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24 AUG 2023 Container spot rates on the transatlantic came under renewed pressure this week, obliging ocean carriers to cut supply on the route by blanking more sailings. Moreover, in an attempt to reverse the trend and a new wave of rate erosion on the tradelane, carriers have announced FAK …

23 AUG 2023 A cargo of Iranian crude oil that was seized by the United States was unloading on Sunday after waiting two-and-a-half months off the coast of Texas to discharge, ship tracking data showed. Suez Rajan, a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker, has been anchored off Galveston, about 50 miles (80 km) outside of …

23 AUG 2023 The first international ship to break out of the Ukrainian seaports on the Black Sea arrived in Turkey around midnight on August 17 without incident. Ukrainian officials were calling the Black Sea transit a breakthrough while Turkey said it had warned Russia about further approaches to merchant …

22 AUG 2023  A false alarm that caused the main engine of a cargo ship to shut down and possibly highly humid weather conditions are blamed for a 2022 collision that caused $3.4 million of damages to two vessels transiting Sabine Pass in Texas according to a report released from the National …

21 AUG 2023 If you were told to do more exercise to lower your blood pressure, you might think you’d need break out you running gear or hit the weights. But one of us (Jamie) recently published research that found exercises that you hold in a static position, such as planks and …

20 AUG 2023 Billions of nanometer-wide particles can be released from plastic containers into the food they’re holding when they’re microwaved, a new study reveals. A team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the US ran experiments using baby food containers made from polypropylene and polyethylene, which are both approved as safe to use …

19 AUG 2023                         Bicep curls aren’t the only way to strengthen your arm muscles. A recent study demonstrates an effective alternative technique that achieves results after just three seconds of working out three times a week. That’s just 36 seconds of weight work over the course of a month, according …

18 AUG 2023 The first hours after a fireball sighting are like a detective mystery. Last night around midnight, people across Melbourne took to social media to report sightings of a bright light slowly streaking across the sky. Video footage clearly shows the fireball break apart, with these fragments in …

17 AUG 2023 In 2015, research on global forest cover revealed a concerning fact: 70 percent of the world’s remaining forest now lies within 1 kilometer of the forest’s edge. This process, called fragmentation, is causing the deepest and darkest parts of the world’s forests to shrink. Forest fragmentation is bad news …

16 AUG 2023 fire onboard the car carrier Fremantle Highway with the tragic loss of a seafarer has brought the debate surrounding the transport of electric vehicles (EVs) by sea into sharp focus. The Fremantle Highway, a pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) chartered by “K” Line, caught fire off the coast of the Netherlands …