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Shipping Costs Have Plunged So Hard, Companies Are Now PAYING Customers To Use Their Boats
Baltic   Boats   Companies   Photos   Shipping   Wikipedia: Shipping  
Shipping Costs Have Plunged So Hard, Companies Are Now PAYING Customers To Use Their Boats
| We've been following recent plunges in the Baltic Dry Index—a measure or commodity shipping costs—because it's near its lowest value since August 1986. | Today Bloomberg reports that ves... (photo: WN / Marzena)
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The Carnival Spirit docked at the Cruise Terminal in San Diego, California.
Cruise   Florida   Passengers   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: Cruise ship  
2 Florida cruise ships riddled with norovirus. Anyone surprised?
Noroviruses like cruise ships. Current and recent passengers on two Princess Cruise Lines ships can now attest to this personally. | More than 200 people on the Ruby Princess and the Crown Princess, b... (photo: Creative Commons / BrokenSphere)
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Qatar Airways Qatar Airways' 2012 Route Expansion Program Underway
Daily Services To Georgia Via Azerbaijan Mark Doha-Based Carrier’s First Entry Into South-Eastern Europe | Doha, QATAR – Qatar Airways’ 2012 expansion programme is underway after the car... (photo: Creative Commons / Per aspera ad Astra) Journal of Commerce
Expansion   Georgia   Photos   Services   Wikipedia/Qatar Airways  
shell oil Shell has high hopes for Arctic drilling
| ANCHORAGE, Alaska — It's the billion-dollar question in Alaska for 2012: Will this be the year Shell Oil begins large-scale offshore exploratory drilling in Arctic waters? | Two months into 2012, ... (photo: Creative Commons / Lee Jordan) Tampa Bay Online
Alaska   Business   Economy   Photos   Wikipedia: Shell Oil Company  
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The Carnival Spirit docked at the Cruise Terminal in San Diego, California. 2 Florida cruise ships riddled with norovirus. Anyone surprised?
Noroviruses like cruise ships. Current and recent passengers on two Princess Cruise Lines ships can now attest to this personally. | More than 200 people on the Ruby Prin... (photo: Creative Commons / BrokenSphere) KDVR
Cruise   Florida   Passengers   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: Cruise ship  
Iranian villagers walk through ruins after an earthquake at the Zeynabi village in the Iranian Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. A strong earthquake rocked southern Iran on Wednesday, sending tremors across the Persian Gulf and shaking the skyscrapers of Dubai. Iranian state television reported that five people were killed and 26 others were injured. Iranians bemoan sanctions hardship as vote approaches
| (Reuters) - Each day that he struggles to buy food for his family, vegetable seller Hasan Sharafi shoulders part of the burden of Iran's defiance of the West over its n... (photo: AP / Abdolhosein Rezvani) The Star
Iran   Photos   Sanctions   US   Wikipedia: U.S. sanctions against Iran  
Jellyfish in sea life Helsinki. Jellyfish still the same - it's interaction that's different
| THEY not only sting people and break fishing nets. In recent times Jellyfish have also clogged up desalination works, blocked the cooling systems of nuclear power stati... (photo: Public Domain / Skorpion87) Sydney Morning Herald
Australia   Climate   Desalination   Fishing   Photos   Wikipedia: Jellyfish  
110211-A-xxxxW-003       U.S. Army soldiers fire a 60 mm mortar round during Cobra Gold on Pulon Range, Thailand, on Feb. 11, 2011.  Cobra Gold is a joint forces, multinational exercise designed to ensure regional peace and stability.  DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew E. Winstead, U.S. Army.  (Released) Iran raid likely to drag in US, hurt global economy
Iran raid likely to drag in US, hurt global economy | Email this articlePrint this articleTweetThe author has posted comments on this articleReuters | Feb 5, 2012, 06.20P... (photo: US DoD / Staff Sgt. Matthew E. Winstead, U.S. Army) The Times Of India
Iran   Military   Photos   Raid   Wikipedia: Iran  
Falmouth Bay residents split over dredging plan for giant cruise liners Falmouth Bay residents split over dredging plan for giant cruise liners
The picturesque harbour at Falmouth which developers hope giant cruisers will be able to visit once the the waters of the bay are dredged. Photograph: Andy Stothert/Getty... (photo: WN / Marzena) The Observer
Cruise   Harbour   Photos   Travel   Wikipedia: Falmouth, Cornwall  
European cold snap 'kills 220' European cold snap 'kills 220'
| At least 221 people have died during a cold snap in which temperatures have plummeted to minus 30 degrees and below across eastern Europe, with Ukraine the hardest hit.... (photo: WN / Marzena) Irish Times
Europe   Health   People   Photos   Ukraine   Wikipedia: Winter  
Afghans carry a body for funeral ceremony, who was killed on Tuesday's suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. Civilian deaths in Afghanistan at highest level in a decade
A string of bigger and more complex suicide attacks by insurgents in Afghanistan have pushed civilian deaths to their highest level in a decade a United Nations report sa... (photo: AP / Ahmad Jamshid) The Daily Telegraph
Afghanistan   Death   Insurgents   Photos   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present)  
Ice-covered limbs of trees are seen on this February 3,2011 file photo during a ice storm in Pocahontas, Illinois, USA. More than 220 dead as big freeze grips Europe
Temperatures have plunged to new lows in Europe where a week-long cold snap has now claimed more than 220 lives as forecasters warned that the big freeze would tighten it... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal) Jakarta Globe
Europe   Photos   Snow   Weather   Wikipedia: Snow  
 World War II -- American troops crossing Colditz bridge 12th April 1945, taken by a GI. (cg1) Treasure hunter says he found $3 billion WWII wreck
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet | PORTLAND, Maine: A treasure hunter said on Wednesday he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boa... (photo: US DoD file) The Times Of India
Photos   Portland   Treasure   Wikipedia: World War II   World War II  
Weather History: February 3: Record Temps, Storms, Ice, Snow, Wind & Tropics Weather History: February 3: Record Temps, Storms, Ice, Snow, Wind & Tropics
| Meteorological events that happened on February 3rd: | 1803 | A great snowstorm dropped 20 inches of snow over the Winston-Salem area of North Carolina. | 1844 | Boston... (photo: WN / Marzena) The Examiner
History   Meteorological   Photos   Weather   Wind  
Commissioned in 1936, the Royal Ulsterman was a 3,250 ton passenger ship which, along with her sister-ship, HMS Royal Scotsman, sailed the Glasgow-Belfast run for Burns and Laird Lines Ltd. During the Second World War, Royal Ulsterman served as a Royal Navy Reserve troop transport, taking part in nearly all of the major Allied amphibious operations of the European war, including the Dunkirk evacuation, Operation Neptune, and the liberation of the Channel Islands. Treasure hunter says he found $3b war wreck
| Portland, Maine: A treasure hunter said on Wednesday he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during ... (photo: Creative Commons / Ggbroad) Gulf News
British   Photos   Portland   Wikipedia: World War II   World War II  
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	Russian fuel ship nears ice-bound Alaska port
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Italy court extends house arrest for cruise ship captain
Italian cruise ship captain must remain under house arrest,
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