Robert Wright

Hopes ride on simplicity to save dry bulk rates

By Robert Wright, Transport Correspondent Radical steps to address the crisis in the shipping industry triggered by a collapse in dry bulk freight rates will be proposed at emergency talks in London on Wednesday. The conference...

Sector must navigate rates challenge

8 hrs ago

By Robert Wright, Transport Correspondent When Britannia Bulk, a London-based specialist in moving coal from the Baltic to the UK, listed on the New York Stock Exchange in June, its prospects seemed golden. The company’s...

Bloggingheads.TV Selects Mirror Image Internet to Deliver Streaming Video Debates

Tewksbury, MA (November 17, 2008) - Mirror Image Internet, a leading provider of content delivery solutions powered by a patented global network, today announced that it has been chosen by Bloggingheads.tv to deliver streaming...

Pirates seize another ship in Gulf of Aden

By Andrew England in Cairo and Robert Wright in London and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington A Hong Kong cargo ship loaded with 36,000 tonnes of wheat bound for Iran was hijacked on Tuesday by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, near...

UTMC receives unannounced visit by Joint Commission

Prior to the exit conference Friday afternoon, Joint Commission surveyors met with leaders from The University of Toledo Medical Center. Posing for a photo were, from left, Roberta Heath, nurse surveyor; Dr. Lewis Soloff,...

Remembrance Day Blues For Norfolk BNP

There’s nothing quite like a fascist comedy to perk you up on a sunny Remembrance Sunday. Receiving information that the BNP in Norwich would be making an appearance at the Remembrance Sunday Parade outside City Hall along with...

Hapag-Lloyd earnings down despite higher turnover

14-Nov-2008

By Robert Wright, Transport Correspondent A fall in underlying earnings at Hapag-Lloyd, the container shipping business of Germany’s Tui, underlined the extent of the challenge facing the new owners who have agreed to buy the...

Province of British Columbia: Canada, B.C., China Sign Rebuilding Agreement

Ministry of Technology, Trade and Economic Development Ministry of Forests and Range Natural Resources Canada BEIJING - The governments of Canada, British Columbia and China today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that...

ACCC: ACCC issues draft MTAS pricing principles determination and indicative prices for 2009-2011

Nov 14, 2008 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today issued draft pricing principles and indicative prices for the mobile terminating access service (MTAS) from 1 January 2009 to 31...

Men's soccer comes up short

The PSU Men's Soccer team came up just short in a defensive nail biter against Rhode Island College in the Little East Conference championship game by a score of 1-0 on Sat., Nov. 8 in Providence, R.I. With the victory, RIC...

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