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how odd to see a write up from skroutz.gr blog being at the first page of HN...

from ec.europa.eu: "Accession negotiations started in 2005, but until Turkey agrees to apply the Additional Protocol of the Ankara Association Agreement to Cyprus, eight negotiatio…

For a European the above statement sounds so strange, alsmost fictional like. I thought that we have already established that a truly free market does not exist.

Some feedback that will help better understanding of costs. 1. A medium size container vessel (10k TEUS) with abt 15kts speeds will cost the same as the canal transit cost now that…

Filipino Masters and Chief Engineers are being paid north of $8500/month. Evidently you are not well informed.

if this ship is purely wind powered and basis on the published info this seems to be the case, i.e. there is no main engine of any type/fuel for propulsion - commercially it’s not …

FYR Amazon has the AWS Snow Family with the largest being a 45ft TEU, while Microsoft does Azure Data Boxes that are somewhat smaller.

from a European point of view, the market belongs to the people, not Apple and thus they must play by the rules the State set, for and on the behalf of the people.

this was delightful to read !

Byzantines were in fact well known for their diplomacy.

this was resolved mostly after the PRESTIGE incident and now shipping is no more or less as shady as all other major industries. The Flag Administrations have records of the benefi…

the permit to build might allow you a building with three floors at given/approved surface. You dont have to build 3 floors now, you can build 2 or 1 and later you can build up to …

all above 70 are exempted

The parliamentary financial evaluation committee has already declared it as unconstitutional. For those that still manage to save some of their income – a luxury for very few nowad…