Jesse Delia at The New York Times explores the darkness in search of a female glass frog. It was around 4 a.m. And for Jesse Delia, a graduate student conducting fieldwork in Panama, it had been a long night. His project wasn’t going well, and he was ready to head home. On his way back […]
In March the growth in inventories in most varieties reinforces the fact that the market lacks any clear signals of a reverse in the current downward trend. From the monthly report by the International Coffee Organization (ICO): In March, the ICO composite indicator price fell slightly. While Robustas remained broadly stable, Arabica prices were under […]
Here is a great article with some good ideas if you are ever asked to give up your seat as appeared in Smarter Travel magazine. The whole unhappy story about the doctor hauled off a United flight raises the question of what to do if you’re ever caught in a similar situation. Here’s what you […]
The Panama Canal on Tuesday welcomed the largest vessel to transit through the Expanded Canal since its inauguration in June 2016. The 13,092 TEU Neopanamax containership COSCO Development, measuring 366 meters in length and 48.2 meters in beam, is sailing from Asia and will soon become the largest ship to arrive on the U.S. East […]
Mike Shuler reports in gCaptain about this really cool ship and a billionaire who knows how to pay it forward! Norwegian shipping and offshore magnate Kjell Inge Roekke plans give away the ‘lion’s share’ of his estimated $2 billion fortune beginning with the construction of a large research and expedition ship to study ocean sustainability. The […]
What happened to the view? It is 5.30 am and I am first up on the deck, binoculars in one hand and field guide in the other. But yesterday’s breathtaking forest panorama has been swallowed by a peasouper. Perhaps I should have stayed in bed. Happily, the mist hasn’t fazed the birds. The branches […]
Kathleen Gregory explains the lengths these buyers have gone to find their customers the best coffee in the world. Somewhere around 1,200 meters above sea level near the misty, green highland town of Boquete in the north of Panama, Landreth Laws leads tourists on a guided walk through coffee plantations. “Our coffee develops good flavours […]
If you have the time and stomach to watch this Video, it opens up a lot of questions while also answering a lot of them about our worlds financial empire run by a few.
With one last push from her thrust jacks, Bertha came to rest in her final position within the disassembly pit near Seattle Center. Seattle Tunnel Partners began slowly moving the tunneling machine forward on April 13. Here is a pictorial on the big dig.
This is a great article posted by Clint Reiser in Logistics Viewpoints. The Panama Canal is quite the engineering feat, described by some as the eighth wonder of the world. It is especially interesting to those in supply chain and logistics, as it is a critical resource in support of today’s vast international trade. It […]