STARTING OF PORT OF CHALNA AFTER INDEPENDENCE OF BANGLADESH. Port of Chalna was established on December 11, 1954 at Chalna, about 11 miles upstream of Mongla and named Chalna Anchorage. It was administered by the Central Government of Pakistan. In December 1971, there were six Pilots in addition to Harbour …
Read More »SCIENTISTS JUST FOUND AN UNEXPECTEDLY LARGE SOURCE OF NATURAL GREENHOUSE GASES
02 FEB 2020 Hydrocarbon gases bubbling from the bottom of the Red Sea are polluting the atmosphere at a rate equivalent to the emissions of some large fossil fuel exporting countries, researchers said Tuesday. The gases seeping from the waters – which are ringed by the resorts and ports of several countries, …
Read More »GWADAR HANDLES FIRST AFGHAN CARGO, AFTER SEVEN YEARS IN DEVELOPMENT
01 FEB 2020 The shipment of goods from the recently-built port of Gwadar, Pakistan to customers in Afghanistan has begun, according to Pakistani media. The boxship Diyala has offloaded two containers of fertilizer for Afghan customers at Gwadar, and the cargo will be trucked overland to the border town of Chaman, Kandahar. …
Read More »SIX SEAFARERS FALL ILL AS CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK CONTINUES
31 JAN 2020 Six seafarers aboard a French-operated container ship have fallen ill during a voyage from China to Egypt, raising concerns that they could be the first reported mariners to have contracted the new coronavirus strain originating in Wuhan. According to Sri Lankan media, six crewmembers aboard the container …
Read More »VLCC CATCHES FIRE OFF UAE
30 JAN 2020 Authorities in the UAE report that a tanker has caught fire at a position about 20 miles off the coast of Sharjah. The UAE’s Federal Transport Authority – Land & Maritime (FTA) said in a statement Wednesday that it is “working to put out a fire that …
Read More »SEAFARERS COMPLAIN OF RACISM AND LACK OF SHORE LEAVE
29 JAN 2020 The Seafarers Happiness Index published by The Mission to Seafarers this week highlights crew concerns about racism and a lack of support dealing with it along with concerns about a lack of shore leave to relieve stress. The index, undertaken in association with P&I insurer the Ship …
Read More »BALTIC DRY INDEX FALLS TO OVER 3-YEAR LOW
28 JAN 2020 The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index fell to its lowest level since April 2016, dragged down by lower vessels rates across categories. * The Baltic index, which tracks rates for capesize, panamax and supramax vessels ferrying dry bulk commodities, dropped 11 points, or 2.0%, to 546 …
Read More »MAKING WAVES
28 JAN 2020 Founded little more than a decade ago, privately-held IMAT (Italian Maritime Academy Technologies) has quickly established itself as a global leader in maritime training. The former cruise ship captain had a dream. He’d just returned from a trip to the U.S. where he saw a state-of-the-art maritime …
Read More »REMEMBERING LASH
27 JAN 2020 In 1969, while working for a ship agency in downtown New Orleans, one of the agents announced there was a ship at general anchorage which loaded barges into the vessel! A group took a launch to view the Acadia Forest, the first LASH vessel. She was quite a …
Read More »THE ZERO-EMISSIONS TUG
26 JAN 2020 What was once a dream is fast becoming a reality? With a request for a full-sized, battery-propelled, all-electric tugboat, Ports of Auckland was thought to be “dreaming.” And you might say a dream team was founded when the Netherlands-based Damen Group agreed that the request was feasible …
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