10 JUNE 2021 Most people who get COVID suffer the common symptoms of fever, cough and breathing problems, and recover in a week or two. But some people, estimated to be roughly 10-30 percent of people who get COVID, suffer persistent symptoms colloquially known as “long COVID”. Why do some people …
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09 JUNE 2021 On June 7, Greenpeace activists visited the port of Saint-Nazaire, France, to block a bulker arriving from Brazil. The vessel, the 75,000 dwt bulker Cabrillo, is carrying a cargo of soybeans from Brazil’s Cerrado region. This savannah ecosystem is less well-known than the Amazon rainforest, but it has …
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09 JUNE 2021 Shipping consultancy Drewry says the shipping industry should brace for a shortage of officers to crew the world’s commercial fleet in the coming years, with important implications for both hiring and rising future manning costs. Diminishing attractiveness of a career at sea, coupled with rising man-berth ratios and continued …
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08 JUNE 2021 The upcoming Pole to Pole itinerary of the cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen. Image via Hurtigruten Expeditions Do you like very long voyages and eating steak tartare while getting battered about in the Roaring 40s, Furious 50s, and Screaming 60s? If so then Hurtigruten Expeditions, has a deal for …
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07 JUNE 2021 The Sri Lankan Navy has recovered the voyage data recorder (VDR) from the wreck of the container ship X-Press Pearl, which partially sank last week after a devastating cargo fire off the coast of Colombo. The X-Press Pearl was anchored before and during the fire, and her crew was evacuated from …
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06 JUNE 2021 In mid-May 2021, after understandable delays related to COVID-19, the Maritime Safety Committee finalized its regulatory scoping exercise (RSE) on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships. By no means the only voice to be heard, given that other IMO committees have their own scoping exercises, MSC 103/WP.8 nonetheless offers …
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