04 SEPT 2022 After refusing port entry to a U.S. Coast Guard cutter during a joint operation last month, the government of the Solomon Islands has announced that it is temporarily suspending port calls for all foreign naval vessels of all nationalities. During a joint fishery patrol in the South …
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03 SEPT 2022 The independent bulker operator Himalaya Shipping plans to install scrubbers on a fleet of 12 LNG-powered Newcastlemax bulkers currently under construction at New Times Shipyard (NTS) in China. The installation acknowledges the reality of LNG dual-fuel power today: LNG is so expensive that most LNG-fueled oceangoing ships …
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02 SEPT 2022 The Gibraltar government and the port authority are reporting that the situation remains stable after a bulker departing the port overnight clipped an anchored LNG carrier and began taking on water. The vessel was beached on the eastern side of the territory while surveys and precautions for …
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01 SEPT 2022 The Turkish government has decided to deny permission for the scrapping of the decommissioned Brazilian Navy carrier NAe São Paulo. Environmentalists believe that the former French Navy vessel (ex name Foch) contains a substantial amount of asbestos, and after the scrapper declined to carry out a new hazardous materials inventory, Turkey’s …
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30 AUG 2022 Earth is about to be lashed by solar storms, according to reports from several space weather agencies around the world. Thanks to the double whammy of a high solar wind speed and several coronal mass ejections, we could be seeing a strong storm, as well as several moderate …
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29 AUG 2022 The Met Office has issued several “yellow thunderstorm warnings” for the UK, highlighting the potential for frequent lightning. While your chance of getting struck by lightning is low, it’s important to know how to stay safe during a thunderstorm. Globally, about 24,000 people each year are killed by lightning and another 240,000 …
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28 AUG 2022 The demand to substantially eliminate the 1,076 million tonnes (2018) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions , which includes carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), expressed in CO2e or CO2eq of total shipping (international, domestic and fishing) is often centred on assets like ships, engines, and alternative …
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27 AUG 2022 In a new example of criminalization of mariner liability, a court in Dubai has issued a suspended jail sentence and a $28,000 fine to five crewmembers of the container feeder Ocean Trader, which suffered a cargo container explosion at Jebel Ali last year. On June 27, 2021, three containers …
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25 AUG 2022 What is the situation of the Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh five years ago? Nearly all of the approximately 730,000 Rohingya who fled Myanmar in the second half of 2017 remain in sprawling refugee camps in southern Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar. The total number of Rohingya refugees in …
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24 AUG 2022 For the past five years, there has been much speculation about repatriation of Rohingya refugees. Recently, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, added a new dimension to the issue. On August 16, she visited the Rohingya camp in Ukhia, an administrative region in Cox’s …
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