Global health insurer Allianz Worldwide Care has announced the launch of a new plan which offers a compliant solution for onshore healthcare to shipping companies affected by the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC 2006), commonly known as ...
Tags: comprehensive rights and protection, basic employment rights
The Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation will launch its campaign to engage Hispanics in boating and fishing on April 1. A five-year outreach plan begins with a pilot in Florida and Texas that includes a new Spanish-language ...
Tags: Foundation, anglers, preservation practices
The Nicaraguan government has granted a concession to a mysterious Chinese company owned by Jing Wang, a little-known Hong-Kong based businessman, to build an inter-oceanic canal. This would provide an alternative to the Panama Canal that, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Construction
Costa Inc. and Essilor International have completed its merger agreement. This action brings together two technology-minded partners committed to building and defining the next generation of sun lens technology. As a manufacturer of ...
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Shimano Group reported net sales reached ?71.0 billion yen in the year ended Dec. 31, 2013, up 10.2 percent from 2012. The Japanese company said China's growing appetite for sport bikes more than offset lackluster demand in North America, ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Zamakona Yards delivers the Ro-Ro ramp to the Tenerife Container Terminal (TCT) Thursday, Jan 23, 2014 This past Wednesday, 15 January, Zamakona Yards carried out the load testing and delivery of the movable ramp for the Roll on-Roll off ...
ryden began his career at Levi Strauss & Co., where he spent more than 25 years serving in leadership roles in sales and marketing and then regional and global supply chain organization. Bryden later became VP of operations and supply ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
The chemical spill that contaminated water for hundreds of thousands of West Virginians is just the latest and most high-profile case of coal polluting the nation's waters. An Associated Press analysis of federal environmental data found ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Water
A US federal appeals court upheld a multibillion-dollar settlement between BP and the coastal residents and businesses hit by the company's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. The British energy giant reached a $7.8 billion ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Canada's closure of science libraries containing a vast repository of environmental data dating back more than a century has researchers worried that valuable books and reference materials are being lost in the name of cost-cutting. ...
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Pioneer Energy Services (NYSE: PES) today announced it has renewed its drilling contracts with Ecopetrol for all eight of its drilling rigs in Colombia effective January 1, 2014. Pioneer recently operated six rigs for Ecopetrol under ...
Tags: Pioneer Energy Services, Ecopetrol, drilling rigs, Colombia
The leatherback turtle in the Pacific Ocean is one of the most endangered animals in the world. Its population has declined by more than 90 percent since 1980. One of the greatest sources of mortality is industrial longlines that set ...
Tags: leatherback turtle, GPS, longline fishing, bycatch risk
Big Rock Sports has unveiled the company's new brand identity along with an enhanced website. The introduction of these new features follows their restructure in 2013, in which the company was split into a Shooting Sports Division and a ...
Tags: Big Rock Sports, New Sport Brand
MINOX USA, Inc. is now the exclusive distributor in the USA for all original PUMA and PUMA IP knives. As has been the case since 1769, all PUMA knives are handmade in Solingen, Germany according to the highest standards set forth by the ...
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A giant bluefin tuna sold at a Japanese auction on Sunday for less than five percent of the record-breaking sum paid last year amid concerns over soaring prices for the prized delicacy. The 230-kilogram (507-pound) bluefin tuna was ...