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An average volume day, as good as it has been for months, AIM is beyond me sometimes, with today's sp action you'd think the energyvoice article had reported the AM sinking!
Ricfle: "If the "decision" is the majority's will than a further vote should not be a problem".
This might come as a shock to some, but I'm 100% in agreement with Ricfle on this one.
re the Irish border, a smugglers paradise would be a good result.
The bad result would be a hard border with both Irish nations taking it out on London. Don't forget that there are at least 2 generations of Irish on both sides of the border who have not just memories but experience in using violence for political means. Why do you think both the UK and EU were so concerned about the agreement maintaining the Good Friday Agreement? (the EU more so than some self-serving UK politicians)
Boyzee, agree.
The politicians started this without thinking through the possible consequences, They didn't even think through the promises, never mind the impossible paradoxes like the Irish border being both a open border and a border between two different jurisdictions. There's no plan, there never was a plan, and no promises of nirvana won't make a plan.
We can either admit it was all a bad mistake and stay in the EU, or we're going to plunge this country into many years of trouble, economic and social..
Tip: use a Japanese spell checker.
:-)
If it passes, we will remain a vassal state of the EU forever.
If we crash out, then the UK economy will be hit hard, and we will cause disruption to Irish trade with both the UK and the EU. Crashing out will cause a hard NI border, which will precipitate civil unrest - but it won't be the Irish fighting each other, there'll be many different groups right across the British Isles who will be "rather annoyed" with London.
If they want to avoid both economic disaster, and civil unrest, their only option is a People's Vote.
I've just driven back from Germany and fuel prices there were rising because of the shortages.
The Germans have been using extra road tankers to move fuel, but they can't solve the problem of not enough water in the Rhine, that depends on the weather, their crops have been suffering from the lack of water too.
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"Is there any chance of seeing the Aoka Mizu from the east coast of Scotland as she travels northwards from Rotterdam?"
We could get Capitano Schettino to pilot us past the Loch of Strathbeg... :-)
seriously though, her route will be unlikely to pass within viewing distance of the mainland, she'll be well offshore, With port security in Rotterdam I'm not sure you'd be able to see much if you went there, the best place to catch a sail-by would be to go to one side or other of the Strait of Dover. Dungeness, or Cap Griz-Nes as the northeast bound traffic lane is on the south side of the channel. On a clear sunny day you'd get a good view, on a misty morning you might see nothing.
difficult to tell... have they haggled a price yet? is it a tank full or just a top-up? will they have to queue or will they have a slot arranged? who knows? does it matter?
give the guy a break, it is the weekend...
you might be suspicious about another new online currency, but then there's also few AIM companies I'd be much less likely to risk anything on, and it's this sort of post that makes that makes this board so informative about all sorts of things that one might or might not speculate on. It's not like we have a long list of Hurricane topics we haven't discussed in depth yet.
other reasons they won't drop the moonpool plate at Lancaster:
There's an exclusion zone around the buoy, and only essential activity occurs within it. As the plate removal could be simply and safely done at a dock side, why do it in the middle of the North Atlantic?
To save a couple of days of the moonpool being open?
Not significant, they could be waiting offshore for a weather window for weeks.
Dropping the cover plate onto the depth of water at Lancaster doesn't make any engineering sense at all.
It would be much more difficult for the divers working in the North Atlantic than in a dock, there would be a risk of the plate damaging the SURF installation (it's big and heavy but could still glide quite some way horizontally given it's shape and unpredictable currents, so predicting exactly where it would impact the sea bed would be impossible) and the depth of water you'd then have to retrieve the plate from just makes what would be an easy job much harder and more expensive.
this tells me to look forward to Christmas !
Well, since Fritz started this thread at 07:52, it's been 4.16 hours, so at 9.6 knots that's 39.9 nautical miles.
At this rate we only need another 75 pointless threads to fill the space between here and Rotterdam.
Malta's territorial waters are 12 miles, the bunkering area being just outside of that limit would suggest the fuel is tax-free there
I doubt she'll go into port in Malta, that's just a convenient AIS approximation of her more likely waypoint, the group of bunkering tankers some miles offshore of Valletta, many ships refuel there on their way through the Med. Our tow stopped there on the way out.
Zoom in here, you'll see many small tankers bunkering larger ships:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:14.811/centery:35.893/zoom:14
Boyzee: "We all lose it occasionally"
true... apologies for any collateral damage yesterday,
yes to you too Ricfle, if we ever meet I'll buy you a pint.
(but we might disagree what of :-))
don't worry Ricfle, If I manage to get any good information about the tankers offloading,
for your benefit I won't be publishing it here.
Destination "MALTAB".
That will be "MALTA Bunkering", which will be done offshore from a bunkering tanker, usually to the east side of the island.
someone tell Ricfle I'm ignoring him as he doesn't like any of my posts.