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Lorry plunges off bridge in northern England
A lorry plunged off a. viaduct in northern England, cops said on Monday, leading to. the closure of three of the 4 lanes due to major damage. caused to the barrier. The driver of the truck is not believed to have suffered any. dangerous injuries, according to a declaration from the. Cheshire police, which is accountable for the area near. Manchester in northwest England. Law enforcement officer were contacted us to reports of an incident on the. northbound carriageway of the M6 at Thelwall Viaduct, between. junction 20 and 21, where they found the truck had come off the. carriageway and arrived at the embankment listed below the bridge. The lane closures will remain in place for some time, and. are expected to continue into the morning, police stated, advising. vehicle drivers to prevent the area and find an alternative path.
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New York bracing for ports strike impact, governor says
New York Guv Kathy Hochul stated an upcoming East Coast and Gulf Coast port strike set to start early on Tuesday might result in considerable disruptions however prompted residents not to stockpile food. We're deeply worried about the impact a strike could have on our supply chains, especially when it pertains to vital goods like medical supplies and others, Hochul told a news conference on Monday stating the state completely prepares for a strike will take place. Evictions of the marine terminals in New york city and northern New Jersey will be closed at 5 p.m. ET (2100 GMT) ahead of a. work interruption, stated Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port. Authority of New York City and New Jersey. If 45,000 union members stroll off the task at ports extending. from Maine to Texas, it would be the first coast-wide strike by. the International Longshoremen's Association considering that 1977,. impacting ports that handle about half the country's ocean. shipping. Cotton stated near to 100,000 cargo containers will be stored. at the port during the strike with another 35 ships headed to. the port over the next week. They would remain at anchor throughout. the strike under the guidance of the U.S. Coast Guard. Individuals ought to not be worried about losing access to. essential items if a strike starts, Hochul said. We don't believe there will be a disturbance to the food. supply, the New York guv said, however she added that if a. work blockage goes on for a prolonged duration, it might affect. deliveries like bananas. We don't expect lacks of. vital products anytime soon. Hochul stated the state recently reminded health centers and. nursing homes throughout New York of the requirement to keep a. 60-day stockpile of individual protective devices and other. important products. We're really concentrated on medical materials,. Hochul stated. She said some customers may not get a car on the. very same schedule they are expecting or other durable goods. This will be a significant disturbance for thousands and thousands. of independent truckers also, Hochul added.
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New Fortress ships Mexico's first LNG freight for export
U.S. energy infrastructure business New Fortress Energy on Monday shipped the first export of melted natural gas from Mexico, following the inauguration of output at its floating facility off the nation's coast, the company said. New Fortress in early August completed preproduction at the first train of its Fast LNG task in Altamira, in the Gulf of Mexico, and said a first partial cargo from the $1 billion facility would be delivered to its La Paz power plant in Mexico. Marshall Islands-flagged LNG tanker Energos Princess, which carried that freight in late August from Mexico's Atlantic coast to the Pacific Coast through the Panama Canal, is now setting sail with a new shipment bound for Europe, according to the business and LSEG vessel tracking information. The vessel will reach its destination around Oct. 18, the data showed. This is a substantial turning point for our Fast LNG setup, stated Wes Edens, chairman and CEO of New Fortress, in a release. We're delighted to be able to provide our own gas supply to the world markets and our customers. The company dealt with hold-ups since in 2015 to finish infrastructure at the 1.4-million-tonnes-per-annum task and begin processing U.S natural gas in Mexico, which held off the business start of Mexico's very first LNG plant. In early September, New Fortress announced it had gotten authorization from the U.S. Department of Energy to export LNG to non-free trade arrangement nations from Altamira for five years. It had actually formerly received authorization to export to countries under free trade agreements with the United States.
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Maersk moms and dad to invest $1.7 bln in fossil-free plastics plant at Antwerp port
A.P. Moller Holding, majority owner of shipping huge Maersk, plans a preliminary financial investment of 1.5 billion euros ($ 1.7 billion) for the building of a fossilfree plastics production facility in the Belgian port of Antwerp, it said on Monday. The plan comes as the Danish holding business announced the founding of Vioneo, a venture looking for to transform plastics production. Vioneo intends to develop its first production complex in Antwerp, Belgium, Europe's biggest integrated chemical cluster. The Antwerp plant will take advantage of the area's expertise in the chemicals industry, strong export centers and access to renewable energy, A.P. Moller Holding said in a news release. The project represents a 1.5 billion euros initial investment, with a Prospective Decision (FID) in 2025, the investment company said, adding that the success of the endeavor remains depending on stakeholders' support. The facility, set to be established within Vopak Energy Park Antwerp, will benefit from the support of Dutch tank storage firm Vopak and the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, the Belgian port authority said in a press release. Vioneo's Antwerp plant is anticipated to begin business operations in 2028, with the creation of around 250 long-term positions once the facility is fully operational, the Danish holding company stated.
