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Passenger ship with more than 600 people aground, Indonesia VIDEO
Passenger ship KM SIRIMAU with more than 600 passengers on board ran aground in Savu sea, Timor Leste, Indonesia, on Meko island between Lembata and Adonara islands in the afternoon May 17 Evacuation of passengers was complicated by low tide, understood most parts of the passengers were already evacuated by…
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Europe’s role in Gulf maritime security
In February 2022, the Council of the European Union (E.U.) gathered in Brussels to discuss the extension of the Coordinated Maritime Presence (CMP) concept to the North-Western Indian Ocean. First piloted in the Gulf of Guinea at the beginning of 2021, the CMP is a flexible tool to enhance maritime…
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Diana Shipping Announces Time Charter Contract For mv Maia with Hyundai Glovis
Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership and bareboat charter-in of dry bulk vessels, today announced that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a time charter contract with Hyundai Glovis Co. Ltd., for one of its Kamsarmax dry bulk vessels, the…
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Webinar : MEPC 78 Outcomes and Industry Impact
Event Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 Daniel Barcarolo, ABS Senior Sustainability Engineer, and Joseph Gardemal, Senior Managing Principal Engineer for Regulatory Affairs, are attending MEPC 78 and will provide an overview of the outcomes and outline key implications for shipowners and operators. Topics will include the latest on measures to…
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A message Dr Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry : International Day for Women in Maritime
A message from Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, President of the World Maritime University (WMU) “I am pleased to mark the inaugural IMO International Day for Women in Maritime, 18 May 2022, with a message in support of maritime women globally. ‘Training-Visibility-Recognition: Supporting a barrier-free working environment’, is well suited for the…
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IMO – 18 May – celebrating women in maritime
The first International Day for Women in Maritime focuses on the theme “Training-Visibility-Recognition: Supporting a barrier-free working environment”. The first International Day for Women in Maritime on 18 May 2022 provides a platform to highlight and celebrate the achievements of women in maritime and identify areas of improvement for gender…
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A study recently: Impacts of (IUU) fishing
A study recently published in the Nature Communications journal highlighted two key risk factors for identifying illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, according to the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries: the country that a vessel is registered to (its “flag state”) and the type of fishing gear the…
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Port Defender Drill in Rotterdam
Boluda Towage participated in Port Defender Drill in Rotterdam During the annual Port Defender drill in Rotterdam on 20 April 2022, various security partners practiced realistic scenarios against national threats of extreme violence and terrorism in the North Sea and around the port of Rotterdam. For this security drill, Port…
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New tool to forecast carbon intensity of vessel operations
Jotun develops a new digital tool that demonstrates the positive effect of hull coatings on Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) and vessel efficiency As shipowners rush to comply with Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) requirements, misguided decisions on “low friction” hull coatings can have far-reaching consequences. Jotun has created a…
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Rabie meets the Director General of Musée National de la Marine to discuss ways of joint cooperation
SCA Admiral Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority, met with Admiral Vincent Cambroden, Director-General of ( Musée National de la Marine) accompanied by a high-level delegation comprising the naval and military attachés at the French Embassy in Cairo, in the presence of Dr. Mohamed Al-Dhahabi, consultant of the…
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