Human aerosol emissions have a cooling effect on the planet, because they can make clouds brighter by providing extra condensation nuclei on which cloud droplets form. Brighter clouds reflect more of the sunlight that strikes them, deflecting it from the earth’s...

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Rates for shipping containers from east Asia and China to the US continued to fall this week and are nearing the levels seen at the start of the pandemic, pushed lower by falling demand, China’s ongoing zero-COVID policies and Chinese factory closures for the Golden...

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Clean In the Middle East Gulf this week most LR runs have seen more declines from inactivity. TC1 lost 15.62 points to WS169.38. Similarly, on the LR1s, TC5 ended up at WS171.43 (-19.28) with a trip west and TC8 declined from around $3.4m to $3.25m. There are reports...

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The shipping industry is up in arms over restrictions placed by Paradip Port Authority on crew change at the eastern coast port during the monsoon season between May and October. “As the sea condition during south-west monsoon season (May to October) normally remains...

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An Indian transit container, carrying eight tonnes of tea, has got stuck at Chattogram port for the last 24 days as the lone cargo vessel on the route could not leave for Kolkata port due to technical glitches in its engine. The vessel, MV Trans Samudera, which was...

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