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Lebanese show up in Turkey shaken by war, hope for quick return
A few of the hundreds of Lebanese citizens who showed up in Istanbul on Monday after getting away Israeli airstrikes in the homeland said they were shaken but intended to return home quickly. Israel has actually struck targets in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon during a two-week wave of attacks that has actually killed several Hezbollah leaders and likewise some 1,000 other individuals, according to the Lebanese government. Many more have actually fled their homes. All Middle East Airlines flights from Beirut to Istanbul were offered out on Monday, the company's site stated. Turkish Airline Companies and Pegasus Airlines have cancelled their flights to Beirut in the coming days. The circumstance in Lebanon is very bad. The war is increasing significantly and lots of battles happen in Beirut. We are hearing the (military) flights all night ... in the sky, stated Aref Arhad, 33, a Beirut resident who got here in Istanbul on Monday on a Middle East Airlines flight. He stated he hoped to have the ability to return to Beirut in a couple of days if the circumstance enhances. Lina Diab, a Lebanese reporter, stated the area where she lives was still safe however she decided to leave as a safety measure. We don't want to live (with) the stress, so I choose to come to Istanbul, remain for a while, view what will happen, she said waiting for travel luggage. Ideally we return quickly to Lebanon.
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Montreal port workers start three-day strike at 2 terminals, port authority says
Unionized employees have started a 3 daystrike at 2 terminals at the port of Montreal as talks over a new agreement are yet to result in a labor arrangement, the Canadian port's authorities stated on Monday. The partial strikes will affect the Viau and Maisonneuve terminals, which represent about 40% of the port's container traffic, with operations expected to remain affected until 6:59 a.m. ET on Thursday, Oct. 3. The two terminals are currently closed, the Port of Montreal stated. Montreal Port Authority reveals its frustration that no contract has been reached in between the Maritime Employers Association (MEA) and the Longshoremen's Union to avoid a work interruption, the port stated. Every day of work stoppage puts $90.7 million in economic activity at threat, the port added.
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Verizon to sell mobile towers to infrastructure company Vertical Bridge in $3.3 bln offer
Verizon Communications will sell countless cellphone towers to digital infrastructure company Vertical Bridge in a $3.3 billion offer, it said on Monday, opening more money for the dominant U.S. wireless provider to bolster its network. The deal, covering 6,339 towers across all 50 U.S. states and Washington D.C., consists of upfront money earnings of $2.8. billion. The towers will be leased back to Verizon for ten years,. with an alternative to extend the term approximately 50 years. The sale is expected to nearby the end of 2024 and would. aid Verizon's efforts to drive down tower-related costs. This fits with an international pattern of wireless operators. divesting their owned and run towers. But it is likewise a. recognition that towers are normally worth more in the hands of. independent operators who can more easily rent space on the. tower to multiple renters, MoffettNathanson expert Craig. Moffett stated. Verizon currently has a tie-up with Vertical Bridge, under. which the facilities company prepares to build towers with the. wireless provider as the anchor occupant. Vertical Bridge has more than 500,000 websites in the U.S. that. includes wireless and broadcast towers. It also has collaborations. with business consisting of AT&T and T-Mobile United States. ( This deal) positions us to profit from the growing. need for cordless facilities, particularly as AI-driven. technologies and 5G continue to reshape connectivity requirements. across industries, Vertical Bridge Vice Chairman Marc Ganzi. said. Property supervisor DigitalBridge, which is the majority owner of. Vertical Bridge, and Canada's second-largest pension fund CDPQ. would provide capital to support the offer. Verizon had stated earlier this month it would buy fiber-optic. internet supplier Frontier Communications in an. all-cash offer worth $20 billion. J.P. Morgan and Centerview Partners LLC are financial. advisors to Verizon and Vertical Bridge, while Jones Day and. Greenberg Traurig are legal counsels to the firms, respectively.
