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...Tokio Marine is being sued by investors seeking payouts on the credit insurance, but expects no material financial impact....
...It could then sell the model in India and export to south-east Asia, the Gulf, Africa, and southern and eastern Europe....
...The extended area is twice the size of California and spans regions that include the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the Gulf of Mexico and other regions....
...When the series creator Will Tracy, a writer on Succession, occasionally tries to replicate that show’s brand of explicit eloquence and distinct cadence, it only accentuates the gulf in quality....
...More than a decade ago, a multinational anti-piracy naval task force improved maritime security in the Bab-el-Mandeb strait and Gulf of Aden....
...Marcus Baker, head of marine at insurance broker Marsh, said some insurers had already increased rates during the week before Sunday’s Red Sea attacks, in one case by as much as 300 per cent....
...It has also moved 2,000 marines nearby and placed another 2,000 troops on standby....
...But the war in Ukraine has caused a sustained increase in rates unlike anything seen for a generation, says Dan McCarthy, head of marine at Markel International....
...Weather permitting, Japan will on Thursday begin the controversial release of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a move furiously opposed by some...
...Additional reporting by Eung Sea A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 12. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on September 18. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Mexico’s government is reviving a railway between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean that had been in decline for more than a century, in a bold bid to steal container traffic away from the Panama...
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...Analysts said the large number of global orders were tied to Qatar’s expansion of its North Field project, a plan to increase the Gulf state’s LNG export capacity from 77mn tonnes a year now to 126mn tonnes...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on April 13. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...George points to a small-scale experiment in 2012 when iron dust was spread over 5,000 square miles of the Gulf of Alaska....
...In the Philippines, Singapore-based gas infrastructure builder Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific is finishing up one of the nation’s first LNG import terminals, scheduled to start operating in April, on the tip...
...Gallagher is a former Marine counter-intelligence officer who has emerged as a leading China hawk on Capitol Hill since first being elected to Congress in 2016....
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...It is also managing the construction of stretches of a $20bn tourist train around the Yucatán peninsula, and will run that and a newly revamped line connecting the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific....
...But the real focus is on marine transport and heavy industry....
...A takeover battle over a 93-year-old Japanese marine engineering company has turned the spotlight on Nintendo’s family office, which manages around $1.5bn in assets to invest in what it describes as “the...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 25 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Among the top 10 winners were Chinese marine shipping group Cosco Shipping Holdings, up 110 per cent, and Indian steelmaker Tata Steel, up 83 per cent....
...Tokio Marine has come under heavy scrutiny in recent weeks....
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