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Global Risk Insights
February 9, 2018
On August 17th last year, the Christophe de Margerie, a blue and white tanker ship, traveled via the Northern Sea Route (NSR) from Norway to South Korea in a record six days, twelve hours, and fifteen minutes, becoming the first merchant vessel to travel the route without an icebreaker escort. The voyageÃÂ ...
CBS News
January 17, 2018
BEIJING -- China is preparing to send a robot submarine possibly followed by divers to explore and plug holes in a sunken Iranian tanker whose 32 crew members are all believed to have died, the Transport Ministry said Wednesday. No timeline was given from the deployment, although the ShanghaiÃÂ ...
China Radio International
January 16, 2018
Kaugnay nito, ipinahayag kahapon, Enero 15, 2018 ni Lu Kang, Tagapagsalita ng Ministring Panlabas ng Tsina ang pakikiramay sa mga biktima at kanilang pamilya. Nakahanda aniya ang Tsina na pahigpitin ang pakikipagpalitan sa Iran para maayos na lutasin ang mga may-kinalamang bagay,ÃÂ ...
Brisbane Times
January 16, 2018
A man on a bicycle is mirrored in a puddle in downtown Frankfurt. Photo: AP. 9/10. People walk past a frozen fountain Monday at a park in Kansas City, Missouri. Photo: AP. 10/10. Aa boat moves through an oil slick on the surface of the East China Sea left by oil leaking from the sunken Iranian tanker shipÃÂ ...
GoKunming (blog)
January 16, 2018
The biggest news coming out of China in the first two weeks of January took the form of an enormous environmental catastrophe. In the East China Sea, 250 kilometers off the coast of Shanghai, the Iranian tanker ship Sanchi burst into flames on the sixth day of the month after colliding with an AmericanÃÂ ...
Herald Sun
January 16, 2018
Several oil slicks have been found in waters around a sunken Iranian tanker ship in the East China Sea from a growing spill. The State Oceanic Administration says oil slicks around the site of the sunken ship are much larger than the previous day. It says a 15-kilometre-long oil slick was found southwest ofÃÂ ...
Youngstown Vindicator
January 16, 2018
Several oil slicks have been found in waters around a sunken Iranian tanker ship in the East China Sea in a spill that is growing. The State Oceanic Administration said late Monday oil slicks around the site of the sunken ship were much larger than the previous day. It says a 9-mile-long oil slick was foundÃÂ ...
CBS News
January 15, 2018
BEIJING -- The fire from a sunken Iranian tanker ship in the East China Sea has burned out, a Chinese transport ministry spokesman said Monday, although concerns remain about possible major pollution to the sea bed and surrounding waters. The spokesman, who identified himself only by his surname,ÃÂ ...
Stuff.co.nz
January 14, 2018
The fire from a sunken Iranian tanker ship in the East China Sea has burned out, a Chinese transport ministry spokesman said on Monday, although concerns remain about possible major pollution to the sea bed and surrounding waters. The spokesman, who identified himself only by his surname, Zhao,ÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
January 13, 2018
The recent deep freeze in the East and Midwest made energy history, the Trump administration said Friday. More natural gas was taken out of storage to feed demand during the two-week polar freeze than ever before, as drilling fields froze from Pennsylvania to Texas, the Energy Department said Friday.
MassLive.com
December 31, 2017
"We have the technology." Eiseman noted that the Jones Act, a federal law, prevents a Boston shipping terminal from receiving liquefied natural gas deliveries from domestic producers in Texas and Louisiana. LNG shipments come into Boston via tanker ships from overseas locations such as Trinidad andÃÂ ...
Republican Journal
December 29, 2017
Photo by: Ethan Andrews Chemical Pioneer, a 662-foot chemical tanker ship, delivers caustic soda to Mack Point terminal in Searsport Dec. 20. Dec. 8. Great Eastern, a 600-foot Irving Oil tanker, arrived at Mack Point from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, and delivered gasoline and diesel fuel.
Williams Lake Tribune
December 28, 2017
In the south, a tanker ship was attempting to anchor and contacted an underground cable, resulting in an outage to 2,000 customers on the southern Gulf Islands. “Outages can be unpredictable,” said the spokesperson. “ That's why BC Hydro encourages customers to be prepared for power outages byÃÂ ...
Supply Chain Digest
December 19, 2017
SCDigest reported earlier this year on the tests my container shipping giant Maersk and others on what might be called "vertical sails" - with news that a Maersk tanker ship will be fitted with two large vertical rotor sails (they look like tall cylinders) as part of a project seeking to test wind propulsionÃÂ ...
