03 OCT 2024 Leading class society DNV believes that green fuels will be costly and scarce for the rest of the decade, making efficiency the most important near-term element of the green transition. To find out more about what shipowners are doing to decarbonize with the resources they have today, TME …
Read More »AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL WANTS SHIP LOADED WITH EXPLOSIVES FOR ISRAEL STOPPED
02 OCT 2024 The human rights organization Amnesty International is calling for a small cargo ship to be blocked from entering ports in Europe due to the belief the vessel is transporting explosives bound for Israel. The group says that permitting the vessel to transport these materials violates international regulations. …
Read More »OVERLOOKED WEATHER PHENOMENON PRODUCES GAMMA RAYS IN OUR ATMOSPHERE
02 OCT 2024 The electrical effects of a thunderstorm are not confined just to high up in the atmosphere. Close to the ground, Earth’s atmosphere hums with intense electric fields that accelerate particles, flinging electrons in ways that force atoms to glow with gamma rays. From atop a mountain in …
Read More »SEAFARERS SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS IN TURKEY: ITF CONDEMNS ‘OUTRAGEOUS’ DRUG CASE VERDICT
01 OCT 2024 Two seafarers have been sentenced to 30 years in prison in Turkey, sparking outrage from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF). The decision, which came after drugs were discovered on their vessel in the Black Sea port of Ere?li last October, has been met with strong condemnation …
Read More »CAPTAIN RECEIVES EIGHT-MONTH U.S. PRISON TERM FOR MARPOL VIOLATION
01 OCT 2024 The master of a product tanker who committed a MARPOL violation and then attempted to conceal information from the U.S. Coast Guard was recently sentenced to eight months in a U.S. prison by a federal court in New Orleans. Yesterday, the court completed the case accepting a …
Read More »EXPERTS REVEAL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PSYCHOPATH AND A SOCIOPATH
30 SEPT 2024 Articles about badly behaved people and how to spot them are common. You don’t have to Google or scroll too much to find headlines such as 7 signs your boss is a psychopath or How to avoid the sociopath next door. You’ll often see the terms psychopath …
Read More »BUSINESSES SUE GRACE OCEAN AND SYNERGY MARINE FOR ‘PREVENTABLE’ BALTIMORE BRIDGE DISASTER
29 SEPT 2024 A class action lawsuit has been filed against Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine PTE LTD, the owner and manager of the M/V Dali, following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on March 26, 2024. The suit, brought by a coalition of …
Read More »NEARLY A THIRD OF SEAFARERS STILL FACE ILLEGAL DEMANDS FOR RECRUITING FEES
29 SEPT 2024 New research revealed that there is little progress on the age-old problem of seafarers being solicited to pay “recruitment fees” despite this practice being illegal under the Maritime Labour Convention. The report says that seafarers are not only still paying the fees in 2024 but that they …
Read More »UKRAINE PROSECUTING SHIP’S OFFICERS FOR ENTERING SEVASTOPOL
28 SEPT 2024 Ukraine’s Prosecutor for Crimea and the City of Sevastopol is proceeding with charges against a second officer from a small bulker Ukraine detained in July on charges of illegally entering the city and transporting grain from the port. The unidentified officer is the second person to be …
Read More »DISRUPTION DRIVES SHIPPING: HOW GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS AND MARKET VOLATILITY ARE RESHAPING GLOBAL MARITIME TRADE
27 SEPT 2024 One presenter at a recent seminar, produced jointly by law firm Reed Smith and class society DNV, Jakub Walenkiewicz, the Principal Market Analyst at DNV, posited that recent major market developments have been driven more by disruption than anything else. Disruption, by definition, can’t be forecast. Reinforcing …
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