04 JULY 2024 Italian authorities for the second time in a little over a year have issued a detention order to a German-operated rescue boat that became famous because of its funding by British street artist “Banksy.” The group’s vessel Louse Michel had just returned to sea after a long …
Read More »COLLISION WITH DANUBE RIVER CRUISE SHIP KILLS TWO AND LEAVES FIVE MISSING
20 MAY 2024 Hungarian police are continuing to scour the Danube near Budapest after a river cruise ship and a small pleasure boat apparently collided overnight. They recovered two bodies from the river and are looking for five people who are reported missing while also interviewing the sole survivor. The …
Read More »HERE’S WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE KEY BRIDGE COLLAPSE From CNN staff
29 MAR 2024 Officials recovered the bodies of two construction workers who were on Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge when it collapsed early Tuesday morning after a 984-foot-long cargo ship collided into a pillar. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore called the collapse Wednesday “a global crisis.” “The national economy and the world’s economy depends on the Port …
Read More »AUSTRALIA MOVES TO STRENGTHEN SAFETY RULES FOR OFFSHORE OIL WORKERS
21 FEB 2024 Australia’s Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Madeleine King has introduced legislation to strengthen laws governing the safety of people who work on the nation’s offshore oil and gas projects. This bill follows a recent review of the offshore safety regime by the Department of Industry, Science and …
Read More »VIRTUAL WATCH TOWER: A PUBLIC GOOD
07 DEC 2023 Building the new economy revolves around data, internet-of-things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and federated computing. The shipper-driven, terminal-centric Virtual Watch Tower / VWT (www.virtualwatchtower.org) is a federated computing initiative, created around fourth-generation logistics control towers of operational end-to-end logistics and supply chain monitoring (VWTnet). This results …
Read More »STRANGE MATHEMATICAL PATTERN FOUND IN THE CELLS OF THE HUMAN BODY
01 OCT 2023 From the oxygen-carrying corpuscles in our blood to the branching neurons that govern our thoughts, our body is built of a dazzling variety of cells. Researchers from institutions in Germany, Canada, Spain, and the US have published a comprehensive study of how many individual cells of each …
Read More »STICKY CASE OF INDONESIA, SEIZED IRANIAN OIL TANKER, AND LEGAL JURISDICTION
20 SEPT 2023 An intercepted ship-to-ship transfer raises a series of interlinked questions about sanctions, pollution and the reach of international law. The two giant freighters floated “dark” in the open ocean not far from Indonesia. Their positioning transponders switched off, neither tanker displayed a national flag – but …
Read More »CREWMEMBER KILLED AS BURNING CAR CARRIER IS EVACUATED IN THE NORTH SEA
01 AUG 2023 Dutch authorities are leading the response after a car carrier caught fire off the northern coast of The Netherlands around midnight on July 25. As the fire continued to spread, the decision was made to evacuate the ship. One crewmember was killed and several others injured at …
Read More »MAJOR ALZHEIMER’S TRIAL SHOWS NEW DRUG CAN SLOW DISEASE PROGRESSION
29 JULY 2023 Results of an 18-month trial led by US pharmaceutical producer Eli Lilly have shown its new Alzheimer’s drug can delay the progression of the disease by up to 35.1 percent. That means across the trial certain patients had their decline slowed down by 4.4 to 7.5 months. It’s expected that …
Read More »SOLAR FARMS OUT AT SEA ARE CLEAN ENERGY’S NEXT BREAKTHROUGH
21 JULY 2023 Buffeted by waves as high as 10 meters (32 feet) in China’s Yellow Sea about 30 kilometers off the coast of Shandong province, two circular rafts carrying neat rows of solar panels began generating electricity late last year, a crucial step toward a new breakthrough for clean energy. The experiment by State Power …
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