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In the past year, China has had maritime run-ins with Japan, Vietnam and also the Philippines over disputed territories in the area.

Maritime Christmases run in the family, he said: "My father works at sea as well, so he spends the majority of his Christmases away too.

The people who had fled from their toppling houses to the maritime hills ran down to loot the once-sunken objects.

Although the coast swings northwestward at the border with Peru, forming an elbow, the previous maritime boundary ran due west (see map).

Even so, the ruling offers a potential opportunity for the two countries to deepen growing economic and political co-operation.The status quo in the Pacific was favourable to Chile: although the coast swings abruptly north-westwards at the border, forming an elbow, the de facto maritime boundary ran due west close to the 18th parallel.

Our findings suggest that the attempt to implement an EU maritime ETS runs into a dilemma.

The maritime operation is run by the EU's Warsaw-based borders agency, Frontex, which has a shoestring budget and no military assets.

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, run by the CSIS, says Vietnam has added about 120 acres (49 hectares) of land to its South China Sea holdings in recent years.

The ill-run Maritime region, in the far east, was the worst hit last year.

The most striking example came recently, after the Kremlin forced the resignation of Yevgeny Nazdratenko, the notoriously thuggish governor of the ill-run Maritime Territory in Russia's far east.

He gives an account of the foundering of the frigate the Northfleet in 1873 when it was struck by a Spanish cargo vessel, causing it to list dangerously; the crew called to the Spanish ship but it performed a maritime hit-and-run manoeuvre, disappearing into the night without helping the doomed passengers.