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...A picture posted by Centcom of the vessel showed the missile had inflicted severe damage to the accommodation block housing crew cabins....
...The first vessel — the 220 metre-long Orient Express Silenseas — has just 54 suites onboard, with tickets costing up to €20,000 per voyage....
...For example, this newer document lists Geos LLC, a Russian private company headquartered in Novorossiysk, as the seller....
...The billionaire deputy prime minister of the UAE controls the club via Newton Investment Development LLC, a company registered in Abu Dhabi....
...A maritime security source said he understood it was the Asphalt Princess that had been seized, though he highlighted that the tanker’s owners, Prime Tankers LLC in the UAE, had previously had another vessel...
...(FT) Haunted by the past Lloyd’s of London, founded in 1686, has launched an internal investigation into whether it owes reparations for its underwriting of slaves and the cargo vessels that carried them...
...Cargill’s $62bn in assets include grain silos, bulk vessel fleets and food processing plants....
...Russian gas company Novatek has been given a green light to continue using a number of ice-class tankers after the US stepped back from sanctions against the vessel’s owner....
...Refineries on the east coast were bypassed and forced to hire more expensive US-flagged vessels to carry in oil from Texas. “This competitive advantage has shrunk to nothing,” Mr Halff said....
...Hundreds of the vessels involved are owned and managed by companies based in Hong Kong, where it is not illegal to do business with North Korea....
...“Secretary Ross recuses himself from any matters focused on transoceanic shipping vessels,” said Mr Rockas....
...Construction at the VC Summer plant is 30 per cent complete, with the 306-ton reactor vessels in place at both of the new units....
...In its case, MPower plans to bury all safety-critical equipment — including the reactor and the fuel vessels — underground, thereby minimising the need for expensive physical defences....
...Paragon is one of at least four New York-listed companies — alongside DryShips, Scorpio Bulkers and Star Bulk — that were forced in late November and early December to announce sales of vessels to bring...
...The company also diversified into oil tankers. However, slumps in earnings for dry bulk carriers and in oil prices have left the company scrabbling to stay afloat....
...Charter rates for container vessels barely cover the operating costs, leaving shipping companies with little ability to pay their debts....
...Fosun’s vessel, built rapidly, is bursting with a menagerie of acquisitions. Styling itself as Asia’s version of Berkshire Hathaway, a storm is brewing that will test Fosun’s seaworthiness....
...We have a vessel that is nominated, have a loading range. You can almost touch the oil.”...
...Maersk Line said it “must insist” that the crew and vessel were released “as soon as possible”. “The crew is not employed by Maersk Line, nor is the vessel owned by Maersk Line,” the company said....
...He singled out Oaktree, which now controls a series of shipping companies including General Maritime, a tanker operator, and Genco, a dry bulk company, calling it “the gift that kept giving”....
...For example, software could help to highlight blood vessels or nerves that are difficult to see with the naked eye....
...Mr Polman had: “changed the old rusty tub into a modern global trading vessel,” said one investor and succeeded in “dismantling its civil service culture”, said another....
...Robert Wright tells the tale of the 10-year-old cargo dispute that prompted the Iranian military to seize a vessel owned by Oaktree Capital....
...He also has investments in Vessel, a video platform, and Next Door, a social network for neighbours....
...The company had planned to buy 10 more vessels with the $193m it hoped the offering would raise....
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