Insurers Advocate Elastic Premium Policy As COVID19 Effects Loss Prevention!
According to an article published in Business Insurance, Experts are of the opinion that COVID19 lockdown, border restrictions, and supply chain disruptions has heightened the loss prevention and control concerns for ship owners and...
How Seafarers Can Get Their Due Compensation After An Accident?
A Seafarer's life is always full of hurdles. As they work long months away from home and family much life is at stake specially when there's an accident but you do get your moments...
COVID19 To Take A Toll on Global Fleet Growth As Scrapping Decline!
According to a Lloyd's List article written by Adam Sharpe, floating storage was at record high last week as tanker rates slide while port calls in China show further decline than 2019 figures.
Market Dynamics...
WHO Launching Unique COVID19 Contact Tracing App!
WHO is launching a virtual handshake contact tracing app by this month.
World's top engineers including that of Google and Alphabet are working for it.
Apart from contact tracing, there will be a...
[Watch] Container Ship-Bulk Carrier Grounded While Avoiding A Collision!
A Container ship and a bulk carrier runs aground in Singapore Strait south of St John Island at around 1900 UTC May 10, trying to avoid collision, reports Maritime Bulletin.
What happened?
Container ship SHAHRAZ and...
Singapore-flagged Vessel Grounded Due To Human Error!
Singapore-flagged vessel carrying 30,000 metric tons of white sugar grounded in Belitung, reports AntaraNews.com.
What happened?
Port authorities suspect human error to be the cause for the grounding of a Singapore-flagged cargo ship, MV Asia Pearl...
[Watch] Experiment Shows How Germs Spread On Cruises!
I want to see this same experiment but with nagashi-somen https://t.co/hptfwUwfzi
— Spoon & Tamago (@Johnny_suputama) May 8, 2020
NHK experiment showed in a video, how germs may have spread on cruise ships at buffet centres...
The Top 10 Shipping Container Companies in The U.S!
The top shipping containers companies in the USA are based on the information from Alphaliner.
It is based on the record of the size of the container ship fleets based on twenty-foot equivalent...
Plunge in Oil Price Forces LNG Production Cut!
Oil is not the only fossil fuel that suffered a steep price fall due to virus-containment measures.
LNG has also plunged, dragging Asia's spot prices to record lows and forcing some suppliers to...
Wood Chips Carrier Re-floated After Unprecedented Grounding!
A wood chips carrier runs aground at night, May 9 in Corral Bay, Chile.
The carrier SURABAYA EXPRESS was refloated with tug assistance and anchored.
No casualty or damage has been reported in...