The Pyxis Pioneer and the Sunny Bright were empty, having delivered cargoes to customers in Asia.

That’s threatening trade in energy, consumer goods and food as carriers are forced to sail thousands of extra miles to make deliveries. The problem is so bad that increasingly stringent quotas are being imposed on how many ships can pass through it. A lack of rainfall, blamed on climate change, is leading to a steady decline in levels in the Gatun Lake that feeds the conduit. The Panama Canal doesn’t have enough water. It’s not certain where they were headed, but the biggest LPG exporters in the region are producers in the US Gulf. The Pyxis Pioneer and the Sunny Bright, which between them can transport roughly 158,000 cubic meters of liquefied petroleum gas, both got to within about 10 miles (16 kilometers) of the canal in recent days before sailing away, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. He received a posthumous star this year on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Ī street near where Shakur lived in Oakland, California, in the 1990s was renamed last Friday in his honor.(Bloomberg) - Two giant gas tankers performed u-turns just miles from the Panama Canal, where months of low rainfall is snarling traffic and bringing chaos to the vital waterway. 1 albums, was nominated for six Grammy Awards and was inducted in 2017 into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Wallace was known as The Notorious B.I.G. He wrote that he was promised immunity from prosecution in 2010 when he told authorities in Los Angeles what he knew about the fatal shootings of Shakur and rival rapper Christopher Wallace six months later in Los Angeles. RELATED: Tupac Shakur murder: A look back at the rise and untimely death of a hip-hop legend Anderson died two years later in a shooting in Compton.ĭavis implicated himself during multiple interviews and in his memoir that described his life leading a Crips gang sect in Compton. Prosecutors allege the 1996 shooting followed clashes between rival East Coast and West Coast groups for dominance in the musical genre dubbed 'gangsta rap.' The grand jury was told that Shakur was involved in a brawl at a Las Vegas Strip casino with Davis’ nephew, Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson, shortly before the shooting.Īnderson, then 22, was in the car with Davis but denied involvement in Shakur’s killing. RELATED: Retired detective 'thrilled' by Tupac Shakur murder arrest (Davis photo courtesy of John Locher-Pool/Getty Images) (Tupac photo courtesy of Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) Duane 'Keffe D' Davis (l) and Tupac Shakur (r).

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