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SheCEO initiative for Wista and maritime industry

SheCEO initiative for Wista and maritime industry

Indian tycoon Adani s mega port hangs in the balance as a fishing community protests

By Munsif Vengattil, Arpan Chaturvedi and Aditya Kalra VIZHINJAM, India (Reuters) - On the main road to billionaire Gautam Adani s planned Vizhinjam mega port on the southern tip of India, a shelter built by the coastal region s Christian fishing community blocks the entrance, preventing further construction. The simple 1,200 square-feet structure with a corrugated-iron roof has since August stood in the way of ambitions for the country s first container transhipment port - a $900 million project that seeks to plug into the lucrative shipping trade flowing between juggernaut manufacturers in the East and wealthy consumer markets in the West. Decorated with banners proclaiming indefinite day and night protest , the shelter provides cover for roughly 100 plastic chairs, although the number of protesters taking part in the sit-ins on any one day is usually much lower. Across the street, supporters of the port including members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi s ruling party and Hindu group

Fielding Swan: pilot first class

In 1990, I volunteered to do a series of oral histories for the National Museum of Bermuda on Bermudians involved in our maritime history. With their permission, I have selected George Fielding Swan, .

Shipping family now Switzerland s richest, say papers

The Aponte family in Geneva has become the richest in Switzerland, thanks to the pandemic, report two Sunday newspapers.

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