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MSC Flaminia is drifting in the mid-Atlantic with a big plume of smoke as seen from passing nearby ships. One of the 4 wounded crew members has died from heavy burns; the other 3 crew members were taken to Azores by helicopter. One crew member is missing. There were twenty five people on board.An explosion & then fire in a cargo hold caused the crew of ‘MSC Flaminia’ to abandon ship mid-way between UK & Canada
At 10:07 on Saturday 14, July 2012 Falmouth Coastguard received the relayed ‘Mayday’ broadcast from the German registered MSC Flaminia reporting that the crew had abandoned the vessel.
Falmouth Coastguard broadcast an alert to all vessels in the area and the nearest vessel which could provide assistance was the oil tanker DS Crown which immediately changed course to intercept the MSC Flaminia. Six other merchant vessels also proceeded to the location to help with the search and rescue operation but were more than six hours from the location.
Rescue helicopters do not have the endurance required to attend an incident of this nature because the vessel was located approximately 1,000 miles from land mid way between the UK and Canada.
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'APM demanded from the government a monopoly on containers -- Is that OK?' sign in Limon, Costa Rica. Union dockworkers have fought the concession of the Port of Moín, saying the community and country will lose when a multinational takes over the public port. Judges in an administrative court have until Aug. 7 to rule on a lawsuit challenging the legality of a $1 billion concession at Moín. If the deal goes through, the port will become one of the region’s biggest.
Three judges will rule in upcoming days on the fate of the $1 billion Moín Port project, on the northern Caribbean coast.
The renovation contract would help modernize an area that currently has two of the worst ports in the world, proponents said. But unions representing dockworkers and banana producers filed lawsuits against several government entities and the Dutch multinational company APM Terminals to try to halt the private concession – the largest in the country’s history.
During a trial last week, the National Banana Workers Chamber and the Atlantic Port Authority’s union (SINTRAJAP) asked judges to annul the concession, which was signed by President Laura Chinchilla last August (TT, June 22...
Two Longview City Council members say their recent trip to a Wyoming coal mine operated by Millennium Bulk Terminals’ parent company has renewed their desire for a comprehensive study of multiple coal export terminals proposed in the Pacific Northwest.
Last month, Tom Hutchinson and Mary Jane Melink toured the Black Thunder coal mine, which is located about 40 miles south of Gillette, Wyo. A two-page report is available online at www.mylongview.com.
Hutchinson said he was impressed by the company’s emphasis on safety and efforts to suppress coal dust, but he still believes the federal government should conduct a “programmatic” environmental review of six proposed coal terminals in Washington and Oregon.
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