard Dept: More than a dozen ambulances and law enforcement officials met the 259-meterVille D'Aquarius when it docked early Wednesday at Port Newark, one of America's busiest ports. Large mechanical cranes began unloading containers from the ship, according to The Star. The Coast Guard team had boarded the ship outside New York Harbor early Wednesday as the ship prepared to dock, Rowe said. The officers were knocking on a bulkhead, or partition, of the ship as a routine security check and heard knocks back, he said, but they couldn't pinpoint the source of the sound. The return knocks ended after about two hours, Rowe said and nEWARK, N.J. Dock workers rushed to unload stacked containers from a cargo ship that arrived in New Jersey from the Middle East on Wednesday after a Coast Guard inspection team heard knocking for about two hours that suggested stowaways might be inside one of the boxes. By midday Wednesday, all but one ambulance had quietly left the pier. Coast Guard spokesman Charles Rowe said officials have inspected 80 of the 200 containers authorities believe could be carrying people. The ship has 2,000 containers altogether. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.