In a statement shipping minister Stephen Hammond said the technology should improve navigational safety in "the busiest shipping channel in the world".
Authorities have closed the shipping channel and were letting the fires burn.
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The plaintiffs claimed the Corps was not entitled to immunity because its activities regarding the shipping channel "were in direct contravention of professional engineering and safety standards, " Duval wrote.
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The experts counseled against one project, shoring up the banks of a controversial shipping channel that cuts through the wetlands east of New Orleans, a channel that may be abandoned.
The Coast Guard has closed the shipping channel for one nautical mile around the scene while fire and Coast Guard crews work on a plan to secure the heavily damaged barges.
If the dams are not removed, new restrictions on logging, fish harvest, shipping channel deepening, and irrigated agriculture would be needed to avoid the extinction of five runs of Snake River salmon and steelhead, the paper says.
Tensions over the battle of the ports have been running high - exacerbated by a land reclamation project just off the coast of Singapore which Malaysia says is affecting the flow and depth of the shipping channel.
Furthermore, the general ratcheting up of diplomatic tensions between the West and Iran over the republic's nuclear ambitions raises fears of a potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important shipping channel for oil deliveries.
Now the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) wants to dig out Savannah's shipping channel even further, to 48 feet, in order to attract the larger vessels expected to call on east-coast ports once the expanded Panama Canal opens in 2014.
Duval ruled that because the Corps failed to maintain the shipping channel, erosion widened it, and its banks -- which helped protect the levees -- deteriorated, leaving the levees unprotected, undermined and more vulnerable to waves coming off Lake Borgne.
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Obviously, one of the things that we discussed with the President this morning, you have shipping channels that could soon -- the area of the spill could soon be in a very large shipping channel, and the ramifications that may or may not have as well.
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Sediment-carrying rivers have been diverted, sea level has risen (increasing the volume of water in the lagoon), a deep-water channel has been dredged for shipping, and turbid waters are killing the eel grass that stabilises mud flats.
However, because of ongoing legal battles over wine shipping rights, the stakes are raised in importance because enhanced restrictions in winery shipping coupled with an unwieldy and unfriendly distribution channel could mean the death knell for an entire classification of wineries.
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Microsoft entered the market during the quarter with its Surface with Windows RT tablet, but failed to reach the top five after shipping just shy of 900, 000 units into the channel.
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Shipping company Condor Group is to shed 70 jobs in the Channel Islands when it closes its logistics division.
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, TNP makes up 4.13% of the Guggenheim Shipping ETF ( AMEX: SEA) which is trading lower by about 1.5% on the day Thursday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, TNP makes up 4.13% of the Guggenheim Shipping ETF ( AMEX: SEA) which is trading lower by about 2.7% on the day Wednesday.
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, TNP makes up 4.13% of the Guggenheim Shipping ETF ( AMEX: SEA )which is trading lower by about 2.9% on the day Friday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, TGP makes up 4.27% of the Guggenheim Shipping ETF ( AMEX: SEA )which is trading up by about 0.1% on the day Monday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, OSG makes up 4.16% of the Guggenheim Shipping ETF ( AMEX: SEA) which is trading higher by about 0.5% on the day Friday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, OSG makes up 4.16% of the Guggenheim Shipping ETF ( AMEX: SEA) which is trading higher by about 0.9% on the day Tuesday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, TK makes up 4.06% of the Guggenheim Shipping ETF ( AMEX: SEA )which is trading up by about 0.1% on the day Wednesday.
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