It has been a rollercoaster couple of months for seabed mining pioneer The Metals Company. For most of the last year, the company’s share price languished below one ..
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Vessel capsizes, spills containers at Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Port
Over 600 containers fell into the sea after a foreign-flagged vessel capsized and sank in the Port of Kaohsiung in Taiwan on Thursday, July 20. The captain of the Palau-f ..
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OPINION | To balance the Quad equation, India and Australia must drive an “Indo” focus
For all the attention given to the Quad, the grouping itself has devoted limited time to the Indian Ocean – the “Indo” part of the Indo-Pacific region. As the two c ..
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Island Nations Key to U.S. Maintaining Position as Pacific Power
USS Benfold (DDG-65) is at anchor off Koror, Republic of Palau in 2012. US Navy Photo
This post has been updated to correct that Yun was speaking at the Hudson Institute on Friday.
The Freely Associated States lying between Hawaii and the Philippines are crucial to the United States remaining a Pacific power, the special envoy to these three island nations said Friday.
To China, the Republics of the Marshall Islands and Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia “are the Second Island chain”...
https://news.usni.org/2023/04/28/island-nations-key-to-u-s-maintaining-position-as-pacific-power
US, Philippine Coast Guards join search for missing Taiwanese fishing vessel
The Coast Guards of the United States and the Philippines have joined a search and rescue (SAR) effort led by the Taiwan Coast Guard Administration (TCGA) to attempt to l ..
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REMINISCENCES | Captain Hook and four dangerous sharks
Who is Captain Hook? He plays an important part in this episode and is a very remarkable man. He is Howard W. Pollock, who died in 2011 at age 90, and has had a career mo ..
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COLUMN | Surprise, surprise! Saipem, Borr Drilling, The Metals Company, Impossible Mining and Olympic [Offshore Accounts]
Last week was a rollercoaster week for the offshore market. The North Sea spot market continued to sizzle, with Tidewater fixing the 235-tonne bollard pull anchor handler ..
Coast Guard delivers emergency supplies to typhoon-hit Pacific islands
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Myrtle Hazard delivered emergency supplies Saturday to the small island nation of Palau in the western Pacific, in response to a national emergency declared by President Surangel Whipps Jr. after Typhoon Surigae devastated the region last week.
The bulk of the supplies, which included water and food, went to the people on the island of Kayangel.
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Four dead, three missing after freighter breaks in two in Black Sea off Turkey
Four people were killed and three others have gone missing after a commercial vessel broke in two and sank in the Black Sea just off northern Turkey’s Bartin ..
US Coast Guard, Palau authorities detain vessel for IUU fishing
The crew of the Palau Division of Marine Law Enforcement patrol boat PSS President H.I. Remeliik II coordinated with the US Coast Guard to apprehend a suspected illegal, ..