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  1. As rivers re-open to shipping, oil threat to Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest continues
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest, home of incredibly rich biodiversity, is under unprecedented threat, writes ASMG Kibria. The recent oil tanker capsize on the Shela river puts the forest at risk of widespread biodiversity loss, but just this week, the authorities re-opened the Shela river to shipping with no restrictions on hazardous cargoes.
  2. California Leads the Way in the "Block the Boat" Movement
    Fighting the Occupation on the West Coast

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In organizing theory, activists often emphasize the importance of formulating what they call an "escalation plan." When pushing for social change, they explain, it is important that one's methods of exerting pressure on power slowly grow in strength, not remain stagnant. Block the Boat is the next step in the escalation plan of US Palestinian solidarity activists. The idea of Block the Boat is quite simple: Hundreds of activists organize a protest in a local dock and prevent Israeli ships from unloading cargo.
  3. Canadian Industrial Transportation Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Canadian Shippers Expect Modest Growth in 2010
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Shippers expect modest growth in their volumes and in rate increases of their carriers in 2010. That is one of the findings in the 5th annual benchmarking survey undertaken by Supply Chain Surveys Inc. for the Canadian Industrial Transportation Assoc
  5. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  6. Deep Sea and Foreign Going
    Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Brings You 90% of Everything

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    A voyage through the shady world of international shipping, the hidden industry upon which our world turns and our future depends.
  7. Flags of Convenience
    Corporate Anarchy on the High Seas

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Maritime lawlessness isn’t confined to pirates. Thanks to a system of ship registration called ‘flags of convenience,’ it is all too easy for unscrupulous ship owners to get away with criminal behaviour
  8. The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    This book covers aspects of life on and under the sea: terms, oceanography, shipwrecks, shanties, sailors, explorers, maritime inventors, steam, tidal power, marine wildlife, piracy, the East India Company, etc#.To the tune of 2600 entries in dictionary arrangement, with appropriate asterisked cross-references.
  9. The Picket of the Zim Piraeus
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014

Experts on Shipping in the Sources Directory

  1. Association of Caribbean States
  2. International Maritime Organization

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