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| Shippers Vapores, Hapag-Lloyd clear hurdle to merger deal | 1 day 1 hour ago | | Added: Apr 22, 2014 07:58 |
| | A significant majority of shareholders in Chilean shipper Compania SudAmericana de Vapores VAP.SN lent their support to the firm's merger with Germany's Hapag-Lloyd HPLG.UL, allowing the agreed deal to clear a hurdle. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| NOAA releases Arctic Action Plan | 1 day 1 hour ago | | Added: Apr 22, 2014 07:48 |
| | Earlier this year, President Obama released a plan for moving forward on his national strategy to advance U.S. security and stewardship interests in the Arctic. Today, in keeping with the goals and tenets of his strategy, NOAA unveils its Arctic Action Plan—a document that provides NOAA scientists, stakeholders and partners a roadmap to make shared progress in monitoring, understanding, and protecting this vast, valuable, and vulnerable region. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Captain of Korean ferry may not have been on bridge | 5 days 1 hour ago | | Added: Apr 18, 2014 07:57 |
| | South Korea's coastguard denied that divers had entered a capsized ferry on Friday in a bid to locate any survivors from an accident that appears to have claimed the lives of hundreds of passengers, many of them schoolchildren. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| SRI welcomes MLC Amendments to Provide Greater Security for Crew | 5 days 1 hour ago | | Added: Apr 18, 2014 07:49 |
| | Seafarers Rights International has welcomed the strengthening of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) to give greater protection to crew against abandonment and in cases of claims for workplace death or long-term disability. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| SMM Istanbul Announces Dates for Next Convention | 5 days 2 hours ago | | Added: Apr 18, 2014 06:47 |
| | New concept, new momentum: SMM Istanbul (26/27 February 2014 in Istanbul) clearly had a lasting positive impact with exhibitors and visitors alike: "SMM Istanbul has blown plenty of sea wind into the sails of the Turkish shipbuilding industry. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Survivors still alive on South Korean ferry - father | 6 days 0 hours ago | | Added: Apr 17, 2014 08:57 |
| | Several people appear to have survived in an air pocket of a capsized South Korean ferry, the father of one of the school children aboard the boat told a Reuters reporter accompanying families out to the scene of the disaster on Thursday. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Programme calls for hostages to be remembered | 6 days 0 hours ago | | Added: Apr 17, 2014 08:54 |
| | The Chairman of a programme which offers support to seafarers and their families affected by maritime piracy, asked for those still being held hostage to be remembered when picking up an award this week. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Coast Guard monitoring damaged drilling rig in Gulf of Mexico | 6 days 0 hours ago | | Added: Apr 17, 2014 08:47 |
| | The Coast Guard is overseeing response efforts, Tuesday, for an offshore drilling rig that began taking on water into a ballast tank after a large wave hit them in heavy seas more than 100 miles south of Galveston. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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