The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (www.eia.gov) new Today in Energy brief looks at how the global LNG trade will benefit from the expanded Panama Canal.
Monthly Archives: June 2016
New ship safety rule to prevent loss of containers enters into force
A new regulation requiring the gross mass of a container to be verified before it is loaded onto a ship enters into force today (1 July 2016). It will assist in ensuring that the millions of containers carried on ships each year are optimally stowed, thereby helping to prevent container stacks collapsing and containers being lost overboard, and the associated injury and loss of life.
Asteroids: assessing the risk
Title Asteroid risk corridor
Released 29/06/2016 2:19 pm
Copyright Clemens Rumpf
Description
Representation of a generic asteroid impact risk corridor that stretches over the Earth because of its orbital uncertainty. Red colouring represents higher local impact probability with the understanding that overall impact probability is generally low.
Id 362534
30 June 2016
A thick red line snakes across Earth’s surface – a ‘risk corridor’ for the possible impact of an asteroid, based on its observed trajectory through space.
Underdogs and Top Dogs Sniff Out the Best Breeze on the Costa Smeralda
(Wednesday 29th June, Sardinia) – In a shifting, challenging light-breeze which kept tacticians and the race officer on their toes, home favourites Azzurra scored their first race win of the 52 SUPER SERIES season and now earn a share of the lead at the Audi Settimana delle Bocche, which they won last year.
Delivery of a Suezmax tanker. Further expansion and increased earnings capacity of the fleet.
Hamilton, Bermuda, June 30, 2016
Nordic American Tankers Limited (“NAT” or “the Company”) announced that it today took delivery of a Suezmax vessel, the Nordic Sirius, built at a shipyard in Japan. NAT agreed to purchase four vessels as announced in our press release May 2, 2016. Nordic Sirius is the third of these four vessels. In the course of 30 days, NAT has taken delivery of three vessels. The fourth vessel is expected to be taken over by us within mid-July 2016.
PortMiami to get new cruise terminal; Swiftships awarded $15 million FMS contract
VIDEO: PortMiami to get dramatic new cruise terminal
June 29, 2016 — The new terminal will be a striking addition to PortMiami and will serve as homeport to Royal Caribbean International ships.
Rosetta finale set for 30 September
Title Rosetta approaching comet
Released 04/08/2014 5:38 pm
Copyright Spacecraft: ESA/ATG medialab; Comet image: ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
Description
Artist impression of ESA’s Rosetta approaching comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The comet image was taken on 2 August 2014 by the spacecraft’s navigation camera at a distance of about 500 km.
The spacecraft and comet are not to scale.
Id 342515
30 June 2016
Rosetta is set to complete its mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on 30 September.
Save America
Obama is digging our country’s grave.
And if Crooked Hillary wins, she’ll finish the job.
Cessna delivers milestone 7,000th Citation as NetJets’ first Citation Latitude
WICHITA, Kan. (June 27, 2016) – Cessna Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, today announced it has delivered the first fractional Cessna Citation Latitude midsize business jet to NetJets, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company. Today’s delivery represents significant milestones for both NetJets and the Citation product line. This aircraft represents the 7,000th Citation delivered worldwide, reinforcing the Citation family as the established leader in business jet travel.
CHILTON’S BAD LUCK CONTINUES AT THE KOHLER GRAND PRIX AT ROAD AMERICA
The stunning Road America was established in 1955 and is found between Milwaukee and Green Bay. The 4-mile, 14 turn road course is set within 640 acres of parkland where the scene was set for a great weekend at the Kohler Grand Prix.