DP World has signed an agreement with French research organisation Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA) and strategy specialist TerraWater Institute to launch a feasibility study into how Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology could...

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Iran has been widely condemned for demanding up to $2 million for vessels to ship through the Strait of Hormuz. DW explores the reasons why Egypt can charge for the Suez Canal and Panama for its waterway, but Iran can’t. The Iranian regime has been accused of...

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The sea is sometimes so tranquil that Captain Hassan Khan forgets his ship has been stuck in the middle of a war zone for three months. “It is really strange that everything looks normal outside, but people inside are not calm,” says the Pakistani sailor, who doesn’t...

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The Screening Model Customs Was Built On No Longer Holds For most of the last twenty years, customs enforcement has operated on a screening model. Cargo manifests arrive ahead of port call, risk scores are calculated against the declared origin, shipper, and route,...

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The Panama Canal announced through an advisory to shipping companies that, effective July 1, the maximum authorized draft for vessels transiting the Neopanamax locks will be 49.5 feet (15.09 meters). The adjustment is based on current and projected Gatun Lake levels...

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