The Port of Oakland issued a statement: "At this time maritime operations are effectively shut down at the Port of Oakland.
But "Divine inspiration" provides no insurance against rain, snow, maritime mist or time, and even a Colossus, as Mr. Moses called the bridge, occasionally needs a touch-up.
At the same time, maritime affairs were not totally neglected either, and Balaji Vishvanth took some care to cultivate the Angria clan, which controlled a fleet of vessels based in Kolaba and other centres of the west coast.
During at least the last four episodes, both extreme floods and droughts occurred and climate departed from its normal condition, which was defined as a balanced change between the northwestern continental monsoon and southeastern maritime monsoon over time.
And at the same time maritime engineers are being given the chance to start with a clean sheet and design ships from scratch.
We have the technology available to control these vessels," marine engineer Michael Johnson, who worked as vice-president of project management at Crowley Maritime at the time, told me in a phone interview from Boston.
Gruen owns an agency that sells public-service announcements to television stations, Joris is a big-time maritime lawyer, and Elliot is a stockbroker.
We were already familiar with Frenchy's, whose stores had begun to appear in small towns in the Maritimes about the time we settled into our house on the South Shore.
At the same time, the maritime alliance is taking its toughest bargaining stance in years.
Some 1,500 died when the Titanic went down off Newfoundland on 15 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg in what remains the most storied maritime tragedy of all time.
