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Farm Bill, Food Aid And U.S. Shipping Changes
2013-11-18 21:48:00| Beef
David Bennett for Delta Farm Press While a handful of issues chief among them nutrition program funding, regional crop support differences, and dairy policy are proving difficult to find middle ground on, the ongoing farm bill conference must also deal with international food aid reform. With the humanitarian crises in Syria and the Philippines looming large, everyone in the debate remain keen to feed the worlds hungry but how the U.S. will do that in the future is in the balance. read more
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Diana Shipping Inc. Announces Time Charter Contract for M/V P. S. Palios With RWE
2013-11-15 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
ATHENS, Greece — Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE:DSX), (the "Company"), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of dry bulk vessels, today announced that it has entered into a time charter contract with RWE Supply & Trading GmbH, Essen, Germany, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, for one of its Capesize dry bulk vessels, the m/v "JK Pioneer" (to be renamed "P. S. Palios"). The gross charter rate is US$18,350 per day, minus a 5% commission paid to third parties, for a ...This story is related to the following:Storage Vessels | Shipping Containers
Shipping companies becoming more environmentally friendly: HSH Nordbank survey
2013-11-14 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Domestic and international shipping companies are becoming more environment-friendly and are constructing new modern eco-ships, while retrofitting existing ships to make them more efficient, according to a market survey by HSH Nordbank.
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Giant Antarctic iceberg could pose hazard to shipping lanes, scientists warn
2013-11-13 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A giant Antarctic iceberg has broken free of the continent and could be about to drift into busy international shipping lanes, a team of British scientists has warned. The Government has awarded experts with an emergency grant of 50,000 to fund a six-month project in which they will try to track the progress of the ice and predict its movements. The University of Sheffields Professor Grant Bigg, a leading authority on modelling the dynamics of icebergs, is heading up the investigation that...
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Iceberg the size of Singapore could threaten shipping lanes as researchers race to track it
2013-11-13 12:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: An iceberg which is estimated to be around the size of Manhattan or Singapore could threaten shipping if it drifts into busy international lanes. UK researchers have now been given an emergency grant to track the iceberg which is approximately 270 square miles in size. The giant block of ice broke away from the Pine Island Glacier in July but it was iced-in due to the freezing winter temperatures in Antarctica. While the iceberg could move eastwards along the Antarctic coast, it could also...
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