The first cargo of nearly 11,000 gallons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) was loaded at the new Eagle LNG Partners liquefaction facility located near Jacksonville, Fla. Crowley Maritime Corporation’s LNG group loaded the cargo into an ISO tank…
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New Design Pillow and Flange Blocks
Newly designed pillow blocks and flange blocks from LM76 feature a lubrication fitting and an alignment set screw. The Stainless Steel and self-aligning linear bearings are modified with an alignment flat ground on the bearings' outer shell and drillin...
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Two Killed in Italian Port Blast
An explosion at an industrial cistern in the Tuscan port of Livorno, one of Italy's biggest passenger and commercial harbours, killed two people on Wednesday, an official said. The two men had been doing maintenance on the storage tank when the blast o...
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Shipping Traffic on Turkey’s Bosphorus Suspended Due to Fog
Traffic on Turkey's Bosphorus Strait, an important international shipping lane for oil and grain, was suspended on Wednesday due to poor visibility from dense fog, shipping agent GAC said. Vessel traffic was suspended at 3:52 p.m. (1252 GMT).
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Cargo Ships Collide in Danish Great Belt
A containership and a bulk carrier were damaged in a collision in Denmark’s Great Belt early Tuesday morning. No injuries or pollution have been reported. The 178-meter containership Delphis Gdansk and 190-meter bulk carrier BBC Neptune collided around...
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Hapag-Lloyd Announces Surprise Dividend After Earnings Double
Container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd announced a surprise dividend to shareholders on Wednesday and forecast a rise in annual earnings this year thanks to synergies from its merger with Gulf peer UASC. Hapag-Lloyd merged with UASC last year, becoming th...
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Two Sinopacific-built LEG Carriers Named
Chinese shipbuilder CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co. Ltd. (CIMC SOE) has completed the first two vessels in a series of five liquid ethylene gas (LEG) carrier newbuilds for a Chinese ship owner. The series includes two 17,000- and three 22…
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Fincantieri: Strong Growth Ahead but in Line – Kepler
Shares in Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri down 11 pct, on track for worst day in 30 months. Fincantieri also approved its 2018-2022 business plan, targeting an increase in 2022 revenue of 50 pct vs 2017 and adj. net result of 3-4 pct. Kepler Cheuvreux ...
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Techno teachers: Finnish school trials robot educators
(In Tuesday story, corrects spelling of teacher's first name in paragraph 6.)
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China’s Tiangong-1 space lab to fall to Earth this weekend: ESA
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - China's Tiangong-1 space lab is likely to fall to Earth sometime between Friday and Monday and shower debris over an area covering thousands of square kilometers (miles), though the risk to people will be very small, the European ...
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