Day: July 3, 2020
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Marine Insurance : Paris MoU performance list 2019 released
The Paris MoU on Port State Control Committee approved the 2019 inspection results and adopted new performance lists for flag States and Recognized Organizations (ROs). The “White, Grey and Black (WGB) List” presents the full spectrum, from quality flags to flags with a poorer performance based on inspection outcomes. It…
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!?Why Shipping Matters
For most of us school ended with children at home, collaborating online, perhaps struggling with online lessons, and wondering when the next package would arrive. Many parents struggled with at-home schooling. Many families and students struggled with video learning. Thankfully, our friends at the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers developed a…
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MAREK GRZYBOWSKI write to ” Blue Economy” FERRIES ON THE BALTIC SEA OPEN FOR PASSENGERS
Marek Grzybowski Ferry services in the Baltic Sea region are offered by 15 operators. The market is dominated by Germany and the Scandinavian companies: Stena Line, DFDS Seaways, Tallink Group, Viking Line, TT-Line and Finnlines. Connections between Poland and Scandinavia are also provided by Polish shipowners: Polferries and Unity Line.…
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ICS : Published the ICS Engine Room Procedures Guide
The design, complexity, and arrangement of engine rooms across the global shipping fleet vary far more widely than for bridges, and yet until today, there has been no dedicated guidance for safe engine room operations. The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has met this challenge and published the ICS…
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خبر عالتيكرز : الاسطول البحري التجارى التونسى على القائمة السوداء حسب مذكرة تفاهم باريسPARIS-MoU
أصدرت وزارة النقل واللوجستيك بلاغ توضيحيا على خلفية الخبر الذي تداولته بعض مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي حول تصنيف الأسطول البحري التجاري التونسي تحت خانة القائمة السوداء حسب مذكرة تفاهم باريسPARIS-MoU لمراقبة السفن من طرف دولة الميناء وقالت الوزارة أن السفن التجارية التونسية مطابقة للمواصفات والشروط التي تحدّدها الاتفاقيات الدولية ومتحصّلة على…
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ITF: Working to get Ukrainian seafarers’ wages back, repatriation from São Sebastião, Brazil
There’s 11,086 kilometres between São Sebastião, Brazil and the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. It’s those eleven thousand kilometres ITF Inspector Renialdo de Freitas has been working to get 16 Ukrainian seafarers back across, to their homes and families. With their wages. The seafarers are the crew of a Panamanian-flagged vessel,…
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ITF : Fishers failure has Ireland put on exploitation watch list
The government of the Republic of Ireland has been put on the United States Department of State’s ‘Tier 2 Watch List’ in the agency’s annual Trafficking In Persons report over Ireland’s failure to protect vulnerable workers such as fishers and those in the sex industry. In the recently released 2020 version of the…
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ITF : Crew of Global Cruise Vessels to return home from UK
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has been assisting hundreds of seafarers aboard the six Global Cruise Lines’ vessels currently in Tilbury and Bristol, in the United Kingdom. The seafarers have been stranded there because of global travel restrictions brought in to deal with the global pandemic. Crew on board…
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IMO : Reducing GHG emissions from ships – discussions on short-term measures
IMO remains committed to reducing GHG emissions from ships, even though the COVID-19 pandemic has led to postponements of important marine environment meetings and forced the maritime community to focus on other pressing issues, such as crew changes. In order to keep up the momentum on the implementation of the…
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EVENTS : Patrick Terminals
In case you missed it, the largest container vessel to ever visit Patrick Terminals – Sydney AutoStrad arrived at the terminal last Sunday. The CMA CGM Ural is the length of three consecutive football fields, as high as a 15-storey building, and nearly double the size of a standard container…
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