05 JUNE 2022 Atlantic Container Line (ACL) and Cunard have marked the 40th anniversary of the ‘darkest day in ACL’s history’ when its vessel, the Liverpool registered SS Atlantic Conveyor, was struck by two Argentine Exocet missiles killing 12 crew during the Falklands War. The event took place on May 25, the …
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04 JUNE 2022 Fixing cybersecurity problems requires understanding how seafarers themselves perceive cyber risks. It was the afternoon of June 27, 2017, when nearly every computer serving the Danish shipping giant Maersk went dark. A piece of malware called NotPetya, created by Russians to attack the Ukraine, had accidently snuck …
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03 JUNE 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 had a profound impact on shipping in the Black Sea. To prevent the Russian Navy from sailing into their ports and attempting to seize them in a coup de main, Ukrainian tugboats and naval auxiliaries mined the waters along …
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01 JUNE 2022 The European Council has agreed in principle to ban seaborne imports of oil from Russia, leaving a carve-out for pipeline shipments in order to secure the vote of Hungary and other states with high dependence on Russian crude. “The sanctions will immediately impact 75 percent of Russian …
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02 JUN 2022 Earth’s interior is a far from quiet place. Deep below our surface activities, the planet rumbles with activity, from plate tectonics to convection currents that circulate through the hot magmatic fluids far underneath the crust. Now scientists studying satellite data of Earth have identified something inside Earth …
Read More »01 JUN 2022 Occasionally, as a doctor, I am asked to see a patient in the emergency department who is completely mute. They sit motionless, staring around the room. I lift up their arm and it stays in that position. Someone takes a blood test and they don’t even wince. …
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