News Flash
Ports around the world review ammonia nitrate storage plans in wake of Beirut blast
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 12, 2020
Ports around the world are actively reviewing their ammonia nitrate storage guidelines in the wake o...
IMO Assists Mauritius In MV Wakashio Oil Spill Response
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 12, 2020
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has joined international efforts to assist the Governm...
Pirates Release 9 Abducted FPSO Crew Members
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 12, 2020
As per reports from BW Offshore, nine Nigerian seafarers who had been abducted last month from FPSO ...
Indian Adani Ports CEO says worst is over, container volumes rising on month
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 12, 2020
The slowdown in containers markets is likely to end soon and volumes are expected to rise in the com...
Just In Time Arrival Guide issued to support smarter, more efficient shipping
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 12, 2020
A new Just in Time Arrival Guide which aims to provide both port and shipping sectors with practical...
Mission To Seafarers Extend Nominations For Singapore Seafarers’ Awards To Recognize Shipping’s Key Workers
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 11, 2020
Leading international seafarer welfare charity, The Mission to Seafarers has extended nominations fo...
India: Seafarers To Appear For Examination From Home; Online Examinations Launched
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 11, 2020
Manuskh Mandaviya, the Union Minister of State for Shipping of India launched the online exit examin...
Anxious Mauritians use hair to stem Japanese ship’s oil spill
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 11, 2020
Mauritians are making floating booms of human hair and leaves in a round-the-clock scramble to mop u...
Anglo-Eastern Solicits Real World Experience for Second Edition of Gender Diversity Manual Gender Diversity Survey Launched In Cooperation with WISTA International, ISWAN and ICS
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 11, 2020
WISTA International, Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Limited, International Seafarers Welfare and Assi...
IMO sets remote meeting plan for September-December 2020
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 11, 2020
IMO has issued the calendar of meetings for September-December 2020, setting dates for remote sessio...
Shipping Orderbook shrinks to 17-year low on Covid-19 impact : BIMCO
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 11, 2020
Newbuilding orderbook across all ship types has touched its lowest point in 17 years a...
Chinese Exports to India crash 24.7% in 2020
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 11, 2020
Mainland China’s exports to India since January 2020 have fallen by 24.7 per cent year-on-year to ...
Abducted BW Offshore crew released
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 10, 2020
BW Offshore has announced that all of the offshore workers that were kidnapped by pirates off Nigeri...
Hopes for shipping M&A face reality check
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 10, 2020
COVID-19 put a temporary kibosh on mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) activity — and not just for ...
CBIC asks Customs to check within 48 hours explosives stored in Warehouses, Ports
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 10, 2020
Customs Authorities and field formations have been directed to verify and confirm with...
Mansukh Mandaviya launches the Online Exit Examination system for seafarers
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 10, 2020
Union Minister of State for Shipping (I/C) Shri Mansukh Mandaviya launched Online Exit Examination ...
Beirut Explosions: CMA CGM Announces Passing Of Missing Staff Member
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 08, 2020
The CMA CGM Group on 7th August announced the passing of one of the staff members who went missing o...
40% Increase In Seaborne Trade, With 10% Decrease In CO2 Emissions During 2008-18: IMO Report
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 08, 2020
The International Maritime Organisation’s fourth Greenhouse Gas Study highlights that the shipping...
CLIA Announces Third Voluntary Suspension Of Cruise Operations Until October 2020
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 08, 2020
Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the leading voice of the global cruise industry, anno...
India Announces Cruise Ships To Commence Sailing From 1st October
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 08, 2020
After four months of the country experiencing lockdown, home confinement, restricted movements and n...
Installation Of Offshore Wind Turbines On World’s Largest Offshore Jack-Up Installation Vessel Announced
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 08, 2020
Dogger Bank Wind Farm and Jan De Nul Group announce the signing of the final contract for the transp...
Captain Of Cargo Chip Claims To Have Warned About Explosive Chemicals Onboard For Years Prior To Blasts
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 08, 2020
Boris Prokoshev, the captain of the Russian cargo ship suspected to have carried the 2750 tonnes of ...
World’s First Zero-Emissions Top Handlers Performing Well At Port Of Los Angeles
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 08, 2020
The world’s first zero-emissions top handlers, unveiled last fall as part of a pre-commercial demo...
AES says pandemic impacts less severe than feared, decarbonization plan on track
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 08, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic and its impact on second quarter 2020 results did not turn out to be as "se...
Container ships sent to Tripoli to keep Lebanon supply lines running
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 08, 2020
Leading container lines are diverting ships to Lebanon’s smaller terminal of Tripoli after the dev...
$3.5 Billion requested for COVID-19 relief for U.S. maritime industry
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 08, 2020
The International Propeller Club of the United States has requested that Congress appropriate $3.5 b...
Plane carrying WHO trauma and surgical supplies arrives in Beirut, Lebanon
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 07, 2020
A plane carrying 20 tonnes of WHO health supplies has landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to support the trea...
Bulk carrier sitting on reef off Mauritius starts to leak bunker fuel
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 07, 2020
The 203,000 dwt Wakashio bulk carrier, which ran aground on a reef just off the southeast coastli...
AMSA Fines $20000 To Gold Coast Boat Share Company For Operating Illegally
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 07, 2020
Gold Coast company, GC Princess Boatshare Pty Ltd, has been found guilty of operating a domestic com...
Crew Change Crises Worsens In Australia As Crew Of Two Ships Refuse To Sail
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 07, 2020
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) says Australia is facing economic carnage fr...
Beirut Port Officials Placed Under House Arrest Over Negligence Of Duty
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 07, 2020
On 4th August two massive explosions shook the port of Beirut, Lebanon and the surrounding areas. Th...
Beirut Blast: 10 Out Of 11 Missing Filipino Seafarers Located And Declared Safe
Categories: News Flash
Date: Aug 07, 2020
As per the report of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Philippines, 10 of the 11 missing Fili...