Overloaded Russian Cargo Ship Capsizes, Four Crew Members Missing Three crew members have been rescued from a small general cargo ship that sank near the port of Korsakov on the southern tip of easternmost Sakhalin Island. Still, four others are missing, Russian authorities report. The Grigory Lovtsov cargo ship was built in Japan in 2002 […]
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What is a sextant instrument? A sextant is a special navigation instrument that measures the angular distance between the horizon and a celestial body (e.g., the sun, moon, etc.). Measuring the altitude of a celestial body is called “sighting”. The term “sextant” is derived from the Latin word “sextant”, “sextant” – “sixth part”, from “sextus”
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Germany opens new NATO naval headquarters in the Baltic Sea The command task force, headquartered in the Baltic port city of Rostock, is designed to strengthen NATO’s defensive readiness in the region. The establishment of the facility highlights the importance of the Baltic Sea to NATO as relations with Russia deteriorated after the Ukrainian invasion.
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Canada to deliver first crude oil in a decade to Alaska A tanker carrying Canadian crude oil has departed Vancouver for Alaska for the first time in at least a decade. According to Vortexa tanker tracking data, the cargo left Vancouver on Oct. 1, delivering 466,000 barrels of oil, and arrived in Nikisi, Alaska, 10
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Iran And Russia Launch Naval Exercises In High-Risk Triangle Of Maritime Coercion As Tensions Rise Iran has held naval exercises in the Indian Ocean, with Russia and Oman also participating, amid rising tensions in the Gulf. The IMEX 2024 exercise kicked off today with nine other countries participating, marking a coming together of regional and
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The Yemeni Army recently attacked another ship with links to Israel in a drone attack in the Arabian Sea. Yemeni military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sari said the ship, named “Megapolis”, was attacked because it violated Yemen’s embargo on all goods shipped to Israeli ports. He also added that the Yemeni Air Force carried out
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The Resurgence of Russia-Cuba Friendship Recent naval exercises by Russian warships—including the Admiral Gorshkov frigate and the Kazan nuclear submarine—in Havana have attracted considerable attention from strategic circles worldwide. Given comparisons with historical precedents and the intensity of the current dynamics of great power strategic competition, echoes of the Cold War are inevitable but perhaps
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A mysterious Dubai company takes control of Russian LNG ships in an apparent bid to circumvent sanctions A Dubai startup has taken over three liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers in what appears to be Russia’s latest move to circumvent Western sanctions. According to global shipping database Equasis, in September, management of the previously Russian-operated ships,
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Chile Faces Growing Risk Of Freight Cargo Hijackings The South American nation of Chile has long been known as one of the safest countries in Latin America. However, a recent trend of freight cargo hijackings in Chile has foreign executives on alert and raised new concerns about the dangers truckers face on Chilean roads. In
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PMMC Complete Model: Composition, Advantages & Disadvantages The full name of PMMC is Permanent Magnet Voice Coil. It is an analog instrument commonly used to measure electrical quantities such as voltage and current. PMMC instruments consist of a permanent magnet, a voice coil, an indicator, and a scale. The freely rotatable voice coil is placed
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