we know already that it has played a role in other recent marine accidents, such as the mauritius oil spill, for instance, so quite obviously, there has been the significant impact from covid, and this risk canal crisis quite obviously comes at the worst imaginable time possible, because levels of shipping were just back to to -- were just back to normal from the pre-pandemic times, so that's really, really a tricky bit we are in. but my prediction is that both because of the trends towards the mega vessels, but also considering climate change and more severe weather events, we are goingo see many more marine accidents in the future, and that quite obviously is not necessarily good news. mohammed: you said earlier that the egyptian government is really sort of claiming success right now. i want to ask you if you think, from your vantage point, that shipping companies really believe that the canal is going to be fully operational soon. or are they moving ahead with contingency plans? >> well, i think that's very hard for me to tell. i think in the next maybe day or two, things will be

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panama, as your listeners may remember, last year, there was a ship that also grounded on the island of mauritius, and there was a spillage of fuel over these incredibly environmentally sensitive areas. that ship was al flying the flag of panama. it becomes a question of who will be accountable for this, who will end up responding to the problem. will it be the owners, the ship operators, the flakka panama which is responsible for this? anything that can come out of this process, more scrutiny of these open registries, that would be an important and good thing. amy: can you talk about the people on board the ship, the sailors, the workers, their working conditions on these massive ships? laleh: i actually went down the suez canal will couple of times as part of my research in 2015 and 2016. what is really striking a's in a ship that huge, as big as a small town, you only have about 35 people working on the ship, which is an astonishing statistic. sometimes not even as many as that. usually a container ship has more people because if there are things like refrigerated containers, they have to make

panama, as your listeners may remember, last year, there was a ship that also grounded on the island of mauritius, and there was a spillage of fuel over these incredibly environmentally sensitive areas. that ship was alsolying the flag of panama. it becomes a question of who will be accountable for this, who will end up responding to the problem. will it be the owners, the ship operators, the flakka panama which is responsible for this? anything that can come out of this process, more scrutiny of these open registries, that would be an important and good thing. amy: can you talk about the people on board the ship, the sailors, the workers, their working conditions on these massive ships? laleh: i actually went down the suez canal will couple of times as part of my research in 2015 and 2016. what is really striking a's in a ship that huge, as big as a small town, you only have about 35 people working on the ship, which is an astonishing statistic. sometimes not even as many as that. usually a container ship has more people because if there are things like refrigerated containers, they have to make

workers are pumping oil out of the chinese fishing boats that ran aground off the coast of mauritius the vessel was carrying $130.00 tons of oil in ahead of coral reef now the capital on sunday there was a small spill at 1st but the hole remained intact it should take 5 days to empty and todashev away it's the 2nd ship wreck and in less than a year in july a tanker ran aground and spilled 1000 tons of fuel. chinese state owned companies are getting a bigger foothold in chile it's an investment bonanza but not everyone is sure it's a good thing and some politicians are proposing ways to put the brakes on latin america editor of the c n human reports from timber offer. from the $1000000000.00 acquisition of one of the world's largest salmon companies to the purchase of copper in lithium mines to wineries and fruit fields. china has set its sights on chile it may be a small country but it has a very long and strategic pacific coastline and lots of resources that the agent giant needs but that's not the only attraction the most important thing for china is. window shop in. the region. to