Is MIS-C The New Epidemic After Covid?

MIS-C can follow Covid-19 even some weeks after infection. Symptoms are not uniform but may involve abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, conjunctivitis and low blood pressure. It often follows a mild or even...

Omicron-2 Symptoms Discovered

The BA.2 COVID-19 variant — a subvariant of the omicron variant — reportedly creates different COVID-19 symptoms compared to earlier strains, per KREM 2 News. the BA.2 variant spreads more easily than the...

EU To Cut Russia From Global Financial System

The European Union wants to cut all links between Russia and the global financial system, France’s finance minister said on Friday, adding that removing Moscow from the SWIFT interbank system remained a “last resort”,...

Ukraine Invasion A New Cold War?

The trouble was, for Vladimir Putin, the one-time KGB officer based in East Germany, the collapse of the old Soviet Union seems to have morphed into a bitter personal resentment which grew worse as...

How Do Shippers Spend Money They Made In Past 18 Months?

Only a few months ago the shipping industry was wringing its collective hands over the demise of plans to establish an International Maritime Research Board (IMRB) administered by the IMO. $2 a tonne...

Sanctions Against Russia, Crude Oil Futures Soar

  Crude oil futures were higher in mid-morning Asian trade Feb. 24 as the market weighed the supply implications of targeted western sanctions against Russia. Particularly, after President Vladimir Putin offered Ukraine's breakaway regions,...

ONE and Hapag Foster Asia-East Africa Tradelanes

  Secondary services have suffered as ocean carriers redeployed tonnage to more lucrative Asia-Europe and Asia-to-US tradelanes. However, with port congestion on those major routes sucking in so much of their capacity, carriers are...

Battle To Recover After Ransomware Cyber-Attack

A whole army of “recovery” companies will have descended on Expeditors as it battled to recover from a targeted cyber attack. The company said that, on discovering the “incident”, it shut down most...

Time To Understand Russian/Ukrainian Supply Chain Risks

A recent news article published in the Industry Week tries to understand Russian/Ukrainian Supply Chain Risks. Experts view In 2014, Victor Meyer, a former United States Navy SEAL and current COO of risk intelligence company Supply...

Global Piracy Trends & Hotspots

Global piracy dropped in 2021 but the threat level in the Gulf of Guinea region remains high. The Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia Information Sharing...