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28 SEPT 2023 The first grain ship in over two months left one of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, as Kyiv seeks to defy Russia’s effective maritime blockade following the collapse of a safe-passage deal. Wheat prices fell. The Resilient Africa left Chornomorsk with 3,000 tons of wheat and is heading toward the …

27 SEPT 2023 SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx, New York on Monday welcomed the arrival of its new state-of-the-art training ship, the Empire State VII, marking a new era training for the nation’s future Merchant Mariners. The ship is the first of five new government-owned National Security Multi-Missions Vessels (NSMVs) designed for …

25 SEPT 2023  Lomar Shipping’s in-house tech division, Lomarlabs, is working with a new climate-tech startup to develop a system for breaking down methane – not from the ship’s own emissions, but in the air itself.  Lomartech is partnerhing with Blue Dot Change to develop and test a new, nature-based …

24 SEPT 2023 A colossal study has revealed a variation of a gene involved in an immune response has been secretly giving protection to the billions who carry it from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Known as DR4, the variant, or allele, is part of a family of genes that normally help our immune system pinpoint and …

23 SEPT 2023 Mysterious lights appear to have been spotted in Morocco before a devastating earthquake hit last week – and scientists still can’t figure out what caused them. A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit the High Atlas Mountains in Eastern Morocco on Friday. At least 2,900 people have died and about 5,500 are reported injured, …

21 SEPT 2023  Since the beginning of 2023, sea robbery in the Singapore Strait has increased at an alarming rate. The 113-km long, 19-km wide strait that connects the Indian Ocean with the South China Sea is one of the world’s busiest commercial waterways through which approximately 1,000 ships pass every day. The strait …

19 SEPT 2023                                         Inside our bodies at every moment, our cells are orchestrating a complex dance of atoms and molecules that uses energy to create, distribute and deploy the substances on which our lives depend. And it’s not just in our bodies: all animals carry out this dance of metabolism, and it …

19 SEPT 2023                                         Inside our bodies at every moment, our cells are orchestrating a complex dance of atoms and molecules that uses energy to create, distribute and deploy the substances on which our lives depend. And it’s not just in our bodies: all animals carry out this dance of metabolism, and it …

18 SEPT 2023 Lasers are devices that concentrate beams of light by forcing their waveforms and frequencies to align. First developed in the 1960s to amplify microwaves, modern lasers technology can ramp up light rays in just about any part of the electromagnetic spectrum, with the exception of gamma waves. The word stands …

13 SEPT 2023  The Maritime Disciplinary Court of the Netherlands released its ruling on a September 2022 collision off the coast in which a reefer overtaking a smaller, slower bulker hit the vessel. In a surprising move, the Dutch inspector however finds that the smaller vessel being overtaken was primarily …