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Holiday Shipping Costs Get the Heave-Ho-Ho

Charges ditched as online competition heats up

Nov 17, 09 1:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Free shipping is quickly becoming the rule instead of a bonus as online and catalog retailers seek to lure holiday shoppers. Many shoppers searching for deals now abandon Internet shopping sites as soon as they find they must pay shipping costs, analysts are finding. Some 57% of retailers are offering... More »

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shipping • retail sales • holiday shopping • online shopping • e-commerce • Amazon.com

 Informant: Italian Mafia Sank 
 Ship Carrying Nuke Waste 

Authorities have pinpointed ship, but haven't confirmed contents

Sep 15, 09 6:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Italian authorities are investigating an informant’s claim that the mafia sank a ship containing nuclear waste off the country’s southwest coast, the BBC reports. Underwater cameras show the ship intact, with barrels nearby marked as containing toxic contents; the informant says that organized crime has gotten into the... More »

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crime • Italy • radioactive • nuclear waste • Mafia • shipping • Calabria • environmental damage • informant • waste disposal

 Melting Ice Opens Arctic 
 to Trade, But US Lags 

Climate change opens north to shipping, tourism, resource development

Sep 6, 09 5:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Climate change is melting away the main barrier to business in the Arctic—ice—but the US lags behind other countries seeking to exploit the region, the Anchorage Daily News reports. As receding ice opens the area to shipping, resource exploitation, and tourism, it's Russia and Canada who have established... More »

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climate change • Russia • Alaska • global warming • tourism • Canada • Arctic • Coast Guard • resources • shipping • Bering Strait • transport

Journo Who Broke Russian Pirate Story Flees Country

Mikhail Voitenko says he knows more than he can tell about Arctic Sea's cargo

Sep 4, 09 5:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Russian journalist who was first to report on the disappearance of the Arctic Sea cargo ship has fled the country after receiving threats, the Guardian reports. Mikhail Voitenko, who speculated that the ship may have been carrying a secret cargo of weapons or "something much more expensive and... More »

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Russia • piracy • shipping • pirates • Arctic Sea • Mikhail Voitenko

(Newser) - A California scientist says he's closer to predicting the kind of rogue waves that have terrified seamen for centuries, the BBC reports. Rising as high as 6 stories and destroying ships with a single wallop, such waves occur where sand banks and currents force wave energy to focus on a... More »

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tsunami • ship • waves • shipping

 Sunken Gold Ship Found, 
 Now Where's the Loot? 

Trawler was abanoned and sank off Argentina in mysterious circumstances

Jun 20, 09 7:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - The wreck of a trawler carrying $18 million in gold and silver that sank in January has been found off the coast of Argentina, the BBC reports. The big question: Does it still have the loot aboard? Rescuers hired by the main insurer, Lloyd's of London, plan to send down... More »

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shipwreck • Argentina • shipping • gold

 Somali Clerics Lead 
 Backlash Against Pirates 

Religious sheikhs preach against sea bandits and their un-Islamic ways

May 9, 09 5:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Somalia's pirates are facing an enemy on land many of them fear more than foreign warships, the New York Times reports. Sheikhs and Islamic clerics are preaching against the "burcad badeed"—Somali for sea bandits—accusing them of introducing evils like drugs and alcohol to Somali society and... More »

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Somalia • Islam • piracy • shipping • pirates

 Koreas Unite to Foil Pirates 

South Koreans rescue North Korean cargo ship from pirate attack

May 5, 09 4:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Gulf of Aden was the scene of a rare example of inter-Korean cooperation yesterday as the unfriendly nations joined efforts to thwart pirates, reports the Wall Street Journal. A helicopter from a South Korean warship was sent to the rescue when a North Korean cargo ship being pursued by... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • piracy • shipping • pirates • Gulf of Aden

Maersk Captain Calls for Military to Protect Shipping

Freed pirate hostage calls for tougher ships, better armed crews

May 1, 09 2:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Military guards or military detachments on board ships are the best way to keep American shipping safe from piracy, Capt. Richard Phillips told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday. Phillips, freed by the US Navy after being held hostage by pirates last month, said better-armed crews and tougher vessels would... More »

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military • piracy • shipping • pirates • Maersk Alabama • Richard Phillips

Pirated Ship's Cook Sues Over Safety Regs

Says Maersk owner refused to arm sailors
or provide security

Apr 27, 09 4:53 PM CDT
(AP) - A member of the crew on the US-flagged ship hijacked by African pirates sued the owner and another company today, accusing them of knowingly putting sailors in danger. Richard E. Hicks alleges in the suit that owner Maersk Line Limited and Waterman Steamship Corp., which provided the crew, ignored requests... More »

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sailor • safety • lawsuit • shipping • pirates • Maersk Alabama • Richard E. Hicks

