Bring Home Crews Struggle Continue Despite Pledges by Countries
The struggle to bring home crews amid coronavirus chaos continues despite efforts to ease transit restrictions for seafarers, reports Reuters.
Struggle continues
Industry officials say that...
Historic First Mission To Mars Launched
United Arab Emirates' historic first mission to Mars is underway.
The Hope probe launched on an H2-A rocket from Tanegashima spaceport.
Hope's arrival...
Copenhagen Conference 2020 – Smart Maritime Network
SMN plans to announce a roadmap for the reintroduction of the 2020 conference series.
The conference will address the twin forces of digitalization...
MSC Launches New South-east Asia Loop ‘Seahorse’
MSC has become the latest shipping line to revamp its intra-Asia service offering.
MSC has updated four existing intra-Asia services.
It is launching...
Capsize Market Tumbles Following Poor Demand
Pacific Capesize rates plunge sharply in July amid excess vessel supply due to lack of demand.
Sharp fall in Capesize time charter equivalent...
Exemption To Self-Isolation for New Crew Puts Sailors’ Lives at Risk
In St.John's, sailors aboard an offshore supply vessel are panicked about their safety following the approval to four American technicians to join the...
A New ECU Research Untangles the ‘Blackbeard Lore’
It’s been speculated that Blackbeard intentionally ran his flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, aground near Beaufort in 1718.
Now, more than 300 years...
‘Black Fish’ That Blends In Sea – A ‘Deep Sea’ Mystery
Some species of deep-sea fish have evolved blacker-than-black skin to protect them from being eaten – or to help them sneak up on...
Scrubber Retrofit Installations Plunge Amid Low Fuel Price Spread
The fuel spread between HFO and LSFO is so low that the retrofitting order intake in scrubbers is pretty much almost zero.
All...
DP World Negotiating To Acquire An Indian Flag Carrier
Global port operator DP World Ltd in advanced talks with Dubai-based Transworld Group to buy Shreyas Shipping and Logistics Ltd and Avana Global...