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How does a ransomware attack work?
As frightening as they appear, ransomware attacks are based on a simple concept of locking up data and effectively holding it hostage.
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What is the shipping cycle — and can it ever be tamed?
Environmental regs could extend future dry bulk and tanker upside, while consolidation could change curve of container-shipping cycle.
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What is EBITDA?
A commonly seen financial term — earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) — and why it’s used is explained.
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How is a semiconductor made?
The CHIPS Act aims to subsidize companies that can set up domestic manufacturing plants to create a more resilient supply chain for the future demand…
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How does carbon capture technology work?
AskWaves explores the different ways to capture CO2 from the air, how much it costs and what happens once it’s captured.
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What is Doppler radar?
Doppler radar has raised the bar for meteorologists when it comes to analyzing severe weather.
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What is operating ratio?
This AskWaves column explains why investors and other transportation stakeholders look at operating ratio as a way to gauge a company’s financial health.
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10 countries where truckers make the most money
Switzerland had the highest average truck driver salary at more than $70,000 a year.
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Sustainability
What does negative net zero carbon mean?
Capturing wastewater, farm and food waste to make biogas can prevent planet-warming methane emissions from going airborne.
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What is the carbon footprint of a truck?
The average truck’s carbon footprint is 201,834 kilograms or 223 tons of carbon dioxide per year.
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