[Infographic] Daily Update of COVID-19 End Date!
Data Driven Innovation Lab provides continuous predictive monitoring of COVID-19 developments as a complement to monitoring confirmed cases on their website. SIR (susceptible-infected-recovered) model...
Clinical Trials of Heartburn Medicine for COVID19 Begins!
Coronavirus has put the world on vaccine testing competition on an emergency basis.
Various kinds of possible treatments for the novel coronavirus are...
World Becomes A ‘Dragging Ship’! Lessons To Learn from COVID-19
Governments have been stranded because of wars, internal conflicts, uprisings, economic crises, natural disasters, and plagues.
World Wars, climate change, environmental disasters, natural...
Enormous Deficits Due To Production Curbs and OPEC+ Deals!
Kuwait’s 2020/21 budget has projected a KWD 9.2 billion (US$30 billion) deficit.
It is the sixth year of enormous deficits due to production...
How Seafarers Can Build Resilience Onboard Amid COVID-19?
Port restrictions and changes due to COVID-19 are affecting seafarers.
Seafarers must have a good mental health condition and build resilience.
Seafarers have...
LR Classification Awarded To Multi-Role Ships for German Government
Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau BAW has been appointed LR as the classification society.
The LR status has been awarded for new 95-meter Multi-Role Ships.
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Crudes Slide As Oversupply and Demand Fears Recur!
Crude futures slip as oversupply and demand concerns resurface.
Market concerns have prevailed over the inadequacy of the recent OPEC+ deal to balance...
Fatal Consequences of Inadequate Heeling!
An article in Hankyoreh details the assessment of MARIN, a maritime research institute located in Wageningen, the Netherlands, on the lessons of the Sewol ferry...
Cosco Shipping Lines Launch EMA Service To Offer Key Port Amenities
Cosco Shipping Lines is launching a new dedicated East Mediterranean - US East Coast (EMA) service in April.
EMA will offer dedicated service...
IACS Address COVID19 Concerns With A Letter To Industry Associations
IACS has received many requests from interested parties seeking guidance on how it will respond to the current and forthcoming challenges posed by...
Grounded Product Tanker Gets Re-floated!
Product tanker Volgoneft 249 ran aground in Kama river estuary downstream from Kazan city.
The tanker was loaded with gasoil and was en...
[Infographic] COVID19 Impact on Worker Availability at Ports
The IAPH-WPSP survey explains how the COVID-19 outbreak has impacted the availability of workers at ports.
Huge impact on worker availability
The measures to fight the...
Tests Confirm 150 COVID-19 Cases in New Cruise Epicentre!
Nearly 150 cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed onboard quarantined cruise ship.
57 more crew had tested positive.
The cruise ship was...
UN Warns Global Economy Could Shrink by 1% Due To COVID-19
The global economy could shrink by up to 1 percent in 2020 due to COVID-19.
UN-DESA said the pandemic is disrupting global supply...
COVID19 Bunker Credit Proving To Be the ‘Achilles Heel’ of Shipping!
Despite its strength and significant role in world trade, the shipping industry is potentially vulnerable to an “Achilles heel” where financing its bunker fuel...
Save Livelihoods, 87% of World Up for Per Capita Income Shrinking:...
How do you co-ordinate economic policy across the globe, when an invisible enemy that behaves in unknown ways systematically erodes the very way economies...
The Global Oil Glut! Arises a Surprise Winner!
The world witnesses historic OPEC+ production cut deal.
No oil demand across the world amid lockdowns and travel restrictions.
Oil storage capacity around...
Shut Down or Find Space – Oil Majors Scramble for Storage...
According to a Reuters report, oil traders are struggling to find enough ships, railcars, caverns, and pipelines to store fuel as more conventional storage...
COVID19 Lockdowns – How Epidemic Modeling Works & How It Doesn’t?
Epidemic modeling such as compartment models is the key to develop a pandemic control strategy.
Compartment models seek to align the infected in...
Crew Change Response Starts After IMO Prodding!
China takes measures to facilitate crew change in a safe manner, responding to IMO guidance and ICS & ITF joint calls to facilitate the...
