14 JULY 2020 A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died while dismantling an oil tanker at a ship-breaking yard in 2018 can file a negligence claim against a British company involved in the vessel’s sale, London’s High Court ruled this week. Khalil Mollah, 32, fell to his death while working on …
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13 JULY 2020 A three-alarm fire erupted on Sunday aboard a U.S. warship docked at Naval Base San Diego, prompting an evacuation of the vessel and sending about 18 sailors to the hospital with minor injuries, Navy and local fire officials said. The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department reported an explosion …
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11 JULY 2020 With the containership charter market in the doldrums, demolition sales have picked up, with reports of a number of vessel sales. Among them is the 1998-built 9,600 teu Sine Maersk (pictured above), which has been sold to Turkish breakers and will become the largest containership ever sent …
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10 JULY 2020 The coronavirus doesn’t just target our lungs. A growing body of research shows that COVID-19 is linked to potentially fatal brain damage and neurological problems. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Brain, some coronavirus patients experience brain swelling that’s accompanied by episodes of delirium. Other patients develop nervous-system disorders like Guillain-Barré …
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09 JULY 2020 Slashing greenhouse gas emissions would probably not yield visible results until mid-century, researchers have said, cautioning that humanity must manage its expectations in the fight against global warming. Even under optimistic scenarios in which carbon pollution falls sharply, climate change will continue for decades, they reported Tuesday in the …
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08 JUL 2020 On Tuesday night, the livestock carrier Talia finally received permission to transfer 50 rescued migrants to the custody of Maltese immigration officials. The Talia was on a ballast voyage off Libya on Saturday when she diverted to rescue 52 migrants in a drifting boat. A surveillance plane operated by rescue NGO …
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07 JULY 2020 The Earth’s magnetic field flips, every few hundred thousand years or so on average, which means magnetic north becomes magnetic south and vice versa (the planet doesn’t actually turn upside down). New research suggests this change of direction can happen up to 10 times faster than previously …
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06 JULY 2020 Authorities in an autonomous region in northern China have issued a health warning after a local farmer contracted the bubonic plague. A herdsman was reportedly in a stable condition after having been confirmed to have caught the disease on Sunday, according to the New York Times. Health officials in …
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04 JUL 2020 Djibouti has carried out the first crew change of merchant sailors in its territory and is ready to get home more seafarers who have been stranded by the coronavirus, a senior port official said. Lying on the Bab al-Mandab strait, which is one of the world’s busiest …
Read More »03 JUL 2020 A cargo vessel was the latest target of pirates in the waters off Benin. This attack came just one day after reports of an even more brazen attack on a vessel in the oil fields in the Gulf of Guinea. In the latest incident, security firm Dryad …
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