09 DEC 2020 Friday (04 DEC): ONE Apus Returning to Japan after Record Containers Loss Update: MV ONE Apus is now proceeding to the port of Kobe, Japan with an estimated arrival of December 8th. According to an update this morning, it is now estimated that number of lost or damaged containers …
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08 DEC 2020 It’s no secret that African waters are among the most perilous in the world when it comes to piracy. Tom Hanks’ “Captain Phillips” brought attention to Somalian piracy, but the immediate concern for ship owners is on the opposite side of the continent: West Africa. West Africa’s Gulf of …
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07 DEC 2020 Plastic waste floating in the world’s ocean has been ranked as one of the largest ecological problems as a menace to marine life as well as a danger to shipping. With the problem of ocean plastics expected to grow substantially in the coming years, the UK Chamber …
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06 DEC 2020 A Chinese space probe has lifted off from the surface of the Moon to return to Earth, an ambitious effort to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades. Beijing is looking to catch up with the US and Russia after taking decades to match its …
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05 DEC 2020 A joint development project is launching focusing on seeking to collaborate on the commercial adoption of emission abatement technology. By incorporating ship-owners into the project, the goal is to accelerate the adoption of technologies including rotor sails. Leading the project will be LR (Lloyd’s Register) in collaboration …
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04 DEC 2020 Security experts had warned of the potential for an increased level of pirate activity in the Gulf of Guinea with the end of the Atlantic storm season. In the past few weeks, there has been an increasing level of approaches and boardings supporting the warning and highlighting the …
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04 DEC 2020 Although the ground beneath our feet feels solid and reassuring (most of the time), nothing in this Universe lasts forever. One day, our Sun will die, ejecting a large proportion of its mass before its core shrinks down into a white dwarf, gradually leaking heat until it’s nothing …
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03 DEC 2020 A 54-year-old Norwegian ship-owner has been sentenced to six months in prison for his role in the attempted demolition voyage of the decommissioned LASH vessel Eide Carrier (later renamed Tide Carrier, Harrier). Prosecutors with the white-collar crime agency Okokrim charged Georg Eide, owner of defunct salvage firm Eide Marine Services, …
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02 DEC 2020 For several years, Japan has been investing heavily in its diplomatic engagement with Indian Ocean island states and may now need to consider how to better extend that engagement to environmental security challenges. A recent environmental disaster in Mauritius caused by the grounding of a Japanese cargo …
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01 DEC 2020 As doctors observe a growing number of coronavirus patients, they have identified a few patterns in how typical symptoms progress. As many as 40 percent of coronavirus cases are asymptomatic, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. And 20 percent of symptomatic cases become severe or critical. Among patients …
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