26 AUG 2022 With his family, Mohammad Selim, a Rohingya Muslim refugee, is hiding in a village in eastern India, May 2019, after fleeing a police crackdown in a Rohingya refugee colony in north India. Recently the Rohingya man was arrested and sent to jail by Indian The Indian government …
Read More »AMID CREW CHANGE CRISIS, ITF INSPECTORS RECOVERED $37 MILLION IN UNPAID WAGES TO SEAFARERS IN 2021
23 AUG 2022 As if the pandemic hasn’t created enough problems for seafarers. Try also not getting paid. The International Transport Workers’ Federation came out with a report Friday showing that union ship inspectors recovered more than $37 million in unpaid wages to seafarers in 2021 as the crew change …
Read More »PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENTIST EXPLAINS HOW DRUGS KNOW WHERE TO GO IN THE BODY
26 JUN 2022 When you take aspirin for a headache, how does the aspirin know to travel to your head and alleviate the pain? The short answer is, it doesn’t: Molecules can’t transport themselves through the body, and they don’t have control over where they eventually end up. But researchers …
Read More »REINSURERS COULD FACE $2B IN CLAIMS OVER THE EVER GIVEN GROUNDING
20 JUN 2022 Claims related to the infamous grounding of the boxship Ever Given last year could amount to a staggering $2 billion, according to French insurer Scor SE, and the massive cost will largely be borne by the reinsurance sector. The Ever Given went aground in the Suez Canal on March 23, 2021, …
Read More »WHY DO WE WAKE UP AT 3AM AND DWELL ON OUR FEARS? A PSYCHOLOGIST EXPLAINS
21 OCT 2021 When I wake at 3am or so, I’m prone to picking on myself. And I know I’m not the only one who does this. A friend of mine calls 3am thoughts “barbed-wire thinking”, because you can get caught in it. The thoughts are often distressing and punitive. …
Read More »FUEL COMPARISONS MUST CONSIDER ENERGY DENSITY
19 SEPT 2021 Why fuel assessments can be distorted if energy density is overlooked. Comparing fuel price and performance on a per-tonne basis has sufficed for liquid fossil fuels, but as shipowners evaluate new fuels as part of their decarbonization plans, this method is no longer accurate. SEA-LNG has identified …
Read More »VLCC’S CHIEF MATE AND BOSUN KILLED BY WAVE OFF CAPE HORN
16 SEPT 2021 On Thursday, the ship management division of Stena confirmed that two tanker crewmembers were killed by a large wave off Cape Horn last weekend. On Saturday, as the Euronav-owned oil tanker Arafura was rounding Cape Horn, en route to Long Beach from Brazil, she ran into rough weather and …
Read More »PART I: FISH FARMING IS FEEDING THE WORLD, BUT AT WHAT COST?
05 SEPT 2021 Gunjur, a town of some fifteen thousand people, sits on the Atlantic coastline of southern Gambia, the smallest country on the African continent. During the day, its white-sand beaches are full of activity. Fishermen steer long, vibrantly painted wooden canoes, known as pirogues, toward the shore, where …
Read More »SALVORS COMPLETE FINAL CUT OF GOLDEN RAY WRECK REMOVAL PROJECT
04 SEPT 2021 On Saturday, salvors completed the very last cut in the long-running Golden Ray wreck removal project. All that remains is to load out the last two segments of the hull and clean up the seabed, and the waters of St. Simons Sound, Georgia will have the same appearance as before …
Read More »SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY THE IDEAL LEVEL OF EXERCISE INTENSITY FOR BOOSTING FITNESS
01 SEPT 2021 We all agree that exercise is good for you: but how hard and how often should you push yourself to get the best results? A large study looking at the link between habitual physical activity and fitness levels shows that “moderate-vigorous physical activity” is the most efficient …
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