16 JAN 2025 InterManager is concerned by the increasingly harsh treatment of ships’ crew in some parts of the world. The trade association for the ship management sector is starting an effort to collect data and highlight to the IMO and other industry stakeholders the harsh treatment of seafarers including …
Read More »BALTIMORE BRIDGE DISASTER SHIP DALI COMPLETES REPAIRS IN CHINA
15 JAN 2025 Most people would recognise the Grace Ocean owned container ship Dali from the images of it with the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore harbour strewn across its bow that were screened in news broadcasts and stories around the global in late March 2024. …
Read More »HOW SALVORS CARRIED OUT DALI WRECK REMOVAL SAFELY
14 JAN 2025 The salvage of the container ship Dali from Baltimore harbour involved a collapsed roadway, dangerous cargoes, a gas pipeline, and power cables. A complex mix of chemicals and water, and the fact that Dali was resting on energy lines after it had lost power and demolished Baltimore’s …
Read More »RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND A WAY TO HELP ERASE BAD MEMORIES
15 JAN 2025 Being able to erase bad memories and traumatic flashbacks could help in the treatment of a host of different mental health issues, and scientists have found a promising new approach to do just this: weakening negative memories by reactivating positive ones. In an experiment covering several days, …
Read More »SCIENTISTS CALCULATED THE ULTIMATE LIFESPAN OF EARTH’S BIOSPHERE
13 JAN 2024 If Earth’s life survives the Anthropocene, it will eventually face another existential threat from space. As the Sun brightens with age, it will inevitably interfere with our planet’s finicky carbon cycle, triggering a depletion of atmospheric carbon dioxide to the point where plants will starve. Luckily, this …
Read More »SOUNION SALVAGED! COMPLEX OPERATION PREVENTS MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER IN RED SEA
12 JAN 2025 Maritime security firm Ambrey has confirmed the successful salvage of the MT SOUNION, a Greek-owned oil tanker that became a focal point as one of the worst attacks in the ongoing Red Sea crisis. The operation marked a monumental effort to prevent an environmental catastrophe after the vessel, …
Read More »IMO GHG EMISSIONS PRICING MECHANISM PROPOSAL BACKED BY 47 NATIONS
10 JAN 2025 47 governments from all over the world, with shipping industry support, set out MARPOL Convention text for annual contribution by ships, per tonne of GHG emitted, to multi-billion-dollar International Maritime Organization (IMO) fund. New joint proposal aims to achieve net-zero goal by reducing price gap and incentivising …
Read More »MARTYRS’ DAY PROTEST: PANAMA REMINDS TRUMP ‘THE CANAL IS OURS’
09 JAN 2025 Hundreds of Panamanians marched on Thursday to mark the anniversary of a deadly uprising against U.S. control of the Panama Canal in 1964, with some protesters burning an effigy of President-elect Donald Trump who has threatened to retake the vital global waterway. More than 20 Panamanians, many …
Read More »TRUMP REFUSES TO RULE OUT MILITARY FORCE TO RETAKE PANAMA CANAL FROM ‘CHINA CONTROL’
07 JAN 2025 President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out military force to retake control of the Panama Canal, while making unsubstantiated claims about Chinese control of the waterway. During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, when directly questioned about potential military or economic coercion regarding both Greenland and the Panama …
Read More »HIN LEONG FRAUD SCANDAL WINDS TO A CLOSE WITH BANKRUPTCY FILING
03 JAN 2025 Singaporean oil trader OK Lim, once a leading player in the city’s busy bunker trading sector, has been declared bankrupt after consenting to a multibillion-dollar court judgment in favor of his former company’s creditors. Lim and his children – Evan Lim Chee Meng and Lim Huey Ching …
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