lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
SPANISH fire fighters took five hours to extinguish a spectacular blaze on board a Maersk container ship berthed in the Port of Algeciras in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Planet Nomad (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Friday On Friday, we decided to head to Gibraltar. We got off to a very late start, and the bus schedule we’d been given seemed to be suggestive as opposed to authoritative. The helpful man in the tourist office had said a bus left for Algeciras every half hour, so we headed off to the bus [...]
lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
SOMALI pirates this afternoon captured chemical tanker Stolt Strength after the unit had passed south through the Suez Canal ex-Algeciras.
Morocco Travel Information (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Morocco Tangier Customs port has seized more than 400 kilograms of drugs hidden inside a truck was about to board a ship bound for the Spanish port of Algeciras. Drug shipment was seized by a Alscaner first on Thursday, where the customs sources said he was suspected in the presence of prohibited materials in international transport truck, was subjected to an X to be the discovery of a shipment...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
The points table, which has the Dragon with 13 behind Ericsson 4's 14 and Puma's 13, makes the race look closer than it is and it is Telefonica Blue, completing the top half of the table with 10, that could upset things on the next leg to Kochi, south-west India. Finishing fifth yesterday, skipper Bouwe Bekking pointed to the early rudder problems, which cost them a 12-hour stop in Algeciras,...
lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
SALVORS refloated the bulk carrier Tawe on Monday, ten days after it ran aground in severe weather off Algeciras.
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
... Cowboy provides new perspective on both Edward and Roosevelt, revealing how, at the oft-forgotten Algeciras conference of 1906, they worked together to dispel the shadow cast over world affairs by Edward’s ill-tempered, power-hungry nephew, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. At Algeciras, the U.S and major European powers allied with Britain in protest of Germany’s bid for Moroccan independence....
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... it was free. After that, I headed to Eureka to use the internet to book my ferry from Morocco to Algeciras and my hotel there, then I headed home to relax...I watched Dumb and Dumber...that movie never gets old! 10 - 9 - 08 I dove in the tank with the eels again. Man those things are so creepy...and this time I was having ...and, this is it.a hard time staying down...I kept floating...but...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/10/2008
... breakfast. There's time to explore Madrid the following day before taking the afternoon train to Algeciras, a scenic journey across the Castilian plateau and up into the hills of Andalusia to the southernmost tip of Spain. After spending the night in Algeciras, perhaps at the historic 4-star hotel Reina Cristina, take a ferry across the Straits in an hour or two, past the Rock of...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Shell's giant pipe laying ship, The Solitaire, is reported to be leaving Scotland. The ship's destination is given as Algeciras in southern Spain.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
... entry into Morocco for overland visitors, second only to Tangier. The ferries mostly launch from Algeciras in Spain, but I noticed for one hundred Euros that one could travel from Ceuta to Malaga. This is actually rather expensive but obviously we were paying a premium for something special, because our mode of transportation was helicopter. Our journey through the heliport almost didn’t...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
... in predawn raids in four northeastern towns near Barcelona. Raids also occurred in Madrid and Algéciras in the south. At least eight of those detained are Moroccan. The identities of the rest were not immediately made public.The arrests stemmed from a 2005 police operation during which Spain broke up a terror cell that allegedly recruited people to stage suicide attacks against U.S.-led...
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
... implicated in the Madrid train bombings to flee. The men were detained in Barcelona, Madrid and Algeciras before dawn today, the Interior Ministry said in an e-mailed statement. They are being investigated over the flight of eight men, including five who were suspected of involvement in the March 11, 2004, attacks, the ministry said. Groups linked to al-Qaeda killed 191 people in the bombings...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
Algeciras, Spain - Several hundred metres of Spain's southern coastline have been polluted with diesel oil spilled from two freighters over the weekend in heavy storms. The two freighters, both under Liberian flag, ran aground in the Bay of Algeciras...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
... in pre-dawn raids in four northeastern towns near Barcelona. Raids also occurred in Madrid and Algeciras in the south. At least 8 of the detainees are Moroccan. The identities of the rest were not immediately provided.The arrests stemmed from a 2005 police operation during which Spain broke up a terror cell that allegedly recruited people to stage suicide attacks against U.S.-led forces...
