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Mar272021 by adminNo Comments

‘Our customers are worried about the Suez Canal blockage’

Business

Seaport Freight ServicesBritish businesses are getting worried as Egypt's Suez Canal continues to be blocked by a Taiwanese mega-container ship for the fourth day in a row. Seaport Freight Services, a shipping and freight-forwarding company based at the Port of Felixstowe, has 20 containers of goods stranded on the Ever Given. "We're waiting on food goods like coconut milk and syrups, some spare parts for motors, we've got some fork lift trucks, some Amazon goods on there, all sorts," Steve Parks, director of Seaport Freight Services, tells the BBC."All our customers are hearing about it, and they're phoning us to ask when it will be resolved."The 400m-long (1,312ft) ship Ever Given, operated by Taiwanese transport company Evergreen Marine, is one of the world's largest biggest container v...

Dec242020 by adminNo Comments

Worried Morocco bans parties to stem holiday virus spread

Health

Morocco has imposed a curfew, closed restaurants in major cities and banned public and private gatherings for three weeks to curb the spread of the virusByThe Associated PressDecember 24, 2020, 9:56 AM• 1 min readRABAT, Morocco -- Morocco has imposed a curfew, closed restaurants in major cities and banned public and private gatherings for three weeks — including the usually festive New Year's Eve — to curb the spread of the virus.The curfew between 9 p.m and 6 a.m went into effect Wednesday night and is set to last until Jan. 13.All restaurants in the cities of Casablanca, Marrakech, Agadir and Tangier must close for that period, according to government orders this week. Elsewhere, restaurants, coffee shops, shops and supermarkets will have to close at 8 p.m.Morocco has reported more than ...

Dec152020 by adminNo Comments

New Covid strain: How worried should we be?

Health

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Dec52020 by adminNo Comments

Here’s how worried you should be about your stake in Alibaba, now that the U.S. is going after Chinese stocks

Finance

President Donald Trump has a bill on his desk that could kick several Chinese companies off U.S. stock exchanges and inflame an already strained relationship between Washington and Beijing.The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act would force companies to give up their listings on Wall Street if they refuse to open their books to U.S. accounting regulators. It could also bar them from raising money from American investors.While the law technically applies to companies from any country, it is mainly targeting Chinese corporations."U.S. policy is letting China flout rules that American companies play by, and it's dangerous," said Sen. John Neely Kennedy, R-La., in a statement.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a news conference this week that the bill pol...

Mar122020 by adminNo Comments

48% of Americans worried about paying for COVID-19 care, survey finds

Health

March 11 (UPI) -- Nearly half of all Americans say they are worried about meeting healthcare costs incurred because of the expanding new coronavirus outbreak, a new survey has found. In results released Wednesday by Healthcare.com, a web-based company offering insurance comparison services for consumers, 23 percent of respondents said that were "not very confident" and 25 percent said they were "not at all confident" in their ability to meet costs of care associated with the disease, called COVID-19. In addition, more than 40 percent indicated they would potentially need to take out bank loans, borrow money from family or run up credit card debt to cover any medical treatment they needed. Only 31 percent of respondents said they could meet expected costs by using their savings. "I think ...