03 JAN 2020 A UK court has sentenced four stowaways to long jail terms for threatening the crew of the con/ro Grande Tema off the Thames Estuary in 2018. The men were convicted of the crime of affray at London’s Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) last November. In December 2018, the defendants …
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02 JAN 2020 Over the last few years, the public narrative about the New Silk Road rail route has become increasingly grand. Conceptually, this route could be a kind of high-speed internet for the transport of physical goods; politically, it could boost China’s standing on the global stage. But as with …
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01 JAN 2020 Armed pirates have abducted eight mariners and injured another in an attack on a tanker off Cameroon, according to Greece’s shipping ministry. On Monday night, armed attackers came on board the product tanker Happy Lady at an anchorage about two nm off the Limboh Terminal in Cameroon. The pirates abducted one …
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31 DEC 2019 Crew members are often blamed for deaths in enclosed spaces. Human error; so it would seem. But, there are those in the industry who believe that others should be held accountable, that new action should be taken. In a submission readied for the IMO this year, the …
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30 DEC 2019 At this time on year, an airborne freight carrier vehicle powered by renewable energy comes into service and can actually provide a basis to consider low-energy airborne freight transportation for year-round commercial service. Lockheed Martin is developing a large, helium filled 21st century airship that has a …
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29 DEC 2019 Lupus is a potentially fatal autoimmune disorder that impacts roughly 5 million people worldwide, and yet it still has no known cause or cure. Today, most treatments come with a whole bunch of adverse side effects, and given how little we know, finding new avenues for medicine has …
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