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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Maritime”

• Private security companies called in to combat Somali piracy - 2 Part

  
  Close Protection Forum and Surveillance Forum — Authority: 166
  HP Terra-Marine International Sister company of US-based Hollowpoint Protection . Its licensed by the Yemen government to operate from Yemeni ports. [Update, 15 September 2009: the CE of a British maritime security company told me that HP Terra-Marine are no longer trading.] Protection Vessels International ...
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• Some of the Private security companies called in to combat Somali piracy

  
  Close Protection Forum and Surveillance Forum — Authority: 166
  Private security companies called in to combat Somali piracy . With the surge in Somali piracy over the last 24 months or so, private security companies (PSCs) have been busy providing ship owners with security for vessel transits through the Gulf of Aden. As well as protecting vessels and crews against ...
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• Pakistan frees 100 Indian fishermen

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Amritsar, Dec 26 (IANS) Pakistan Saturday handed over 100 Indian fishermen, including nine children, to Indian authorities at the Attari-Wagah joint border checkpost, officials said.The fishermen, mostly residents of Gujarat, had mistakenly crossed the maritime border around three years ago and were caught by the ...
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• EPA Forces Ships to Clean Up

  
  Climate of Our Future — Authority: 126
  EarthJustice.orgCleaner fuel, less air pollution thanks to Earthjustice effortsDecember 22, 2009Oakland, CA — The EPA released a new rule that requires large ships registered in the US to reduce their air pollution. The new rule, signed by the head of EPA late last week, requires ships with large engines to switch ...
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• European Electoral Observers Due in Togo in January

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The first batch of European observers who will monitor the Togolese electoral process ahead of the 28 February presidential election is due in Lome in early January, a diplomatic source has told APA. “The first observers are due in Togo in early January and they will monitor the key step of the electoral ...
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• Pakistan releases 100 Indian fishermen

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Karachi, Dec.26 (ANI): Pakistan has finally released 100 out of the 629 Indian fishermen imprisoned in the Malir District Jail.The fishermen were to be released on Wednesday, but the process was delayed as Pakistani authorities said that the Indian government had told them to postpone the release.Sindh Jails Minister ...
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• Nine dead in ship fire off Venezuela: state media (Reuters)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  Reuters - Nine sailors died and five were injured in a Christmas Day ship fire off a Venezuelan Caribbean island, the official Venezuelan news agency ABN reported on Friday.
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• Snow, storms and seasickness.

  
  Tims Times — Authority: 103
  The picture is taken off the coast of Norway, Utsira to be precise and we had a hell of a night that went on and on. Rolling and sliding, the picture captures the moment fairly well. I wasn’t sick in the vomiting sense, but by Jaysus I was tired. Some of the boys were looking a bit green around the gills after the ...
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• Indian fisherman in Pakistani jail dies of cancer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) An Indian fisherman lodged in a Pakistani jail died of cancer Friday, officials said.The fisherman identified as Sukkan Koma was arrested for illegal fishing in Pakistani waters in 2006, jail officials in the Pakistani port city of Karachi said.The 50-year-old Indian had been provided every ...
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• 100 Indian fishermen released from Pakistani jails

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Gandhinagar, Dec 25 (IANS) A hundred out of the more than 600 Indian fishermen languishing in Pakistani jails were released Friday, an official of a fishermen’s organisation said.The fishermen, 95 of whom are from Gujarat, were released from Karachi jail, according to a communication received from the Pakistan ...
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• Alaska tug grounds, leaks diesel at Prince William Sound

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 435
  Tugboat meant to help prevent oil spill disasters in Prince William Sound runs aground leaking up to 35,000 gallons of dieselThe Pathfinder, a 136-foot tug with six crew, on its way back to port in Valdez grounded on Bligh Reef and radioed for help at 6:15 pm Wednesday, the Coast Guard said.The Pathfinder, a 136-foot ...
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• Merry xmas from the Arabian Sea

  
  Close Protection Forum and Surveillance Forum — Authority: 166
  To all my fellow Maritime operators: Merry Christmas and a happy new year where ever you are in the world. Stay safe TB:cool:
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• Daily Summary of Baltic Exchange Dry Indices 23 December 2009

  
  Ship Chartering — Authority: 119
  Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index , Baltic Dry Indices , Ship Chartering , Ship Charter , Shipchartering , Voyage Fixtures , Time Charter Fixtures , Panamax , Capesize , Handymax , Handysize , Supramax , Dry Cargo Fixtures , Bulk Cargo Fixtures , Baltic Exchange , Freight Review , Maritime Baltic Index , TNT Freight ...
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• Seoul keen on joint venture in shipbuilding

  
  Bangladesh Economic News — Authority: 145
  http://www.newagebd.com/2009/dec/25/busi.html#3 Seoul keen on joint venture in shipbuilding Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka South Korea is keen on investing in joint venture in Bangladesh’s promising shipbuilding industry. The interest was expressed when a delegation from South Korea led by its ambassador ...
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• EPA Gets Serious About Pollution from Large Ships

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 127
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has raised the standard for large U.S.- flagged ships with harmful marine diesel emissions.  The new regulation will bring the U.S. into accord with international standards and result in susbtantial air-quality improvements for the nation. “There are enormous health and ...
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• [100+ Pictures] Container Terminals Around The World ~~ High speed only ~~

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 178
  Hello there, Ive collected some pictures of container terminals around the world (mostly flickr.com). Hope youll enjoy them. still to come more
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• Indian vessel with 13 crew hijacked off Somalia

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Mumbai, Dec 24 (IANS) An Indian vessel with 13 Indian crew members was hijacked - for the second time in six months - Dec 16 by a gang of 8 to 9 pirates off Somalia, maritime officials said here Thursday.The vessel, M.S.V. Nefaya, was on a voyage from Kismaayo in Kenya to Sharjah carrying a [...]
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• Exhibition celebrates Aberdeen’s shipbuilding heritage

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 479
  Aberdeen Maritime Museum currently has an exhibit featuring the last Aberdeen shipbuilder; Hall, Russell & Co ; founded in 1864 which finally closed in 1992.  The firm was a partnership between James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and John Cardno Couper of Sussex. Initially the company ...
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• PNJ headline misleading

  
  ricksblog.biz — Authority: 133
  Received an email from Mort O’Sullivan on yesterday’s UWF Board of Trustees meeting concerning the Community Maritime Park. O’Sullivan writes that today’s PNJ headline (“Museum proposal rejected by UWF trustees”) is misleading. A more accurate description would be “UWF Trustees hear proposed compromise ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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