15 OCT 2023 CEVA, the warehousing and logistics arm of French container liner CMA CGM, plans to use robots from U.S. firm Boston Dynamics at a new transload facility near the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the biggest import gateways for the U.S. consumer market. The transload …
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14 OCT 2023 Deep sleep could be key to forestalling slow declines in brain health that may one day lead to Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. Based on their investigation involving 62 older, cognitively healthy adults, researchers from the University of California (UC) Berkeley, Stanford University, and UC Irvine …
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13 OCT 2023 Asia-North Europe carriers took advantage of the Chinese national holiday this week to announce new headhaul FAK rates, effective from 1 November, which are double the level currently on offer via the spot market. Hapag-Lloyd led the way on Monday raising its Asia-North Europe 40ft FAK rate …
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12 OCT 2023 The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has launched a new data collection system to help steer improvements to the new Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII). CII is an energy efficiency rating system developed by the International Maritime Organization for merchant ships over 5,000 gross tonnes. It came into effect on …
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11 OCT 2023 ThrowRaft, a pioneering force in water safety and rescue equipment, took center stage and made a significant splash at the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA) 2023 Conference held in Denver, CO last week, unveiling its groundbreaking patents pending Neutral Buoyancy Life Jacket™ technology. This innovative life-saving …
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10 OCT 2023 Earth’s ocean is incredibly vast. Some parts of it are so remote that the nearest human habitation is the International Space Station. As the world warms, what happens in the ocean – and what happens to the ocean – will be vital to all our lives. But to monitor what’s happening …
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09 OCT 2023 Deep in the Pacific Ocean, a strange, diaphanous balloon drifts by Inside, tunnels and chambers coil like a miniature floating Guggenheim around the talented architect within: a tadpole-like creature called a larvacean. Incredibly, the organism has crafted this entire structure out of mucus. “This is an animal …
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08 OCT 2023 The full-scale conflict between Palestinian militant group Hamas and the state of Israel is beginning to disrupt commercial operations in the maritime sector, though the extent so far is limited to specific sectors and locations. On Monday, Chevron announced that it has been asked to shut down …
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07 OCT 2023 From the oxygen-carrying corpuscles in our blood to the branching neurons that govern our thoughts, our body is built of a dazzling variety of cells. Researchers from institutions in Germany, Canada, Spain, and the US have published a comprehensive study of how many individual cells of each …
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06 OCT 2023 Marine plastic waste may serve as a vector for the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from pathogenic bacteria, either to shellfish or directly to humans who are bathing in the sea or taking part in other recreational activities. “The bacteria contained in sewage and wastewater discharged from …
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