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RA 3 Foss Maritime News Articles
Foss Maritime has been around for a while and has been all over the world. Chances are that you have seen one of their tugboats transporting something on a waterway, but didn't think anything about it. I'm going to fill you in on some very cool information that might shed a light on this shipping company.

Foss Maritime started out in 1889 with only a used rowboat. Wanting some extra income, the Foss family decided to fix up their old rowboat, and traded it off for a few smaller boats. These smaller boats were then rented out to anyone who needed them. Over time, their fleet of a few rowboats grew into 200 vessels including tugboats. Now, Foss Maritime has hundreds of more vessels in their fleet specializing in tugboats and barges. They have broadened their horizons by buying other companies also. America Cargo Transport Corporation, (ACTC), a company owned by Foss, has been carrying about 6000 tons of aid to Haiti ever since that earthquake has devastated their country. ACTC has carried aid to Haiti before the earthquake, but will continue to deliver aid now. They specialize in carrying large amounts of cargo, so they knew they were perfect for delivering aid. ACTC was the first American ship to deliver aid to Indonesia after their tsunami, and to Iraq after the Operation Iraqi Freedom War started. In total, ACTC has completed 158 trips to Iraq delivering aid.

So next time you see a dark green Foss tugboat towing goods through the water, think about how far they've came, and how much good they have done since they have started.

Jaeger, Stephanie. (2011). Foss Maritime company: 1889 rowboat investment keeps growing. Alaska Business Monthly, 27(6), 86.

Press Release. (2011). America Cargo Transport and Foss Maritime offer aid to haiti following earthquake. Journal of Commerce.

RA 4
A)	Comparing the United Nations Conferences on the Law of the Sea, (UNCLOS) Wikipedia page, UNCLOS, versus the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History is like comparing a kayak with a cruise ship. With the encyclopedia article being the cruise ship, there is a tremendous amount of information more than the Wikipedia page. One noticeable difference is the depth of detail written about the UNCLOS Conference I and II. There is hardly anything about that on Wikipedia, but there are pages of information in the encyclopedia. I did find a few areas though that the information did not match. For example, on the Wikipedia page, it states, “In 1960, the United Nations held the second Conference on the Law of the Sea ("UNCLOS II"); however, the six-week Geneva conference did not result in any new agreements.” In the encyclopedia, it clearly says, “In short, the edifice constructed in UNCLOS II did not survive for the time span expected for it. But out of its collapse, quite a few elements were saved that were built into the new structure erected in UNCLOS III.” The two statements are somewhat close, but they contradict themselves which is confusing. There are little differences too, such as numbers that do not match which makes me wonder about accuracy.

B)	As for the Wikipedia page’s sources, they seem very legitimate. A few of them are actually from the official United Nations website. There is one source though, that I found somewhat interesting. The website is a blog-type website so I thought it couldn’t be that creditable, but once looking into the website, I saw that it said that its blogs are administrated by student interns or advisory board members, so I'd find it reliable.

C)	I found the Wikipedia page to be very spotty and lacking detail. It seems to me that a few people just pieced together what little information they had and created a Wikipedia page on this subject. There were three UNCLOS conferences, but it’d be hard to know that just by reading the Wikipedia page. There isn’t any writing on the first UNCLOS conference, just links to other websites. And about the second UNCLOS conference, the whole conference is summed up into two sentences. This Wikipedia page just simply lacks information, especially since the encyclopedia has over 20 pages of information.

In conclusion, I would evaluate the United Nations Conferences on the Law of the Sea Wikipedia page very well. It doesn’t have much information at all, while The United Nations Conferences on the Law of the Sea article in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History just seems packed with useful information. Even though both articles basically state the same facts, there are a few little details that are different on the Wikipedia page, making me feel the Encyclopedia is much more accurate and useful.

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