14 JAN 2020 Iran is unlikely to block the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s busiest oil-shipping channel, in reprisal for the killing of Qassem Soleimani for fear of aggravating its Gulf allies and China, regional analysts said on Monday. Tehran has long threatened to block the waterway between Iran and …
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13 JAN 2020 The Silversea Cruises luxury cruise ship Silver Whisper has departed on a record-setting voyage – a 140-day itinerary visiting all seven continents. While longer cruise voyages have been conducted, this is the first to incorporate such geographic breadth. “Legends of Cruising is our most immersive World Cruise to date, …
Read More »14 JAN 2020 Global economic growth is forecast to increase to 2.5 percent in 2020, the World Bank says in its January 2020 Global Economic Prospects. Growth among advanced economies as a group is anticipated to slip to 1.4 percent in 2020 in part due to continued softness in manufacturing. …
Read More »12 JAN 2020 The “artificial” experience provided by simulators is widely recognized as both effective and cost-efficient, says Captain Chris Hearn, Director of the Centre for Marine Simulation (CMS) at the Marine Institute of Memorial University, Canada. CMS has the most comprehensive suite of maritime simulators in Canada and is …
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10 JAN 2020 European short-sea and feeder ship operators say that they are challenging efforts by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) to redefine container lashing as a cargo handling activity in order to bring it under the control of unionized dockers. The redefinition, which ITF has sought for many …
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05 JAN 2020 Seafarers are set to be viewed as an asset rather than a commodity in the future as the global maritime sector embraces greener technology that requires a more skilled workforce. That’s the view of crewing specialist Henrik Jensen, Managing Director and Founder of Danica Crewing Services. Jensen …
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04 JAN 2020 Forces with U.S. Joint Special Operations Command have killed Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, a leading Iranian political figure and the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. A JSOC drone destroyed a convoy carrying Soleimani and several Iranian-backed Iraqi militia leaders …
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03 JAN 2020 A UK court has sentenced four stowaways to long jail terms for threatening the crew of the con/ro Grande Tema off the Thames Estuary in 2018. The men were convicted of the crime of affray at London’s Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) last November. In December 2018, the defendants …
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02 JAN 2020 Over the last few years, the public narrative about the New Silk Road rail route has become increasingly grand. Conceptually, this route could be a kind of high-speed internet for the transport of physical goods; politically, it could boost China’s standing on the global stage. But as with …
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01 JAN 2020 Armed pirates have abducted eight mariners and injured another in an attack on a tanker off Cameroon, according to Greece’s shipping ministry. On Monday night, armed attackers came on board the product tanker Happy Lady at an anchorage about two nm off the Limboh Terminal in Cameroon. The pirates abducted one …
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