23 AUG 2022 The Rohingya have been termed as the most persecuted community and for good reason. As the world nears five years since the last influx of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, the humanitarian crisis has been overshadowed multiple times by global issues. Having been eclipsed by Covid-19 for the …
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25 AUG 2022 China has not done itself any favors with the PLA visit this month, which plays into concerns that it is trying to militarize the island. The Chinese tracking ship Yuan Wang 5 has finally docked at Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka for replenishment after India and the United States tried, …
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24 AUG 2022 Ukrainian grain flows are pushing down global prices as the newly opened crop-export corridor shows initial success. More than 500,000 tons of foodstuffs aboard 21 ships were exported from the country’s major Black Sea ports in the first half of August, under a deal agreed late last month. That’s far below …
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22 AUG 2022 In June, President Joe Biden spoke by phone to several traders and farmers highlighting the impact of rising shipping costs and how they were affecting businesses. Biden went on to castigate shipping companies for hiking prices and promised to take an action, aimed at reducing the cost …
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21 AUG 2022 P&O Ferries is not going to face criminal charges in the UK for its actions firing roughly 800 seafarers with no advance notice and replacing them with lower paid contract workers in March 2022. That was the word from the UK’s Insolvency Service late today saying the …
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20 AUG 2022 Maritime folklore tells stories of giant waves that suddenly appear on the ocean and disappear just as quickly. While many people dismiss the existence of such waves as mythology, there are accounts of oil rigs and ships having encountered giant waves and giant troughs that suddenly appear …
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19 AUG 2022 All alternative marine fuels share a common decarbonization pathway beginning with fossil or fossil-derived fuels, also known as “gray” fuels, and ending with renewable synthetic e-fuels, also known as “green” fuels. For some fuels, this pathway also includes a biogenic fuel mid-point. While fuels share a common …
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18 AUG 2022 U.S. authorities in Puerto Rico arrested the president of the longshore union local, a port employee, and five others on charges of organized crime and extorting more than $1.2 million from shipping companies in the San Jun as well as cheating the union benefits fund. With a …
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17 AUG 2022 Despite several successful cases brought by the United States against vessel operators and crew, oily bilge water continues to be illegally dumped at sea. In most cases, the crimes also involve a coverup. New Trade Ship Management, a vessel operating company, and Chief Engineer Dennis Plasabas pleaded guilty this …
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16 AUG 2022 The former ro-ro acquired four years ago by Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin left the Port of Pensacola yesterday for her final voyage. Instead of the grand vision of converting the former Stena vessel into an autonomous Landing Platform Vessel, she however left the port on …
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