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Cyber Threats and Missiles
Hackers and cyber attacks pose as great a threat to Britain’s hi-tech warships of the future as missiles and torpedoes, the man in charge of building the Navy’s new frigate has warned. Increasing levels of computer control and automation mean protecting vessels against electronic attack has become a focus of shipbuilding for the Navy. The new Type-26 Global Combat Ship, which is designed to be the workhorse of the Royal Navy when it is built, has been designed to protect its weapons, engines and systems from cyber warfare. A 'cyber war' sounds fantastical, but it's real – and we’re losing

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Suez canal scheme 'threatens ecosystem and human activity in Mediterranean'
The continuing expansion of the Suez canal risks causing serious harm to marine lifeforms and economic activity in the Mediterranean sea, scientists are warning.

Egypt is building a second "lane" to the Suez canal, as well as widening the existing channel, in an "ominous" scheme scientists fear could allow greater numbers of non-indigenous species to enter the Mediterranean and endanger the native ecosystem.

"The enlargement of the canal will increase the number of invasions from the Red Sea resulting in a diverse range of harmful effects on the ecosystem structure and functioning of the whole Mediterranean sea, with implications to services it provides for humans," Bella Galil, a marine biologist at Israel’s National Institute of Oceanography, told the Guardian.

Writing in the Biological Invasions academic journal, Galil and 17 colleagues accept that the expansion will go ahead despite their concerns, and acknowledge that the revenues from an enlarged canal are likely to bring Egypt a much needed economic boost.

But they ask Egypt to first conduct an impact assessment to determine the project's likely environmental footprint, and any preventive measures to mitigate the dangers ultrasound, and increased salinity in certain parts of the canal.

There are about 700 non-indigenous species in the Mediterranean, according to the scientists, about 350 of which have entered from the Suez Canal since its construction in the late 19th century. Some of these species "are noxious, poisonous, or venomous and pose clear threats to human health", while others have destroyed the habitats of local creatures.

Among the most destructive recent entrants from the Suez is the silver-cheeked pufferfish, a non-native fish containing toxic chemicals that has caused several people to be treated in hospital in the eastern Mediterranean in the past 10 years. Two kinds of herbivorous rabbit-fish - the dusty spine-foot and its cousin the marbled spine-foot - have destroyed vast swaths of underwater seaweed forests in the eastern Mediterranean, after migrating through the Suez in recent decades.

Perhaps the most dangerous newcomer is the nomad jellyfish, or Rhopilema nomadica. Once only found in tropical waters, the nomad jellyfish invaded the Mediterranean via the Suez in the 1970s. Now its vast swarms, which can measure tens of miles in width, frequently make commercial fishing impossible and have sometimes closed tourist beaches lining the Mediterranean for days at a time.

"This isn't just about the effect on other species," said Stefano Piraino, a jellyfish expert at the University of Salento, and one of the 18 signatories. "We're talking about a threat to human life and human activity, including tourism, agriculture, and fisheries."

Some of the jellyfish have temporarily disabled power stations lining the eastern Mediterranean, after the swarms became stuck in the stations' seawater-powered cooling systems. Nearby fishermen have found their catches ruined for similar reasons. "Jellyfish can be 90% of the catch - and the remaining fish are very damaged, so the value of the fish is greatly reduced," said Piraino.

This year, researchers at the university of East Anglia estimated that jellyfish from the Suez would cost fishermen in the northern Adriatic sea - which is only a small part of the Mediterranean - €8.2m (£6.5m) in financial losses.

The 18 scientists have called on signatories to the Convention of Biological Diversity, a UN-organised pledge to conserve the world's ecosystems, to press Egypt to conduct an impact assessment into the environmental effects of the canal expansion.

