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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. …

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 …

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 …

09 JAN 2020  Carnival Cruise Line has changed its clothing policy to ban “offensive” clothing, a response to reports from other travel sectors about passengers displaying messages that others find offensive or threatening. Under the new policy, nothing worn on board should “contain any message that may be considered offensive …

08 JAN 2020  Police in Dundee, Scotland have arrested a group of protesters with Extinction Rebellion after an unauthorized boarding of the jackup rig Valaris JU-122 (Ensco 122) on the River Tay. Three of the environmentalists climbed aboard the rig and stayed for about five hours, leaving when weather conditions …

07 JAN 2020 Growing up in a small mountain town in Colorado Captain Lindsay Price was never much interested in boats, but during a 7th-grade class trip, she fell in love with New York City. A few years later she was accepted to SUNY Maritime College and met a professor, Eric Johansson, who changed her life and …