Tag: COVID-19
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...
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...
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...
Reefer Containers Pile up in China Due To COVID-19 Restrictions
February’s coronavirus shutdown in Wuhan, China hit American food exports hard.
Reefer plugs at China ports filled up after the Wuhan outbreak.
Reefer-plug...
Types, Sources, and Claims of COVID-19 Misinformation
Reuters Institute identifies some of the main types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation.
It analyzes a sample of 225 pieces of misinformation...
COVID 19 Forces IMO To Reschedule Meetings for 2020
IMO has planned to reset meetings calendar.
The Organization advised in a Circular Letter that the IMO Council is thinking about reconstructing the schedule...
[Register] Drewry To Discuss COVID-19 Operational Problems in a Webinar
Drewry has planned to host a webinar to provide more stability and predictability for shippers, says a press release published on their website.
Ability to...
COVID19 Commodity Chain Disruption & Global Bullwhip Effect
New pathogens generated unintentionally by agribusiness are not themselves natural-material use-values.
They are toxic residues of the capitalist production system.
It can be...
COVID19 Hit US Economy Likely To Swamp Other Economies
The United States helped pull the world along as the extra cash from tax cuts.
The government spending flowed through domestic and global...
90% Effective Oxford Vaccine, Yet To Confirm COVID19 Prevention Capacity
Research published in Lancet proves evidence that Oxford Vaccine can create COVID antibodies and T-cell.
Vaccine effective in 90% people who took part...