The number of maritime piracy incidents reported to the ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre in the first half of 2018 fell to its lowest number in the past 10 years, the agency reported Tuesday. From January to June 2018, ReCAAP had a total of 40 incidents reported, of which 29 were …
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19 JUL 2018 Rangers have temporarily closed off parts of Grand Teton National Park after guides noticed growing fissures in the area just over a week ago. Since Grand Teton is connected to Yellowstone, and Yellowstone is well known for sitting on top of what could well be a giant volcanic time bomb, the news …
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Salvage ships work to extinguish the fire on the Panama-registered Sanchi tanker carrying Iranian oil, which went ablaze after a collision with a Chinese freight ship in the East China Sea, in this January 10, 2018 . July 18, 2018 Large shipping losses have declined by more than a third …
Read More »“A red sky at night is a shepherd’s delight ! A red sky in the morning is a shepherd’s warning.” Perhaps this saying came to mind if you caught a spectacular sunrise or sunset recently. Since biblical times and probably before, proverbs and folklore such as this developed as a way for …
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On Saturday night, a 32-foot salmon fishing boat became trapped between two ships near Dillingham, Alaska, and her crew barely escaped before she was crushed, flipped and sunk. At the time of the incident, the gillnetter Kristi was working the Bristol Bay opening, the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery. The Kristi lost power near the …
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The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation has released its 2018 study of the economic impacts of shipping in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region highlighting that cargo moved in 2017 totaled 143.5 million tons and was valued at $15.2 billion (C$19.8 billion). This waterborne commerce supported 237,868 U.S. and Canadian jobs …
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