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A cargo ship discharging ballast water into the sea. Ballast water discharges by ships can have a negative impact on the marine environment. Cruise ships, large tankers, and bulk cargo carriers use a huge amount of ballast water, which is often taken on in the coastal waters in one region after ships discharge wastewater or unload cargo, and discharged at the next port of call, wherever more ...
Location of Panama between the Pacific Ocean (bottom) and the Caribbean Sea (top), with the canal at top center. The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometre (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime ...
Today Makes Tomorrow. Predecessor. Taiwan Maritime Transport Co. Ltd. Founded. 1958. Today Makes Tomorrow ( TMT) is a Taiwanese shipping company that in 2008 directly owned some 60 ships, with many more on order, [1] including dry bulk, crude, cargo, LNG, automobile, and cement carriers.
Arctic shipping routes are the maritime paths used by vessels to navigate through parts or the entirety of the Arctic. There are three main routes that connect the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans: the Northeast Passage, the Northwest Passage, and the mostly unused Transpolar Sea Route. [2] In addition, two other significant routes exist: the ...
Flag of convenience ( FOC) is a business practice whereby a ship's owners register a merchant ship in a ship register of a country other than that of the ship's owners, and the ship flies the civil ensign of that country, called the flag state. [1] The term is often used pejoratively, and although common, the practice is sometimes regarded as ...
Celebrity Edge is an Edge -class cruise ship operated by Celebrity Cruises, a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Group. After the new vessel was ordered with French shipbuilder STX France in December 2014, her keel was laid in June 2017 and she was floated out in January 2018. Upon delivery in October 2018, at 130,818 GT, she became the lead ship of ...
Propulsion. 3 x Sulzer 12ZV 40/48 diesel engine. Speed. 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) Capacity. 1,400. MS Herald of Free Enterprise was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the night of 6 March 1987, killing 193 passengers and crew. [1] The eight-deck car and passenger ferry was ...
Statistics. Institutions. North Carolina State University. Jacqueline Mindy-Mae Hughes-Oliver is a Jamaican -born American statistician, whose research interests include drug discovery and chemometrics. [1] She is a professor in the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University (NCSU). [2]