31 SEPT 2024 Tugs are expected to begin towing a damaged Greek oil tanker on Sunday, Yemen’s Houthi Foreign Minister Jamel Amer said, as the vessel remains adrift and on fire in the Red Sea. The Greek-registered Sounion poses an environmental hazard after it was damaged in an Aug. 21 …
Read More »MSC BOXSHIP SETS NEW RECORD FOR PANAMA CANAL CARGO CAPACITY
30 AUG 2024 The Panama Canal Authority is highlighting a new record for the largest cargo capacity containership to transit the Canal. While the record is always significant, it draws extra attention as it comes as the Panama Canal is working its way back from restrictions on ship transits due …
Read More »CARGO SHIP TURNED AWAY BY NAMIBIA OVER FEARS OF EXPLOSIVES FOR ISRAEL
29 AUG 2024 The African nation of Namibia revoked the docking privileges granted to a Portuguese-flagged general cargo ship. It was the second vessel that officials suspected of transporting materials to Israel with government officials saying their country would not be complicit with the war in Gaza. A local rights …
Read More »ALGERIAN TANKER SAILS HUMANITARIAN MISSION TO FUEL LEBANON’S POWER COMPANY
28 AUG 2024 Algeria conducted a humanitarian mission to bring badly needed fuel to Lebanon to end a nearly two-week-long blackout by the country’s central power company. It is the first of several efforts in the coming days that are attempting to restore a steady supply of fuel to the …
Read More »ONE BAD LADDER SHOWS COMMON SHORTCOMINGS FOR MARINE PILOT SAFETY
27 AUG 2024 One Bad Ladder Shows Common Shortcomings for Marine Pilot Safety At least eight people died in boarding accidents last year, and bad ladders are part of the problem Arie Palmers is a Dutch marine pilot and is closely involved in efforts to tighten pilot ladder safety. In …
Read More »TWO RUSSIAN SEAFARERS KILLED IN CONFINED SPACE ACCIDENT
25 AUG 2024 On Friday, two seafarers lost their lives in a confined-space accident aboard a freighter at the port of Bandirma, Turkey. The Russian freighter Navis 2 arrived in Bandirma on August 21 with a cargo of five thousand tonnes of animal feed, and on Friday, she moved to …
Read More »AI DOESN’T ACTUALLY POSE AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO HUMANS, STUDY FINDS
25 AUG 2024 Science fiction is riddled with artificial intelligence going rogue and turning on their human creators. HAL-9000. The Matrix. Skynet. GLaDOS. Cylons. Humanity, it seems, has a deep fear of the rebellion of the machine. With the rise of ever more sophisticated large language models (LLMs), such as …
Read More »NOSE CAN REVEAL SERIOUS HIDDEN HEALTH ISSUES
24 AUG 2024 Thanks to a quirk known as unconscious selective attention, your brain has learned to ignore your nose. A prominent feature that’s positioned closely to the eyes, the schnoz could get in the way of our vision – but the nervous system cleverly filters it out. You can …
Read More »SOUNION TANKER ABLAZE CAUSING POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER
24 AUG 2024 The Houthis militants released video late on Friday showing explosions aboard the laden Greek tanker Sounion setting the stage for what experts believe will be one of the world’s worst environmental disasters. The vessel is fully laden with approximately 150,000 tonnes (more than 900,000 barrels) of crude …
Read More »FIRST ROTOR SAILS RETROFITTED TO MOL CAPESIZE BULKER OPERATING FOR VALE
23 AUG 2024 The bulker segment continues to be at the forefront of the deployment of wind-assisted propulsion with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Brazilian mining giant Vale reporting the first retrofit of rotor sails to a capesize bulker. It adds wind-assisted propulsion to another category of ships in the segment …
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