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Brazil's coast eroding faster than ever as Atlantic advances
Sonia Ferreira's. twostory home with a pool and garden on the Brazilian coast. was yet another casualty of the advancing waves of the Atlantic. Ocean, pushed greater by environment change. On a recent check out, the 80-year-old retired person glanced around. the mound of debris left from the home she abandoned before it. was ruined in 2022 by the pounding waves in Atafona, north of. Rio de Janeiro. I've avoided coming back here since we have many. memories. It is so sad, she stated, revealing images on her. cellphone of your house she built 45 years ago. Global warming, integrated with the silting of the Paraiba. River, has actually contributed to the erosion of Atafona's coast and. triggered the destruction of 500 houses, including the collapse of. a four-story building by the beach. This is among many beachside neighborhoods losing their. fights to the ocean up and down Brazil's 8,500 km of Atlantic. coastline. The water level has risen 13 cm (5 inches) in the region. around Atafona in the last thirty years and could rise another 16 cm. by 2050, according to the United Nations report Surging Seas in. a Warming World launched last month. Coastal locations such as Atafona could see the ocean advance. inland as much as 150 meters in the next 28 years, said Eduardo. Bulhoes, a marine geographer from Fluminense Federal University. The combination of climate modification and worldwide warming ... with a river that no longer carries sand to the beaches of. Atafona, has actually caused a catastrophe for its homeowners and there is. no hope that this scenario will be reversed, he told Reuters. Although dramatic, Atafona's plight is not distinct in Brazil. The beach in Ponta Negra, one of the most popular seaside. resorts on the northeast shoulder of Brazil, is likewise shrinking. In the last 20 years, it has actually lost 15 meters of white sand to. the sea. The city government is bringing sand from in other places in. a pricey effort to recover the beach. At the mouth of the magnificent Amazon River, a fragile community. is threatened with a loss of biodiversity as the river has lost. strength in the area's most extreme drought on record, letting. seawater from the ocean advance upstream. Seawater comes further up the river and this will change. the whole biodiversity of that area, stated oceanographer Ronaldo. Christofoletti, at the Federal University of Sao Paulo. In 2015, seawater reached practically as far upriver as. Macapa, a city 150 km (95 miles) from the mouth of the Amazon,. eliminating freshwater fish and affecting local fishing neighborhoods. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the. U.N. body for evaluating the science associated to environment change,. reported that water level are rising faster than ever, with the. rate more than doubling in the past 10 years to 0.48 cm a year,. compared to 0.21 cm yearly in 1993-2002. Christofoletti stated the loss of land in seaside towns and. beaches is inevitable with rising seas, questioning why city. preparation had actually not adapted. It is shocking to see houses being ruined in Atafona. But you were not expected to built homes there. You should have. woods, a mangrove overload, a sandbank, ecosystems that would. naturally be prepared to hold the sea, he said.
Hurricane John re-awakens as a 'zombie,' lashing Mexico and the Pacific Coast
Hurricane John intensified again on Thursday, dumping rain along Mexico's southwest coast, which is dotted with tourist attractions and ports. This area has already been soaked for several days by the slow-moving system.
John has been churning menacingly along the coast since Monday. It has strengthened and weakened as it impacts major cargo ports. At least five people have died, mostly from mudslides.
Jesse Ferrell, an AccuWeather meteorologist, referred to John's storm as a "zombie storm" - a term used to describe systems that dissipate and then redevelop into storms. It was first coined in 2020 by the U.S. National Weather Service when remnants of the storm Paulette returned to Bermuda after hitting the Azores.
In 2004, Hurricane Ivan, lasting for almost a month, devastated the Caribbean, before it dissipated and returned to life, striking the United States. Ivan was responsible for $26 billion worth of damages in 2004.
Christopher Rozoff of the National Center for Atmospheric Research said that John was moving slowly and did not have any large-scale forces steering it in another direction.
Rozoff stated that this made it "prone" to taking a dangerous path back over the sea in order to intensify and further torture the Mexican coastline with extreme rain.
John was throwing rain over the Mexican state Guerrero Thursday. He had already struck the state earlier this week with a strike which uprooted trees and knocked out electricity to tens thousands. It also triggered deadly land slides that crushed homes.
On Thursday morning, Governor Evelyn Salgado of Guerrero State urged residents to be prepared. A day earlier, rising waters had flooded roads and beachfront restaurants at Acapulco, which is one of the top resort areas in the state.
Acapulco has yet to recover from the major damage caused by Hurricane Otis in Acapulco last year.
According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, John crawled northwest and was now stationary 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Lazaro cardenas' major cargo port, with maximum sustained winds of up to 75 miles per hours (121 kph).
The Miami-based hurricane center predicts that the hurricane will skirt Mexico's southwest coastline, along Michoacan and Guerrero states, as well as Oaxaca, further flooding the area until at least Saturday.
It warned that "this heavy rain will cause catastrophic and life-threatening flash floods and mudslides."
Alex DaSilva, AccuWeather's lead hurricane expert, said that both John (and Otis) had intensified rapidly due to warm sea temperatures. Some areas where John developed were nearing 32° Celsius (90° Fahrenheit), giving storms more fuel.
Andra Garner, a meteorologist at Rowan University, said that warm waters likely helped John to reform after its initial landfall.
DaSilva said that it was "very likely" that we would see sea surface temperatures rise in the future. This "could result in more episodes of rapid intensity as we look forward." (Reporting and editing by Bill Berkrot, Aurora Ellis and Bill Berkrot; Reporting by David Alire Garcia and Raul Cortes)
(source: Reuters)