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16 APRIL 2021  One of the many benefits of recent bridge improvements is that displays can now be replicated in real time on a hand-held tablet. All kinds of information – electronic log entries, task lists, monitoring the bridge from officers’ cabins, multitasking while in the ship’s public areas, sharing …

15 APRIL 2021 Nobody ever said parenting was easy, but depending on circumstances, some people can find it much harder than others. In recent years researchers have begun to recognize ‘parental burnout‘ – a condition in which exhausted parents become overwhelmed by their role as primary carers, potentially leading to …

14 APRIL 2021 Taiwanese shipping company Evergreen Marine Corporation (EMC) has announced plans to build twenty containerships of 15,000 TEU capacity each. The order was approved by the Board of Directors of Greencompass Marine SA, a Panamanian subsidiary of EMC. A handful of shipyards from China, Korea, and Japan have …

PETER DOCKRILL 13 APRIL 2021 It was August 13, 1945, and the ‘demon core’ was poised, waiting to be unleashed onto a stunned Japan still reeling in fresh chaos from the deadliest attacks anyone had ever seen. A week earlier, ‘Little Boy’ had detonated over Hiroshima, followed swiftly by ‘Fat Man’ in Nagasaki. These …

12 APRIL 2021 With a growing number of states rolling out vaccines to the general public, most US adults could get their hands on a shot by summer, if not sooner. So far, 29 percent of the US population has received a first dose. But until a majority of the country has been …

09 APRIL 2021 One in three people who overcome COVID-19 suffer from a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis six months on, according to the largest study so far published on the mental toll that long-COVID takes on survivors. Authors said the research, printed Wednesday in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, proved that COVID-19 patients were significantly …

08 APRIL 2021  The Suez Canal Authority is contemplating the possibility of widening the southern section of the waterway, the agency’s chairman told Reuters on Tuesday. The canal is a critical maritime chokepoint, and last month’s boxship grounding showed a unique vulnerability: the 400-meter-long Ever Given straddled the canal’s entire width, halting …

07 APRIL 2021  The Norwegian Coastal Authority is continuing to monitor the situation with the abandon Dutch heavy-lift vessel adrift in a storm off the coast of Norway. While the situation may have improved, they continued to warn that the ship is in danger of capsizing and causing an environmental …

11 APRIL 2021  Sembcorp Marine in Singapore recently delivered the first Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) using liquefied natural gas which will be used to uses to provide a cleaner, environmental solution while providing electricity in West Africa. The vessel, known as the Karmol LNGT Africa will be operated by KARMOL, a …

10 APRIL 2021  The six-day blockage of the Suez Canal by a megaship named Ever Given came to an end on March 29 after salvage teams used dredging and tug boats to heave the vessel back into operation. The capacity of a single vessel to block one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors, creating a …