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14 OCT 2020  The South Korean shipbuilding industry is continuing to outpace the Chinese shipyards in the volume of new orders. The tend continued for the third month in a row meaning that the Koreans also reported the largest new order volume during the third quarter of 2020. Total new …

13 OCT 2020  The Unified Command managing the salvage operation for the capsized ro-ro Golden Ray is reporting a delay for the final stages of the operation while they address engineering challenges that were uncovered as the prepared to position the heavy life crane at the wreck site. The cutting and lifting …

12 OCT 2020  Health care NGO Mercy Ships has been building a new hospital ship at Tianjin Xingang Shipyard since 2014, and the vessel is nearing delivery. When complete, the new Global Mercy will be the world’s largest civilian-owned hospital ship. Mercy Ships provides medical care to underserved areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. …

11 OCT 2020  Saying that seafarers have become collateral victims of the measures to curb COVID-19, the United Nation’s human rights organizations added their voice to the many organizations calling for more actions. Highlighting an “unparalleled crisis” affecting hundreds of thousands of crew members and maritime workers, the UN organizations …

10 OCT 2020 For the past days, visitors to the official International Maritime Organization website, www.IMO.org, have been greeted with the message “This website is under maintenance.” But the maintenance is not routine, it’s the result of a cyber attack and comes at a time when the IMO is under intense scrutiny, is working to …

8 OCTOBER 2020 The US pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly on Wednesday announced it had applied for an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a lab-produced antibody treatment against COVID-19, after early trial results showed it reduced viral load, symptoms and hospitalization rates. “Our teams have worked tirelessly the last seven months to discover and …

10 OCT 2020 Scientists have been able to draw power from the thermal motion of graphene at room temperature, potentially giving us a clean future source of limitless energy for small devices. The approach cleverly harnesses both the nanometre-sized rippling and the Brownian motion – random movement of particles – found in graphene, …

09 OCT 2020 Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice together with Briton Michael Houghton won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, paving the way for a cure, the Nobel jury said. The three were honoured for their “decisive contribution to the fight …

08 OCT 2020  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is moving ahead with a futuristic proposal for convoying naval vessels bow-to-stern to achieve greater fuel efficiency and range in long-distance transits.  DARPA has a particular purpose in mind – a purpose that dovetails with the Department of Defense’s growing …

07 OCT 2020 Shipowners are facing rising labor costs as widespread Covid-related restrictions limit movement of seafarers and make crew swaps more expensive. Because relieving and replacing ship workers has become so difficult during the pandemic, daily crew costs have increased 10% from January to mid-July, up to $3,144 for …