What happened to the Costa Concordia revealed by AIS

Costa Concordia on the rocksNOTE:  if you go to the Log of Wendaway this story will make more sense, because it has a live map of the last moments of the doomed ship. I cannot figure out how to get the photos here. It is different these days.CNN quotes an Italian...

Container Terminal

Container terminal at Cantonment port, Singapore.Source: Image of the day by Schah

Jamaican Naval forces attack Honduran fishermen. Killing Captain.

A major diplomatic row could be unfolding between Jamaica and Honduras due to an indecent which occurred last Friday night in an unconfirmed sea zone between the two Nations. The incedent left the Captain of the ship Miss Annat, Harley Benles...

New sanctions cripple Iran shipping

USA and UN are at war with Iran over nuclear development and lack of cooperation and transparency. Sanctions have kicked in and without proper insurance coverage, Iran shippers are stuck in harbor. " “New...

India shipping firms seek new anti-pirate strategy

India, whose merchant navy has frequently been attacked off the coast of conflict-torn impoverished Somalia, has a warship in Gulf of Aden as part of global efforts to tackle piracy in one of the world's riskiest shipping routes.

SHIPS FIGHT BACK AGAINST PIRATES - New Anti-Piracy System

Recently, a maritime security company, IMSN, conducted system testing of a not-lethal Anti-Piracy System including safety drills with crewmembers onboard the Horizon, a US flagged container ship operator...

Dear John (USPS)

Dear John USPS, the last thing i have time for right now is a blog entry, and yet here it is. in two days i'll be moving, and so it was, at one of the worst possible times, that i sold a dvd on amazon. don't get me...

Minister Baird announces Oshawa Port Authority

On May 21, 2009, Transport Minister John Baird announced his long-awaited decision about the future of the Oshawa Harbour: the Oshawa Harbour Commission is to become the Oshawa Port Authority. It is a surprising...

Philippine tourist traffic up despite global crisis-- DOT

With DOT's target of 3.5 million tourist arrivals this year and five million by 2010, the industry must expand total capacity in terms of physical infrastructure, room accommodations and manpower... "Local...

50 years of the St. Lawrence Seaway

This summer, the St. Lawrence Seaway turns fifty.  Over the last half-century, the Seaway has shaped the Great Lakes and its communities in ways perhaps unexpected when it was first opened to international...

ContainR : Solarpowered Mobile Cinema

My friends are doing this project. They've curated a programme of sports art films and are screening them in a custom built solar powered mobile cinema made from reconstituted shipping containers. It will be located...

Dell Reduces Packaging, Not People

Computer company Dell has launched a plan to save about $8.1 million in the next four years by changing the way their computer and parts are packaged and shipped - the new packaging will be made from recycled...

Iran test-fires new surface-to-surface missile

The Iranian military on Sunday test-fired a new surface-to-surface missile from a warship as part exercises along a strategic shipping route."Iran's military test-fired a new surface-to-surface missile from a warship as part of exercises along a strategic shipping route,...

Palin backs sending U.S. natural gas overseas

Sarah Palin tells campaign audiences the United States needs to become energy independent, produce what we use and use what we produce."But the Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate has pushed the...

Kite-Powered Cargo Ship: US Navy Sets Sail, Literally

The US navy chartered the MV Beluga to deliver US military cargo from Europe to the States. The Beluga is a kite-assisted ship, equipped with a gigantic parachute-like wind capture device to help it save on...
 

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