Monthly Archives: May 2021

EGYPT OFFERS TO CUT EVER GIVEN COMPENSATION CLAIM TO $600 MILLION

10 MAY 2021 Egypt offered to reduce claims by a third for compensation from owners of the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March, Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie told MBC Masr channel television channel. The canal authority said it would reduce the claims for compensation to …

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EXPERIMENTAL BOOSTER PROTECTS AGAINST NEW CORONAVIRUS VARIANTS, EARLY TRIAL SUGGESTS

7 MAY 2021 A new COVID-19 booster being created by Moderna could protect against the variants of SARS-CoV-2 first found in Brazil and South Africa, according to the first results from a small clinical trial. The US biotech firm started developing variant-specific boosters earlier this year after evidence that several coronavirus variants can ‘break through‘ current vaccines. This is their first clinical trial in …

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YOUNG ADULTS WHO’VE HAD COVID-19 SHOW SIGNS OF LASTING CARDIOVASCULAR DAMAGE

10 MAY 2021 Just because you’re young and healthy, doesn’t mean the coronavirus won’t affect you. Young adults who show only minor symptoms of COVID-19 may still suffer lingering changes to their blood vessels, according to a small new study. While the SARS-CoV-2 primarily impacts the lungs and is particularly dangerous for older people, growing research suggests it …

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NEW WAVE OF COVID CASES HAMPERS SOUTH ASIA’S SHIPBREAKERS

9 MAY 2021  India has experienced severe shortages of purified oxygen due to its ongoing second wave of COVID infections, and this has drastically curtailed the country’s ship recycling activity. The outbreak has caused more than 218,000 deaths in the country, and oxygen shortages are partly to blame. As industrial …

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HUMAN BRAIN LIMIT OF ‘150 FRIENDS’ DOESN’T CHECK OUT, NEW STUDY CLAIMS

15 MAY 2021 It’s called Dunbar’s number: an influential and oft-repeated theory suggesting the average person can only maintain about 150 stable social relationships with other people. Proposed by British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar in the early 1990s, Dunbar’s number, extrapolated from research into primate brain sizes and their social groups, …

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BIMCO: SCRUBBERS CONTRIBUTE TO INCREASE IN HSFO SALES IN 2021

14 MAY 2021  A year after the start of the IMO’s 2020 sulfur cap, the price spread among the different types of fuel has stabilized contributing both to a rebound in sales of high-sulfur fuel and supporting the business case for scrubber installations according to a new analysis from BIMCO. …

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GREEK DIVER RECOVERS COCAINE SMUGGLED IN SHIP’S HULL

13 MAY 2021  Illustrating the depths to which drug smugglers are going in their attempts to move their illicit cargo, the Hellenic Coast Guard released video of a drug seizure this week hidden underwater behind the grate on a water intake in a bulk carrier’s hull. The vessel’s management company …

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SEA LEVEL RISE FROM ANTARCTIC MELT COULD BE 30% HIGHER THAN WE THOUGHT

11 MAY 2021 The Antarctic ice sheet contains a global disaster waiting to happen. As global temperatures continue to rise due to anthropogenic climate breakdown, water currently locked in the form of Antarctic ice will melt into the oceans, raising sea levels to a point that will have a significant …

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SALVORS HOIST AND REMOVE GOLDEN RAY’S ENGINE ROOM SECTION

10 MAY 2021  On Tuesday, salvors hoisted and removed the engine room section of the grounded ro/ro Golden Ray, loading it onto a deck barge for transport to a recycling facility in Louisiana.  The lift marks the culmination of a long, three-month process to saw through the heavily-reinforced hull section using …

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