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European shipping alliance could benefit Baltimore's container business
In a move that might aid the port of Baltimore, the world's three largest shipping companies announced that they will form a global alliance to boost fleet capacity and reduce operating costs. If the partnership of the Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping...
Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Marketing, Port of Baltimore
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Here is the latest Arkansas news from The Associated Press
Y CITY, Ark. (AP) — State highway officials have closed Arkansas 28 in Scott County because floodwaters from the Fourche La Fave River undermined approaches to several bridges and other structures. Heavy rains overnight pushed the river out of its...Tags: Mike Beebe, Highway Transportation, Natural Disasters
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Understanding how stowaway organisms travel the high seas
Ports like Los Angeles and Long Beach are key to the global economy: crossroads where billions of dollars in cargo arrive and depart each year, floating on board thousands of vessels from all over the world. Increasingly, however, large ports are also...
Tags: Science and Technology, Biology, Shrimp, Environmental Issues, Conservation
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Newton: What about the Port of Los Angeles?
It's fun for mayoral candidates to imagine eliminating potholes or building new trains to link the Valley to the Westside. It's not hard to support a spiffed-up LAX (really, what's hard to believe is that it's taken this long) or legions of new police...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Politics, Jim Newton, Port of Los Angeles, Air Pollution
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Hawks split with Dundalk
Saturday, April 6, 2013 COLLEGE BASEBALL Hagerstown Community College split a doubleheader with Dundalk on Saturday, winning the second game 3-2 after dropping the opener 2-1 in eight innings. In the victory for the Hawks (21-17), Eric...Tags: AFL-CIO, San Diego Padres, American Legion, New York Yankees, Baseball
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Wheat crop seen near record as U.S. drought recedes
SINGAPORE - Farmers from Australia to Europe to the United States are poised to reap the second-largest wheat crop on record as fields recover from drought and heat waves, boosting global stockpiles for the first time in four years. Output will climb 4....Tags: Kazakhstan, Russia, Chicago Board of Trade, Singapore, Inventories
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Study of shipping routes maps delivery of invasive organisms
When giant container ships sail into major ports like Los Angeles and Long Beach, it's not just clothing and cars that they deliver. They also carry critters. The specimens — microscopic algae cells or larger castaways, such as eggs of fish or...Tags: Science and Technology, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Biology, Water, Environmental Issues
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Problem Solver: Broken china shatters shipping experience
It was during a visit to his mother's home in New Mexico last summer that Timothy Reddinger found his grandmother's set of fine china. His mother was downsizing and offered to give him the extravagant dinnerware. Reddinger was thrilled. The century-...
Tags: China, Jon Yates
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Suit haunts dock fee meeting
At the first of two open houses designed to help dock owners navigate Newport Beach's new residential pier permitting process last week, a handful of residents sat scattered throughout the old City Council Chambers — not a huge turnout compared to...Tags: Rentals, Politics, Justice System, Orange County Superior Court, Laws
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Is another strike looming for the ports of L.A. and Long Beach?
Bargaining units for a clerical workers' union rejected a tentative labor agreement this week that that ended an eight-day strike that shut down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach late last year. The tentative contract, announced Dec. 4, intially...
Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Career and Workplace, National Retail Federation, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Strikes
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Two Great Lakes hit lowest water level on record
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Two of the Great Lakes have hit their lowest water levels ever recorded, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday, capping more than a decade of below-normal rain and snowfall and higher temperatures that boost...
Tags: Science and Technology, Lakes and Ponds, U.S. Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Congress
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Today in History: Former Shippers Ice Plant building in Brawley charred in fire
>> 20 Years Ago — Owners of the former Shippers Ice Plant building in Brawley say an uncertain future awaits the historic building that was charred in a fire earlier this year. Built in stages before its completion in the mid-1920s, the cavernous,...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Petroleum Industry, Plant Openings
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