24 MAR 2023 A Ukrainian-crewed bulker has rescued a disabled Russian sailing vessel on the high seas of the Pacific, the sailboat’s skipper told U.S.-funded Russian news outlet Sibir Realii. The inflatable trimaran sailboat Russian Ocean Way has been sailing around the world since mid-2021, and it has completed about 13,000 nm of …
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23 MAR 2023 Portuguese authorities are working to control a fire aboard a product tanker off the coast while they are also hoping to tow the ship further out to sea. So far, the fire is believed contained in the aft end of the vessel not reaching its cargo of …
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22 MAR 2023 Chinese shipbuilder Yangzijiang Shipbuilding in China has delivered what is believed to be the world’s largest containership by carrying capacity. The MSC Irina was delivered March 9 to MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company by Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of Yangzijiang Shipbuilding located in Jingjiang city on the Yangtze River. …
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21 MAR 2023 But first, we need an internet of deep ocean sensors to track the effects. Deep below the ocean surface, the light fades into a twilight zone where whales and fish migrate and dead algae and zooplankton rain down from above. This is the heart of the ocean’s carbon …
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20 MAR 2023 As the container barge Brooklyn Bridge arrived in San Juan on a routine voyage from Jacksonville last week, 16 migrants jumped over the side and attempted to swim to shore. They were in possession of life jackets, and they were rescued from the water by a patrol boat from U.S. …
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19 MAR 2023 The smoke from recent wildfires is threatening to slow and even reverse the recovery of Earth’s ozone layer – the same one that the world has worked so hard to heal since 1987. The ozone layer is a crucial part of the stratosphere that stops our planet from getting scorched by the Sun’s …
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18 MAR 2023 Advances in artificial intelligence are coming so hard and fast that a museum in San Francisco, the beating heart of the tech revolution, has imagined a memorial to the demise of humanity. “Sorry for killing most of humanity person with smile cap and mustache,” says a monitor welcoming a …
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17 MAR 2023 If you needed another reminder of just how important quality sleep is to our health and well-being, a new study has linked three specific sleep problems with a change in risk of developing dementia. Use of sleep medication and ability to fall asleep quickly (sleep-initiation insomnia) are …
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16 MAR 2023 Recently, ZEME and Zhejiang Energy Group Industrial Research Institute released a new report entitled “Analysis and Prediction of Oil Price between High and Low Sulfur Marine Fuel and Economic Analysis of Installing Desulfurization System.” The report analyzes the trend of the oil price difference in the past three years, and …
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15 MAR 2023 A Saudi Arabian startup has set out to raise $300 million to invest in a new recycling facility that will be located in the commercial port of Al Jubail. Wreckdock Vessel Recycling announced that it intends to attract external capital through a share issue to invest in …
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