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Amr Heikal write to ” Blue Economy” : Earth will enter ‘mini Ice Age’ for 30 years
Earth could be braced for a ‘mini ICE-AGE’ as one expert warned a solar minimum could last until the 2050s. Sunspot activity on the surface of the Sun follows a well-known but little understood 11 year cycle. Activity rises and falls creating the so-called solar maximum and then solar minimum.…
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Ports : More fruit coming to Rotterdam in reefer ships due to COVID-19
Twice as many reefer ships with conventional cargo are currently arriving at the Rotterdam Fruit Wharf in the Merwehaven. The measures taken in response to COVID-19 mean shipping companies have been unable to put enough reefer containers in the loading ports of South Africa. Consequently, these conventional reefer ships –…
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EVENTS : Euro gate Inter modal
Reliability, delivered: Our direct rail links to Singen/BW offer you an attractive alternative to congested terminals in southern Germany, serving the tri-border region around Lake Constance. With an increasing number of shipping lines signing up for empty depot services and its temporary storage solutions, terminal Singen enables you to deliver…
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Human Rights At Sea : Missing Teekay Officers’ Family Case Study Published as Investigation Commences
London. UK. Human Rights at Sea today publishes its latest case study and family impact report in the unfolding tragic case of the missing Third Officer Cristito M. Acosta employed by Teekay Shipping who disappeared without trace from onboard the Bahamian flagged MV Jiaolong Spirit, IMO No. 9379208 on 23 April 2020. Cristito,…
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Reports : Survey report shows severe economic impact of the COVID-19 on European shipping PDf
Survey results show that important segments of the European shipping industry are heavily impacted, and European or national measures are not always available in all member states to alleviate the situation. European shipping is facing a critical moment in the face of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Shipping companies, charterers, operators,…
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EVENTS : Red Sea Gateway Terminal
Join hashtag#RSGT Global Investment Director, Gagan Seksaria at Transport Events Limited – webinar, for a discussion on the strategies implemented by container hashtag#ports and hashtag#terminals in a challenging environment to enhance the Middle East economy and hashtag#maritime transport.
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Human Rights At SEA : Massacre of Easter
The massacre of Easter told by those who saw it, lived and suffered. From beginning to end. ROME. A woman who was on the raft, abandoned adrift for five days and then brought back to Libya by a mysterious motorbike, decided, for the first time, to speak. To tell how 12…
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Ports : The first “ship-to-ship” LNG bunkering operation in France on the Costa Smeralda
The Port of Marseille Fos, Shell and Carnival carried out the first “ship-to-ship” LNG bunkering operation in France on the Costa Smeralda. One of the world’s first LNG-powered cruise ships, the COSTA SMERALDA, operated by COSTA of the Carnival Group and berthed in the Port of Marseille Fos, required an…
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Incidents : Six Armed Pirates fire upon tanker off Yemen
Pirates attacked a tanker off the coast of Yemen, according to the ship’s operators. Stolt Tankers reported that the Stolt Apal was 75 nautical miles off Yemen’s coast when the attack unfolded. The ship’s manager reported that two speedboats with a total of six armed pirates aboard approached the vessel before an exchange of…
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EVENTS : MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company Maritime Geneva
As a family company, today we celebrate the UN International Day of Families. Our thoughts & best wishes go out to all seafarers and their families who haven’t seen each other for a long time due to COVID-19 ???? hashtag#DayOfFamilies (Photo: Henry Saharan, 3rd officer of MSC Eyra)
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