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Corporate Debt Jumps To 12%, $1trillion Debts Due To COVID19

According to a Reuters report, companies around the world will take on as much as $1 trillion of new debt in 2020, as they try to shore up their finances against the coronavirus, a new study of 900 top firms has estimated.

Corporate Debt Jump

The unprecedented increase will see total global corporate debt jump by 12% to around $9.3 trillion, adding to years of accumulation that has left the world’s most indebted firms owing as much as many medium-sized countries.

Last year also saw a sharp 8%...

https://mfame.guru/corporate-debt-jumps-to-12-1trillion-debts-due-to-covid19/

Project cargoes keep AAL’s ships calling US Gulf ports

Project cargoes may not be the fastest movers on the high seas, but they have proved much less volatile than the U.S. container trades during the coronavirus pandemic.

Christophe Grammare, commercial director, AAL Shipping (Photo: Courtesy)

Singapore-based AAL Shipping, one of the world’s largest marine project cargo carriers with 25 vessels, has witnessed a steady increase in ship sailings involving the transport of large capital equipment from Asia to U.S. ports during the first half of 2020....

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/project-cargoes-keep-aals-ships-calling-us-gulf-ports

A Non-App Based COVID19 Contact Tracing from Google & Apple!

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A woman wearing a facemask as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus prepares to pay ‘touchless’ with her mobile phone for vegetables at a market in Beijing on March 23, 2020. (Photo by Greg Baker / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
  • A new phone-based technology to detect COVID19 contacts is being developed by Apple-Google in partnership.
  • A third of world’s population can be monitored by this without disclosing their private information.
  • The contact tracing...

http://mfame.guru/a-non-app-based-covid19-contact-tracing-from-google-apple/

Απούσα η Google από το μεγαλύτερο αιολικό πάρκο της Αφρικής

H Google ακύρωσε την αγορά του 12,5% του μεγαλύτερου αιολικού πάρκου στην Αφρική λόγω καθυστερήσεων στην υλοποίηση του project, όπως ενημέρωσε με σχετική ανακοίνωση τη Δευτέρα 10 Φεβρουαρίου η δανέζικη εταιρεία κατασκευής στροβίλων Vestas.

Το αιολικό πάρκο «Lake Turkana» στην Κένυα έχει παραγωγική ισχύ 310 megawatt (MW) και αρχικά είχε σχεδιαστεί να ολοκληρωθεί το 2017. Ωστόσο, οι μεγάλες καθυστερήσεις ανάγκασαν την Google να αποχωρήσει από το φιλόδοξο project.

Από την άλλη, υψηλόβαθμα στελέχη...

https://www.naftikachronika.gr/2020/02/12/apousa-i-google-apo-to-megalytero-aioliko-parko-tis-afrikis/

Ransa y Google se unen para consolidar data en la nube, que aportará al desarrollo de la competitividad logística en el país

Operador logístico inicia este proyecto aplicándolo a sus operaciones del sector extractivo en Perú. El objetivo es replicarlo en todos los sectores que atiende, en los 07 países de Latinoamérica […]

http://logistica360.pe/ransa-y-google-se-unen-para-consolidar-data-en-la-nube-que-aportara-al-desarrollo-de-la-competitividad-logistica-en-el-pais/

Google announces world’s biggest purchase of renewable energy

As part of its commitment to sustainability and clean energy, Google announced the biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy in history, made up of a 1,600-megawatt (MW) package of agreements and 18 new energy deals.

Together, these deals are expected to increase Google’s worldwide portfolio of wind and solar agreements by more than 40%, to 5,500 MW—equivalent to the capacity of a million solar rooftops, CEO Sundar Pichai explained.

Once all these projects come online, our carbon-free energy...

https://safety4sea.com/google-announces-worlds-biggest-purchase-of-renewable-energy/

Google: Προχωρά στη μεγαλύτερη επένδυση στις ανανεώσιμες πηγές ενέργειας

Η Google ανακοίνωσε πρόσφατα την πρόθεσή της να επενδύσει πάνω από $2 δις σε νέες υποδομές ανανεώσιμων πηγών ενέργειας σε ΗΠΑ, Νότια Αμερική και Ευρώπη. Σύμφωνα με την ανακοίνωση του τεχνολογικού κολοσσού, το νέο επενδυτικό πακέτο περιλαμβάνει 18 συμφωνίες για την εγκατάσταση αιολικών και ηλιακών μονάδων ισχύος 1.600 megawatts και πρόκειται  να αυξήσει το χαρτοφυλάκιο της εταιρείας στις ΑΠΕ στο 40%. Μάλιστα πρόκειται για την μεγαλύτερη επένδυση στις ανανεώσιμες πηγές ενέργειας στην ιστορία.

Σε...

https://www.naftikachronika.gr/2019/09/23/google-prochora-sti-megalyteri-ependysi-stis-ananeosimes-piges-energeias/

Google pledges carbon-neutral shipping

Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday announced that it would neutralize carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware by next year and include recycled plastic in each of its products by 2022.

The new commitments step up the competition among tech companies aiming to show consumers and governments that they are curbing the environmental toll from their widening arrays of gadgets.

Anna Meegan, head of sustainability for Google’s devices and services unit, said in an interview that the company’s...

https://container-news.com/google-pledges-carbon-neutral-shipping/

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