Controversy
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Maritime News
Video: Fire Breaks Out on Controversial Tanker at Turkish Scrapyard
A supertanker, which for many years had been used as a storage platform off Libya, is once again causing controversy…
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Maersk Sues as Controversy Emerges Over Bidding for Santos’ New Terminal
While the final rules are still being reviewed and contested for what stands to be Brazil’s largest ever port…
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Ammonium Nitrate Laden Bulker Causes Controversy Dumping Contaminated Cargo
The Malta-flagged cargo ship Ruby with its cargo of 20,000 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer is again being drawn into…
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Marine World
EPA Clears Path for Texas Deepwater Port, Fueling Controversy Over U.S. Oil Exports on Supertankers
(Bloomberg) — The Environmental Protection Agency has given its blessing for a proposed Texas oil port capable of exporting 1…
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Australia’s Icebreaker Nuyina Questioned Due to Lack of Scientific Missions
Australia’s icebreaker RSV Nuyina which was promoted as representing a “quantum leap forward for scientific research capabilities,” continues to…
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Titanic Imaging Expedition Set for May Despite U.S. Government Opposition
RMS Titanic, the firm that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck, is set to return to the…
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IMO’s Draft CO2 Amendment Stirs Controversy
This week, the IMO's Intersessional Working Group on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships produced a draft of a new…
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Controversy in Norway as Hurtigruten Works to Manage COVID-19 Outbreak
Controversies are continuing to brew in Norway in the wake of the latest outbreak of COVID-19 that is being linked…
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