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Professor: Extreme weather will be huge challenge for shipping

The past year has been characterized by a number of extreme weather conditions, leading one professor to call on carriers to up their game.
A tugboat and a barge stranded on a sandbar in the dry Rio Negro River in Brazil in October. | Photo: Bruno Kelly/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
A tugboat and a barge stranded on a sandbar in the dry Rio Negro River in Brazil in October. | Photo: Bruno Kelly/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
by LIV ALMER

A historic drought in the Panama Canal, skyrocketing water levels in the Rhine and ships stranded in dried-up rivers around the Amazon.

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