20 JULY 2023 Insurers are reviewing whether to freeze cover for any ships willing to sail to Ukraine after Russia on Monday quit a U.N.-backed deal that allows the export of grain through a wartime Black Sea safe corridor, industry sources said. The agreement, brokered by Turkey last July, aimed to alleviate …
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UN inspectors examine the last ship to exit Ukraine under the Black Sea Grain Initiative protocol, July 17 (UN) 19 JULY 2023 On Monday, the Kremlin announced that it would reimpose a “temporarily dangerous” zone for foreign-flag grain bulkers in the northwestern Black Sea. By raising war risk beyond insurable …
Read More »18 JULY 2023 A retired cosmological theory should be given a second chance at explaining anomalies in our Universe, according to theoretical physicist Rajendra Gupta from the University of Ottawa in Canada. By marrying the existing expanding Universe theory with a fringe explanation called the tired light hypothesis, Gupta has found the Big Bang could …
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17 JULY 2023 U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he extend a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of grain from Ukraine in return for connecting a subsidiary of Russia’s agricultural bank to the SWIFT international payment system, sources told Reuters. Russia has …
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16 JULY 2023 The use of doubler plating in the repair of an uninspected fishing vessel’s hull eventually led to its sinking off Gloucester, Massachusetts, last year. The NTSB this week released its report into the loss of the F/V Gracie Marie with seven crew members on board. All crew were rescued …
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15 JULY 2023 In early July, the world’s oceans posted the highest average surface temperature ever recorded, a symptom of long-term warming combined with the onset of an El Niño pattern in the Pacific. The changed winds and ocean circulation patterns in an El Niño event distribute more of the …
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14 JUL 2023 Brazilian police took into custody four men believed to be Nigerians that were found sitting on top of the rudder of a vessel after it completed a transatlantic crossing. It is believed they had been on top of the rudder, and possibly able to work their way …
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13 JULY 2023 Nigerian authorities have seized and destroyed a small tanker for allegedly stealing oil from an offshore well in Ondo State. The tanker, identified as the Tura II (ex name Ali Riza Bey, IMO 6620462), was captured by contractor Tantita Security Services at an offshore location, according to …
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11 JULY 2023 On Sunday evening, a car carrier tore loose from its moorings and went adrift in the harbor at Bremerhaven, striking a dock at the Lloyd Werft shipyard and knocking over a crane. The stern lines of the 750-foot ship ripped free of the pier at about 2100 …
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11 JULY 2023 Nigeria’s state-owned oil firm NNPC Ltd said on Monday an 800,000-liter (211,338-U.S. gallon) vessel carrying stolen crude had been intercepted offshore while heading to Cameroon and would be destroyed as a deterrent to oil theft. Crude theft from pipelines and wells in the Niger Delta has hobbled the country’s output in …
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