09 JUNE 2021 On June 7, Greenpeace activists visited the port of Saint-Nazaire, France, to block a bulker arriving from Brazil. The vessel, the 75,000 dwt bulker Cabrillo, is carrying a cargo of soybeans from Brazil’s Cerrado region. This savannah ecosystem is less well-known than the Amazon rainforest, but it has …
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09 JUNE 2021 Shipping consultancy Drewry says the shipping industry should brace for a shortage of officers to crew the world’s commercial fleet in the coming years, with important implications for both hiring and rising future manning costs. Diminishing attractiveness of a career at sea, coupled with rising man-berth ratios and continued …
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08 JUNE 2021 The upcoming Pole to Pole itinerary of the cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen. Image via Hurtigruten Expeditions Do you like very long voyages and eating steak tartare while getting battered about in the Roaring 40s, Furious 50s, and Screaming 60s? If so then Hurtigruten Expeditions, has a deal for …
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07 JUNE 2021 The Sri Lankan Navy has recovered the voyage data recorder (VDR) from the wreck of the container ship X-Press Pearl, which partially sank last week after a devastating cargo fire off the coast of Colombo. The X-Press Pearl was anchored before and during the fire, and her crew was evacuated from …
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06 JUNE 2021 In mid-May 2021, after understandable delays related to COVID-19, the Maritime Safety Committee finalized its regulatory scoping exercise (RSE) on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships. By no means the only voice to be heard, given that other IMO committees have their own scoping exercises, MSC 103/WP.8 nonetheless offers …
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05 JUNE 2021 A vessel reported to be the largest in the Iranian Navy caught fire and sunk in the Gulf of Oman near Iran’s southern port of Jask. The supply ship Khark was reportedly operating a training exercise in international waters not far from the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian Navy …
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04 JUNE 2021 The burnout-out containership X-Press Pearl is continuing to slowly settle to the bottom off Sri Lanka with the salvage and firefighting teams continuing to monitor the situation while the investigation into the disaster continues. The owners of their vessel also apologized for the disaster while defending the …
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04 JUNE 2021 On May 7, a pipeline system carrying almost half the fuel used on the east coast of the United States was crippled by a major cyber attack. The five-day shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline resulted in widespread fuel shortages and panic-buying as Virginia, North Carolina and Florida …
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03 JUNE 2021 The global maritime community is calling for enhanced efforts to tackle the rising menace of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea with the adoption of new IMO resolutions on increased collaboration. The resolutions adopted at a meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) safety committee are centered …
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02 JUNE 2021 As part of the world’s longest-running analysis of extremely low birth weight (ELBW) babies born prematurely, scientists have discovered that the genes of male ELBW babies age more quickly than those of full-term male newborns. We’re talking about biological aging or senescence here: these men aren’t suddenly rushing through …
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