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Shipping traffic for Saturday, May 18 - Budgeteer

2013-05-18
Shipping traffic for Saturday, May 18BudgeteerShipping traffic for Saturday, May 18. The American Century departs under the Aerial Lift bridge in rough weather on Friday afternoon with iron ore pellets. American Century. image. (Photo by Brandon Kunst). The American Century departs under the ...

Shipping traffic for Friday, May 17 - Budgeteer

2013-05-17
Shipping traffic for Friday, May 17Budgeteer... Boatwatcher's Hotline at (218) 722-6489. Source: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lake Superior Maritime Visitors Center in Canal Park. Arrival and departure times are not official and can vary widely. Tags: shipping traffic, lake superior, news ...

Trades locked in for Victoria's Johnson Street bridge project - Victoria Times Colonist

2013-05-18
Victoria Times ColonistTrades locked in for Victoria's Johnson Street bridge projectVictoria Times Colonist... will be seen in June when two temporary trestles are built on both sides to support cranes and equipment to build the bridge. The existing bridge will remain open to pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles, and marine traffic until the new bridge opens in ...Johnson Street Bridge construction kicked off in VictoriaVictoria Newsall 3 news articles »

DETROIT: West Jefferson drawbridge operator fired for accident; no timeline ... - Southgate News Herald

2013-05-17
DETROIT: West Jefferson drawbridge operator fired for accident; no timeline ...Southgate News HeraldCounty engineers still are working to assess the damage. The channel is open to maritime traffic and the bridge has been in the upright position since Sunday evening to let other boats through. It will be closed indefinitely to vehicle and pedestrian ...

Shipping Emissions 'Rival CO2-Driven Ocean Acidification' - Environmental Leader

2013-05-17
Environmental LeaderShipping Emissions 'Rival CO2-Driven Ocean Acidification'Environmental Leader... Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Delaware and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies jointly conducted the year-long effort, which is the first global study on the effects of increasing shipping traffic in the summer ...

Stephen McGinty: Going to town on Positano - Scotsman

2013-05-17
ScotsmanStephen McGinty: Going to town on PositanoScotsmanThe journey was not without incident: “We had imported a little piece of Italian traffic right into our front seat” but eventually the American arrived on the most beautiful town on the Amalfi coast and 60 years ago this month published an account of ...

Bitterroot siblings are Coast Guard 'brothers in arms' - Bitterroot Star

2013-05-17
Bitterroot siblings are Coast Guard 'brothers in arms'Bitterroot StarThe Capp brothers served as part of the PSU 313's water side security division whose primary mission in Korea was to maintain safety zones to keep maritime traffic and local fishermen away from a submerged fuel line that extended from Dogu Beach in ...

Mechanical problem puts 4th Street Bridge in Harvey out of service - NOLA.com

2013-05-16
Mechanical problem puts 4th Street Bridge in Harvey out of serviceNOLA.comA mechanical problem on the 4th Street Bridge in Harvey Thursday night blocked a major route for marine traffic headed to the Mississippi River, officials said. An alternate at the Algiers Canal Locks is also closed, officials said, because of ...Mechanical problem forces closure of Harvey bridgeFOX 8 News WVUE-TVall 3 news articles »

Bring the Family A hidden gem, the Cape Cod Canal Visitor Center - Boston Globe

2013-05-17
Bring the Family A hidden gem, the Cape Cod Canal Visitor CenterBoston GlobeRun by the US Army Corps of Engineers, its purpose is to tell the story of the canal, the commercial waterway, which celebrates its 100th anniversary next year, that turned the Cape into an island and saved a century of boat traffic from traveling ...and more »

COBHAM PLC : - Cobham Awarded AUD$150m QantasLink Scope Extension - 4-traders (press release)

2013-05-18
COBHAM PLC : - Cobham Awarded AUD$150m QantasLink Scope Extension4-traders (press release)This includes modern battle space air warfare training for the UK armed forces and NATO, operating the largest border protection civil maritime surveillance contract in the world for the Australian Government and providing air traffic control radar ...

Car count shows sharp rise on Barton Highway

2013-05-01
An independent study has found a substantial increase in traffic on the Barton Highway between Canberra and Yass in southern New South Wales since 2006.

Record Number of Attendees Arrive in Los Angeles for International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) 28th World ...

2013-05-03
The Port of Los Angeles is gearing up to host the largest-ever global gathering of port authorities, convening in downtown Los Angeles next week for the International Association of Ports and Harbors’ 28th World Ports Conference.

Somers Point Police add additional patrols for this year's Bayfe - NBC40.net

2013-04-27
ATLANTIC CITY -- A new piece of police technology is live and police say it's already helping them to track gun use. Shotspotter is a system of microphones throughout Atlantic City that are specifically

Ericsson named sole vendor for Thuraya core network upgrade

2013-04-30
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN-- - * Thuraya's circuit-switched core network upgraded to support modern, high-quality telecommunication services * Agreement includes advanced billing mediation system, plus support ...

'Significant threats' seen on DoD plans for Tinian, Pagan

2013-05-01
The proposed creation of live-fire military training areas on Pagan and Tinian pose “significant threats” to the islands' environment and natural resources and could restrict a lot of human activities, government biologists and officials told the U.S. Department of Defense on Friday.

Windswept, remote...who would want to live in the Falkland Islands?

2013-04-20
The loss of life was tragic but in almost all other respects the Falklands war was a comedy of unintended consequences from which those who started it lost the most. Talk to Falkland Islanders old enough to remember the period just before the war and you'll learn that the government of Margaret Thatcher was perceived not as a heroic force for freedom but as treacherous and deceitful. Related ...

Intelsat Reports First Quarter 2013 Results

2013-05-09
Intelsat S.A. , the world’s leading provider of satellite services, today reported financial results for the three months ended Mar

D.C. area forecast: Fantastic Friday, sensational Saturday, showery(?) Sunday

2013-04-26
With high pressure dominating overhead, today and tomorrow look to be just spectacular.

Ed Turanchik promoting high-speed ferries as transit for Tampa Bay

2013-05-10
Lawyer Ed Turanchik has been quietly pitching the concept for bay transit.