11 MAR 2021 The volume of goods transported by container shipping each year has quadrupled since 2000, and about 600,000 submarine cables have been laid on the seafloor in that time, which now carry almost all international telecommunications. The energy generated by offshore wind farms has increased 400-fold in the …
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10 mar 2021 Container shortages severely disrupted trade in the second half of 2020, just as consumer demand began catching up to pre-pandemic levels. Indian shippers, just like their European, Australian, and US counterparts, began to feel the heat of the crisis as ocean freight rates skyrocketed to exorbitant levels. …
Read More »09 MAR 2021 We all desperately want this global pandemic to end, but that won’t happen for many more years if the wealthiest nations don’t share their vaccines with the rest of the world, argue health experts. By mid-February 2021, 191 million vaccination shots had been administered, and more than three quarters …
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08 MAR 2021 Recent posts on social media have claimed that the newly approved COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility. The biological mechanism by which the vaccines work, on top of data from animal and human studies, strongly suggest that this is not true. When the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020, few could anticipate …
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07 MAR 2021 Saudi Arabia plans to ship gas to South Korea where it will be used to make hydrogen, and the carbon dioxide produced in the process will be transported straight back to the kingdom. Hyundai OilBank Co. will take liquefied petroleum gas cargoes from Saudi Aramco which it …
Read More »06 MAR 2021 You utter “automation,” and everyone is immediately transposed to a sci-fi future where robots rule the world, cars fly and crewless ships sail the world’s oceans. Even within the marine industry, we often forget that ‘unmanned vessel’ isn’t the only arrow in the automation quiver. In fact, …
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