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The Panama Canal is experiencing a strong grain shipping season with dry bulkers registering record grain cargoes during the first two months of the current fiscal year. New York Times file photo.
Based on the analysis by the Panama Canal’s Marketing Division, in October, a total of 5.2 million long tons of grains were transported through the waterway, the highest level recorded since October 2011. In November, tonnage is likely to reach close to the record cargo tonnage of 6.3 million long tons of November 2011. Transits of Panamax-sized dry bulkers, with beams between 100-106 feet, have increased 22% given the surging grain trade.
“The surge in grain cargo flows through the Panama Canal has been particularly strong for shipments from the US Gulf to China,” explained Maria Eugenia Sánchez, Senior Trade Specialist for the Panama Canal Dry Bulk Market Segment.
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Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan is cutting its workforce by about 18 per cent, affecting 1,045 people — with the biggest hits in its home province of Saskatchewan, as well as New Brunswick and Florida.
The cuts come amid lower prices for potash after Russian-based Uralkali, one of the world’s largest potash producers, quit the Belarusian Potash Company export partnership.
In expectation of lower prices on the world markets, China and India — key markets for fertilizer — delayed purchases, sending shipments plunging.
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A senior NSA collection manager admitted that the agency is “getting vast volumes” of location data from around the planet by tapping into cables that connect mobile networks globally.The National Security Agency is reportedly collecting almost 5 billion cell phone records a day under a program that monitors and analyses highly personal data about the precise whereabouts of individuals, wherever they travel in the world.
Details of the giant database of location-tracking information, and the sophisticated ways in which the NSA uses the data to establish relationships between people, have been revealed by the Washington Post, which cited documents supplied by whistleblower Edward Snowden and intelligence officials.
The spy agency is said to be tracking the movements of “at least hundreds of millions of devices” in what amounts to a staggeringly powerful surveillance tool. It means the NSA can, through mobile phones, track individuals anywhere they travel – including into private homes – or retrace previously traveled journeys.
The data can also be used to study patterns of behaviour to reveal personal information and relationships between different users....
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