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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On a cold, raw, drizzly afternoon this week, Sherry Proctor put large containers with about 300 orange and green fluorescent buoys into his Volvo station wagon and took them to the Cambridge Boat House. He and a few others will start dropping them into the water tomorrow, marking the course for the rowers in the Head of the Charles Regatta ...
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With a famine less than 50 years in its past, China remains sensitive about using food for fuel.
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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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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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Shanghai's gradual descent into the sea eased last year to its slowest pace since 2000, reflecting massive engineering efforts to keep the city above water.
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World freight shipping prices, particularly the cost of transporting dry raw materials, are steaming ahead at record levels, powered mainly by China's insatiable demand for bulk levels of imported commodities.
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Can cruise ships and nature coexist? An experiment gets under way in Cozumel to test the idea.
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The Border Heather's engines cut out A tanker which was drifting near Wick in "awful" weather conditions has been towed to safety.Comment
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Twenty-strong crew saved after Greek-registered cargo ship gets into difficulties in Channel
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Rough sea and bad weather have hampered efforts to deal with the oil spill from the freighter that split off the Aleutians last week.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Food is running so low aboard the International Space Station that its two crewmen have been instructed to cut back on calories, at least until a Russian supply ship arrives in a little over two weeks.
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HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--China&#39;s thirst for oil has created boom times for tanker companies. And despite Beijing&#39;s efforts to cool the economy, demand for oil isn&#39;t likely
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From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that is costing taxpayers millions of dollars and could cause environmental misery that will cost millions more.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska A salvage team has reached a wrecked freighter in the Bering Sea off Alaska&#39;s coast. For days, the Coast Guard has been trying to get people on the ship, which has broken in two and is oozing oil, diesel fuel and soybeans.
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By Tom Koenninger, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 7--ABOARD ESSAYONS -- A winter mix of rain and snow slashed across the deck of this ponderous ship as she moved downstream on the Columbia River, barely a whisper faster than the current.
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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.