Total Joins Maersk-led Project for Maritime Decarbonization

French energy major Total has joined the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping as a strategic partner. The partnership will allow Total to join forces with leading players across the shipping...

Volunteers Eager To Sign Up For Royal Caribbean’s Exciting Test Cruises

More than 250,000 have signed up for a Royal Caribbean program that might still be months away, reports Bloomberg. Eager to volunteer  When Royal Caribbean International announced it was looking for volunteers to help test its...

The Extent of COVID Loss of Smell

According to a CNN report, some 86% of people with mild cases of Covid-19 lose their sense of smell and taste but recover it within six months, says a new study of over 2,500...

COVID Vaccine Side Effects Shows Body’s Reaction To Vaccine

The extent of covid vaccine side effects is cooking up a storm so BBC Health Editor, Michelle Roberts sought to understand it.Let's take a look at it now. 1 in 3 Getting Side Effects? About one...

Shipping Industry Facing Humanitarian Crisis

Terence Tsai started hearing about the growing labor crisis in shipping in a roundabout way. First, in March, an official at a ship management company in Hong Kong let slip that a captain had...

Post-COVID Era and Working in Shipping

Guests of the inaugural CAREER4SEA Talk, Iris Baguilat, President, Döhle Seafront Crewing (Manila) Inc., John Dolan, Deputy Director of Loss Prevention, Standard Club and Gisa Paredes, Chief Operating Officer, WellAtSea discussed about the new trends...

A New LNG Transit and Tonnage Record Set By Panama Canal

The Panama Canal set a new monthly record for transits and tonnage of liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessels in January. It shows its capacity to respond to the demand of this segment, as...

US LPG Cargoes To Asia Canceled for These Reasons

US arrivals to Asia to fall to 1.6 million mt in March from 2.3 million mt for February. Lower US, Saudi volumes in Asia offset by softer heating demand as winter nears end. ...

Ship Recycling Doubled, 1.5 Lakh New Jobs

India aims to attract ships from Europe and Japan for scrapping. Especially in Alang, one of the biggest ship breaking yards of the world. Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, more vessels would double the recycling...

2 Recruitment Agents ‘Blacklisted’ for Duping Seafarers

The Seamen’s Employment Office has debarred and blacklisted 2 seafarers’ recruitment and placement agents and their directors from conducting any maritime activity associated with the Directorate-General of Shipping and its allied offices, reports the...