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How Global Logistics Is Working in Partnership to Cope With Future Catastrophe [VIDEO]

By On January 27, 2012

More than 250 million people each year are affected by natural disasters. The annual number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980 as a result of climate change, [...]

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Piper Alpha Disaster – Anniversary Of Tragedy In The North Sea

By On July 14, 2011

This week marks the 23th anniversary of the worst offshore oil disaster in history. The Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. [...]

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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill surpasses IXTOC I as worst oil spill in Gulf of Mexico’s history

By On July 1, 2010

Wait, the oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon blowout wasn’t previously the worst oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? That’s right.  As mentioned in gCaptain.com’s list of History’s [...]

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General Slocum Disaster: A look back at New York City’s worst maritime disaster

By On June 15, 2010

Today, June 15th 2010, marks the 104th aniversary of the General Slocum disaster, a twin-paddlewheel steamboat that caught fire and sank shortly after leaving Manhattan for a daytrip up the [...]

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Maritime Disasters Infographic

By On December 11, 2009

Check out this cool infographic on some of the worst maritime disasters on record.  This was sent into gCaptain via the good folks at the Boat Insurance Blog (click image [...]

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Pilotage Paradox – A Look Into The Cosco Busan Allision

By On September 17, 2008

Pilotage Paradox by Paul Drouin The Cosco Busan accident, as with many others that have the same root cause, can be categorized into what I call the pilotage paradox. For [...]

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Twitter Yourself From Disasters

By On January 21, 2008

If we only had one technology related wish for 2008 it would be that every mariner watched this video. Reminder: This is important people! FROM WIRED: While micro-messaging service Twitter [...]

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Emergency Housing – Repurposed Containers

By On October 23, 2007

Wired has an interesting article on portable emergency housing. Some of the ideas make use of shipping containers. The tell us; One of the biggest obstacles to emergency-shelter design is [...]

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