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India: Union Min lays foundation for cruise terminal at Vizag port
Union Minister of State for Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Shantanu Thakur laid the foundation for construction of the Cruise Terminal at Visakhapatnam Port here on Friday." Talking to reporters, Mr Thakur said the project, which was conceived about three years ago, was conceived to develop a cruise-cum-coastal cargo terminal by reorienting the existing channel berth, located in the outer harbor with financial assistance under the Central sector scheme from the Ministry of Tourism... -United News of IndiaPosted On:25-Sep-2021
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Vaccines seen as key to solving crew change crisis
With the crew change crisis having dragged on for the better part of two years seafarer vaccination and global cooperation were seen as key to long term solution by a panel of senior executives from across the shipping industry. The panel – an Industry dialogue: proactive and practical solutions for the crewing crisis – held on the third day of Sea Asia 2021 sought to find solutions to the crew change crisis beyond the actions of individual companies, and even those of individual states... -Seatrade MaritimePosted On:25-Sep-2021
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"Oh My Job!" puts a spotlight on PH seafarers, other sea-based workers
In this week’s episode of “Oh My Job,” the show will talk about seafarers and other sea-based workers in the light of the upcoming International Maritime Labor Convention(MLC). According to the Department of Labor and Employment of the Philippines (DOLE), around 229,000 Filipino seamen were on board merchant shipping vessels around the world at any given time... -Manila BulletinPosted On:25-Sep-2021
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Seafarer access to medical care matter of life and death
Joint Statement by IMO and ILO highlights need for prompt access for medical assistance for vital key worker seafarers. The Secretary-General of IMO and the Director-General of ILO have issued a joint statement calling for port and coastal States to facilitate the prompt disembarkation of seafarers for medical care as a matter of “life or death”; to prioritize seafarers for COVID-19 vaccination; and to designate seafarers as key workers, recognizing seafarers’ valuable contribution to world trade... -Mirage NewsPosted On:25-Sep-2021
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Sailors’ Society to hold mental health and wellbeing conference for India’s next generation of seafarers
Maritime charity Sailors’ Society is to hold an online Wellness conference for maritime colleges in India and their current students, next Thursday 30 September. Designed especially for maritime schools, the Wellness at Sea: Positive wellbeing for a rewarding seafaring career conference will explore the all-important subject of wellbeing and mental health, helping to prepare cadets for a long and fulfilling career at sea... -Hellenic Shipping News WorldwidePosted On:25-Sep-2021
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Culture Of Care Is Key To Future Seafarer Health And Welfare, Says Seafarers Hospital Society
The Seafarers Hospital Society (SHS), Yale University and Lloyd’s Register Foundation told shipping companies that they will need to create a culture of care if they are to adequately address the health and welfare needs of seafarers. Reporting on the early findings of their landmark study of maritime worker health initiatives at a London International Shipping Week (LISW) webinar last week, research lead Dr Martin Slade, Director of Yale University Maritime Research said: “Seafarers need to feel safe and be able to express themselves without fear of reprisal. They need to be looked at as people not just a source of profit.”... -Hellenic Shipping News WorldwidePosted On:25-Sep-2021
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Cyprus-based firm fined for dumping oily water in Atlantic
A Cyprus-based company was ordered to pay a $2 million fine Thursday after pleading guilty to charges that one of its ships dumped oily water into the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced. The crew of a ship operated by Diana Wilhelmsen Management Limited knowingly failed last year to record in the ship’s oil record book the overboard discharge of oily bilge water, prosecutors said in a news release... -Associated PressPosted On:25-Sep-2021
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Container freight rates stabalise after 22 weeks of increases
Container freight rates have stabilised after 22 consecutive weeks of rises based on Drewry’s World Container Index (WCI). The WCI published on 23 September remained steady at $10,377.19 per feu, the same level as the week before, however, up 299% year-on-year... -Seatrade Maritime NewsPosted On:25-Sep-2021
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Nigeria: We’ll open up maritime sector to huge investment opportunities - Amaechi
The Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, has said that the maritime sector was being opened up for great investment opportunities given the ongoing removal of wrecks. Amaechi made this known on Friday, in Lagos, at the official launch of the removal of wrecks along the Badagry creek from Tincan Island to Navy Town, Lagos... -VanguardPosted On:25-Sep-2021
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Liquid CO2 carriers: The next big thing?
With carbon capture and storage (CCS) gaining traction as a technology to reduce the impact of CO2 emissions, maritime transport will play a key role in the CCS value chain. This is is expected to lead to an increasing demand for liquefied CO2 (LCO2) carriers. In response, Hyundai Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering CO. (KSOE) have developed a design for a new 40,000-cubic-meter liquified CO2 carrier design... -Marine LogPosted On:25-Sep-2021
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Port congestion causing global trade to stagnate
Congestion at major container freight ports this month has disrupted shipping operations and is leading to stagnation in global trade, Kiel Trade Indicator data shows. Overall global trade is expected to remain pegged to its August level, with an indicator value of zero. The same is expected for Germany’s trade, while overall EU exports are not expected to rise from the -0.1 per cent value recorded last month, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, which compiles the trade indicator, said on Tuesday... -Bunker Ports NewsPosted On:25-Sep-2021
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Latest Major Hurricane Brewing in the Atlantic
Another major hurricane is brewing in the Atlantic, but as of Friday the storm posed no threat to land. As of At 11 a.m. AST, the center of Hurricane Sam was located over the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean, about 1,165 miles (2200 km) east-southeast of the northern Leeward Islands, and moving to just north of due west near 14 mph, according to NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center... -gCaptainPosted On:25-Sep-2021
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UN climate change summit to use Silja Europa as accommodation ship
Tallink Grupp’s cruise vessel Silja Europa will provide accommodation during the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) taking place in Glasgow, Scotland on 31 October – 12 November 2021. The Estonian shipping company recently signed a charter agreement for the Tallinn-Helsinki route cruise vessel for the period 17 October to 17 November 2021... -Offshore EnergyPosted On:25-Sep-2021
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Stena Line to Launch World s First Fossil-Free Ferry Line By 2030
On Wednesday, Stena Line inked a deal with Frederikshavn Municipality, and the Port of Frederikshavn, Denmark to amplify the transformation of the transit sector by creating the first global“fossil-fuel-free large ferry line”. This line will carry out operations between the Danish and Swedish ports along the Gothenburg-Frederikshavn route... -FleetmonPosted On:25-Sep-2021
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