Broken tanker halts Suez traffic
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The Suez Canal is closed for the first time in 30 years after becoming blocked by a broken down oil tanker.
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Egypt stops Palestinians vehicles from crossing the Gaza border, as talks begin in Cairo to resolve the crisis.
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Egypt&#39;s Suez Canal is expected to reopen for shipping traffic, three days after it closed because of a broken-down oil tanker.
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Attacks on oil pipelines have brought all oil exports from southern Iraq to a complete halt, a senior Iraqi oil official said today.
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Egypt's Suez Canal is to re-open for shipping traffic, three days after it closed because of a broken-down oil tanker.
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Traffic on a 42-mile stretch of the Ohio River was restricted Tuesday because gates used to control the water level were jammed in the open position by wrecked barges.
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A ship carrying orange juice and a dredging vessel collided in Newark Bay on Thursday, closing the bay to all ship traffic, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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Channel ferry services are disrupted by a French fishermen's strike over fuel price rises.
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An unforgiving Bering Sea thwarted efforts Friday to stem a major spill from a broken freighter and pollution responders mostly were limited to staging operations in preparation for a break in the weather.
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Some 200 passengers of a car ferry from Britain were stranded off France for some nine hours overnight because another ferry had broken down and could not free the berth in the northern port of Dieppe, regional authorities said.
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A stiff breeze is blowing a 1,500-ton oil slick toward Egypt's Mediterranean coast near the city of Port Said after two oil tankers collided on Saturday, the state news agency MENA said on Sunday.
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On Wednesday, Internet traffic to Middle Eastern countries through two international data pipelines was greatly reduced or totally severed, as a result of breaks in undersea cables.
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Production at the Vauxhall plant at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire is expected to grind to a halt today because of a components shortage caused by industrial action in Germany over job cuts.
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A passenger ferry collides with a tanker on the River Mersey in Liverpool, but no injuries are reported.
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The merger of French utilities firm Suez with state-run Gaz de France is approved, but is postponed after a court ruling.
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The high-speed ferry, running between Rochester and Toronto, will run no more, at least for the foreseeable future. Canadian American Transportation Systems, the ship&#39;s operator, has suspended service after
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A tanker carrying 4,000 tonnes of gas oil runs aground as it heads into port on the Welsh coast.