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10 APRIL 2021  The 13,000 TEU container ship MSC Ariane temporarily lost power in the North Pacific due to a fuel quality issue, operator Mediterranean Shipping Company advised clients on Tuesday. “The container ship MSC Ariane, deployed on our Pearl service, had to stop at sea due to an engine issue due to bad …

18 APRIL 2021  On June 27, 2017, during a sunny afternoon at its Copenhagen headquarters, global shipping titan A.P. Møller-Maersk, responsible for nearly 800 vessels, found its operations dead in the water in a matter of minutes. As reported by Wired magazine, within two hours the NotPetya or Nyetya, a …

17 APRIL 2021 As we get older, many changes happen to our body, we become frail, our hair turns white, and our skin wrinkles. We also become more susceptible to disease and may lose our cognitive abilities. Aging is generally considered an inevitable part of life, but can it be …

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 …