08 JUL 2020 On Tuesday night, the livestock carrier Talia finally received permission to transfer 50 rescued migrants to the custody of Maltese immigration officials. The Talia was on a ballast voyage off Libya on Saturday when she diverted to rescue 52 migrants in a drifting boat. A surveillance plane operated by rescue NGO …
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07 JULY 2020 The Earth’s magnetic field flips, every few hundred thousand years or so on average, which means magnetic north becomes magnetic south and vice versa (the planet doesn’t actually turn upside down). New research suggests this change of direction can happen up to 10 times faster than previously …
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06 JULY 2020 Authorities in an autonomous region in northern China have issued a health warning after a local farmer contracted the bubonic plague. A herdsman was reportedly in a stable condition after having been confirmed to have caught the disease on Sunday, according to the New York Times. Health officials in …
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04 JUL 2020 Djibouti has carried out the first crew change of merchant sailors in its territory and is ready to get home more seafarers who have been stranded by the coronavirus, a senior port official said. Lying on the Bab al-Mandab strait, which is one of the world’s busiest …
Read More »03 JUL 2020 A cargo vessel was the latest target of pirates in the waters off Benin. This attack came just one day after reports of an even more brazen attack on a vessel in the oil fields in the Gulf of Guinea. In the latest incident, security firm Dryad …
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02 JUL 2020 The newly elected President of The Nautical Institute, Jillian Carson-Jackson has vowed to help the Institute and wider maritime community meet three important challenges – those of diversity and inclusion, branch engagement and managing the impact of technology. Speaking at today’s Nautical Institute Annual General Meeting she …
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