20 FEB 2023 As Europe resorts to desperate measures to contain a growing immigration crisis, the UN has condemned a move by Italy to enact stringent laws against NGOs and humanitarian groups involved in search and rescue (SAR) missions in the central Mediterranean. Italy has moved to impose stricter conditions …
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20 FEB 2023 International marine fuels group Baseblue, created through the merger of three bunker players, aims to hone in on greenshipping as part of the growing push to decarbonise the industry, executives said on Tuesday. Shipping, which transports around 90% of world trade and accounts for nearly 3% of the …
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19 FEB 2023 The UK’s Commercial Rib Charter, which bills itself as Europe’s largest Rib operator, is commissioning a unique crew transfer vessel designed to meet the challenges at the Scroby Sands RWE Wind Farm, a nearshore installation less than two miles from the UK coast. The vessel, named CRC Walrus, …
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18 FEB 2023 After a storm over the Black Sea, Ukraine’s military has warned coastal communities near Odesa of the risk of drifting naval mines. The warning comes shortly after the detonation of a contact mine on a public beach in Batumi, Georgia’s second-largest city. Floating Soviet-era YaM-type mines have …
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17 FEB 2023 China’s trade relations with Australia showed concrete signs of thawing with coal shipments resuming after more than two years, and hopes of a return of lobster and wine sales. Bulk carrier Magic Eclipse was anchored off the southern port city of Zhanjiang on Thursday morning, according to Bloomberg shipping data. It’s …
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16 FEB 2023 Maersk has filed suit against rival Evergreen over the delays caused by the infamous grounding of the boxship Ever Given in the Suez Canal two years ago. The Ever Given went aground in the Suez Canal on March 23, 2021, shortly after she entered the southern entrance. Her length greatly exceeded …
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15 FEB 2023 Sanctions enforcement on a remote interaction with a once-Russian vessel sends a stern message. In a sign of increasing regulatory interest in Russian ship-to-ship petroleum transfers, Spanish authorities have banned the tanker Maersk Magellan from unloading in Tarragona because she took aboard a cargo that had once been aboard a …
Read More »14 FEB 2023 Long-term exposure to air pollution raises the risk of depression, according to a pair of new studies published in the JAMA network of scientific journals. A study published on Friday in JAMA Network Open found that long-term exposure to elevated levels of air pollution increases the risk of late-onset depression among …
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13 FEB 2023 The Potential for ESG Strategies in Shipping’s Decarbonization With shipping companies making ambitious investments in decarbonization, the debate around creation of robust ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) strategies for the industry has become imperative. New regulations – such as the inclusion of shipping in EU’s Emission Trading …
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12 FEB 2023 More than a decade after the suicide death of one of the masters working for CMA CGM, a French court has reportedly upheld a lower court’s decision convicting and fining the shipping giant of manslaughter for contributing to the captain’s death. The French news service Agence France-Presse …
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