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...Doubling the size of the barges as well “means Ukraine won’t have to use grain warehouses as much”, he said. Shipping industry figures told the FT the plan was feasible....
...A small number of asylum seekers were sent to the barge in August, months after the vessel was due to begin housing them at the privately owned port of Portland on the Dorset coast....
...There has been a “structural change” in shippers’ preferences to “direct shipment in China instead of vessel-to-vessel transshipment” through Hong Kong, the territory’s major port operator Hutchison Ports...
...The Dali was one of the new breed of bigger vessels designed to capitalise on a larger set of Panama Canal locks finished in 2016 — and the vessel’s size could have played a role in the collision....
...Asylum seekers were evacuated from the accommodation barge leased by the UK on Friday after traces of the bacteria that cause legionnaires’ disease were found in the controversial vessel’s water system....
...A barge leased by the UK to house asylum seekers received its first arrivals on Monday, weeks behind schedule and with controversy still swirling around the safety of the vessel and the number of people...
...The ship Open Arms, supplied by a Spanish charity of the same name, sailed out of Larnaca on Tuesday, towing a barge carrying flour, rice, and protein....
...Campaigners claim they have identified potentially lethal problems with housing so many people on the barge....
...As such, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the Home Office has decided to use the Bibby Stockholm in Dorset, and soon other vessels, to house “non-detained” asylum seekers....
...So barges are a solution to that and we will do as many as it takes.” These vessels come floating out of a sinister offing of historical association and precedent....
...After months of delay and safety concerns, the first asylum seekers were marched up the gangplank of the Bibby Stockholm barge this week....
...Even as we talked a soya barge slunk along the skyline....
...Grain prices will remain high and “will spike up every time you see another vessel being downed, or another attack on the ports . . ....
...More vessels mean more quantity.”...
...Ministers’ plans to house asylum seekers in the 93-metre long vessel have faced intense backlash from local people and council members, who said the proposal was cruel and would place undue strain on the...
...and vessels....
...But no vessel has risked an inbound journey....
...Bibby Stockholm takes on 15 | A barge leased by the UK to house asylum seekers received its first arrivals yesterday, weeks behind schedule and with controversy swirling around the safety of the vessel and...
...Braverman will be hoping that this week she can finally start moving some asylum seekers into the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge moored off Portland in Dorset, a vessel described as having a 1970s ferry...
...In 1933, this vessel was the first single-engined boat to pass 100mph on salt water....
...Hulsker said his company normally paid up to €3,500 for a barge with containers. “Now others are paying up to €10,000 to transport coal,” he added....
...Low water levels in the Danube have forced countries in eastern Europe to start dredging to keep barges moving along the critical waterway....
...Oleksiy became a wealthy tycoon, commanding a fleet of 82 vessels and over 76,000 hectares under cultivation....
...A second group refused to board the barge....
...Ukraine has stepped up some overland exports of goods and is sailing barges through a section of the Danube and on to Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanța....
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