02 DEC 2020 For several years, Japan has been investing heavily in its diplomatic engagement with Indian Ocean island states and may now need to consider how to better extend that engagement to environmental security challenges. A recent environmental disaster in Mauritius caused by the grounding of a Japanese cargo …
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01 DEC 2020 As doctors observe a growing number of coronavirus patients, they have identified a few patterns in how typical symptoms progress. As many as 40 percent of coronavirus cases are asymptomatic, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. And 20 percent of symptomatic cases become severe or critical. Among patients …
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30 NOV 2020 After weeks of work and adjustment, salvors have finally finished cutting and lifting the first of eight sections of the wreck of the ro/ro Golden Ray in Georgia’s St. Simons Sound. The bow section was fully separated and hoisted on Saturday (28th Nov) morning, then deposited onto a deck barge …
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29 NOV 2020 Responders are continuing with the first cut in the salvage of the Golden Ray car carrier in St. Simons Sound, Georgia, the St. Simons Sound Incident Command said Wednesday in an update on the cutting process. The cutting of section one has now progressed through the keel, …
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28 NOV 2020 Four individuals have been charged in a scheme to sell phony US Coast Guard merchant mariner credentials, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. The grand jury indictment alleges that the scheme netted over $200,000 in profits from the production and sale …
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27 NOV 2020 Micro plastics, the residue of plastic in the ocean, are one of the challenges which environmentalists are looking to confront. In a first of its kind demonstration project, Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines in collaboration with the Miura Company have developed and tested a water filtration device to …
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