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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09 APRIL 2021 One in three people who overcome COVID-19 suffer from a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis six months on, according to the largest study so far published on the mental toll that long-COVID takes on survivors. Authors said the research, printed Wednesday in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, proved that COVID-19 patients were significantly …
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08 APRIL 2021 The Suez Canal Authority is contemplating the possibility of widening the southern section of the waterway, the agency’s chairman told Reuters on Tuesday. The canal is a critical maritime chokepoint, and last month’s boxship grounding showed a unique vulnerability: the 400-meter-long Ever Given straddled the canal’s entire width, halting …
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07 APRIL 2021 The Norwegian Coastal Authority is continuing to monitor the situation with the abandon Dutch heavy-lift vessel adrift in a storm off the coast of Norway. While the situation may have improved, they continued to warn that the ship is in danger of capsizing and causing an environmental …
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11 APRIL 2021 Sembcorp Marine in Singapore recently delivered the first Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) using liquefied natural gas which will be used to uses to provide a cleaner, environmental solution while providing electricity in West Africa. The vessel, known as the Karmol LNGT Africa will be operated by KARMOL, a …
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10 APRIL 2021 The six-day blockage of the Suez Canal by a megaship named Ever Given came to an end on March 29 after salvage teams used dredging and tug boats to heave the vessel back into operation. The capacity of a single vessel to block one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors, creating a …
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09 APRIL 2021 One of the new technologies that is being developed is looking at how unmanned vessels can be used to expand capabilities and increase safety for the operators. A Singapore-based company, Zycraft, announced that it has developed unmanned fireboats. According to the company, the market potential for small …
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08 APRIL 2021 Suez Crisis Highlights the Fragility of the Global Supply Chain. First came the pandemic of 2020, roiling shipping and disrupting the supply chains in and out of China before spreading out to the rest of the world. Then came one of the biggest hurdles the logistics industry …
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07 APRIL 2021 A huge container ship blocking one of the world’s busiest waterways has done little to deter shipping companies from ordering similarly mega-sized vessels. Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering and Samsung Heavy Industries — two of the world’s three biggest shipbuilders — announced they’d won orders worth a …
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02 APR 2021 Beijing has long understood that China has a water-security problem that could pose an existential threat. In 2005, China’s minister for water resources reportedly said, “To fight for every drop of water or die: that is the challenge facing China.” Former premier Wen Jiabao observed that water shortages threaten “the very survival …
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