Radio New Zealand
December 13, 2017
The Navy will be without a tanker ship for at least two years when HMNZS Endeavour is decommissioned. Navy's Endeavour returns home after its last long-term deployment. It will be decommissioned. Navy's Endeavour returning home after the last long-term deployment. Photo: RNZ/ Brad White. After 30ÃÂ ...
Crain's New York Business
December 7, 2017
There are few better examples of how weird and wonderful oil shipping and trading can be: diesel that left China almost three months ago is going to reach New York any moment now. The Flagship Tulip will reach America's key East Coast port later on Thursday, according to a signal from the vessel earlierÃÂ ...
Lake Expo
November 7, 2017
Some things you just can't power through, no matter how big your engines are. The video was posted by the coastal news site, The State Port Pilot, which credits the video to someone's backyard security camera. The ship ran around on Saturday, according to the post. The post does not say if anyone wasÃÂ ...
Chron.com
July 22, 2017
A tanker crew rescued five people from the ocean after their boat capsized Saturday 12 miles off the coast of Galveston, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Overseas Texas City crew alerted the Coast Guard to the overturned boat around 12:45 p.m., then launched its own rescue craft and pulled theÃÂ ...
News Heads
December 31, 1999
New Delhi : The Ministry of External Affairs has informed that an oil tanker ship with 22 Indians on-board has gone missing from coast of Benin in the Gulf of Guinea. MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar in a tweet said, "A merchant vessel Marine Express (oil tanker), owned by Mumbai-based Anglo-EasternÃÂ ...
The MediTelegraph
December 31, 1999
China shipbuilders received 198 of the orders, compared to 112 for South Korea, which, one shouldn't forget, is the world's largest builder of both tanker ships, as well as and the largest categories of container carriers. The market is dominated by three big players in the sector: China (48% of total orders,ÃÂ ...
The New Indian Express
December 31, 1999
No big oil spill found after tanker-ship collusion: China. By PTI | Published: 09th January 2018 09:56 PM |. Last Updated: 09th January 2018 10:57 PM | A+A A- |. In this image from video run by China's CCTV shows the Panama-registered tanker 'Sanchi' is seen ablaze after a collision with a Hong Kong-registered freighterÃÂ ...
Delta-Optimist
December 31, 1999
A tanker ship was attempting to anchor and contacted an underground cable, resulting in an outage to 2,000 customers on the southern Gulf Islands. Outages can be unpredictable. That's why BC Hydro encourages customers to be prepared for power outages by having a well-stocked emergency kit thatÃÂ ...
The Port Arthur News
December 7, 2017
Percy G. Williams, passed away Tuesday, December 5, 2017. He was born in Mobile Alabama, and was a chief steward for major oil tanker ships. He is preceded in death by his mother Ruby Erwin Williams; brothers, Wilma Williams, Clarence Evans, Althonse Erwin; sons, Percy George Williams Jr; Jessie ...
Crain's New York Business
December 7, 2017
There are few better examples of how weird and wonderful oil shipping and trading can be: diesel that left China almost three months ago is going to reach New York any moment now. The Flagship Tulip will reach America's key East Coast port later on Thursday, according to a signal from the vessel earlier ...
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
December 6, 2017
He said his company would invest US$8 million in tugboats, barges, a floating loading facility and the expansion of its mother vessel and tanker ships in the first quarter of 2018. In addition to its coal shipping business, PSSI also planned to diversify its freight business and transport palm oil, he added.
CBC.ca
December 5, 2017
"I was excited by the news that we're not going to have this level of industrial activity in the Saanich Inlet," Olsen told On the Island host Gregor Craigie. Olsen said community opposition to the proposed LNG plant included pollution concerns and the opposition to running loaded tanker ships past residential ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 28, 2017
Justice Baer later asked Mr. Byer to consider the example of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska as a one-day rupture in the tanker ship that created an environmental disaster. “Under your interpretation,” he said, “it would be a $10,000 fine.” Mr. Byer agreed, but said it is for the Legislature to change ...
EURACTIV
November 24, 2017
Pessimists now see the big tanker ship slowly running aground. The protracted government-forming process is already casting its shadow and dampening expectations regarding the December EU summit. Some Brexiters see Merkel's weakness as a window of opportunity to push for advantages in the exit negotiations.
