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13 MAY 2021  Illustrating the depths to which drug smugglers are going in their attempts to move their illicit cargo, the Hellenic Coast Guard released video of a drug seizure this week hidden underwater behind the grate on a water intake in a bulk carrier’s hull. The vessel’s management company …

12 MAY 2021  There are many ways goods can be shipped by sea. Many exporters who sell abroad regularly will ship their goods in containers. If their volumes are sufficient to fill a container then the container will contain only their goods, this is a Full Container Load [ FCL] …

11 MAY 2021 The Antarctic ice sheet contains a global disaster waiting to happen. As global temperatures continue to rise due to anthropogenic climate breakdown, water currently locked in the form of Antarctic ice will melt into the oceans, raising sea levels to a point that will have a significant …

10 MAY 2021  On Tuesday, salvors hoisted and removed the engine room section of the grounded ro/ro Golden Ray, loading it onto a deck barge for transport to a recycling facility in Louisiana.  The lift marks the culmination of a long, three-month process to saw through the heavily-reinforced hull section using …

9 MAY 2021  A new report on scrubber washwater suggests that shipping now produces more tonnes of the effluent in a year than the tonnes the cargo it carries.  Based on numbers from the pre-COVID era (2019), the team at the International Council for Clean Transportation calculated that scrubber-equipped ships …

7 MAY 2021 Reduced Chinese reliance on fossil fuel imports and rising demand for renewables inputs would have major effects on trading relationships. Diplomacy is not always diplomatic. This fact of international life was on full display during the recent meeting of top US and Chinese diplomats in Alaska. It …

6 MAY 2021  Germany will soon be accepting a shipment of 59 containers of hazardous waste from the Port of Beirut, which is still working to rebuild after the devastating blast at its grain terminal last year. The heavy lift ship Amoenitas, operated by Combi Lift, is at Beirut and …

5 MAY 2021  On Tuesday (4th May), an Egyptian court upheld a previous court order for the seizure of the container ship Ever Given, leaving the vessel stranded in the canal’s Great Bitter Lake until further notice. The Suez Canal Authority obtained the order on April 13, and the court has …

9 MAY 2021 Scientists already know the oceans are rapidly warming and sea levels are rising. But that’s not all. Now, thanks to satellite observations, we have three decades’ worth of data on how the speeds of ocean surface currents are also changing over time. In research published on 23 April in …

8 MAY 2021 Like everything in this pandemic, the knowledge we have about how COVID-19 affects pregnancy has changed since we first learnt about the virus at the start of 2020. Unfortunately, gathering information and research in this area has been slower than many doctors would like, and a new study has now found that …