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The respective shipyards are especially equipped and certified to recycle ships in an environmentally friendly manner, according to a press release from the company. The liner shipping company Hapag-Lloyd is currently having seven older container ships, each with a capacity of 4,101 TEU, recycled in Turkey and China.
A Mexican man living in the U.S. illegally has pleaded guilty to helping other immigrants be smuggled by American soldiers through a border checkpoint in Texas. Federal prosecutors say 51-year-old Victoriano Zamora-Jasso pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to transport and harbor undocumented immigrants and illegal re-entry after deportation.
Trump will hail two Californians - a firefighter who saved dozens of campers and boy who honors veterans' graves - in State of the Union speech Steve Oaks met David Dahlberg when they were tasked with saving 62 children and counselors from the Whittier fire last year. Oaks, a Santa Barbara County Fire Division chief, said that before Dahlberg left, "I wanted to look into his eyes to make sure the instructions were understood."
Members of the Tuscarora Creek Project Team invite volunteers to help clean up a section of the creek above and below the Oak Street Bridge at 1 p.m. Thursday. Oak Street Bridge connects Oak Street to East John Street a little past the Adam Stephen House.
Recent release "Sunrise" from Page Publishing author Rodger Morris is a purposeful account of the author's profound wisdom from experiencing God's providence with every waking moment that transpires. Rodger Morris, a simple man with steadfast Christian beliefs, who currently works for the Department of Corrections; a twenty-year veteran of the coal field of Illinois, a member of the United States Navy for four years, as well as having been diagnosed as bi-polar, has completed his new book "Sunrise": a resolute autobiographical narrative detailing the many instances God has inspired him every day throughout his life.
This Douglas C-47 led the formation carrying American paratroopers to the D-Day invasion. It is being restored in hopes it will fly over Normandy on the 75th anniversary of the invasion in June 2019.
ATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has a problem in the North Atlantic. It is not prepared for Russian aggression, at either the strategic or the tactical level.
Adm. Paul Zukunft , a 1977 graduate of the US Coast Guard Academy who is now the Coast Guard commandant, assumed command of the 88,000-strong force on May 30, 2014, overseeing a military branch that patrols from Guam in the Pacific to Puerto Rico in the Atlantic and from north of the Arctic Circle to south of the equator. Business Insider sat down with Zukunft at the Coast Guard's Washington, DC, headquarters at the end of December to discuss his time as commandant, how his approach to leading the service changed during his tenure, and how the force had adapted to new threats.
US President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on 12 January, 2018, for a weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago: AFP Air Force One , the military-spec jet liner that ferries President Donald Trump around the globe, is to receive a $24m refrigerator upgrade. Boeing was handed the contract to design and install two gigantic chillers on the aircraft that will store enough food to keep crew members, travelling journalists, Mr Trump and his advisers going for weeks at a time.
A Royal Australian Air Force Growler plane has caught fire after an aborted take-off at a US military base in Nevada. All RAAF personnel were reported as safe and the Defence Department said there were "no serious injuries" following the incident at the Nellis Air Force Base outside Las Vegas.
The military disciplined two pilots for failing to follow the correct flight plans following a pair of October incidents near Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Officials say no residents were put in danger by the aviators' mistakes but some neighbors say military leaders don't always listen to their noise and safety concerns.
When you're short-staffed at work, every task can be a challenge and your abilities as a leader are tested. With half his team deployed in 2017, maintaining the status quo would have been the easy option; however, Major Thomas Butler, 179th Airlift Wing Communication Flight Commander, was able to rally his team to be innovative and work together to achieve excellence.
Aberdeen-based Sentinel Marine has been awarded a contract to provide a patrol vessel to be chartered by the European Fisheries Control Agency in international and EU waters. Lundy Sentinel is one of the firm's growing fleet of new built multi-role emergency response and rescue vessels .
The U.S. Coast Guard will offload more than 47,000 pounds of cocaine worth over $721 million Thursday at 9:30 a.m., which was seized in 23 separate interdictions in the eastern Pacific Ocean by U.S. and Canadian forces operating in international waters off the coast of Central and South America. Senior U.S. and Canadian officials will be at the offload to discuss new tactics used by transnational organized crime groups and to highlight international cooperation in combating the threat posed by these dangerous groups.
In a move likely to irritate China, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is likely to visit Vietnam in March for the first time since the war, U.S. and Vietnamese officials said Thursday. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his counterpart discussed a plan for a carrier visit to Danang in March, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt.
In a move likely to irritate China, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is likely to visit Vietnam in March for the first time since the war, U.S. and Vietnamese officials said Thursday. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his counterpart discussed a plan for a carrier visit to Danang in March, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt.
The acquisition advances Vectrus' strategy to be a leader in the converging physical and digital infrastructure market; enhances the company's logistics, IT and technical solutions capabilities, while expanding the Vectrus client base. , and founded in 1986, SENTEL has over 600 employees operating in three core business areas: Engineering and Advanced Solutions, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and Intelligence Mission Support.
Swiss Federal President Alain Berset, right, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, shake hands prior to a meeting one day before the start of the 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.
A Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov SSV-175, is seen docked at a Havana port February 27, 2014. A Russian spy ship quietly slipped into Havana Bay earlier this week and was docked at a cruise ship terminal on Thursday, its crew casually taking in the view of the old colonial section of the Cuban capital as passers-by gawked.