Mental Floss
November 23, 2017
Hess released the toy again in 1965, and then introduced the Voyager Tanker Ship in 1966. For the next 50 years, hardly a year went by without Hess issuing a new vehicle that stood up to heavy play and offered quality and features comparable to the “real” toys on store shelves. Incredibly, fathers would ...
NBC Bay Area
November 12, 2017
The original call was relayed to the Coast Guard from Richmond police at about 7:25 p.m., reporting a crew member aboard the Argent Sunrise tanker ship was dead, the Coast Guard said. Investigators were at the scene along Canal Boulevard, and no further details were available. The Argent Sunrise is a ...
Times of India
November 8, 2017
CHENNAI: The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal on Wednesday ordered the Tamil Nadu fisheries department to submit within a fortnight its reply on paying compensation to a section of fishermen affected by oil leak from a tanker ship off the Ennore port near Chennai in January this year.
Lake Expo
November 7, 2017
Some things you just can't power through, no matter how big your engines are. The video was posted by the coastal news site, The State Port Pilot, which credits the video to someone's backyard security camera. The ship ran around on Saturday, according to the post. The post does not say if anyone was ...
BZ Weekly
October 31, 2017
... and/or operating of tanker ships, container ships, specialty chemical ships and ships that transport liquid natural gas (LNG) or dry bulk goods.
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
October 31, 2017
In this context, it may be noted that liquid cargo in bulk is carried by tanker ships, which are specially designed, considering safety requirements ...
Jagran Josh
October 31, 2017
Till date, Larsen and Toubro have delivered six refit defence ships including the largest logistics tanker ship INS Jyoti from the shipyard.
Greek Reporter
October 24, 2017
Greece's control of international waters in regards to tanker ships is growing, as the largest fleet globally has also shown the greatest ...
StopFake.org
October 22, 2017
... ran a story last week claiming that a tanker ship carrying American coal destroyed a pier in a port near Odesa, forcing the entire port to close ...
Afloat
October 12, 2017
Command and tanker ship Somme in Toulon. The Mediterranean port is one of several bases of the French Navy. Photo: Yannick Auberger /Â ...
Ferret
October 10, 2017
AMS Instrumentation and Calibration has introduced a new oxygen analyser from Analytical Industries Inc. (AII) designed for use in marine ...
New Straits Times Online
October 3, 2017
"It is just like a big tanker ship that will need quite a distance to make a turn ... "You cannot simply turn the tanker ship upon reaching the port.
Kathimerini
September 12, 2017
Greece's merchant marine minister says clean-up crews are working to contain pollution caused by a small tanker that sank over the weekend off a Greek island. The Agia Zoni II sank Sunday while anchored off the coast of Salamina, near Greece's main port of Piraeus, with a cargo of 2,200 tons of fuel oil ...
Middletown Press and Journal
December 31, 1999
The oldest ones are worth several thousand dollars a piece today, such as the 1966 Hess tanker ship, Spadone said. His collection includes some of the most unusual Hess toys offered over the years, like the helicopters, the space shuttles, the biplane from 2002 and the 2003 18-wheeler that carried two ...
The Daily Freeman
December 31, 1999
... legislation that protects the Hudson River from barges and tanker ships that carry dangerous petroleum-based products and other hazardous ...
Economic Times
December 31, 1999
Till date, Larsen and Toubro had delivered six refit defence ships including the largest logistics tanker ship INS Jyoti from the shipyard.
NBC New York
September 22, 2017
NYPD officers flew nearly 20 miles offshore to rescue a man who had fallen from a tanker ship. Marc Santia reports. (Published Thursday, Sept.
Lynchburg News and Advance
September 21, 2017
Their tanker ship, the Lassaia, was carrying oil pumped into it from the wreck of the Agia Zoni II tanker, which sank on Sept. 10 while anchoredÃÂ ...
Novinite.com
September 21, 2017
China's world's largest new-generation ore tanker in the world was dropped out of the shipyard in Qingdao (east Shandong province). Thus, asÃÂ ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
September 19, 2017
Railway tank cars are photographed in Richmond, Calif, on Friday. A group of environmental agencies has filed a lawsuit against the Bay AreaÃÂ ...
Sun Sentinel
September 13, 2017
Tanker ships arrived at reopened Port Everglades and began ... Jenkins said tanker ship deliveries have resumed at four of five Florida fuelÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 8, 2017
Harvey also delayed tankers from leaving Texas and Louisiana refineries for Florida ports, and now Hurricane Irma is blocking tanker shipsÃÂ ...
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