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State erases useless laws

Kentucky New Era 23 Jun 2018

When the General Assembly passed House Bill 400, leaders of Kentucky’s bourbon industry were smiling. The bourbon boon acknowledged long has been hampered by an archaic regulation preventing distilleries from shipping bottles to a visitors’ home. The legislation revised several laws allowing distilleries and wineries to ship packages — assuming alcohol sales are legal in the purchaser’s hometown....

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Customized cruise ship to set sail next year

China Daily 23 Jun 2018

Royal Caribbean International announced in Shanghai last week that it will launch a new cruise ship with upgraded facilities, as well as new itineraries tailor-made for the Chinese market, in 2019. The cruise ship, Spectrum of the Seas, which is still under construction, will roll out as the first of the company's Quantum Ultra Class of luxury liners....

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With Trump's trade war, carmakers' bets on globalism may backfire from Detroit to Tokyo

Messenger-Inquirer 23 Jun 2018

Over the past three decades, the global auto industry has gotten, well, more global ... While cars are typically sold in the countries where they're made, it's not uncommon for them to also be shipped abroad ... The risk for the global auto industry is that this may be merely an opening salvo in a battle by the Trump administration against cars shipped to American shores....

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Booming Kiwi gaming industry asks for Government intervention to grow

TVNZ 23 Jun 2018

Games like Into the Dead 2, Bloons TD 6 and the much-awaited Ashen are helping the New Zealand games industry find success on the world stage. Gaming is NZ’s fastest growing industry, with offerings gaining international popularity ... New Zealand Game Developers Association chairperson Michael Vermeulen said the industry is booming, with a goal for earnings to reach one billion dollars per year by 2026....

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Suspected Chinese lasers target US aircraft over Pacific

Yahoo Daily News 23 Jun 2018

The area's waters are near heavy-traffic shipping lanes, and are used regularly by both Japanese and Chinese military and civilian ships, as well as a semi-autonomous "maritime militia" which defends China's territorial interests in the region. Aviation Week & Space Technology, an industry publication, quoted a spokeswoman for the US Marines who ......

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Transportation workers share reform insights

China Daily 23 Jun 2018

The workers who keep China's transportation system running are experiencing the nation's reform of the industry firsthand ... Yao Zeyan, 54, a ship pilot with the Yangtze Maritime Pilots Center, said that over the past 30 years the number of vessels he guides each month has tripled ... Zhong Songmin, a salvage specialist on an engineering crane ship at ......

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Bevin downplays effect of EU tariffs on bourbon

Messenger-Inquirer 23 Jun 2018

LOUISVILLE -- In comments at odds with his home state's whiskey distillers, Kentucky's Republican governor is downplaying fears that the European Union's retaliatory tariffs could disrupt the booming market for the Bluegrass state's iconic bourbon industry ... Kentucky's auto parts sector could be hit hard, since many of its products are shipped to auto assembly plants in Canada and Mexico, he said Friday....

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Governor downplays effect of EU tariffs on bourbon

The Daily Independent - Ashland 23 Jun 2018

(AP) — In comments at odds with his home state's whiskey distillers, Kentucky's Republican governor is downplaying fears that the European Union's retaliatory tariffs could disrupt the booming market for the Bluegrass state's iconic bourbon industry ... Kentucky's auto parts sector could be hit hard, since many of its products are shipped to auto assembly plants in Canada and Mexico, he said Friday....

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The Latest: Spain rescues 569 migrants crossing the sea

This is Money 23 Jun 2018

In this photo taken on Thursday, June 21, 2018, migrants on a rubber boat are being rescued by the ship operated by the German NGO Mission Lifeline in the Mediterranean Sea in front of the Libyan coast. Italy's interior minister says Malta should allow a Dutch-flagged rescue ship carrying 224 migrants to make port there because the ship is now in Maltese waters....

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MMC’s new boss backs decision to keep scandal issue in-house

Asahi News 23 Jun 2018

Both men were aware that the company’s directly operated Naoshima Smelter and Refinery in Kagawa Prefecture shipped products that fell short of Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS), but did not announce it when Mitsubishi Materials released a final report in late March on its findings into product data problems by subsidiaries ... Industrial Standards....

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Would denial of Line 3 project mean more oil trains?

Duluth News Tribune 23 Jun 2018

Would denial of Line 3 project mean more oil trains? ... To many, that's a scary thought ... Oil that's ready to ship might sit in a tank for a while until it can get on a pipeline or train ... Mike Walls, a crude oil analyst with Genscape, said it's a lot more expensive to ship oil on trains ... "If we reduce the price of moving the oil to the coast, where it can be shipped abroad, we are in a sense supporting industry's desire to export oil ... ....

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The Aquarius: Migrant taxi service or charitable rescuers?

BBC News 23 Jun 2018

Italy accuses search and rescue vessels in the Mediterranean of providing a taxi service for illegal migrants and says it wants to impound the ships ... Gavin Lee reports from onboard the rescue ship Aquarius....

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Ship with reported norovirus outbreak stops in Alaska

This is Money 23 Jun 2018

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report an outbreak of norovirus on a cruise ship in Alaska ... sick on the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam....

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