10 JULY 2021 Maritime industry opportunities exist amid the challenges of reducing our nation’s greenhouse gas emissions The daunting challenges of the maritime industry as it contends with climate change will arguably be the most important we have ever faced. We are at a serious inflection point, and I am …
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09 JULY 2021 SINTEF researcher Andrea Gruber crunches numbers – with good help from the supercomputer Betzy. With an infinity of calculations that are linked together, the researchers now provide answers to what is needed for the well-known chemical ammonia to become a climate solution for large parts of shipping. The …
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08 JULY 2021 Captain Kara was stuck in Egypt for more than a year as a court-appointed legal guardian of the bulk carrier MV Kenan Mete. A Turkish ship captain is heading home after more than a year stuck in Adabiya Port near Suez under an Egyptian court order. Much of …
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07 JULY 2021 An Iran-affiliated outlet has reported an attack on the boxship CSAV Tyndall, a vessel previously owned by Israeli shipowner Eyal Ofer. According to Israeli media, the vessel was struck by an unknown weapon while under way in the Indian Ocean on Saturday. The ship may have been hit by …
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07 JULY 2021 A pioneer, commander, lawyer, athlete, husband, father, and friend are words that describe Cmdr. Merle Smith, Jr. The first African American Academy graduate from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and officer to command a U.S. war ship in close quarters combat will be greatly missed. Cmdr. Smith …
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06 JULY 2021 Abstract Disruption and congestion are occurring across the global maritime supply chains. Since the summer of 2020 rising capacity shortages in terms of boxes, ships and port infrastructure have driven maritime and port actors to find alternative options and to optimize infrastructure usage. Much of the contemporary …
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5 JULY 2021 For the first time in more than a year, we’re feeling some hope – or at least cautious optimism – that the pandemic could recede to the background. But experts want us to know that there is still a concern that new mutations of the virus could bring it back, and …
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04 JULY 2021 Elsa, the first hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic storm season, is bearing down on the Caribbean as extreme weather continues to batter the Northern Hemisphere. Hurricane Elsa is about 5 miles (10 kilometers) north of St. Vincent, heading toward Haiti and Cuba, the U.S. National Hurricane Center …
Read More »05 JULY 2021 For more than a year, the major seafarer unions, shipping lines, and organizations including the International Maritime Organization have been warning of the problems being caused in the shipping industry by COVID-19 related travel restrictions and the failure to recognize seafarers as essential workers. Renewed travel restrictions …
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04 JULY 2021 More than 179 million Americans and more than 44 million Britons have received their first dose of a two-shot COVID-19 vaccine. The US has authorized vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, while the UK has authorized Pfizer’s shot as well as one made by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. Both countries have authorized Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine, which is a single dose. The …
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