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EGYPT WILL HOLD EVER GIVEN UNTIL DAMAGE CLAIM IS RESOLVED

12TH APRIL 2021  The container ship Ever Given is still anchored in Egypt’s Great Bitter Lake, weeks after salvors freed her from the banks of the Suez Canal – and she may not be leaving soon. The Suez Canal Authority’s top official told a local TV station last week that the vessel …

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ABANDONED HEAVY-LIFT VESSEL SUCCESSFULLY TOWED TO PORT

11 APRIL 2021  The four-day drama of the Dutch heavy-lift vessel abandoned and drifting towards the Norwegian coast came to a quiet end as the vessel was brought safely to port this afternoon. An emergency effort late last night secured a towline after airlifting the salvage crew to the deck …

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MSC BOXSHIP LOSES POWER IN NORTH PACIFIC DUE TO “BAD FUEL”

10 APRIL 2021  The 13,000 TEU container ship MSC Ariane temporarily lost power in the North Pacific due to a fuel quality issue, operator Mediterranean Shipping Company advised clients on Tuesday. “The container ship MSC Ariane, deployed on our Pearl service, had to stop at sea due to an engine issue due to bad …

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“ERROR 409: CONFLICT”, IT’S A MESSAGE YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN.

18 APRIL 2021  On June 27, 2017, during a sunny afternoon at its Copenhagen headquarters, global shipping titan A.P. Møller-Maersk, responsible for nearly 800 vessels, found its operations dead in the water in a matter of minutes. As reported by Wired magazine, within two hours the NotPetya or Nyetya, a …

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SCIENTISTS THINK WE CAN ‘DELAY’ THE AGING PROCESS, BUT HOW FAR CAN WE ACTUALLY GO?

17 APRIL 2021 As we get older, many changes happen to our body, we become frail, our hair turns white, and our skin wrinkles. We also become more susceptible to disease and may lose our cognitive abilities. Aging is generally considered an inevitable part of life, but can it be …

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DIGITAL CONNECTIONS, NEW TECHNOLOGIES ARE MULTIPLYING BENEFITS ON THE CONNECTED BRIDGE.

16 APRIL 2021  One of the many benefits of recent bridge improvements is that displays can now be replicated in real time on a hand-held tablet. All kinds of information – electronic log entries, task lists, monitoring the bridge from officers’ cabins, multitasking while in the ship’s public areas, sharing …

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‘PARENTAL BURNOUT’ IN THE US IS AMONG THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD, AND WE MAY KNOW WHY

15 APRIL 2021 Nobody ever said parenting was easy, but depending on circumstances, some people can find it much harder than others. In recent years researchers have begun to recognize ‘parental burnout‘ – a condition in which exhausted parents become overwhelmed by their role as primary carers, potentially leading to …

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EVERGREEN TO ORDER TWENTY 15,000 TEU CONTAINERSHIPS

14 APRIL 2021 Taiwanese shipping company Evergreen Marine Corporation (EMC) has announced plans to build twenty containerships of 15,000 TEU capacity each. The order was approved by the Board of Directors of Greencompass Marine SA, a Panamanian subsidiary of EMC. A handful of shipyards from China, Korea, and Japan have …

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CHILLING STORY OF THE ‘DEMON CORE’ AND THE SCIENTISTS WHO BECAME ITS VICTIMS

PETER DOCKRILL 13 APRIL 2021 It was August 13, 1945, and the ‘demon core’ was poised, waiting to be unleashed onto a stunned Japan still reeling in fresh chaos from the deadliest attacks anyone had ever seen. A week earlier, ‘Little Boy’ had detonated over Hiroshima, followed swiftly by ‘Fat Man’ in Nagasaki. These …

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VACCINATED AGAINST COVID-19, HERE’S WHAT YOU SHOULD AND SHOULDN’T DO

12 APRIL 2021 With a growing number of states rolling out vaccines to the general public, most US adults could get their hands on a shot by summer, if not sooner. So far, 29 percent of the US population has received a first dose. But until a majority of the country has been …

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