Not for sale:Danish politicians poured scorn on the notion of selling Greenland to the United States following reports that President Donald Trump had privately discussed the idea of buying the world’s biggest island with his advisers.
An Iranian tanker whose detention exacerbated frictionsbetween Tehran and the West could sail free from British territory Gibraltar, though a U.S. request to halt its passage could drag the saga back into court. Gibraltar lifted the detention order on Thursday after it said Tehran had given written assurances that the ship would not discharge its oil in Syria. But the United States is still seeking to detain the vessel on grounds it believes it was helping Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
‘This was surf city’:Strict environmental rules and steep labor costs have sent scores of Southern California surfboard manufacturers to China. Southern California spawned a billion-dollar international surfboard business, but Trump’s growing trade war with China still has local companies searching for factories overseas.
While in the Indian Ocean heading toward the Strait of Malacca, the very large crude carrier Pacific Bravo went dark on June 5, shutting off the transponder that signals its position and direction to other ships, ship-tracking data showed.
Chinese state-owned construction giant CCCC is preparing a bid to dredge Argentina’s Parana River, the country’s main cargo superhighway that takes soy and corn from the Pampas farm belt to the shipping lanes of the south Atlantic and the world.
