Anchor chain attached to the pulley system on the VB-10000 heavy-lift vessel moves slowly to cut through Section One of the Golden Ray wreck. St. Simons Sound Incident response photo. 09 NOV 2020 The heavy lift vessel VB10000 began cutting the Golden Ray on Friday more than a year after …
Read More »BIDEN PREDICTED TO START BY REVERSING TRUMP’S OFFSHORE DRILLING AND CO2 DEREGULATIONS
08 NOV 2020 Joe Biden could erase much of President Donald Trump’s four-year legacy of energy and climate deregulation with the stroke of his pen, according to regulatory experts, but replacing it with something new and durable may prove trickier. Trump’s rollbacks are on shaky ground because most were done …
Read More »SHIPPING LIVESTOCK TO CHINA IS GOAL OF SUDAN’S $140 MILLION PORT
07 NOV 2020 A Chinese-built port for shipping livestock from Sudan’s Red Sea coast will be completed by year-end, the latest African component of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, a Sudanese company official said. Constructed by China Harbour Engineering Co. and located in Haidob, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of …
Read More »IMO CHARTING PASSAGE PLAN FOR REDUCING SHIPPING’S ‘CARBON INTENSITY’
06 NOV 2020 Over the past year, “sustainability” has ratcheted upward to the top of the shipping industry’s radar. The activity will be ramping up now as the International Maritime Organization (“IMO”) takes steps to actualize objectives specified in its 2018 statement of strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ships, …
Read More »NEW ICS REPORT SHEDS LIGHT ON DIVERSITY IN SHIPPING
04 NOV 2020 Women make up just 7.5 percent of the world’s seafarers, according to a first-of-its-kind report looking into diversity within the shipping industry. The report was released this week by the International Chamber of Shipping. It surveyed more than 200 shipping companies across the world on issues related to diversity …
Read More »HOW YOUR COMPANY’S INSURANCE CLAIMS PROCESS AFFECTS YOU AFTER A WORKPLACE ACCIDENT
03 NOV 2020 Similar to how people buy car insurance in case of car accidents, maritime companies buy insurance policies to cover workplace accidents and payout the injury settlements from that policy. Because your company is primarily interested in self-preservation and protecting itself, their strategy for handling a workplace injury …
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