Israel also bombed a suspected nuclear site in the syrian desert in 2007 and recently intercepted a shipload of iranian arms apparently bound , through syrian ports , for hizbullah .
As the central bank 's mr stevens has put it , five years ago a shipload of iron ore would have bought about 2200 flat-screen television sets ; today it buys about 22000 .
The emerging markets are first in the queue for supplies because they are often able to use each extra barrel of oil or shipload of ore more gainfully .
