Yearly Archives: 2020
Singapore Court Forfeits Chemical Oil Tanker
Chemical oil tanker M/T Prime South is forfeited by state courts of Singapore with respect to the Shell MGO bunker heist.
District Judge...
Weekly Tanker Report – Week 41, 2020
The Baltic Briefing has issued the tanker report for the 41st week of this year. The report dated 09th October 2020 provides a valuable...
Weekly Bulk Report – Week 41, 2020
The Baltic Exchange has released a report about the dry bulk market for the 41st week of shipping activities of this year. The report...
Rescue Mission Turns Dramatic
Cargo vessel was swept away as it was docking at the Cua Viet Port amid serious flooding caused by days of torrential rains.
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Startups and Corporations To Decarbonize Shipping Industry
In light of reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the shipping industry, several major maritime corporations are looking to startups for truly innovative solutions.
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The Complex Physics Behind ‘Boomerang’ Earthquake
This magnitude 7.1 earthquake started deep underground, in a gash on the Atlantic seafloor, a little more than 650 miles off the coast of Liberia,...
ITF Urges On Seafarers’ Human Rights Amid Crew Change Crisis
Amid the crew change crisis within the maritime industry, International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Joint Negotiating Group, issued a joint statement to...
New 5-Minute Test for COVID-19 Detection
CRISPR gene-editing technology comes up with a test that detects the pandemic coronavirus in just 5 minutes.
The diagnostic does not require expensive...
UK Law to Ensure Fair Wage for Seafarers
The UK changed its law on National Minimum Wage so that seafarers will receive pay protection equal to every other sector.
Entitlement to...
Panama Missing $15 Billion/Year Amid Registered Shipping Emissions
Carrying capacity of the world’s 60,000 largest ocean-bound vessels has increased from 800 million deadweight tons in the year 2000 to over 2...