Slower boats to China as ship owners save fuel
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Oil at more than $90 a barrel is concentrating minds in the shipping industry. Higher fuel costs and mounting pressure to curb emissions are leading modern merchant fleets to rediscover the ancient power of the sail.
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A new breed of freighter uses an age-old energy source -- wind.
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FAITH:The Twin Ports Ministry to Seafarers adapts to changing times. Christmas came early to the Greek ship Orna during its recent stop in the port of Duluth-Superior. A blue haze of cigarette smoke hovered in ...
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By Mike Lafferty  COLUMBUS  --  The George Dunbar left Cleveland at 6 p.m. on June 29, 1902, bound for Alpena, Mich.  Loaded with coal, the 136-foot ship rode low in the water as it steamed northwest into rough Lake Erie weather, her boilers running full steam.
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SLIGO, Ireland -- Fifty-four exhausted Canadian sailors and their disabled submarine began a slow, risky journey back to shore late Thursday, towed behind an ocean-going British tug bound for a naval base at Faslane, Scotland.
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A ship carrying fuel from South Korea reaches a North Korean port, as part of a key disarmament deal.
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A small California company is planning to mix up to 80 tons of iron particles into the Pacific Ocean 350 miles west of the Galapagos islands to see whether it can make a splash in the markets where people seek to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Food is running so low aboard the international space station the two crewmen have been instructed to cut back on calories, at least until a Russian supply ship arrives in a little over two weeks, NASA said Thursday.
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The push for coal-to-liquid fuels reflects a tension between slowing global warming and reducing dependence on foreign oil.
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FASLANE, Scotland (CP) - The homeward voyage of Canada's crippled submarine has been delayed by bad weather in Scotland.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and stated officials said on  Saturday.
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Â· Cargo of abandoned vessel destined for restaurants  Â· Illegal trade drives species closer to extinction.
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More CO2 overall, not vessel for vessel Ships pump out twice as much carbon dioxide as planes, according to new figures from the maritime industry body Intertanko.â¦
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By Jewel Gopwani, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 13--Shanghai would be less than 15 hours away nonstop if the U.S. Department of Transportation gives Northwest Airlines Inc. permission to start another route to China.
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By BEN DOBBIN  ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A 19th-century commercial sailing ship, its twin masts still intact, sits upright in deep, frigid waters off the southern shore of Lake Ontario.
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By Xin Dingding  Ten Vietnamese sailors were rescued yesterday morning after a collier sank in the South China Sea.  The vessel from Vietnam sank five nautical miles from the port city of Qinzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region at 3 am. The reason is not yet known.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to reduce diesel exhaust from trains and ships, a move supported by some environmentalists.