All posts tagged "shipping"

• NTSB: El Faro audio includes captain’s abandon ship order

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The captain of the doomed freighter El Faro ordered his crew to abandon ship about 10 hours after leaving a Florida port and becoming caught in a hurricane last year, audio from the sunken ship’s...

  • Posted August 24, 2016
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  Chinese Gov’t Imposes Anti-Zika Regulations to US Exporters

  China has reported some 12 cases of the Zika virus infection since the disease was first detected in February

  • Posted August 17, 2016
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  El Faro ‘black box’ recovered from 15K-feet beneath the sea

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla – Search crews have retrieved the “black box” from the wreckage of the freighter El Faro that sank in 15,000-feet of water near the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin last year, officials said Tuesday. Using a remotely...

  • Posted August 9, 2016
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  Panama Canal Opens $5B Locks

  Bullish despite shipping woes

  • Posted June 26, 2016
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  A Look at the Panama Canal and its Newly Expanded Locks

  New Panamax-class vessels can reach 1,200 feet long

  • Posted June 26, 2016
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  NTSB Schedules Mission to Retrieve El Faro’s ‘Black Box’

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Investigators are launching a new effort next month to retrieve the “black box” of a freighter that sank last October with 33 crew members on board. The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday said...

  • Posted June 6, 2016
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  Houston, We Have a Problem

  Could ‘space without borders’ conference contain the answer to Ignite Puerto Rico’s economy?

  • Posted May 19, 2016
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  Ex-Ship Captain Says He Was Fired after Airing Safety Fears

  Sailed El Faro's sister ship, El Morro

  • Posted May 17, 2016
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  Testimony: El Faro Captain Planned to ‘Shoot Under’ Storm

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The captain of the doomed freighter El Faro told a colleague just before the ship’s final voyage that he was aware of a storm brewing at sea, but that he had a plan to...

  • Posted May 16, 2016
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  Not Yet Open, New Panama Canal locks Already Have a Waiting List

  Ceremony planned June 26 for first commercial transit of new locks

  • Posted May 3, 2016