30 SEPT 2023 China has reportedly quietly begun checking all ships arriving from Japan looking for signs of radioactivity in their ballast, while the state news agency reported today the country is beginning a one-year pilot program to stop invasive species. According to reports from Japan, this is the latest …
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29 SEPT 2023 A judge in Southern California has sentenced the former chief engineer of the general cargo ship M/V Donald to serve twelve months and a day in prison after he was convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice and failure to maintain an accurate oil record book. A jury found …
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28 SEPT 2023 The first grain ship in over two months left one of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, as Kyiv seeks to defy Russia’s effective maritime blockade following the collapse of a safe-passage deal. Wheat prices fell. The Resilient Africa left Chornomorsk with 3,000 tons of wheat and is heading toward the …
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27 SEPT 2023 SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx, New York on Monday welcomed the arrival of its new state-of-the-art training ship, the Empire State VII, marking a new era training for the nation’s future Merchant Mariners. The ship is the first of five new government-owned National Security Multi-Missions Vessels (NSMVs) designed for …
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26 SEPT 2023 Global ocean hull premiums rose by 5.7% in 2022 due to increased activity, vessel values, and reduced market capacity, but change is on the horizon with inflation likely to have a significant affect on the marine insurance industry going forward, according to the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI). Overall, 2022 …
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25 SEPT 2023 Lomar Shipping’s in-house tech division, Lomarlabs, is working with a new climate-tech startup to develop a system for breaking down methane – not from the ship’s own emissions, but in the air itself. Lomartech is partnerhing with Blue Dot Change to develop and test a new, nature-based …
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24 SEPT 2023 A colossal study has revealed a variation of a gene involved in an immune response has been secretly giving protection to the billions who carry it from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Known as DR4, the variant, or allele, is part of a family of genes that normally help our immune system pinpoint and …
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23 SEPT 2023 Mysterious lights appear to have been spotted in Morocco before a devastating earthquake hit last week – and scientists still can’t figure out what caused them. A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit the High Atlas Mountains in Eastern Morocco on Friday. At least 2,900 people have died and about 5,500 are reported injured, …
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22 SEPT 2023 The bulk carrier Gingo has become the first capesize ship to sail the Northern Sea Route, according to Russian media reports. Separately, a non-ice-strengthened tanker is currently conducting a transit—marking another first. The Gingo departed the Port of Murmansk on a 13-day eastbound voyage to China carrying 164,600 metric tons of iron ore …
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21 SEPT 2023 Since the beginning of 2023, sea robbery in the Singapore Strait has increased at an alarming rate. The 113-km long, 19-km wide strait that connects the Indian Ocean with the South China Sea is one of the world’s busiest commercial waterways through which approximately 1,000 ships pass every day. The strait …
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