Commerce with the Red Sea Ports

2021 ◽  
pp. 288-294
Author(s):  
William Foster
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Sea Ports

scholarly journals Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Q. Huynh ◽  
Laura H. Kwong ◽  
Mathew V. Kiang ◽  
Elizabeth T. Chin ◽  
Amir M. Mohareb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Humanitarian Crisis ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Sea Ports ◽  
Oil Tanker ◽  
Urgent Action

AbstractThe possibility of a massive oil spill in the Red Sea is increasingly likely. The Safer, a deteriorating oil tanker containing 1.1 million barrels of oil, has been deserted near the coast of Yemen since 2015 and threatens environmental catastrophe to a country presently in a humanitarian crisis. Here, we model the immediate public health impacts of a simulated spill. We estimate that all of Yemen’s imported fuel through its key Red Sea ports would be disrupted and that the anticipated spill could disrupt clean-water supply equivalent to the daily use of 9.0–9.9 million people, food supply for 5.7–8.4 million people and 93–100% of Yemen’s Red Sea fisheries. We also estimate an increased risk of cardiovascular hospitalization from pollution ranging from 5.8 to 42.0% over the duration of the spill. The spill and its potentially disastrous impacts remain entirely preventable through offloading the oil. Our results stress the need for urgent action to avert this looming disaster.

Some Comments on Navigation in the Red Sea

1981 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-151
Author(s):  
R. A. Cahill
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
Gulf Of Suez ◽  
Sea Ports

While navigation in the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Suez has been given much study and has attracted considerable comment in recent years there has been comparatively little said about the Red Sea. In view of the very marked increase in traffic in this area and the attendant upsurge of vessels calling at Red Sea ports, particularly Jeddah, more study of the problems of navigating in this body of water would seem warranted.

Andhra Pradesh

Hinduism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lavanya Vemsani
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Eastern Border ◽  
Sea Ports ◽  
Supreme Deity

Andhra Pradesh is located in the middle region (Madhyadesha) of India, on the southeastern side, with the long coastline of the Indian Ocean on its eastern border. Due to the presence of its long coastline, Andha Pradesh played a central role in the trade between the East and the West. Andhra Pradesh was the emporium between India and Southeast Asia, and brisk trade also flourished with the Roman Empire via the Red Sea. Linguistic, religious, and social connections have been traced between Andhra Pradesh and Indian Ocean regions since prehistoric times, with increased trade recorded at the turn of the first millennium. Archaeologists have outlined sea routes that fostered trade links between the ports of Andhra Pradesh and the Red Sea ports of Saudi Arabia and Africa (Oman, Yemen, and Ethiopia), connecting it to the Mediterranean Sea trade with the Roman Empire. Hence, it is no surprise that the concept of middle finds unique expression in its language, religion, and culture. Its language is a unique blend of Prakrit (desi) with Sanskrit and Dravidian words. Madhyamikavada (the Middle Way) of Buddhism was founded by Acarya Nagarjuna, who was closely associated with Nagarjuna University at Sriparvata in Nagarjuna Konda. The lord of the middle, Narasimha, is the supreme deity of Andhra Pradesh; Narasimha was also declared as the state deity of Telangana upon its formation in June 2014. This unique Telugu culture was the central reason for Andhra Pradesh to have been established as the first linguistic state of independent India in 1953 (reorganized in 1956 with Telangana). However, Andhra Pradesh existed as a unified state of Telugus for less than three-quarters of a century until 2014, when it was divided into two states, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This article is titled “Andhra Pradesh”; hence, even though this article refers to Andhra Pradesh frequently, the reference is inclusive of Telangana for all the information discussed. Although the core of the Andhra Pradesh region is located between the valleys of the Krishna and the Godavari Rivers, its borders remained flexible historically, extending as far north as Sanchi (Satavahana era) and as far south as Tanjavur (Chalukya era). However, this region emerged as a distinct state corresponding to its modern borders only during the premodern era, when the Mughal Subedars founded the Hyderabad state in southcentral India, with their capital at Hyderabad.

scholarly journals Assessment the Leachable Heavy Metals and Ecological Risk in the Surface Sediments inside the Red Sea Ports of Egypt

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed E.A. El-Metwally ◽  
Amany G. Madkour ◽  
Rasha R. Fouad ◽  
Lamiaa I. Mohamedein ◽  
Hamada A. Nour Eldine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Ecological Risk ◽  
Surface Sediments ◽  
Sea Ports

scholarly journals Some Red Sea Ports in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

1911 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 523 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Crowfoot
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Sea Ports

scholarly journals THE RECEPTION AND CONSUMPTION OF EASTERN GOODS IN ROMAN SOCIETY

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Adam Cobb
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Sea Ports ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
Monsoon Winds

The Roman Empire received goods from eastern lands through a variety of overland routes crossing the Arabian Peninsula and Mesopotamia, and through seaborne trade via the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. In particular, the sea routes that utilized the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean enabled a significant volume of goods to be imported from the East on ships that may often have been of several hundred tons' capacity. The scale of the trade was significant enough for Pliny to claim that 100 million sesterces were being sent annually to India, China, and Arabia. The veracity of these figures has come in for some debate, especially with the publication of a document known as the Muziris Papyrus, which reveals that a shipment of nard, ivory, and textiles received at one of the Egyptian Red Sea ports in the second centuryadwas valued at the equivalent of roughly 7 million sesterces. It is nevertheless clear, particularly from the archaeological and numismatic evidence, that Roman trade with the East peaked in the first and second centuriesad,followed by subsequent decline and a limited revival in the Late Roman period.

Egypt and Eastern Commerce during the Second Century AD and Later

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Tomber
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Sea Ports ◽  
Ceramic Assemblages

This chapter looks at the archaeological evidence from several regions for the continuation of Indo-Roman trade during the second century ad. The emphasis here is on the Egyptian evidence, but this chapter also looks briefly at India and Parthia/Palmyra. From India, second-century Roman finds—particularly coins—are outlined, as is the role of Palmyra as middleman to Rome. Although numbers of Roman finds in India are reduced during the second century, two diverse categories of evidence point to the continued importance of this trade: the large value attached to the shipment discussed in the Muziris papyrus, and the continued importance of the Red Sea ports, especially Myos Hormos. The large second-century ceramic assemblages from Myos Hormos suggest that throughout the second century it was more active than Berenike. By the end of the second century trade became more complex with the involvement of the Palmyrenes.

scholarly journals The Ships and Shipping of Indo-Roman Trade: A View from the Egyptian Red Sea Ports

HEROM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Whitewright
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Sea Ports
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