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Travel overseas and cruises during coronavirus: Australians still booking holidays

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Overseas travel is banned. But travel agents and cruise lines are fielding inquiries and, in some cases, taking bookings from eager travellers. Travel agent Barry Downs said customers were beginning to discuss future holiday plans instead of seeking refunds or postponing travel. Three: unlikely to travel again.”

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Cruise ships and coronavirus: Ship cluster together at sea with crew still stuck on board

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Before she was transferred to the Koningsdam, she tried to walk off another ship with other US crew members last week but the ship’s security guards stopped them. For 21 hours a day, Mann remained isolated in a 14-square- metre cruise cabin that is smaller than her bedroom in her Midland, Georgia, home.

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Tyler Oderkirk's Blog ? Creating a local mirror of Ubuntu's most.

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Miami Road Trip 2009. Security (12). Travel (12). Sending data via cellular voice connections with Linux. Downloading photos from Facebook with Linux. Recent Posts. Priorities: Bump in the Trunk. Stepper-drive Plastruder Demo. Backpacking Gear Unboxing Photos. Storing file metadata with fnmeta.py. January 2011 (2). Flickr (24).

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FEATURE STORY: Racing To Be Ready – U.S. Ports Prepare for Post Panamax Era

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These ports are reminding cross-country destinations that they can still get containers to them faster over land than it will take the big ships traveling through the Canal to reach East and Gulf Coast Ports. MIAMI: A GLOBAL LOGISTICS HUB. Each crane weighs 1,550 tons and is fully electric so it emits no diesel emissions.

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STATE FOCUS – Ohio: Slow And Steady

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The addition of the Residence Inn and Eastwood Banquet Center to the Eastwood Mall in Niles will make travelers’ visits to the Valley more convenient and comfortable. Ohio also had three schools—Case Western Reserve University, Ohio State University and Miami University-Oxford—in the top 100 of U.S. By Dominique Cantelme.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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focused on mobile, security and business operations software). This marks a transformative moment for Rochester that will fuel economic growth, create jobs and further secure this region’s place as the photonics capital of the nation,” said Gov. NJEDA previously invested in four Edison Partners funds. Andrew Cuomo. for the first time.

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COVER STORY: Editors’ Location Picks

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Overall, the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area is one of the nation’s Top 100 Tech Centers as defined by bizjournals.com, with a recent ranking of 62. Little Rock is where ‘America Comes Together’—located at the crossroad of Interstate 30 and the most heavily traveled Interstate in the nation, Interstate 40.

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