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The sun sets behind a crane at the Gioia Tauro port, southern Italy, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Cargo containers carrying hundreds of tons of Syrian chemical weapons were loaded onto a U.S. cargo ship Wednesday for destruction at sea, one of the final phases of the international effort to rid Syria of its chemical weapon stockpile. The chemicals had crossed the Mediterranean aboard the Danish ship Ark Futura, which steamed into the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro as the sun rose Wednesday. By late afternoon, about half of the 78 containers had been transferred, with cranes lifting each container onto a flatbed truck that then drove into the cargo hold of the U.S. cargo vessel MV Cape Ray. (Photo by Luca Bruno/AP Photo)
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