Responding to the call, Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, executive secretary of the convention on biological diversity, acknowledged the potential environmental and socioeconomic effects of the Suez expansion, and asked Egypt to implement an environmental assessment. "We trust that, as party to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Egypt will adhere to its obligations," Dias told the Guardian.
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Construction of the bypass, dubbed the "new Suez canal" by the Egyptian government, began in August. It will allow two-way traffic for 45 miles of the canal's 120-mile length, creating room for more ships, and potentially more revenue for cash-strapped Egypt. The project has been warmly received by many Egyptians, who contributed 80% of the 64bn Egyptian pounds (£5.6bn) raised to build the new canal, after the government promised them a 12% annual yield on their investment.

Criticism of the project is seen as unpatriotic, with some local newspapers calling it "the project of the century" and comparing it to Egypt's surprise attack on Israel in 1973 - one of the proudest moments in modern Egyptian history. But it has come under fire from thousands of locals whose homes have been destroyed by the construction work.

Senior representatives for the Suez Canal Authority did not respond to two written requests for comment or answer their phones.
Source: The Guardian

Posted On:11-Aug-2015



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SCCT Prepares for Expanded Canal Traffic Growth
The Suez Canal Container Terminal, located east of the northern entrance of the Suez Canal, at the convergence of the continents of Africa, Asia and Europe, is preparing for an even larger role in global trade as the expansion of the man-made waterway linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas enables increased vessel traffic. Four additional Super-Post-Panamax cranes scheduled for delivery to the terminal in mid-2016 will bring SCCT's crane total to 24, increasing the terminal's annual throughput capacity to 5.4 million TEUS, and making it the largest container terminal by capacity on the Mediterranean Sea.

"As one of the world's most important waterways, the expanded Suez Canal will play an even greater role as a gateway of global trade, and we are proud to be a part of that ongoing progress for Port Said East, the people of Egypt, and the global shipping industry" said APM Terminals' Chief Operating Officer Jeff De Best, who attended the official Suez Canal expansion opening ceremonies held August 6th.

APM Terminals is the majority shareholder in SCCT, with a 55% ownership. Other shareholders include Chinese-based COSCO Pacific, with 20%, the Suez Canal Authority, with 10.3%, and the National Bank of Egypt, with 5%. The remaining shares are held by the Egyptian private sector. Over USD $800 million has been invested in the terminal, which opened in October 2004, and has become one of the busiest container facilities in the region, handling 3.5 million TEUS, primarily for transhipment, in 2014.

Approximately one tenth of all global seaborne trade transits the Suez Canal, representing 18,000 vessels transiting annually, including container ships. The new STS cranes, representing an investment of USD 42 million will each have a 72 meter reach, and a height of 52 meters, with the ability to handle the world’s largest vessels now entering the global fleet. There are currently 29 vessels of 18,000 TEU capacity and above in service, with another 68 on order, deployed on the Far East/Europe trade lane, the world’s busiest. SCCT is the only container terminal in Egypt capable of working vessels of that size, and highlighting the importance of the terminal as a global and regional transhipment hub.

"The canal expansion, completed in just one year, is a great achievement for the people of Egypt, and we are hopeful that the planned construction of more infrastructure projects will enable even faster canal cargo volume growth and economic progress", added Mr. De Best.

APM Terminals is the largest terminal operating company in Mediterranean Region, with 8.1 million TEUs handled in 2014 (weighted by equity share). The APM Terminals Global Terminal Network includes APM Terminals Algeciras, the busiest container terminal in the Mediterranean, with a throughput of 3.5 million TEUs in 2014; APM Terminals Tangier (1.6 million TEUs); a 33% share of Gioia Tauro MedCenter Container Terminal, in Italy (3 million TEUs); and 42% of Fos Seayard Container Terminal, in France (451,000 TEUs). APM Terminals Vado, on Italy's Ligurian Coast, is scheduled to open in 2017, with an annual throughput capacity of 800,000 TEUs and the ability to accommodate vessels of up to 18,000 TEU capacity. APM Terminals Izmir, on Turkey's Aegean Coast, will open in early 2016 with a capacity of 1.5 million TEUs, and the ability to accommodate Ultra-Large Container Ships as well.
Source: APM Terminals

Posted On:11-Aug-2015



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