Call For Increased Investment In Mental Health Services
Stigma has been a seemingly uphill battle for all who have experienced a mental health condition or who have known someone facing these challenges....
You Are Really At The Mercy Of The Cruise Ship!!
A recent outbreak of 60 cases of gastroenteritis aboard vessel has put the holiday makers in difficult times. Some of them have started looking...
Air Pollutants Reduced by Hundreds of Tons!
ECA has really become the buzzword in shipping and we are 12 months past the ECA regulation enforcement. Did the maritime industry achieve what...
Risk of Liquefaction Even in Case of ‘Group A’ Cargo Mislabeling
Incident:
A vessel with 20,000 MT of iron ore fines listed immediately after its departure. The vessel continued to list to such dangerous levels and...
[VIDEO] Indian Cobra Rescued from a Containership
A stow-away Indian Cobra was rescued from a container ship bound for the APM Terminals in New Jersey. On December 10th, the ship was...
Collision & Grounding on Christmas Eve
A container vessel ran aground off Hong Kong while a cargo ship allided with Canal lock doors during Christmas Eve.
Incident
: Vessel Grounding
Location
: Off Hong...
7 Major Shipping Companies Fined $63 million!
A fine of 407 million yuan has been posed on seven major international shipping companies by China after a year-long investigation.
The National Development and...
Commodities Shipping on Fire
In 2016 only the fittest of the shipping companies would survive because of the deepening crisis caused by less demand and a surplus of...
Baltic Index On A High
The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities. The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping...
No (Low) Traffic at Suez Canal
The Suez Canal traffic data from 18 to 23 December is as follows :
Number of ships transited the canal
: 283.
Total load carried
: 19.683m tonnes.
Daily...
