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Friday, June 12, 2015
The New Silk Road – China’s Answer for Europe’s Needs
News

The New Silk Road – China’s Answer for Europe’s Needs

Although Budapest and Beijing are separated by 6,000 miles, they've just agreed to become much closer. In a quiet ceremony held last weekend, Hungary became

June 12, 2015
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Pacific Drilling Emerges as Deepwater Takeover Target
Maritime News

Pacific Drilling Emerges as Deepwater Takeover Target

Pacific Drilling SA, an offshore oil-rig contractor, is gaining notice as a takeover

June 12, 2015
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Chevron Completes Its Largest-Ever Seismic Survey Off Australia
Maritime News

Chevron Completes Its Largest-Ever Seismic Survey Off Australia

Chevron Corp. is studying data from its largest-ever seismic survey to decide where to drill for oil in an untapped frontier off southern

June 12, 2015
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Thursday, June 11, 2015
NASA Visible Earth: Falkland Islands
News

Cameron “Robustly Defended” Britain’s Ownership Of Falkland Islands

[contextly_sidebar id=”x6Pv4wanLtS0EiIyFmfgmyZqTom96gtR”](Bloomberg) U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez

June 11, 2015
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Vale Says Iron to Tighten as China Buys More and Sells Less
Maritime News

Vale Says Iron to Tighten as China Buys More and Sells Less

(Bloomberg) The global iron-ore market is set to tighten in the second half of the year as China imports more and produces less, according to the biggest

June 10, 2015
Total Views: 5

Chevron Hunts for Answers on Billion Dollar Rig Fail
Offshore

Chevron Hunts for Answers on Billion Dollar Rig Fail

(Bloomberg) An equipment failure that’s delayed Chevron Corp.’s $5.1 billion Big Foot deepwater oil project will reduce the company’s

June 10, 2015
Total Views: 67

USS Gerald R. Ford
Navy

Delaying Shock Tests on Costliest Ship Ever

The Navy should conduct combat shock tests on its new aircraft carrier that could disclose serious vulnerabilities in the costliest U.S. war ship ever

June 10, 2015
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Karpowership Electric Barge
Engineering News

Namibia Explorers Barge-Based Electric Power Plants

Namibia is exploring the option of using barges with power plants to help plug an electricity shortage that may reach 300 megawatts in the next two years,

June 9, 2015
Total Views: 132

Blog

This Amazing Cloud Proves Climate Change

by Brian K Sullivan (Bloomberg) In a few weeks, you may get to see evidence the atmosphere is changing — if you’re lucky.This when noctilucent

June 9, 2015
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Monday, June 8, 2015
apm terminals
Maritime News

Maersk Targets Ports in Africa Expansion Push

A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s largest shipping container line, is seeking to win contracts to build and upgrade ports in Nigeria and Kenya as

June 8, 2015
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Sunday, June 7, 2015
gulf oil spill
Maritime News

Ex-BP Executive Acquitted of Lying About Size of 2010 Gulf Oil Spill

The highest-ranking BP Plc executive charged in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was found not guilty of lying to investigators in a blow to prosecutors as

June 7, 2015
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Friday, June 5, 2015
BG Deal Lifts EIG-Backed Brazil Port Venture to 7-Month High
Maritime News

BG Deal Lifts EIG-Backed Brazil Port Venture to 7-Month High

by Juan Pablo Spinetto (Bloomberg) Prumo Logistica SA, the Brazilian port developer controlled by private equity investors EIG Global Energy Partners LLC, rose

June 5, 2015
Total Views: 5

Pentagon Buyer Backs $4 Billion Huntington Carrier Contract
Navy

Pentagon Buyer Backs $4 Billion Huntington Carrier Contract

(Bloomberg) The Pentagon’s top weapons buyer has approved awarding Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. a contract valued at as much as $4 billion to start

June 5, 2015
Total Views: 464

Thursday, June 4, 2015
Maritime News

Carnival CEO Wants ‘Voluntourists”

by Chris Palmeri (Bloomberg) Carnival Corp., the world’s largest cruise-line operator, is introducing a new brand, fathom, aimed at customers who want to

June 4, 2015
Total Views: 10

vlcc supertanker
News

U.S. Crude Oil Exports Add to Global Glut

by Lynn Doan (Bloomberg) For a nation that bans most oil exports, the U.S. still finds a way to ship more abroad than at least two OPEC members. The shale

June 4, 2015
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Aquino Says Asia Tensions Remind Him of Pre-War Nazi Germany
News

Aquino Says Asia Tensions Remind Him of Pre-War Nazi Germany

(Bloomberg) Philippine President Benigno Aquino said the situation in Asia reminds him of the international community’s failure to contain Nazi Germany

June 3, 2015
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Cruise Ship Capsize, China Confirms Force 12 Tornado
Lifesaving Incidents

Cruise Ship Capsize, China Confirms Force 12 Tornado

by Zhe Huang (Bloomberg) Chinese Premier Li Keqiang ordered an investigation into why a the cruise ship Eastern Star, carrying more than 450 people, capsized

June 3, 2015
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
News

What’s OPEC Going to Do With Iran’s Million Barrels a Day?

by Anthony Dipaola & Grant Smith (Bloomberg) Just when it looked like OPEC was winning the war with U.S. shale-oil drillers, a new front is opening up

June 2, 2015
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News

Shipwreck Hunter Explores 5 Vessels on Atlantic Seabed

  by Sonja Elmquist (Bloomberg) A U.S. salvage company that has recovered precious metals from miles below the surface of the Atlantic over more than two

June 2, 2015
Total Views: 22

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News

U.S. Alerted In Brazil’s Offshore Bribery Scandal

by Sabrina Valle (Bloomberg) Prosecutors investigating Brazil’s largest corruption scandal say they notified the U.S. Department of Justice of evidence that

June 2, 2015
Total Views: 175
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