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IMO Secretary-General receives new President of the Comité Maritime International
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has received Dr. Ann Fenech, new President of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) at IMO Headquarters (6 December). Mr. Lim and Dr. Fenech, the first female President in the CMI’s 125 year history, discussed continued and future collaboration, including on issues such as Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS)…
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Debt-Service Payments Put Biggest Squeeze on Poor Countries Since 2000
IDA Countries’ Debt-Service Payments Projected to Top $62 Billion in 2022 The poorest countries eligible to borrow from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) now spend over a tenth of their export revenues to service their long-term public and publicly guaranteed external debt—the highest proportion since 2000, shortly after…
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Victorian 2022 – 23 ILCA Laser championships
Fifty four boats sailed in the 2022/2023 Victorian ILCA Laser Open and Youth Championships from Mordialloc Sailing Club on Port Phillip on the weekend of 3 and 4 December. The five scheduled races were sailed in light to moderate winds and flat seas which was a change from the tough…
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$175 million to upgrade Oakland Seaport gateway
Investment is one of many projects to promote goods movement fluidity and sustainable cargo growth The California Transportation Commission (CTC) approved $175 million in funding today for the 7th Street Grade Separation East Project (Project). The Alameda County Transportation Commission (Alameda CTC) partnered with the CTC and the City and…
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DP World and Puntland Government sign construction agreement to upgrade Port of Bosaso
DP World and Somalia’s Government of Puntland, today signed a construction agreement for expansion and upgrade work at the Port of Bosaso. “The expansion and upgrade of the Port of Bosaso is key to Puntland’s economic growth, which will benefit not just the people of the state, but also Somalia…
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ٌReuters : CMA CGM to buy GCT Bayonne and New York terminals in US
Together the terminals have a capacity of two million twenty-foot equivalent units. (Reuters) – CMA CGM, one of the world’s largest container shipping lines, said that it has agreed to acquire two container terminals at the port of New York and New Jersey from Global Container Terminals (GCT), which will…
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ABS Explores Future of Cutting-Edge Maritime Tech in Broad-Reaching Report
Launched at the ABS Hellenic Technical Committee, Technology Trends Offers Roadmap to the Next Wave of Maritime Innovation (ATHENS) Will autonomous vessels dominate the oceans? Can artificial intelligence design an optimized offshore asset? Is nuclear power the ultimate energy source of the future? These are some of the questions facing…
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“Mawani” obtains the qualification certificate from “EFQM”.
Saudi Ports “Mawani” announced that it had achieved a qualification certificate from the European Foundation for Quality Management “EFQM” as the first entity to obtain this classification in the transport system, after it was able to comply with the standards of the European Foundation for Quality Management model. This comes…
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MSC CRUISES LAUNCHES NEWEST FLAGSHIP MSC SEASCAPE
The world’s third largest and fastest growing cruise brand MSC Cruises welcomed MSC Seascape to its fleet of innovative and glamourous ships. The line’s newest flagship was officially named at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal in New York City in recognition of the addition of New York as a new homeport…
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Cargo ships at present clogged up Vladivostok Port,Russian Far East
Russian local media say many cargo ships at present clogged up Vladivostok Port, Primorye, Russian Far East, mainly amassed at port’s anchorage zones. Media believe it’s the result of port’s handling capacities incapable of handling dramatically increased volume of cargoes, flooding now Russian Far East ports. With war against Ukraine…
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