Aargh! Buccaneer High on the Pirate Life

Fisherman turned bandit after foreigners plundered ocean

Apr 22, 09 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The pirating life isn’t easy, but the rewards are many and some Somalis see the bandits as heroes, one buccaneer tells the BBC. The man, 25, says he used to be a fisherman, but he signed up with the hijackers after "illegal fishing and dumping of toxic wastes... More »

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Somalia • piracy • fishing • shipping • pirates

 Maersk Crew Comes Home 

Seaman who thwarted pirates get hero's welcome back on US soil

Apr 16, 09 1:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - The American sailors who thwarted a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia have arrived home to a hero's welcome, reports the AP. Dozens of family members erupted in cheers and applause as the 19 crew members from the Maersk Alabama stepped off a charter flight from Kenya at Andrews... More »

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piracy • shipping • pirates • Maersk Alabama • Richard Phillips • Andrews Air Force Base

 US Going After Pirates' Loot 

Clinton announces plans for 'War on Piracy'

Apr 15, 09 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton plans to go after pirates' bounty as part of a multi-pronged effort to tackle piracy, USA Today reports. The secretary of state said finding and freezing the pirates' assets and property will make it tougher for them to collect their ransoms and buy new ships and surveillance systems.... More »

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Somalia • Hillary Clinton • piracy • shipping • pirates

 Somali Pirates 
 Seize 3 More Ships 

High-profile hostage rescues fail to prevent fresh hijackings

Apr 14, 09 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Somali pirates have seized another three ships in the Gulf of Aden, the AP reports. Two Egyptian fishing boats were hijacked yesterday and a Greek-owned freighter with at least 20 crew on board was seized before dawn today by pirates evidently undeterred by the recent standoff with the US Navy.... More »

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Somalia • piracy • shipping • pirates • Gulf of Aden

 Piracy Jacks Up 
 Insurance, Fuel Costs 

Entering high-risk areas or navigating around South Africa both add millions

Apr 13, 09 12:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Piracy in the Gulf of Aden is driving up shipping costs as companies are forced to choose between paying higher insurance or taking longer routes, the AP reports. Premiums have reportedly risen at least tenfold for travel near the Somali coast, and avoiding the Gulf of Aden by navigating around... More »

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Somalia • Africa • piracy • insurance • shipping • pirates • fuel costs • Gulf of Aden

 Somalia Piracy Hampers 
 Food Aid: UN 

Danger of hijacking has raised costs dramatically, WFP official says

Apr 9, 09 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Piracy off the coast of Somalia is making relief organizations' work even more difficult, Reuters reports. The UN’s World Food Program  today decried both the hijacking of ships bearing aid supplies—the Maersk Alabama, for example, had 232 WFP containers on board when it was seized this week—and... More »

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Somalia • United Nations • piracy • shipping container • insurance • shipping • food aid • World Food Program • international aid

Tanker Owner Recounts Pirate Drama

Seizure of ship by Somali pirates started 56 days of negotiations

Jan 31, 09 5:08 AM CST
(Newser) - It took 56 days of tense negotiations to free the MV Biscaglia and its 28 crew members from the clutches of Somali pirates, shipping exec George Christodolou tells the Wall Street Journal. After the vessel was seized in the Gulf of Aden, Christodolou had to scramble to gain the pirates'... More »

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Somalia • piracy • negotiation • shipping • pirates • Gulf of Aden

Somali Pirates Hijack Another Tanker, Crew of 13

Dozen crew members include Filipinos and an Indonesian

Jan 29, 09 7:49 AM CST
(AP) - Somali pirates have hijacked a tanker and its crew of 12 Filipinos and one Indonesian. The cargo the Longchamp is carrying is unknown. Though the Gulf of Aden is now patrolled by more than a dozen warships from countries including Britain, France, Germany, Iran, and the US, they were not... More »

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Somalia • Indonesia • piracy • Philippines • shipping • pirates • Gulf of Aden • Longchamp

Slowdown
Stalls Nation's
Freight Carriers

Haulers are hunkering down for a 'nuclear winter' in 2009

Dec 11, 08 3:21 PM CST
(Newser) - With freight carriers predicting 2009 could be the worst year in three decades, some haulers  say they’re “settling in for nuclear winter,” holding off on making capital expenditures, mothballing equipment and laying off employees, reports the Wall Street Journal. From truckers to railroads to ocean shipping, companies... More »

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shipping • FedEx • railroad • trucking • United Parcel Service Inc. • financial crisis • freight

Freighters Must Brake for Endangered Whales Off US

Right whale get federal protection from speeding vessels

Dec 9, 08 1:32 PM CST
(Newser) - A new US law may save the world’s 400 remaining North Atlantic right whales from their worst enemy—large ships. Mariners will have to slow to 11.5mph as they slice through parts of the mammal’s migration path between New England and Florida, the Boston Globe reports. Since... More »

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endangered species • Atlantic Ocean • New England • shipping • whales

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