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Zodiac linked with $26m cape buy

Brokers report that Zodiac Maritime has struck again linking the Eyal Ofer-chaired outfit with its fourth capesize purchase since May. Zodiac is linked to the 2009-built Aurora Venus for $26m, $1m more than online portal VesselsValue.com values the Japanese-built ship at. The news will bring Zodiac’s cape spending up to more than $100m this year. http://splash247.com/zodiac-linked-with-26m-cape-buy/

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Shortly after boarding the coal ship "Orient Venus", an Israeli Navy boat met up with the ship and arrested the activists, because according to maritime law, vessels are prohibited from entering a nation's naval territory with unidentified passengers on board. The activists were subsequently released, after being questioned by the police. The ship berthed at Hadera.

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Greenpeace-activists boarded the „Orient Venus“ in the morning of July 8, 2010, in order to keep the coal carrier from entering a port in Israel to protest against the construction of a coal plant in Aschkelot. They entered a mast and fixed a poster with the words “Coal kills”. A ship of the Israel Navy is on scene.