26 APR 2023 Mariners love to complain about day rates and talk about which companies have the best pay, but Bangladesh’s inland crewmembers have more grounds for grouching than most. Until recently, deckhands and cooks on Bangladeshi riverboats earned as little as $95 a month. This is a minute fraction …
Read More »EXPORTS NEW ZEALAND OFFICIALLY ENDS LIVE ANIMAL BY SEA
25 APR 2023 Zealand has officially ended its livestock exports by sea, citing animal welfare concerns, as the last live export ship departed from the country, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor announced Friday. The ban comes after the sinking of livestock carrier Gulf Livestock 1 in 2020, carrying over 6,000 cattle bound for …
Read More »TANKERS CARRYING OUT A SHIP-TO-SHIP (STS) TRANSFER AT SEA.
24 APR 2023 US crude transferred from bigger to smaller tankers will contribute to pricing of the world’s most important oil benchmark, removing what traders saw as a stumbling block in a long-planned reform. WTI Midland crude loaded onto a smaller Aframax tanker, which received the cargo from a larger …
Read More »BRAIN CAN CREATE A FALSE MEMORY QUICKER THAN YOU THINK
23 APR 2023 Research suggests people can generate false memories within the blink of an eye. In a series of four experiments led by the University of Amsterdam, researchers showed 534 people letters of the Western alphabet in actual and mirrored orientations. After some participants were shown an interference slide …
Read More »WORLD’S LARGEST FSRU ARRIVES IN HONG KONG
21 APR 2023 The world’s largest floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) has arrived in Hong Kong where it is set help meet the city’s growing energy needs. The Bauhinia Spirit, with a length of 345 meters and a storage capacity of 263,000m3 of LNG, arrived at the South Cheung …
Read More »WHAT HAPPENS IF RUSSIA ABANDONS THE BLACK SEA GRAIN DEAL?
20 APR 2023 The Kremlin has said the outlook is “not so great” for extending beyond May 18 a deal that allows the safe wartime export of grain from some Ukrainian Black Sea ports, raising concerns over what happens next with the U.N.-backed sea corridor. The deal has helped to tackle a global food …
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